Women And Rural Poor Hit Hardest By Climate Change: UN

Scientists say the effects of rising temperatures are already being felt most acutely by the poorest and most vulnerable people on the planet.

Heatwaves and floods inflict greater economic pain on rural women than men because climate change intensifies existing inequalities, the United Nations' food and farming agency said on Tuesday.

Scientists say the effects of rising temperatures are already being felt most acutely by the poorest and most vulnerable people on the planet.

"Failure to address the unequal impacts of climate change on rural people will intensify the already large gap between the haves and have-nots, and between men and women," the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) said in a new report.