UN report warns of threat to human progress from climate change

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Human development report says inaction on climate change puts at risk decades of progress on education and health

The United Nations warned today that a continued failure to tackle climate change was putting at risk decades of progress in improving the lives of the world's poorest people. In its annual flagship...

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