NGO Action Aid has warned that a weak deal at the Copenhagen summit could mean disaster in Africa, as harvest yields are already set to reduce by 50% over the next decade due to climate change.
Results published this week say that the last decade has been the hottest on record, and the next decade is likely to be even hotter. The World Meteorological Organisation released its findings on the 2nd day of the climate conference in Copenhagen.
2009 has been one of the most extreme years on record, with China’s worst drought in 50 years, and temperatures shattering records in Vancouver, Canada.
Action Aid’s Dominic Wulbengo Wandera said that the NGO is hoping that “out of this conference there will be an agreement on adaptation and using emissions.”
Droughts are spreading through central Africa, and with floods in West Africa, the Copenhagen summit has concrete evidence of the damage that Climate change is doing right now – not just in the future.
ActionAid also has “Climate Debt Agents” participating at the conference. They walk the streets of Copenhagen raising awareness, wearing bright red jump suits.
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We say: What more evidence do they need? Copenhagen is, at the very least, evidence that people are talking about it, but are they really going to do anything? A weak deal could spell even further disaster for Africa, and consequentially for the rest of us. It’s time to get radical – and that’s not just the likes of you and me cutting down our own personal emissions – it’s the likes of US and China sorting out a whole mentality of burning up fossil fuels, because they’re killing everyone else in the process. Very slowly.
Action Aid deserve your support – so if you can, give to them or at the very least pledge your support.
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