As global temperatures break new records, a stark disparity in climate resilience is unfolding, and this has been flagged off time and again. No surprises then when a new global report from the Climate Impact Lab (CIL) showed that “climate change is projected to cause more AC adoption for the wealthy and shorter lives for the poor.”

CIL, housed at Energy Policy Institute, University of Chicago, is a collaborative research initiative that quantifies the real-world economic and social costs of climate change across communities worldwide.

Climate change’s unequal impacts highlight the urgent need to discover innovative adaptation strategies in today’s poor and hot countries, according to the report released on Monday. Climate-driven temperature change is projected to cause about 430,000 more deaths a year by 2050, with 10 times more of these deaths in poor countries than in wealthy ones, it said.

Access the full report here.