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Climate change will reshape world ‘in our lifetimes’ – World Bank president

19 Jun 2013, AlertNet

In fewer than 20 years, climate change impacts – from flooded major cities to crashing food production – threaten to fundamentally reshape the world economy and dramatically worsen human lives, the World Bank’s president warned on Wednesday...


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