Climate Action 2007-2008
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Promoting equity and<br />
adaptation for<br />
developing countries<br />
The IPCC Fourth Assessment report demonstrates<br />
evidence of human induced global climate change.<br />
The poor are the worst victims of a global problem that<br />
has been created mainly by the rich and industrialised<br />
countries. <strong>Climate</strong> change is a harsh reality now for<br />
many of us, and this is demonstrated through various<br />
recent extreme climatic events around the world.<br />
These include: prolonged and devastating floods in<br />
Bangladesh, India, China and in the UK in <strong>2007</strong>; severe<br />
droughts in Africa and Asia, extreme heatwaves<br />
in central Europe, devastating cyclones and tidal<br />
surges across the coasts. We live in an unequal world<br />
economically, politically and socially, and climate<br />
change impacts will increase poverty, food insecurity,<br />
hungers, inequity and social conflict in the coming<br />
decades if we don’t take urgent action now before it<br />
escapes our control.<br />
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GLOBAL EQUITY 49<br />
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