"Climate change could reverse hard-won development gains, and it could stop our end-poverty efforts completely. We can't end poverty unless we take serious steps to protect our planet," Jim Yong Kim, the president of the World Bank Group, said at a World Bank meeting one month ago.

Based on what Kim was saying, climate change is the key to reducing poverty. Last week it was learned what were the causes of climate change and its effects on places in the world, now we are looking at a more a human level, as well as a security one.

According to the Center for American Progress, people living in developing worlds will fare far worse than most people in warmer regions of the world. Furthermore, according to a March report, titled "Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptations and Vulnerability," from the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), scientists from the around world determined that there is a need to take action now through communities.

The report also reveals that once this done, it will improve public health, safety and livelihoods. Further to the April IPCC report, it presents evidence that, if countries do not take immediate and ambitious steps to control global carbon pollution today, they will have dire consequences, the Center For American Progress reported. The report also identifies how countries can simply reduce emissions from energy production, and instead utilize public transportation and land usage. These options could reduce local air pollution and support sustainable development.

The long term effects of climate change not only affects the goals of reducing poverty, but it also affects international security. A report carried out by a group of retired military officers for the government-funded organization CNA Corporation Military Advisory Board claimed that climate change poses a severe risk to national security. It is the "catalyst of conflict," the report says, according CBS News. The security report was released on Tuesday last week.

The report pinpoints several conflicts in the Middle East, and Africa that have been hit by droughts and food shortages. And, that rising sea levels in coastal regions such as, eastern India, Bangladesh, and Vietnam, could all lead to conflicts with refugees fleeing there, CBS News reported.

The report also suggests that they are stressors that will aggravate the conflict situation such as poverty, environmental degradation, political instability and social tensions; it is these types of conditions that influence terrorist activity and other forms of violence.

The report, however, offers up some recommendations which are centered around climate adaptation planning, infrastructure planning and energy conservation.