As many as 200 million people could be displaced by climate change
As many as 200 million people could be displaced by climate change
According to UN-HABITAT at the Global Observance of World Habitat Day
The theme of this year's World Habitat Day was Cities and Climate Change in recognition of the growing problem that climate change poses for urban development. According to Executive Director of UN-HABITAT, Joan Clos, "There could be as many as 200 million migrants due to climate change in the next 40 years, with up to 12 million coming from Latin America."
As stated by UN-HABITAT, to face climate change we must change the way cities are currently structured in order to be "environmentally and economically sustainable." At the World Heart Federation we believe that cities must be restructured in a way that promotes the health of city dwellers as well, allowing for easy access to healthy foods and safe urban places in which to be physically active because without a healthy population, a city cannot be economically sustainable.
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