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When ActionAid asked our Project TOTO shortlist to blog about the link between climate change and poverty, we really didn’t know what we’d get back.
In the end, we received nine well crafted blogs that reflected the huge diversity of people in our shortlist. We had climate change sceptics, climate change converts and climate change champions. We also had discussions about horse poo. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: blogging, challenge, climate change, Copenhagen, human rights
The below post is from Harriet Riley in response to TOTO Challenge #1
The Poor Poor Polar Bears: Far from being a problem for other species, climate change is already robbing people in developing nations of their homes and livlihoods
It’s good to be back in Copenhagen for the COP15. This is the place I came to two years ago trying to answer one simple question; how do you run a functional society? Being happy, prosperous and good-looking to boot is something the Danes have always been famous for, and this stable home-life has freed them up to play advocate on the international stage for more generous aid projects and green development. No doubt these were the people to answer my question. But my quest left me mildly unsatisfied –it was one of those ‘simple’ questions, after all, the type that only the United Nations, ancient Greek philosophers and myself ever seem to bother with– and I’m hoping that this time, at the climate summit, I can find a better answer.
In early 2008 I found myself seated with 99 other bright-eyed young people in an airy lecture theatre of the CPH Business School. We are attending the Copenhagen Consensus Youth Forum hosted by the infamous Bjørn Lomborg of ‘Sceptical Environmentalist’ fame. In front of us, a panel of Nobel Prize winning economists nodded and hummed as they tried to explain, in terms we would understand, just what was wrong with our complicated world.
Tags: challenge, climate change, human rights, United Nations Climate Change Conference
The below post is from Emily French in response to TOTO Challenge #1
ActionAid is calling on Kevin Rudd to personally attend the United Nations Climate Change Conference in December (see petition). But, why is an anti-poverty agency like ActionAid focussing on climate change instead of other clearly pressing issues such as education, food and human rights?
It is fundamental in addressing this question to establish that climate change should not be considered an independent issue from human rights. The staggering impact that climate change is predicted to have on the developing world will prevent many individuals from accessing their most basic rights, including food, water and sanitation. To ignore the need to combat climate change is to deny human rights to vulnerable communities that will be worst affected.
Tags: actionaid australia, Africa, challenge, climate change, human rights
The below post is from Michael Quall in response to TOTO Challenge #1
like white privilege, the wealth privilege of developed nations goes largely unchallenged.
like their populist majority, these wealthy nations prefer to think of themselves as ‘average’, and ‘middle class’, lest they be viewed by their peers as elitist or aloof.
the reality is they are rolling in cash, of every currency and every denomination. hiding behind a thin, weak veil of democracy and a ‘free’ market, these nations flaunt their privilege effortlessly, rubbing the noses of their undeveloped and developing cousins in the dry, dusty playground of poverty.
Tags: challenge, climate change, human rights
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