Extreme heatwave days already hitting poorer nations more than rich

Dehydration: extreme heat in mid-2015
killed at least 800 people in Pakistan. 

When Nicholas Herold was hunting for data on how much climate change was affecting the world's poorest nations, he was surprised when he couldn't find answers in the published research.

"Everyone's spoken for years about how poor countries are going to suffer more  – or are suffering  more – and I couldn't find one figure actually showing this," the research fellow at the Climate Change Research Centre at the University of NSW said.

Read Peter Hannam’s story in today’s Melbourne Age  - “Extreme heatwave days already hitting poorer nations more than rich.”