Climate Change
The effects of climate change – floods, cyclones and crop failures – have a much bigger impact on people in poor countries because they don’t have the resources to protect themselves - they suffer the most, even though they have contributed to it the least.
- Japan, the US and Europe release over 40 per cent of global emissions.
- One person in 19 living in the world’s poorest countries is at risk from climate change, compared to one in 1,500 in wealthiest.
- If sea levels rise by one metre, 17.5% of Bangladesh will disappear under sea, potentially affecting 70 million people.
- In 2007, 12 of the 13 UN emergency appeals were related to severe storms, floods and droughts.
EU admits global climate change sums don’t add up
In a communication launched on the 9th of March by new Climate Commissioner Connie Hedegaard, the European Commission admitted for the first time that international climate change sums do not add up.
Confused by talk of CO2 concentration and parts per million? What is all the fuss about climate change?
Climate change, what a buzzword of the 21st century. Organisations with long-winded acronyms frequently publish reports on how we are heading for planetary meltdown. Even a man once considered too uncharismatic to be president of the United States has turned himself into Captain Planet, leading the fight against climate change and pocketing the Nobel peace prize in the process.
But what does this all mean and why are the climate change talks in Copenhagen so important?
Poor farmers are suffering the worst from the impact of climate change.
In some countries in Africa, yields from rain-fed agriculture could drop by as much as 50 percent by 2020 because of rising temperatures, increasing droughts and floods.
Climate talks: a lost opportunity for world’s poor
"Developing countries cannot afford a bad deal in Copenhagen."
The world's poorest, who are battling the effects of climate change now, will be hit hardest by the latest news that no fair deal will be reached in Copenhagen. Developed countries are refusing to pay their climate debt.
Eu Must Face it's Climate Debt!
As EU leaders meet in Brussels, ActionAid climate debt collectors call on the EU to accept it's global responsibility and address the impacts of climate change that developing countries are already starting to feel.
The Summit represents the last chance for EU leaders to face up to climate change, before December’s Copenhagen conference begins.
