The Inequality of Climate Change

The Inequality of Climate Change
Protesters picket a posh hotel at the financial district of Makati city, east of Manila Friday Sept. 6, 2013 to coincide with the visit of EU Commissioner for Climate Action Connie Hedegaard in the Philippines and to demand to increase EU targets to reduce Greenhouse gas emissions. The protesters are demanding the EU to increase to more than 20-percent it has pledged in the UN climate talks by 2020. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)
Protesters picket a posh hotel at the financial district of Makati city, east of Manila Friday Sept. 6, 2013 to coincide with the visit of EU Commissioner for Climate Action Connie Hedegaard in the Philippines and to demand to increase EU targets to reduce Greenhouse gas emissions. The protesters are demanding the EU to increase to more than 20-percent it has pledged in the UN climate talks by 2020. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)

Typhoon Haiyan has left at least 10,000 dead and hundreds of thousands homeless in the Philippines. And it has once again underscored for many development experts a cruel truth about climate change: It will hit the world’s poorest the hardest.

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