This year the floods in Pakistan have returned displacing 5 million and killing hundreds. Last year's floods were the worst in living memory with 20 million affected and 2,000 killed. Last year also saw record breaking temperatures in Russia with wildfires and crop failures, while this year we have seen the latest in a series of exceptional droughts in East Africa causing famine in Somalia.The frequency and severity of weather related disasters is on the increase and scientists tell us this is due to human-induced climate change caused overwhelmingly by the high emissions and high consuming lifestyles of richer countries like our own. It's the poorest and most vulnerable around the world - many of them in Africa where this year's climate talks are being held - who have done the least to cause the problem but who are suffering the most. And all this is set to get worse. Yet climate change and the conversion to a low carbon economy are routinely dismissed as minor concerns.
"Climate Refugee Vigil"
Midnight Friday 2nd on the Thames foreshore near the Millenium bridge
7% of the world's population produce 50% of the world's emissions
7% of the world's emissions are produced by 50% of the world's population
Turn the desolate foreshore alongside the rising waters of the Thames into a 'stage' on which to bring the reality of climate change impacts around the world home to the City of London, the heart of the consumerist carbon-burning economy that created those impacts in the first place....
Climate Justice March
12 noon (Saturday 3rd) Assemble for the march at Blackfriars Bridge. March in support of the tens of thousands mobilising in South Africa to demand climate justice at the Durban Climate Talks.
2.30 - 3.00 pm Climate Justice Rally outside Parliament. Demonstrate the 7% versus the 50% and demand urgent action to achieve a Zero Carbon Britain by 2030.
For more information about here. Find out more about climate justice and the international negotiations here.
7% of the world's population produce 50% of the world's emissions
7% of the world's emissions are produced by 50% of the world's population
Turn the desolate foreshore alongside the rising waters of the Thames into a 'stage' on which to bring the reality of climate change impacts around the world home to the City of London, the heart of the consumerist carbon-burning economy that created those impacts in the first place....
Climate Justice March
12 noon (Saturday 3rd) Assemble for the march at Blackfriars Bridge. March in support of the tens of thousands mobilising in South Africa to demand climate justice at the Durban Climate Talks.
2.30 - 3.00 pm Climate Justice Rally outside Parliament. Demonstrate the 7% versus the 50% and demand urgent action to achieve a Zero Carbon Britain by 2030.
For more information about here. Find out more about climate justice and the international negotiations here.
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