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A SIGNIFICANT humanitarian crisis blighting millions of children’s development is on the way if the government does not act to prevent British households from plunging into poverty, experts have warned.
High fuel costs and rising poverty are damaging health and this “profound impact” will worsen over the coming winter, widening inequality, according to a report by the UCL Institute of Health Equity (IHE).
It comes as a leaked Treasury analysis today revealed that Britain’s big gas and electricity producers could make excess profits of up to £170 billion over the next two years.
Coal-fired stoves in traditional homes are the primary source of extreme levels of air pollution in over-crowded Ulaanbaatar. As more people become climate-displaced, the situation is likely to worsen, write SCIENCE AND SOCIETY
