People cross a street in the Mong Kok district of Hong Kong. Mong Kok has the highest population density in the world Photo: REUTERSMajor Migration Challenge By 2060, Experts Warn -- The Telegraph
Climate and other environmental changes will cause "major challenges" for world leaders over the next 50 years as mass migration threatens to create new humanitarian crises, a major new report says.
The impact of climate change and degradation of land and oceans will play an increasingly important role in migration in the future as its impact on people's livelihoods grows ever greater.
But governments must also prepare for the millions who will be "trapped" in dangerous areas – often due to the cost of moving – and for the vast numbers who will increasingly flock to vulnerable urban areas in search of work, experts said.
The UK-led report – the largest migration study ever conducted – warned that by 2060 the world's population will have reached its peak at about nine bi [...]
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