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Climate change disproportionately impacts the poor
All climate change statistics taken from the following sources:
Aguilar, L. et al. (2009). “Training Manual on Gender and Climate Change.” Published by IUCN, UNDP and GGCA. San Jose: Costa Rica.
Hallegatte, Stephane, Mook Bangalore, Laura Bonzanigo, Marianne Fay, Tamaro Kane, Ulf Narloch, Julie Rozenberg, David Treguer, and Adrien Vogt-Schilb. 2016. “Shock Waves: Managing the Impacts of Climate Change on Poverty.” Climate Change and Development Series. Washington, DC: World Bank. doi:10.1596/978-1-4648-0673-5. License: Creative Commons Attribution CC BY 3.0 IGO
Rippey, P. (2012). Microfinance and climate change: Threats and opportunities. In Greening the Financial Sector(pp. 215-239). Berlin: Springer Berlin Heidelberg.
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