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S U B S C R I B E
Tuesday, 1 September, 2009
'We're looking at a world that's going to have more disasters'
Climate change is having a massive impact on the world and if countries don’t come together to fight it, the situation will get worse. That’s one of the general themes at the third World Climate Conference taking place in Geneva this week, seen by many as a precursor to the much-hyped United Nations Conference on Climate Change in Copenhagen later this year. The Geneva summit brings together the world’s experts and governments to evaluate solutions, but often the discussions get very abstract. WRS reporter Alex Helmick spoke to Carlo Scaramella with the World Food Program. He says these general, impersonal issues aren’t the priority…people are:
So what is the world’s superpower saying about climate change? A representative from the Obama Administration says controlling carbon emissions and making weather information easily available for the most vulnerable people in the world can help mitigate the problem of climate change while protecting people from its effects. Alex Helmick also spoke to Shere Abbot, associate director for environment for the Obama Administration at the summit. He started off by asking her if restricting carbon emissions of developing countries was economically unfair, since much of the developed world was unrestricted for decades:
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