Why is Oxfam at the UN Climate Change Conference?
December 5, 2007 at 2:05 pm Leave a comment
Oxfam’s goal is to see and end to poverty and suffering, so how does that link to Climate Change? Developing countries and people living in poverty are being hit first and worst, by the impacts of climate change. They are losing their livelihoods and land to more frequent and severe floods, droughts and rising sea levels.
Find out more from Kate Raworth, Oxfam GB’s Senior Climate Change Researcher and Ursula Rakova, whose community in the Carteret Islands, have already had to make plans to leave due to rising sea levels.
Entry filed under: United Nations Climate Change Conference. Tags: climate change, development, Enviroment, interview, Pacific, poverty, rising sea, Sea levels, United Nations Climate Conference.




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