New Report Says Climate Change Could Force Millions to Move Within Their CountriesBy the World Bank [4:13] 2018 Description: The worsening impacts of climate change could force over 140 million people to move within their countries by 2050, according to a new World Bank report, Groundswell: Preparing for Internal Climate Migration. It finds that unless urgent climate and development action is taken globally and nationally, Latin America, South Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa could see tens of millions of people forced to move from increasingly non-viable areas of their countries due to growing problems like water scarcity, crop failure, sea-level rise and storm surges.