Comments and links to help us think about climate change
What is climate change and what is the EU doing?
Combating climate change is a key priority for the European Commission. See the EU website for more http://ec.europa.eu/environment/climat/campaign/actions/whatiseudoing_en.htm
Climate change is a global problem, and yet each one of us has the power to make a difference. Even small changes in our daily behaviour can help prevent greenhouse gas emissions without affecting our quality of life. In fact, they can help save us money.
Together we can make an impact
Kevin McCleod, designer, author and expert in sustainable building, supports the 10:10 campaign which was launched in September 2009. For information and action see www.1010uk.org
We must face difficult questions about how we change our lives. Which is what the 10:10 campaign sets out to solve.
Climate change and the world's poor countries
Extract from an interview with Bernarditas de Castro Muller,
environment adviser to the Filipino government and lead negotiator
and co-ordinator for the 130 developing countries in the G77 plus China.
The Guardian Weekend, November 2009
Climate change is the most complex and satisfying of all the diplomacy she has done because it is science-based, it is about development, but mainly because there is so much at stake. Get it right, she says, and the world has the chance to both halt catastrophic climate change and find a better path to develop. Get it wrong and all the injustices and disadvantages that developing countries now face will be magnified 1,000 times in the coming years.
Climate change and Fairtrade
Extract from 'A Fairtrade Foundation Discussion Paper' October 2009.
You can find the paper on www.fairtrade.org.uk
At the simplest, and most self evident level, climate change
is not fair.
The science tells us that climate change is already
happening and that, whatever agreement is reached in
Copenhagen, climate change will continue to happen, with
increasingly severe impacts. One of the most striking aspects
of climate change is the contrast between those who bear
greatest responsibility and those who will bear the greatest
cost. Climate change has highlighted an old issue, inequality,
in a stark new way.
UN climate summit in Copenhagen 2009
The Copenhagen climate conference in December 2009 is the most important leaders’ gathering since the Kyoto protocol was adopted in 1997.
Countdown to Copenhagen www.christianaid.org.uk/ActNow/Countdown-to-Copenhagen-climate-change/Index.aspx
December's UN climate summit in Copenhagen will shape the way the world combats climate change.
It’s vital an effective deal is done for the sake of the planet and for the millions in the poorest countries who are suffering the effects of climate change now.
The environmental and human cost of climate change - Peru
Photographer, Helena Christensen, talks about her pictures from Peru.
The exhibition of her photographs, in collaboration with Oxfam, opens to the public on 23 November, 2009, at London's Proud Gallery.
You really see the effects of climate changes....
These kids are the last generation .....
If we loose out on these cultures .......
www.guardian.co.uk/environment/audioslideshow/2009/nov/21/helena-christensen-peru-photographs-climate
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