New evidence highlights the potential for multi-hazard risks to push the poor into persistent traps of extreme poverty . Risk of extreme impoverishment increases for low-income people experiencing repeated and successive climatic events, whereby before they have recovered from one disaster, they face another impact . Cascading and compounding risks arise from multiple climate hazards coinciding to produce impacts, for example, in mountainous regions, where the combination of glacier recession and extreme rainfall result in landslides . There is robust evidence that this effect has been observed around slow- and rapid-onset climate events related to drought , with devastating consequences for agriculture . In particular, the urban and rural landless poor face difficulties rebuilding assets following one-off disasters or a series of shocks .
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Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability
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