It may be the middle of winter but average global temperatures are still rising! May 2010 was the warmest on record. See: http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2010/20100615_globalstats.html
Climate change threatens to undermine all the millennium development goals – an internationally agreed to set of goals to alleviate poverty by 2015. Climate change will make fresh water harder to find through drought, and food harder to grow through changes in the growing seasons. It will also impact on people’s basic health – particularly of mothers and their babies. Communities will be more vulnerable to natural disasters and it will be harder for children to go to school if they have to move.
Hear from Claire in Kiribati – an island in the Pacific
We can’t afford to not take action
The Federal Government promised it would do something about climate change when it was elected, but now it has promised to do no more and no less than other countries. But in the developed world, Australia is one of the most vulnerable countries to climate change so it’s also in our best interests to take action now and ask others to follow our lead. Tell the Government in the lead up to the election we want them to take the lead on climate change, not simply follow the pack.
