The Rockefeller Foundation says it will invest $70 million over the next five years to help Asian cities and African farmers withstand floods, droughts and other global warming hazards.
Foundation officials say the help will be needed no matter what is done to limit greenhouse gas emissions, because the world faces decades of rising temperatures and sea levels as a result of a century-long buildup of gases like carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
Poorer communities, lacking the money or technology to deal with a ruined harvest or an eroding coastline, face outsize threats.
[Excerpt of an article by Andrew C. Revkin, The New York Times]
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