Climate Change Could Force 216 Million To Migrate

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The World Bank warned that Reduced agricultural production, water scarcity, rising sea levels, and other adverse effects of climate change could cause up to 216 million people to migrate within their own countries by 2050.
The Washington-based development lender had released a report in 2018 covering climate change’s effects on migration in South Asia, Latin America, and sub-Saharan Africa, and projected 143 million people could move in those regions by 2050.
The World Bank’s vice president for sustainable development, Juergen Voegele, says it’s important to note that this projection is not cast in stone.
He says if countries start to reduce greenhouse gases, close development gaps, restore vital ecosystems and help people adapt, internal climate migration could be reduced by up to 80 per cent — to 44 million people by 2050.