A new report from the World Bank is warning a global temperature rise of two-degrees Celsius will trap millions of people in poverty and devastation in the coming decades. World Bank President Jim Yong Kim said unless global warming can be slowed, rising temperatures will wreak havoc on poor communities in Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia and Southeast Asia.

Jim Yong Kim: “In a two-degree Celsius warmer world, the Earth will have fundamentally changed. The way that the Earth processes water will have changed. And so we’ll have droughts that will be devastating. We’ll have floods that will put cities in danger. And there will be fundamental issues around the ability of poor people to sustain themselves. The thing I worry most about is a two-degree Celsius world, which could be upon us as early as the 2030s and 2040s, will prevent us from lifting people out of poverty. And our goal of ending poverty by 2030 will be out of reach.”