Climate change kills 300,000 people annually and represents an economic cost of 125,000 million dollars (90,000 million euros), according to a report of the Global Humanitarian Forum headed by Kofi Annan presented in London.

The publication of this study, which is backed by several institutes and international agencies, is part of a strategy that seeks to “put pressure” on governments to reach agreement at the Climate Summit to be held next December in Copenhagen.

This has been explained by Kofi Annan, who lamented that the economic crisis has pushed the fight against climate change to the background.

“Climate change is not going to wait,” said the former secretary general of the United Nations.

The report notes that this currently affects over 300 million people and have an especially detrimental impact on the poorest countries, which nonetheless emit only “1 percent of CO2.

The projections for 2030 indicate that followed, the change would be responsible for 500,000 deaths per year, would affect 600 million people and would cost 300,000 million dollars (about 215,000 million).

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