The worsening impacts of climate change could force over 140 million people to move within their countries by 2050, according to a new World Bank report, Groundswell: Preparing for Internal Climate Migration. It finds that unless urgent climate and development action is taken globally and nationally, Latin America, South Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa could see tens of millions of people forced to move from increasingly non-viable areas of their countries due to growing problems like water scarcity, crop failure, sea-level rise and storm surges.
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