The latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the world's leading scientific body assessing climate change, predicts increased droughts and floods. It also predicts that future flooding will be like past flooding, only worse. Taking this as a starting point, CGD senior fellow David Wheeler analyzes flood data from 1960-2002 and finds that people in low-income countries face flood risks to their lives and homes that are about 23 times higher than the risks facing people in high-income countries. He argues that rich countries, which are responsible for most of the climate change problem, should step up flood protection assistance now. Read the blog and comment
