Increasingly high sea levels and severe weather are affecting Timor Leste’s society in many ways. Throughout all of Timor and other parts of Indonesia, farmers are reaping only about half the normal crop yields due to unstable climate conditions. As a result, thousands of children are severely malnourished.

At the Bangkok Climate Change Conference currently taking place at the United Nations in Thailand, Supreme Master Television correspondents spoke with Mr. Adao Soares Barbosa, National Directorate for Environmental Services, on Timore Leste’s situation:
 
Mr. Adao Soares Barbosa, National Directorate for Environmental Service, member of United Nations working group on climate change: As you know our country is the newest country of the world, so we need economic scenarios and also we need to sustain our environment and ecosystem. Climate change already impacted our country in terms of water resources, agriculture production and also loss of biodiversity and loss of our equipment, especially for the those areas that are vulnerable to the drought and flooding and also sea level rising.

VOICE: Through developments in sustainable energy, there is hope that such island nations as Timor Leste will be able to minimize the harmful effects of global warming.

Mr. Adao Soares Barbosa: It seems like in energy sector is still not well developed in our country, but for the future we need to develop the renewable energy use in Timor-Leste so that we can save our world.

VOICE: We are grateful for government leaders in Timor Leste and elsewhere whose concern about the broad effects of global warming is moving them to action for the survival of their people. May Heaven protect residents of all coastal regions with safety and comfort during these changing times.

West Timore food security: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/asia-pacific/6919730.stm,
Indonesia climate change: http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0430-indo.html ,