Climate change 'could impact hundreds of millions'

The impact of ongoing climate change and global warming could have an affect on hundreds of millions of people and cost hundreds of billions, it has been warned.

According to a report released by the WWF and Allianz, failure to take immediate action on global warming and climate change is "likely to take a much more unpredictable turn" and could see changes to the climates of places such as the East Coast of the US and the Amazon rainforest.

The report warned that "if tipping points that are mainly triggered by rising global temperatures were unleashed, the world's diverse regions and ecosystems would suffer from devastating environmental, social and economic changes".

Global warming could cause changes to the climate in California and the monsoon season in India and Nepal, it is warned.

Next month, global leaders are set to meet in Denmark to discuss the issue of climate change and are aiming to come up with a worldwide global warming strategy to replace the Kyoto agreement.

Written by Sandra Mann.

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