Climate Talks must put an end to excuses by TckTckTck, AP, Guardian & agencies 12:41pm 29th Nov, 2012   Extreme weather calls for urgemt action, UN climate chief says.    Extreme weather from melting Arctic ice to Superstorm Sandy shows snail-paced U.N. climate talks have to do more to cut greenhouse gas emissions, the head of the U.N. weather agency and its climate chief says.    "Climate change is taking place before our eyes," Michel Jarraud, the head of the U.N."s weather agency, said of the shrinking of ice floating on the Arctic Ocean to a record low in September and other extremes.    And the first 10 months of 2012 were the ninth-warmest since records began in the mid-19th century, with early months cooled by a "La Nina" weather event in the Pacific, according to a report by Jarraud"s World Meteorological Organization (WMO). It also documented severe floods, droughts and heatwaves.    Rajendra Pachauri, head of the U.N. panel of climate scientists, said between 75 and 250 million people in Africa alone could face greater stress on water supplies by 2020, hitting food output. "This would further adversely affect food security and exacerbate malnutrition," he said in a speech to the conference.    He said polls showed U.S. public opinion had swung towards wanting more action by President Barack Obama to slow global warming after Sandy. "But whether that"s a lasting change it"s too early to say," he told Reuters.    China, the United States, the European Union and India are the top emitters. None have announced plans to limit emissions at Doha despite wide pleas for action.    The burden of climate change on poor countries. (Red Cross)    In 2011, there were 300 climate-related disasters, which affected 207 million people. By 2015, this figure is expected to rise to 375 million people.    In just three years, there will be around a 75 per cent increase in the number of people affected by climate-related disasters.    Developing countries are estimated to bear 75-80 per cent of the costs of damages related to climate change as a result of droughts, floods, strong storms and rising sea levels.    Uganda is one such developing country, where around 25 per cent of the population live in poverty, and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change predicts an increase in erratic and intense rainy seasons, as well as longer drier spells. Combined with a rapidly growing population and environmental degradation the situation for thousands of people already struggling to survive, has the potential to get a lot worse.    Another aspect of the change in global weather patterns means farmers can no longer just rely on their local knowledge in order to plant, grow and harvest their crops.    Across the Sahel and in east Africa, survival is particularly tough for subsistence farmers and pastoralists with droughts and floods destroying crops and pasture for grazing animals.    Last year, drought in Kenya alone left around 4 million people struggling to get enough food. The British Red Cross launched an emergency appeal to provide emergency relief.    In the aftermath of this crisis, we have continued to provide support to people in Dadaab, the world’s largest refugee camp. In addition, working with the Kenya Red Cross, it has just completed a scoping assessment in South Turkana, one of the areas worst-affected by recurring drought and where food insecurity is an ongoing issue.    A programme to help communities increasingly at risk of climate-related food insecurity is currently being developed.    Karen Peachey, British Red Cross east Africa representative, said: “Environmental degradation, changing weather patterns, conflict and disease are just some of the many problems faced by people in the arid and semi arid lands of Northern Kenya. Even in a good year, life is difficult – when drought happens the situation can quickly turn into a crisis.    Doha, Dec 8, 2012 (Reuters)    Almost 200 nations extended a weakened United Nations plan for combating global warming until 2020 on Saturday with a modest set of measures that would do nothing to halt rising world greenhouse gas emissions.    Many countries and environmentalists said the deal at the end of marathon two-week U.N. talks in OPEC-member Qatar would fail to slow rising temperatures or avert more floods, droughts, heatwaves and rising sea levels.    Environment ministers extended until 2020 the Kyoto Protocol, which obliges about 35 industrialised nations to cut their greenhouse gas emissions until the end of 2012. That keeps the pact alive as the sole legally binding climate plan.    But the 1997 treaty, 23 days away from expiry, has been sapped by the withdrawal of Russia, Japan and Canada and its remaining backers, led by the European Union and Australia, now account for just 15 percent of world greenhouse gas emissions.    Kyoto obliged about 35 industrialised nations to cut greenhouse gas emissions by an average of at least 5.2 percent below 1990 levels during the period from 2008 to 2012.    The European Union, for instance, says it will deepen its cut to at least 20 percent below 1990 levels by 2020.    Kyoto would have expired at the end of 2012 without an extension. The nations pulling out - Russia, Japan and Canada - say it is meaningless to take on new targets when emerging nations have none. And Washington never ratified the pact.    "Much, much more is needed if we are really going to address climate change and reduce emissions," said Kieren Keke, foreign minister of the Pacific island state of Nauru on behalf of the Alliance of Small Island States.    He warned against endless talk that "locks in the death of our nations and of our children". Most nations favoured keeping even a shrunken Kyoto as a blueprint for future action.    Environmentalists were unimpressed by the set of deals called the "Doha Climate Gateway".    "The U.N. climate talks failed to deliver increased cuts to carbon pollution, nor did they provide any credible pathway to $100 billion per year in finance by 2020 to help the poorest countries," the Climate Action Network-International said.    "There"s a huge disconnect between the urgency on the outside and what happens here," said Jennifer Haverkamp of the Environmental Defense Fund.    The texts merely encouraged developed nations to raise aid from a current $10 billion a year from 2010-12 to help the poor cut emissions and adapt to a changing climate.    World carbon dioxide emissions are set to rise by 2.6 percent this year, and are about 58 percent higher than in 1990. Recent growth has come mostly from emerging nations, led by China and India.    One decision raised the possibility of a new "mechanism" to help developing nations cope with losses and damage from everything from hurricanes to a creeping rise in sea levels.    December 08 2012    No oasis for climate in Doha desert says the Climate Action Network-International    The UN climate talks failed to deliver increased cuts to carbon pollution, nor did they provide any credible pathway to $100 billion per year in finance by 2020 to help the poorest countries deal with climate change, according to the 700 NGOs who are members of Climate Action Network-International (CAN-I).    Two weeks ago, just prior to the start of these negotiations, numerous credible reports were published by an array of well respected scientists, economists and climate change experts, all with essentially the same conclusion - we are currently on an unsustainable path which virtually guarantees the world will be faced with catastrophic effects from climate change, said Greenpeace International executive director, Kumi Naidoo.    “Two weeks of negotiations have not altered that path and that politicians need to reflect the consensus around climate change through funds, targets and effective action."    WWF head of delegation, Tasneem Essop, said Doha was supposed to be an important element in setting up for a fair, ambitious and binding deal in 2015 and therefore needed to rebuild trust and instill equity.    “These talks have failed the climate and they have failed developing nations,” Essop said. “The Doha decision has delivered no real cuts in emissions, it has delivered no concrete finance, and it has not delivered on equity.”    Governments have delivered a very vague outcome that might lead to increased ambition but only if the politics shift to working for the people, our future, and not the polluters.    In particular, countries including the US, who have continually blocked progress in the talks, need to fundamentally change their positions in line with their obligation to lead on the solution to this crisis that they created.    Tim Gore, International Climate Change Policy Advisor for Oxfam, said Doha had done nothing to guarantee that public climate finance would go up next year, not down. “Developing countries have come here in good faith and have been forced to accept vague words and no numbers,” Gore said. “It"s a betrayal.”    Wael Hmaidan, director of the Climate Action Network, said that ministers needed to go back to their capitals and work hard to put concrete proposals on the table for the next talks so that progress could be made towards to secure a fair, ambitious, and binding deal in 2015.    “The path forward is actually quite clear: we have the technology and know-how to reduce dangerous carbon pollution, protect vulnerable communities, and grow sustainable, resilient, economies.. But we also need people in all regions of the world to demand leadership from their governments on climate change.”    The Doha Decision:    An extraordinarily weak outcome on climate finance which fails to put any money on the table or to ensure a pathway to the $100 billion a year by 2020 target. The decision asks for submissions from governments on long term finance pathways, calls for public funds for adaptation but does not mention a figure, and encourages developed countries to maintain funding at existing levels dependent on their economies.    An eight year second commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol with loopholes that allow carry over, use and trading of hot air.    A call – though not an official ambition ratchet mechanism - for Kyoto Protocol countries to review their emissions reduction target in line with the 25-40% range by 2014 at the latest. While it could have been stronger, the decision reinforces clear moral obligation for countries to increase their emission reduction targets prior to 2020 and provides opportunities for them to do so.    An agreed work program on loss and damage to help victims of climate change will start immediately and a decision “to establish institutional arrangement, such as an international mechanism, at COP19    Developed countries failed to agree a way to account for their carbon in a comparable way    The Climate Action Network (CAN) is a global network of over 700 NGOs working to promote government and individual action to limit human-induced climate change to ecologically sustainable levels.    http://www.climatenetwork.org/press-release/no-oasis-climate-doha-desert    Southern Capacity Program: Blog Posts: http://climatenetwork.org/blog/campaign/623    Dec 2012    La Via Campesina, the international peasants movement, representing more than 200 million small farmers around the world, denounced the utilization of the climate negotiations to legitimize the continuation of business as usual at the expense of humanity and the planet.    We are already feeling the impacts of climate change; the past few months we have witnessed record-breaking extremities of weather – drought, typhoons, floods and extreme temperatures. These extremities of weather change have also wreaked havoc on crops, farmlands, livelihoods and homes. Already, there is a growing relation between climate change and the staggering increases in food prices and the growing food crisis. Climate change is also forcibly displacing millions from their homes. In 2010 alone, it was estimated that more than 30 million people were forcibly displaced by environmental and weather-related disasters across Asia. This week alone, as climate negotiations move backward, more than 300 people died in one of the strongest typhoons to hit the Philippines.    Last September, arctic sea ice melted to the lowest level since scientists began to keep records in 1979. Scientists even stated that if this rate continues, we will no longer have sea ice by the end of this decade. A United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) study calculated that warming would still go up to 5-6 degrees centigrade using the numbers calculated in Copenhagen, far surpassing the 2 degree centigrade threshold that scientists said should be mitigated to avoid climate chaos    The inaction in the climate negotiations is a reflection of the corporate capture of governments by big business who want to continue exploiting nature to gain as much profit as possible. While governments play silly games - creating loopholes to escape their responsibilities, small scale farmers still produce the majority of the world’s food. We are not only feeding the people but also trying to adapt to new climate conditions using agroecology and peasant seed varieties.    La Via Campesina rejects false capitalist solutions of the green economy which will only worsen the climate and food crises. Around the world farmers and peasants are working to help save humanity through agroecological farming - working to combat hunger and to help cool the planet.    * La Via Campesina is the international movement which brings together millions of peasants, small and medium-size farmers, landless people, women farmers, indigenous people, agricultural workers from around the world. It defends small-scale sustainable agriculture as a way to promote social justice and dignity. It opposes corporate driven agriculture and transnational companies it sees as destroying people and nature.    Doha recognizes "loss and damage" incurred from Climate Change . (The Observer)    Poor countries have won historic recognition of the plight they face from the ravages of climate change, wringing a pledge from rich nations that they will receive funds to repair the "loss and damage" incurred.    This is the first time developing countries have received such assurances, and the first time the phrase "loss and damage from climate change" has been enshrined in an international legal document.    Developing countries had been fighting hard for the concession at the fortnight-long UN climate change talks among 195 nations in Qatar, which finished after a marathon 36-hour final session.    Ronald Jumeau, negotiating for the Seychelles, scolded the US negotiator: "If we had had more ambition [on emissions cuts from rich countries], we would not have to ask for so much [money] for adaptation. If there had been more money for adaptation [to climate change], we would not be looking for money for loss and damage. What"s next? Loss of our islands?"    Ruth Davis, political adviser at Greenpeace, said: "This is a highly significant move – it will be the first time the size of the bill for failing to take on climate change will be part of the UN discussions. Countries need to understand the risks they are taking in not addressing climate change urgently."    But the pledges stopped well short of any admission of legal liability or the need to pay compensation on the part of the rich world.    The US had strongly opposed the initial "loss and damage" proposals, which would have set up a new international institution to collect and disperse funds to vulnerable countries. US negotiators also made certain that neither the word "compensation", nor any other term connoting legal liability, was used, to avoid opening the floodgates to litigation – instead, the money will be judged as aid.    Key questions remain unanswered, including whether funds devoted to "loss and damage" will come from existing humanitarian aid and disaster relief budgets. The US is one of the world"s biggest donor of humanitarian aid and disaster relief, from both public and private sources. It will be difficult to disentangle damage inflicted by climate change from other natural disasters.    Another question is how the funds will be disbursed. Developing countries wanted a new institution, like a bank, but the US is set against that, preferring to use existing international institutions. These issues will have to be sorted out at next year"s climate conference, in Warsaw, where they will be bitterly contested.    The next three years of negotiations on the treaty will be the hardest in the 20-year history of climate change talks because the world has changed enormously since 1992, when the UN convention on climate change was signed, and 1997, when the Kyoto protocol enshrined a stark division between developed countries – which were required to cut emissions – and developing countries, which were not.    China was classed then as a developing country, it is now the world"s biggest emitter and will soon overtake the US as the biggest economy. It has made clear its determination to hang on to its developing country status, and that the countries classed as developed in 1997 must continue to bear most of the burden for emissions cuts, and for providing funds to poor countries to help them cut emissions and cope with climate change.    Nov. 2012 (IRIN)    UN climate change talks in Doha could be on the verge of adding a focus on "loss and damage" to its framing of the global response to climate change. The new issue area would supplement existing emphases on the mitigation of and adaptation to climate change - underscoring the growing realization that simply adjusting to a warmer world may no longer be an option.    There is no agreed-upon definition for "loss and damage", but the phrase broadly refers to a range of harms incurred in developing countries from the impact of climate change that cannot be avoided either through mitigation or adaptation.    The issue has been contentious, as the term could allude to a right to compensation and a legal obligation on the part of developed countries to provide it.    Its inclusion in the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) negotiating texts was resisted until the 2010 UN meeting in Cancun, Mexico. The phrase was featured in the Cancun Adaptation Framework, which called for a work programme to explore the concept.    The programme, after two years of series of meetings and studies, will report its findings in Doha, and there is some expectation that a separate mechanism to address funding or guidance on how to deal with loss and damage could be announced. One of the main debates will be how to institutionalize loss and damage more formally, says Sönke Kreft, policy officer with the NGO Germanwatch.    “The concept of loss and damage is increasingly important because we have not mitigated or adapted to climate change in time: whatever we do now, there will still be losses and irreversible impacts,” said a joint paper produced by the NGOs ActionAid, Germanwatch, Care International and the World Wide Fund for Nature.    "Loss and damage is a reality for millions of people now and is likely to become important to many more as we learn to live with climate change," writes Sam Bickersteth, chief executive of the Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN). http://cdkn.org/    http://reliefweb.int/report/world/climate-change-when-damage-done    Live from the UN Climate Talks in Doha, Qatar    TckTckTck and OneWorld are in Doha, Qatar for the UN Climate Talks (also known as COP18).    Environmentalists and civil society groups alarmed at lack of urgency and action.    Oxfam International Director of Campaigns and Advocacy Celine Charveriat said of the agreement: “Once again governments have done far too little to drive down dangerous greenhouse gas emissions any time soon. The planet is on fire, but our politicians spend more time quarrelling with each other than fighting our common enemy, climate change. Now citizens around the world must draw a line in the sand and build a movement that matches those that defeated slavery, apartheid, and other struggles for a more equitable world,” said Charveriat.    Dipti Bhatnagar, Friends of the Earth International climate justice coordinator, echoed Charveriat, saying governments failure at addressing climate change must be met with grassroots action. "As the talks in Doha show, people around the world cannot wait for our governments to see sense and deliver the solutions. Working together in our communities, people are resisting fossil fuels and dirty energy, fighting to protect our forests, land and water from multinational corporations. Only people-and-planet-centred solutions will solve the climate crisis and create a better future for us all. We must make our governments listen."    If there was a winner at the talks, it was the fossil fuel lobby, says Sarah-Jayne Clifton, Friends of the Earth International energy coordinator. "The fossil fuel lobby won in Qatar, where we witnessed dirty industry elites still holding the reins of our governments. Meanwhile the climate crisis worsens and the window for action shrinks day by day. Developed countries did not even try to solve the climate crisis at these talks. Instead, they continued to protect the interests of fossil fuelled corporations," stated Clifton.    In a video uploaded by the TckTckTck climate campaign as the conference closed, Greenpeace International"s Kumi Naidoo says that "any government walking out of these negotiations saying that this was a success is suffering from a terrible case of cognitive dissonance, and that it represents a "betrayal of people around the world facing the impacts of climate change".    LIdy Nacpil, from the civil society group Jubilee South Asia Pacific, said the Doha draft resolution is a million miles from where we need to be to even have a small chance of preventing runaway climate change. As civil society movements, "we are saying that this is not acceptable."    Environment correspondent for Inter Press Service Stephen Leahy reported that the atmosphere in Doha was "tense and angry" leading up to the final day of negotiations. Kumi Naidoo said “People are dying because of climate change. People are losing their homes, their livelihoods, their source of food. It is saddening to see negotiators actively blocking progress in order to maintain the profits of their coal, oil and forestry industries”.    http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment    http://www.trust.org/alertnet/climate-change/    http://www.climatecentral.org/ http://ourworld.unu.edu/en/    http://tcktcktck.org/events/doha    November 26, 2012    Time Is Running Out: Doha Climate Talks must Put an End to Excuses, by John Vidal. (Guardian News)    Last month was the 333rd consecutive month that global temperatures were above the 20th century average, and 2012 will almost certainly be the hottest ever recorded in the US. Hurricanes, heatwaves, wildfires and droughts blistered farmlands and ruined crops from Kansas to Assam, and Britain has had its wettest summer and driest spring to date. Nigeria, China and much of India and Australia have all had their worst floods in decades. In September the Arctic sea ice cover shrank 50% below the 1979-2000 average.    In a world where climate extremes come faster than ever, the World Bank has found common ground with Greenpeace. Last week, even as the World Meteorological Organisation reported that the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere had reached a record 394ppm, the bank warned that the world is on course for a 4-6C temperature rise which will consign most people to a very different and much less liveable world, and which will inevitably wreck economies and hopes of development.    The UN, too, estimated greenhouse gas emissions to be 14% above where they need to be to hold temperatures to a manageable 2C rise. The biggest corporations, want governments to introduce a carbon price and to seriously address climate change. Even Saudi Arabia and the oil exporters of Opec are considering levying a carbon tax to give to the UN fund that helps poor countries adapt to climate change.    Evidence of global warming mounts both on the ground and in science, but in the bubble world of international climate diplomacy, little happens. Countries have become less and less able to collectively address the crisis unfolding around them. When UN talks fell apart in Copenhagen in 2009, world leaders claimed they could cobble together a new binding agreement to cut emissions within six months. That became a year, then two years, and now the rich countries tell a bemused public that it will be 2015 at the earliest before a final agreement will be reached. Trillions of dollars can be found to bail out banks in a few months, but the world"s most experienced negotiators cannot find a way to get Americans, the British or anyone to just turn down the air conditioning or lag their roofs to reduce the amount of energy they use.    So what is the point of the massive UN climate talks which start today in Doha, one of the most energy-profligate cities on Earth? Negotiators from 194 countries are meeting in an atmosphere of mutual mistrust. They are divided and frustrated, and know their political masters mostly seek only painfully slow progress. We already know rich countries will refuse to commit to any further cuts in emissions or to provide more money, just as we know the poor will try to cling to the few global climate agreements reached between nations years ago. There will be fights, tantrums, and righteous anger from the non-government observers and world media.    The blame for this miserable state of diplomatic affairs can be laid on the US in particular and the rich countries in general. For three years now, they have bullied the poor into accepting a new agreement. They have delayed making commitments, withheld money and played a cynical game of power politics to avoid their legal obligations. The resulting distrust has fatally plagued the talks.    In 2009 the rich countries agreed to give $100bn by 2020 to help poor countries adapt to climate change. So far, they have not even provided the $30bn they promised as a down payment. Instead, they have offered less than the annual bonuses given in the City of London – and most of that in the form of loans, not grants. Led by the US, the rich have now wrecked the Kyoto treaty, the one international agreement that legally binds the rich to making cuts, and now it appears they want to ditch the Bali action plan, which commits the US and other countries to reduce emissions.    The time for such cynicism and parsimonious diplomacy must be over. The science and evidence of climate change is clearer than ever, the poor countries on the frontline of the immense changes taking place. In short, there is little time left and no more excuses.    Dec 2012    Last year, governments met in Durban and agreed to sign a legally binding deal in 2015 and to cut emissions for that period until it comes to force in 2020 — the deadline to stay below two degrees of global warming, according to Jennifer Morgan, director of the Washington, DC-based Climate and Energy Program of the World Resources Institute.    "To do this, industrialized nations must trim their emissions output by 25 to 40 percent below their 1990 emissions levels," Morgan said. "The United States has pledged to make a 3 percent reduction compared to 1990 levels. The United Kingdom is aiming for a 34 percent reduction and has already reached 18 percent. We hope the US will bring a new strategy, including greater ambition, to Doha."    The Associated Press reports:    The concentration of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide has jumped 20 percent since 2000, according to a UN report released last week. The report also showed that there is a growing gap between what governments are doing to curb emissions and what needs to be done to protect the world from dangerous levels of warming.    Both the World Meteorological Organisation and United Nations hughkughted that global warming is worsening, and the World Bank issued a report citing that temperatures are expected to rise between 4-6 degrees C by 2100.    Greenpeace is calling for leaders to close loopholes that "give countries a free pass to pollute" and "help bring about an energy revolution from dirty to clean energy"    Oxfam"s statement:    2012 saw droughts in the US and Russia which caused world food prices to skyrocket, making it increasingly difficult for poor families in developing countries to put food on the table. Developed nations must find new sources of funding outside aid budgets to honor their $100 billion commitment without diverting money from other anti-poverty priorities like health and education.    http://blogs.oxfam.org/en/blogs/12-11-25-climate-change-other-fiscal-cliff    Dec 2012    Twenty-seven or younger? Then you’ve never experienced a month in which the global temperature has been colder than average, according to the latest data from the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.    In NOAA’s monthly “State of the Climate” analysis, the agency reported: “The average temperature across land and ocean surfaces during October was 14.63°C. This is 0.63°C above the 20th century average and ties with 2008 as the fifth warmest October on record. This is the 332nd consecutive month with an above-average temperature.”    In the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy and this summer’s drought, the political atmosphere may have changed in Washington, observers say the cost of extreme weather are too big and obvious to be ignored.    “Insurance companies are talking about this. Governors and mayors are. Communities all over the country are having serious conversations about resilience and extreme weather,” said Eric Pooley, senior vice president of the Environmental Defense Fund.    “It used to seem abstract, like something to protect our grandchildren from. Now it’s something we want to protect ourselves and our living children from.    A recent report by German insurance giant Munich Re put the U.S. weather disaster bill at $1 trillion since the early 1980s, with climate change as a main driver.    The energy industry itself will also come under scrutiny in the next several years, as the Environmental Protection Agency begins regulating greenhouse gas emissions from power plants, the largest U.S. source of carbon pollution. That plan upheld in multiple court decisions but is opposed by many Republicans.    “I think we’re going to see a big fight as the administration moves forward on setting those standards,” said Alden Meyer, strategy director at the Union of Concerned Scientists, a liberal advocacy group.    http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/global/2012/10    August 2012    Scientists again warn Congress about Disastrous Effects of Climate Change.    Drought, wildfires, hurricanes and heatwaves are becoming normal in America because of climate change, Congress was told on in the first hearing on climate science in more than two years.    “It is critical to understand that the link between climate change and the kinds of extremes that lead to disaster is clear,” Christopher Field, a lead author of the IPCC report and director of global ecology at the Carnegie Institute for Science, said in testimony.    “There is no doubt that climate has changed,” he went on. “There is also no doubt that a changing climate changes the risks of extremes, including extremes that can lead to disaster.”    He later told the committee that those climate-related disasters would have profound effects on industry and agriculture.    “2011 disasters included a blizzard, tornadoes, floods, severe weather, a hurricane, a tropical storm, drought and heatwaves, and wildfires. In 2012, we have already experienced horrifying wildfires, a powerful windstorm that hit Washington D.C., heat waves in much of the country, and a massive drought.”    The committee also heard from James McCarthy, a Harvard oceanographer and IPCC author, who warned that sea-level rise was occurring about three times faster than scientists believed even a decade ago.    * See Peoples Stories for more.    http://reliefweb.int/report/world/climate-change-when-damage-done    http://greenpeaceblogs.org/2012/11/29/doha-climate-talks-any-signs-of-life/    http://climatechange.worldbank.org/content/climate-change-report-warns-dramatically-warmer-world-century    http://www.ipsnews.net/2012/11/mankind-approaching-carbon-cliff-report-warns/    http://www.trust.org/alertnet/blogs/climate-conversations/scientists-pinpoint-activities-driving-deforestation-and-urge-countries-to-take-action-at-doha/    http://www.unicef-irc.org/    http://www.unep.org/pdf/permafrost.pdf    http://www.trust.org/alertnet/climate-change/    http://www.undp.org/content/undp/en/home/presscenter/speeches/2012/11/08/helen-clark-why-tackling-climate-change-matters-for-development-/    http://lossanddamage.net/    http://daraint.org/climate-vulnerability-monitor/climate-vulnerability-monitor-2012/report/    http://www.fao.org/cfs/cfs-hlpe/en/    (See June 2012 report - Food Security & Climate Change) Visit the related web page
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