Of 126 countries assessed, just 8 (only 6%) are classified in the Critical or Severe tier, yet their populations number in the hundreds of millions and their food insecurity rates range from 30% to 63%, representing the most acute humanitarian food emergency on earth today.

Sub-Saharan Africa has a 46% poverty rate and hosts 570 million of the world’s 847 million extreme poor, 2% of the global total, and its trend is rising, driven by population growth that is outpacing income gains.

While the rest of the world bends the curve downward, Asia’s greenhouse gas emissions are racing in the opposite direction, and the gap is widening fast. Global greenhouse gas emissions tell two very different stories depending on where you look.