Climate Change Lesson 2

Goal 7 Environmental Sustainability

Target: introduce long term measures into government policies which are for the good of all humanity.

Goal 8 Global Partnership

Target: All countries work together for a more equitable world.

All nations to help poorer nations receive a fair share of the world’s wealth.

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Climate Change A call for stewardship and global solidarity

Goal 7

Environmental Sustainability

Goal 8

Global Partnership

Stewardship

Interdependence

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The world’s wealthiest countries have emitted more than their fair share of greenhouse gases. Resultant floods, droughts and other Climate Change impacts continue to fall disproportionately on the world’s poorest people and countries, many of which are in Africa Archbishop Desmond Tutu June 2005.

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Mohammad Tahib Shoro, 47, surveys the damage to his house in the village of Khanpur in Pakistan’s Sindh district. Only four days ago, his family had to flee for their lives when the waters broke through a flood defence in the village of Khanpur. “I have no money to move elsewhere so I will have to wait until the waters go down and try to salvage what I can. If it wasn’t for Trócaire’s support I may not have been able to rescue all my children never mind some of my possessions.”

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People walk for miles to the dried up river Enziu in Maatini village, Kitui to get water. They dig through the sand and scoop the sandy water into water cans to carry home to drink, feed livestock and for household use. The region suffered a severe drought in 2007.

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The area known as Kessler in Mississippi, USA is just a few hundred yards from Biloxi Beach. Flood waters and high winds along with the tidal swell devastated the area during hurricane Katrina.

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Image courtesy of Frank Carr / (frankhound: flickr)

Ireland experienced a record breaking cold spell at the end of 2010 with the lowest ever recorded temperature in Ireland at -19.1째C. This picture is of Slieve League in County Donegal in late December.

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The remains of a goat on the outskirts of Lodwar, northern Kenya. The region has been hit by a severe drought which decimated livestock throughout east Africa, with 90% of animals having died in many communities.

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Climate Change A call for stewardship and global solidarity