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By Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent

OSLO (Reuters) - Droughts, floods and rising seas linked to global warming could spur conflicts in coming decades, experts said on Monday, the eve of a first U.N. Security Council debate on climate change.

And the poor in tropical regions of Africa and Asia are likely to suffer most, perhaps creating tensions with rich nations in the temperate north which are likely to escape the worst effects of warming widely blamed on use of fossil fuels.

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UPDATE 17 APRIL

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"It is our view that there are many factors other than climate change that have an impact indirectly on security," said Gerald Anderson, deputy assistant secretary at the U.S. Bureau of International Organizations Affairs.  

"There are already a number of international fora for dealing with the issue, and we don't really see the Security Council as the optimal place to deal with it," he told Reuters at a U.N. meeting in Nairobi.

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