UN leaders call for urgent action on climate change. Addressing scientists at the International Center for Integrated Mountain Development in Nepal on Tuesday, September 6, UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Chair Dr. Rajendra K. Pachauri warned that sea level rise is the most dire, irreversible, and abrupt change humans can expect to witness if actions are not taken to contain and mitigate climate change.
His talk came after a visit to the Indian coastal region of Rameshwaram, where he noted signs that people were already being forced to migrate due to rising seas. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon spoke similarly, having just visited several of the low-lying island nations most at risk.
These included Kiribati, where he said that some villagers have already had to relocate as their land is either contaminated with salt water or has disappeared beneath the encroaching waves.
Secretary-General Ban stated, "Climate change is not about tomorrow. It is lapping at our feet – quite literally in Kiribati and elsewhere. ... Climate change is a distinct threat to humanity, it is even a threat to international peace and stability.”
Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General, United Nations: We are running out of time. By 2050, the population will reach 9 billion. That is a 50% increase compared with 2000.
By that time, we will have to reduce, we must reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 50 percent. This is what I call the 50-50-50 challenge.
We appreciate your deep concern, Your Excellencies, and your efforts to raise awareness about an increasingly perilous situation. May everyone realize the need to take rapid actions to preserve our beautiful earthly home.
Speaking at a December 2010 videoconference in the United Arab Emirates, Supreme Master Ching Hai addressed the devastating implications of climate change, as well as how to reverse its effects.
It’s not a very pleasant thing to inform your friends that their house is in danger, that their life is in danger.
Supreme Master Ching Hai : It could break your heart. Now, scientists have already reported on sea level rise in Egypt, desertification and climate refugees in Syria, dust storms in Iraq, floods in Yemen, etc., etc.
Livestock farming is the major cause. It’s more than all the transportation combined, more than all the ships, the aeroplanes, the cars, the railway, whatever transportation, you name it, it’s nothing compared to livestock raising, in pollution rate.
You can log on to all kinds of scientific facts or the UN’s Livestock’s Long Shadow website to see all this.
So the people could accomplish the most effective green change by removing all animal products. you have the power to do it. You have to. You must. We all must. All countries must do this. Otherwise, we will suffer too much, too much. Very soon.
http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/world-news/rising-sea-level-greatest-climate-change-threat-pachauri_100561651.html http://zeenews.india.com/news/eco-news/rising-sea-level-greatest-climate-change-threat_730139.html http://news.in.msn.com/international/article.aspx?cp-documentid=5418013 http://www.timeslive.co.za/world/2011/09/06/pacific-shows-climate-change-a-reality-un-chiefhttp://www.chinapost.com.tw/asia/new-zealand/2011/09/07/315875/Rising-sea.htmExtra NewsReturning from a campaign to halt the slaughter of pilot whales, on September 1, 2011, marine conservation group Sea Shepherd stopped off in the Scottish Orkney Islands to post a sanctuary sign on the "Little Green Island Holm," a small isle Sea Shepherd purchased in 1985 to protect and create a safe haven for seals in the region.
http://www.ecorazzi.com/2011/09/06/sea-shepherd-marks-their-little-green-holm-island-as-a-seal-sanctuary/ http://www.seashepherd.it/news-and-media/editorial-110905-1.htmlDuring an inspection of the nation's Ministry of Land and Resources on September 2, 2011, China's Premier Wen Jiabao called for more sustainable initiatives to preserve natural resources as well as protect arable lands for the benefit of future generations.
http://english.cntv.cn/20110903/106389.shtml http://www.gov.cn/english/2011-09/03/content_1939729.htm
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