UN
2022-7-07
Article on the convergence of increased fighting, the continuing COVID-19 pandemic, and the long-term climate crisis, could push an additional 75 to 95 million people into extreme poverty this year – compared with pre-pandemic projections – and jeopardize the SDG blueprint for more resilient, peaceful and equal societies. Deaths directly and indirectly attributable to the coronavirus, reached 15 million by the end of last year, wiping out over four years of progress in alleviating poverty as well as severely disrupting essential health services and derailing hard-won progress on SDG 3.Meanwhile, the world is on the verge of a climate catastrophe where billions are already suffering the consequences of global warming and increasingly extreme weather. Due to the Ukraine-war As of May, over 100 million people have been forcibly displaced from their homes; some 11.5 million in Ukraine alone. And the crisis has caused food, fuel and fertilizer prices to skyrocket, further disrupted supply chains and global trade, roiled financial markets, and threatened global food security and aid flows.
- Climate Shocks
- COVID-19 Pandemic
- Economic
- Food Insecurity
- Gender and/or Agency
- Health
- Resilience
- Ukraine War
- Women and/or Girls
- Global
- Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs)
- Country-level population(s)
- Girls (adolescents and/or children)
- Women (adults and/or adolescents)
- Research
- Article
- Journal article
