A United Nations report revealed on Friday that nearly 80 percent of the world’s poorest populations—approximately 887 million people—reside in regions exposed to extreme heat, flooding, and other climate hazards, dramatically illustrating the asymmetrical burden of climate change on the most vulnerable. The findings sharpen calls for coordinated global policies to close protection gaps and bolster climate resilience.

The UN stated that these vulnerable populations are disproportionately concentrated in arid, semi-arid, and dry sub-humid zones, which together cover about 40 percent of the earth’s land surface. The report also emphasized that structural inequalities amplify exposure, stating that those in poverty often occupy the least desirable lands—floodplains, eroded slopes, or hig

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