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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Caribbean & Central America - 12 June 2017

Caribbean: Coastal flooding emerges as major threat

The danger of coastal flooding induced by climate change is far from theoretical for the Caribbean, according to a new study published by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). It says that up to 4.2m people in Small Island Developing States (SIDS) in both the Caribbean and the Pacific are living in areas prone to flooding due to rising sea levels.

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