Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Climate Change and Global Impoverishment

The role of civil society more and more apparent on the face of the earth. Through his role, the various state governments continue to commit and real acting to reduce climate change impacts. As revealed by Ben of the GCAP International in the National Workshop on Poverty, Environment, and Climate Change in Bale 2 Kampung CSF, Tuesday morning (4 / 12), "Quite interesting watching the development of civil society movement in Australia. Moreover, with lowered John Howard, prime minister who does not care about the environment and are reluctant to ratify the Kyoto Protocol. "
In this discussion, present as a speaker is Ben (Global Call to Action Against Poverty International), Titi Hartini (GCAP Indonesia), Revelation (International NGO Forum on Indonesian Development), and Fabby Tumiwa (Institute for Essential Services Reform), which is also a one representative delegation of the Republic of Indonesia in COP 13. They highlighted the links between environmental issues and poverty resulting from global climate change.
Ben of the GCAP International stressed that civil movements have voiced about the problems of poverty and environmental damage that is not excluded by the government. In addition, civil society should also encourage policy changes at the international level, because the people of the world economy has been integrated so that the necessary social movements for policy change at the UN, IMF and World Bank. Change is what is being pioneered now GCAP. Regarding the number of natural disasters that often occur last few years, he said that what happened is not a natural disaster that 'natural' but it happened due to natural disasters of global climate change results from human action itself.
Wahyu Susilo of the Human Development Report reveal that confirms that the growth of human life is badly affected by climate change. UNFCCC are to be a momentum to assert that climate change is contributing to the increase in poverty, so that this matter to the attention of the panel negotiating the UNFCCC and not simply to discuss carbon trading.
Meanwhile, Tumiwa Fabby program highlighting problems of adaptation to the impacts of global climate change. The problem that arises is when poor people do not have the adaptive capacity (adaptive capacity) of the adverse impacts of climate change. If so, they too are vulnerable due to the deepest abyss of poverty. By him, NGO / CSO (Civil Society Organization) has a very important role, It is based on the expertise NGO / CSO rather than the government concerning the issue of climate change.
The concept of adaptation that were raised by this Tumiwa Fabby get opposition from one of the trainees. According to Teuku Masrizal of WALHI Aceh, in addition to adaptation program there must also of preventive efforts to prevent global warming worse. In addition, the concept of adaptation program suggests that we as victims of climate change can only accept the negative impacts of climate change without trying to arrange live more ecologically sensible.
Source: WALHI

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