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Climate change will affect everyone, but it will affect poor people in developing countries first and most dramatically.

Make Poverty History campaigns for the achievement of the globally agreed plan to halve poverty by 2015 known as the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Climate change is a serious challenge to our efforts to tackle poverty. That is why, over the coming months, Make Poverty History is going to be working on this issue and calling on you to act on climate change.

Some of the likely impacts of climate change on developing countries include:

• Food supplies and livelihoods at risk: crop yields in sub-Saharan Africa are projected to fall by 20 per cent.
• Greater risk of illness: five million serious illnesses and 150,000 deaths already occur every year as a result of climate change.
• People forced to leave their homes: 200 million environmental refugees by 2050 and eventually one billion people could be displaced – already some Pacific Islanders are leaving their islands due to sea level rise.
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