Barbara Stocking on climate
Barbara Stocking5 quotes“Despite this, funding from rich countries to help the poor and vulnerable adapt to climate change is not even 1 percent of what is needed.”
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Climate change is…a gross injustice-poor people in developing countries bear over 90% of the burden-through death, disease, destitution and financial loss-yet are least responsible for creating the problem.
Barbara StockingBarbara Stocking There can be no greater act of kindness than to help others when your own world has been destroyed.
Barbara StockingBarbara Stocking Despite the fact that the world produces enough food to feed everyone, there are more hungry people today than when the world last met in Rio in 1992.
Barbara StockingBarbara Stocking Funding from rich countries to help the poor and vulnerable adapt to climate change is not even one percent of what is needed. This glaring injustice must be addressed at Copenhagen in December .
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