charity has warned that 184 million people in Africa alone could die as a result of climate change before the end of the century

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Climate-induced floods, famine, drought and conflict could reverse recent gains in reducing poverty, it says.

Its report says rich nations must aid poorer ones to adopt non-fossil-fuel energy sources such as solar power.

The report comes as almost 190 states gather in Bonn, Germany, to discuss climate change.
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The author of the report, John McGhie, said that for $50bn (£26bn) the whole of sub-Saharan Africa could be turned into a solar-generated economy.

"And $50bn is exactly the same amount as actually the continent would have to pay on extra fuel bills from oil," he said.
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Of course Bush is spending far more than that to aide Iraq out of its oil.