Reid, Hannah

The human drama of climate change will largely be played out in Asia, where over 60 per cent of the world’s population, around four billion people, live. The latest global scientific consensus from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) indicates that all of Asia is very likely to warm during this century. Warming will […]

The report confirms that largely regular and predictable temperature and rainfall patterns, are changing, becoming less predictable and often more extreme. It catalogues the impact of climate change and environmental degradation ranging from drought in the Amazon to floods in Haiti and elsewhere; vanishing glaciers in Colombia to extreme cold in the Andes; and hurricanes, […]

Informative and readable, this compelling report from some of the world’s leading environmental and development organisations expresses concerns about how global warming affects people’s lives, particularly those living in developing countries, and how it could threaten attainment of the Millennium Development Goals. It features case studies with photos from communities around the world, and details […]