In our second sourcing from the Globe & Mail in two days, comes urging from the UN to the wealthiest countries to provide upwards of $86 billion by 2015 to help the world’s poor adapt to global warming.

Without the money, a warmer world “could stall and then reverse human development” in the countries where 2.6 billion people live on $2 a day or less, according to the UN Development Program panel… According to development officials, the consequences include women and young girls walking further to collect water in the Horn of Africa, people erecting bamboo flood shelters on stilts in the delta of the Ganges River in India. “These impacts … go unnoticed in financial markets and in the measurement of world gross domestic product (GDP),” the panel’s report said. “But increased exposure to drought, to more intense storms, to floods and environmental stress is holding back the efforts of the world’s poor to build a better life for themselves and their children.”