A new model developed at Princeton University predicts that, if the poor continue to be affected in this way — and
current climate policies remain the same — the world's future poor will be even worse off than impoverished people today.
And yet, despite a long history of scientific warnings (please see Footnote 30 for a detailed description30), the many
current ecological and economic impacts and crises, the future risks and dangers, the large number of international meetings and conferences on the urgent need for
climate policies and measures, and the adoption of some national and regional
climate policies, growth in global CO2 emissions from fossil fuels and cement has not only
remained strong but is actually accelerating.