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Global Warming
Ghana Clean Advocacy's ContributionWe, knowing the impact global warming has on our part of the world and the people who live here, are seeking to collaborate with other civil societies/organization in Ghana to advocate on factors that contribute to climate change and the "Dos and Don'ts" that assist to reduce the impact of global warming. We also have resolved that, we shall be given information on global warming on all our advocacy platforms.
It is an undeniable fact that the impact of global warming is being felt in our part of the world and the whole wide world. We believe if we don’t act now, climate change will dramatically impact heavily and negatively on the well-being of people around the world and cause irreversible damage to the environment. Some of the consequences are the looming food shortage, high cost of products and food items, flooding and other threatening climatic consequences.
Below are some information from Friends of the Earth.
The Fight for Climate Equity
Global warming is already seriously affecting our planet. Climate change threatens many areas around the world with more intense storms, flooding, droughts, decreased food production, water scarcity, and disease. The world’s poorest people will bear the brunt of the impacts, even though it is the United States and other rich countries that are largely responsible for the greenhouse gas pollution that causes climate change. Responses to climate change must be aggressive and immediate, just and equitable, and must take into consideration the disproportionate role that the United States has played in creating global warming. Friends of the Earth is working through our global network, and here in the United States with partnering groups to make climate equity part of the global warming solution. Resources:
Climate Equity Principles
Increasing temperatures on the Earth’s surface are melting glaciers, ice, and permafrost on vast scales. Ocean temperatures are rising and affecting weather patterns, leading to flooding, sea level rise, heat waves, and droughts, as well increasing the intensity of major storms. For the poor, unpredictable weather and rainfall patterns and rising tides could lead to poor crop yields and devastating floods.
Climate Development Principles
As the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) recently concluded, climate change is already creating devastating impacts for the world?s poorest and most vulnerable people -- especially those in developing countries -- even though they are the least responsible for causing it. Those impacts will become all the more severe in the coming decades, and will sometimes even reverse the "development process" as a whole. Climate change is already a major driver of impoverishment and conflict around the world, but that fact has not yet been given the urgent attention it demands.
The Climate Development Network
The Climate and Development Network is a forum for international development, faith-based, environmental and other organizations to share information on the impacts of climate change on global poverty. Letters to the U.S. House and Senate on Adaptation Needs in Developing Countries In September, 2007, over 30 international development, faith-based, environmental and other organizations signed letters to the Senate and House calling for the U.S. government to provide funding to assist developing countries adapt to the impacts of climate change.
Letter to President Bush on Climate Change in Developing Countries
In June, 2007, over 30 international development, faith-based, environmental and other organizations signed a letter to President Bush on the importance of reducing greenhouse gas emissions and providing funding to assist developing countries adapt to the impacts of climate change in advance of the 2007 G8 Summit.
InterAction Panel Series on Climate Change
In September and October, 2007, InterAction and the Climate and Development Network Coalition hosted a panel series on "The Next Global Crisis: How Climate Change is Affecting International Development & Humanitarian Efforts."
Climate and Development Summit
On April 16, 2007, Friends of the Earth, ActionAid International USA, Oxfam America, Center for American Progress, Heinrich Boell Foundation, Oil Change International, Jubilee USA Network and U.S. Climate Action Network organized a Summit on Climate Change and International Development, which highlighted the impacts of climate change on the world's poorest people. Welcome to the website of GCA. We would wish to have you again sometime. Send us your concerns to ghanaclean@gmail.com or call us on +233-28-7222299
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