"More than 120 million people from India and Bangladesh alone will become homeless by the end of this century," the report says.
It estimates that 75 million people from Bangladesh will lose their homes. It predicts that about 45 million people in India will also become "climate migrants".
The report says that the number of people who could be affected by climate change is almost 10 times greater than the number of people who migrated during and after the partition of India in 1947.
Around 130 million people now live in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh in what are called low elevation coastal zones, which comprise coastal regions that are less than 10m above average sea level. "There is already plenty of evidence to suggest that the average global temperature rise we have already experienced is associated with substantial changes in weather patterns over recent decades," the Greenpeace report says. More >>>
