Stop Climate Injustice

Climate change is killing the

developing world
 Practical Action
 Founded in 1966 by Fritz
Schumacher to show that ‘Small
is Beautiful’
 Using technology to challenge
poverty
 4 key areas of work:
Reducing Vulnerability
Making Markets Work
Access to services
Closing the New Technology Gap
And what is my case? Simply that our
most important task is to get off our
present collision course. And who is
there to tackle such a task? I think
every one of us, whether old or
young, powerful or powerless, rich or
poor, influential or un-influential.
To talk about the future is
useful only if it leads to
action now.
Our world is getting hotter…
 Over past one hundred years, earth’s
temperature has risen 0.6 degrees
 Hottest years on record – 2005,
1998, 2002, 2003, 2004
 Leading scientists predict that the
temperature of the earth will
increase by between 1.4 and 5.8
degrees by 2100
Climate change – impacting now
The greatest injustice of our time?

Briton
Bangladeshi
Practical Action’s work – helping
people to cope
Energising poverty reduction
 What can people do?
 Take action in their own lives
 Support the work of Practical Action
 Campaign for action
- nationally: the UK must take a
global lead in tackling climate change through
a strong Climate Change Bill
- internationally: the global
community need to make sure that the needs
of the world’s poor are put at the heart of
international agreements to tackle climate
change