CIAO DATE: 08/2009
May 2009
The world, and most of all, its poor people, desperately needs a fair and safe climate deal to be agreed at the UN talks in Copenhagen in December. Climate change is already affecting the lives of people in the developing world. Increased floods and droughts; rising sea levels; changing patterns of rainfall; and falling crop yields are making it harder and harder for poor people to escape poverty.
Resource link: EU Leadership or Losership? Time to beat the impasse on climate talks [PDF] - 172K