As one of the UK’s leading relief and development agencies Tearfund tackles the causes and effects of poverty.
Recent report with a foreword from Sir John Houghton highlights two key points:
- Climate change jeopardises water supply for millions of people in developing countries and threatens mass movements of climate change refugees. Water scarcity undermines many other development goals.
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The potentially catastrophic effects of climate change, which threaten decades of successful development, could be averted. The British and other governments must agree at the UN climate change conference in
Nairobi (Nov 6-17) to: - produce a timetable for agreeing the next phase of the Kyoto Protocol, and focus on setting tougher, binding targets to cut their carbon emissions
- provide urgent funding to help poor countries adapt to climate change
- make water resources an urgent priority for adaptation efforts
Report: Feeling the Heat (Why governments must act to tackle the impact of climate change on global water supplies and avert mass movements of climate change refugees) PDF, 23 pages
Read more: ‘After Kyoto’ by Sir John Houghton
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