US CVI in the Media
Huffington Post: Climate Politics Grow Curiouser and Curiouser
The Huffington Post featured an op-ed about climate politics, and featured information about the Climate Vulnerable Forum: Am I going mad, or are climate politics becoming as weird as the weather itself? Read more...
The Guardian: Poor and vulnerable countries are defying climate inaction
The Guardian featured an article about the Climate Vulnerable Forum. Slow progress at global climate talks is belied by the plethora of actions in many smaller and more at-risk developing nations. As the next round of climate talks – the COP17 climate change conference in Durban – draws close, there is a general air of pessimism about achieving any breakthroughs. Read more...
Reuters: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to Deliver Inaugural Speech at Dhaka Climate Vulnerable Forum on 14 November
Source: Reuters The UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon, will be attending the Climate Vulnerable Forum Ministerial Meeting on13th and 14th of November in Dhaka, Bangladesh, during which time he will be delivering the inaugural speech. The unique global conference [...] Read more...
Green Building Press: Most Climate Change Vulnerable Seek Support
Source: Green Building Press Ministers and representatives of some 30 countries, among the most vulnerable to the harmful effects of climate change, will gather in Dhaka, Bangladesh on 13th and 14th November 2011, just ahead of UN climate talks in Durban (COP17 [...] Read more...
CDKN: The Bangladesh Climate Vulnerable Forum- Time to level with the most vulnerable
Source: CDKN By José María Figueres, Trustee of DARA, Former President of Costa Rica (1994-1998), looks forward to the meeting of the Climate Vulnerable Forum in Dhaka, Bangladesh this month Senior representatives of a number of countries most vulnerable [...] Read more...
Mother Jones: How children suffer from climate change
Source: Mother Jones By Jen Quraishi As MoJo's Kate Sheppard discusses here, a new report by international humanitarian organization DARA finds that climate change could kill up to 5 million people in the next 10 years—and most of them are [...] Read more...
Treehugger: Climate Change to Kill 5 Million People Globally by 2020 & It Just Goes Up Each Year After That
Source: Treehugger Each year there are 350,000 people dying due to climate change, with a total death toll by 2020 of five million; each year after that deaths from climate change are likely to be as high as one million people annually--that is unless we take [...] Read more...
Mother Jones: Climate change – adapt or die?
Source: Mother Jones Global warming could kill a million people a year by 2030. So why's the US stalling on a deal that would help countries adapt? —By Kate Sheppard Mon Dec. 6, 2010 4:00 AM PST In the next decade, the effects of a rapidly warming [...] Read more...
International Business Times: Climate Change Will Lead to 5 Million Deaths by 2020 – Report
Source: International Business Times Approximately 5 million people will die over the next ten years due to climate change. They are currently dying at a pace of 350,000 per year, and that rate will increase to one million fatalities per year by 2030, according [...] Read more...
Green Economy: Climate change will lead to 5 million deaths by 2020 – Report
Source: Green Economy Approximately 5 million people will die over the next ten years due to climate change. They are currently dying at a pace of 350,000 per year, and that rate will increase to one million fatalities per year by 2030, according to a [...] Read more...