Climate change impacts that could affect attainment of the Millennium Development Goals

Potential

consequences of climate change

Eradicate extreme

poverty and hunger

Millennium Development Goals

Promote gender quality and

empower women

Improve maternal health

Ensure

environmental sustainability

Achieve universal primary education

Decreasing accessibility to water, housing and infrastructure

Natural disasters and drought

Decline of agricultural productivity

Water stress

Reduce child mortality

Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases

Develop a global partnership for development

Migrations

Alterations in the style and pace of economic growth

Reduction of biological diversity

Social strains

Note: Based on national communications from non-Annex I countries and the Sixth Compilation and Synthesis of Initial National Communications from Parties Not Included in Annex 1 to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

Source: ECLAC, Climate change and development in Latin America and the Caribbean. Overview 2009. Figure 2.2 17