Climate change is here, and it is hitting poor people in the South first and hardest
Yet despite the commitments enshrined in the Kyoto Protocol, worldwide GHG emissions are still rising, especially in the North. Historically, rich countries have been largely responsible for emitting the greenhouse gases (GHGs) that are changing the climate. Did you know that every year the average Canadian produces 20 tons of CO2, or about as much as five inhabitants of China, or 200 Ethiopians?
In Africa, farmers can no longer predict the cycle of rains and harvests. In Asia, whole villages are being displaced by increasingly frequent natural disasters. And everywhere, drinking water supplies are threatened by drought and by the accelerated melting of ice caps.
We must act now ! Negotiations on a post-Kyoto agreement are underway, and will wrap up in Copenhagen in December 2009. Sign the Oxfam petition for a strong and fair post-Kyoto agreement
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