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Climate Change Will Displace Millions

10/10/08October 10, 2008

Climate change is leading to rising sea levels, and very soon this phenomenon is going to displace millions of people worldwide. The estimates range from 50 million to a billion refugees. Even the conservative estimate is much higher than the total number of refugees in the world today, including internally-displaced people.

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Some inhabitants of Papua New Guinea will be displaced when their homes are submerged
Some inhabitants of Papua New Guinea will be displaced when their homes are submergedImage: Uwe Möller