In ‘climate apartheid’, rich will save themselves while poor suffer: UN report | World News, The Indian Express

In ‘climate apartheid’, rich will save themselves while poor suffer: UN report | World News, The Indian Express

By Reuters |Geneva |Published: June 25, 2019 7:16:49 pm

In ‘climate apartheid’, rich will save themselves while poor suffer: UN report

"An over-reliance on the private sector could lead to a climate apartheid scenario in which the wealthy pay to escape overheating, hunger, and conflict, while the rest of the world is left to suffer," the report read.

FILE – In this Tuesday April 23, 2019 file photo, climate change protesters march along Whitehall toward parliament, in London. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, file)

The world is on course for “climate apartheid”, where the rich buy their way out of the worst effects of global warming while the poor bear the brunt, a U.N. human rights report said on Tuesday.