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Quick guide for policy makers Pro-poor urban climate resilience in Asia and the Pasific
Climate change is no longer something that may happen in the distant future. Form higher temperatures and rising sea levels to changin rainfall patterns and more frequent extreme weather events. Climate change is already imnpacting on the regions rapidly growing cities and their populations.
The urban poor are affected disproportionately by these changes due to a combination of factors, such as vulnerable physical location, poor quality housing and an often limited capacity to prepare for, cope with and recover from extreme weather events and slow-onset impacts of climate change. In fact, climate variability and change threatens to interfere with, and eve reverse, hard won poverty reduction and development gains
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