Posts Tagged ‘climate change’

Unfolding Food Crisis in Horn of Africa – shouldn’t we be doing more?

The Disaster Emergency Committee (www.dec.org.uk) appeal for drought-stricken people in Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia was shown on TV over the 8th July weekend by ITV/ITN, BBC, Sky, Channel 4 and Channel Five. Up to ten million people are now facing starvation after a drought worsened in Kenya, Ethiopia and Somalia. Are we, as individuals in the UK powerless, or is there anything that we can do now and in the future to stop unimaginable suffering in the Horn of Africa?

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Copenhagen: a postscript to ‘Bleak Expectations’

A look at why Copenhagen failed and where we are now in the climate change arena.

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Wonderful Copenhagen or ‘Bleak Expectations’?

Politicians across the world first tried to ‘grasp the nettle’ of manmade climate change at Rio de Janeiro in 1992, tried again at Kyoto in 1997 and are now in Copenhagen for a third attempt.

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Crucial climate-change talks in London at the Major Economies Forum

Representatives of the world’s 17 biggest and most polluting nations were holding talks today, Sunday 18th October 2009, to search for a breakthrough on financing efforts to contain climate change and reduce gas emissions causing global warming.

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Europe, Obama administration clash over climate change ahead of Copenhagen

Key differences between the US and Europe could undermine a new worldwide treaty on global warming to replace Kyoto

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Greatest challenge for the human race

We face the possibility that global warming will lead to catastrophic changes in sea-level and climate. Doing nothing is not an option. We need change. I believe this generation is the generation of change: it can really make a difference. It has to. It’s the last generation that possibly can.

Malcolm Carroll
Greenpeace

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