Climate Change, Disaster Risk, and the Urban Poor

Poor people living in slums are at particularly high risk from
the impacts of climate change and natural hazards. They live
on the most vulnerable lands within cities, typically areas that
are deemed undesirable by others and are thus affordable.
Residents are exposed to the impacts of landslides, sea-level
rise, flooding, and other hazards.

Exposure to risk is exacerbated by overcrowding living
conditions, lack of adequate infrastructure and services,
unsafe housing, inadequate nutrition, and poor health.
These conditions can turn a natural hazard or change in
climate into a disaster, and result in the loss of basic services,
damage or destruction to homes, loss of livelihoods, disease,
disability, and loss of life.