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Global Humanitarian Forum

In a timely reminder of the main purpose of our project, the first ever study of the human impact on climate change makes for uncomfortable reading.  The report comes from former UN secretary general Kofi Annan’s thinktank The Global Humanitarian Forum. It reveals how climate change is already responsible for 300,000 deaths a year and is affecting 300 million people worldwide.  It projects that increasingly severe heatwaves, storms, floods and forest fires will be responsible for as many as 500,000 deaths by 2030.  Civil unrest is also a major threat due to competition over limited resources, including a severe impact on fresh water. 

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So, the world is at the crossroads to coin a phrase and, in the interests of every human.  We hear the calls for more ambitious agreements to adapt and prevent on climate change and increased effort to tackle complacency and ignorance on the issues.  In essence, to make the story accessible and meaningful to all, which we try to do through our work.  As Malachi proclaimed in our visionary novel: One World, One People, One Solution!

Here’s the link to the Forum’s excellent website…

http://www.ghf-geneva.org

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