World leaders enter climate talks, people in poverty have the most at stake
FILE - Feluzi Makono stands on his grandmother's farm that was destroyed by Cyclone Freddy in Mulanje, southern Malawi, July 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Thoko Chikondi, File)
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — In the leadup to the annual United Nations climate conference, the U.N. Development Programme has released new data about how climate change is going to affect agriculture, extreme weather and other factors that often mean life or death for people in poverty. They find that even in developed nations relatively sheltered from climate change, over 80% of poor people are exposed to at least one climate hazard, like drought, air pollution or extreme heat. And they show the many crops that will face yield declines in the coming decades, especially in places like sub-Saharan Africa and India where large populations rely on local farms to survive.






