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Subject: Climate change
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Our climate is changing. The increasing unpredictability and extreme weather conditions experienced across the world in recent years – floods in Pakistan, drought in East Africa, unusually heavy snowfall in Ireland and floods in Australia – are consistent with the projections by climate scientists of the advance of global warming. |
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An interesting report that examines the future form of climate action. Thie paper seeks to join the dots on climate action, food security and poverty reduction. It also poses the question: what happened in Cancun and what’s at stake in Durban?
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The political stakes were high in Copenhagen, but the stakes for vulnerable people in developing countries were much higher. Trócaire is supporting communities already suffering the impacts of increasingly unpredictable weather patterns. Erratic rainfall, droughts and floods of growing frequency and intensity are pushing families to the edge of their ability to cope. For these communities the urgency for action has not gone away, it increases with every delay to the process to achieve a fair, ambitious and binding agreement |
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In this report Trócaire outlines how it has contributed to the MDG's 1, 3, 6 and 8. This report outlines those MDGs to which Trócaire contributes and gives concrete examples of progress towards achieveing the goals. This report also highlights the major gaps and deficiencies in the goals, including the lack of emphasis on governance and human rights and discusses how a rights-based approach needs to be at the heart of the MDGs. |
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