# Nearly 80-percent of the world’s poor, 887 million people, live in regions that are exposed to extreme heat, flooding and other climate hazards. This is according to a report by the United Nations Development Programme and Oxford University, ahead of the COP30 climate summit in Brazil next month. South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa account for the largest numbers of poor people living in regions affected by climate hazards. The UNDP says poverty is compounded by and interlinked with the increasingly dramatic effects of the climate emergency.
New report shows 887-million live in regions exposed to at least 1 of 4 climate hazards