Climate Change: Innovative Solutions from Thailand by Oxfam Climate Fund
Geschreven op 27-10-2010 - Erik van Erne. Geplaatst in Klimaat
Around the world, people are fighting climate change in extraordinary ways. In Thailand, Oxfam is working with rice farming communities. Innovative water pumps and new farming techniques are just two of the ways in which people are adapting.
But while communities from across the globe crack on with the job, world leaders are taking an extraordinary amount of time to deliver what they’ve promised — a new Climate Fund. If set up properly, the Climate Fund could deliver cash to help communities avoid the worst effects of climate change. But since pledging their support in late 2009, world leaders have made little progress in getting the idea off the ground.
Thailand’s emotively-named ‘Weeping Plain’ is a vast, barren area in the north-east of the country. It spans more than 800,000 acres across five provinces — and, although conditions here are often dry, the regular onset of seasonal rains creates an ideal environment for growing world-famous jasmine rice. However, in recent years, the effects of climate change have begun to take hold, with a devastating impact on people’s lives. Nonetheless, people are fighting climate change in extraordinary ways. Oxfam is working with rice farming communities and this animation shows how innovative water pumps and new farming techniques are helping people to adapt.
Cancun Climate Conference 2010: COP16 – United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity: Nagoya Biodiversity Conference COP10 – Facing the Floods – A Sea Change – The Antarctica Challenge – Global Warming Leonardo Dicaprio – The Burning Season – The Bottom Line – FRESH – Crude: The Real Price of Oil – THE SHIFT – The Fuel Film – DIRT! – Plastic Planet – The Age of Stupid – HOME – An Inconvenient Truth – Battle for Terra – One Peace at a Time – The Steam Experiment – Garbage Dreams and The Zaballeen – The Alberta Tar Sands: H2Oil – Running The Sahara – Climate Change Wave of Action: Time to Sow the Seed
Climate Change Actions: Seal the Deal – Hopenhagen – TckTckTck – Climate Action Communication Wave – Be that Change – Just Listen – You Turn the Earth – Raise Your Voice – Beat the Heat Now – Earth Hour – Vote Earth – Earth Song – BAD2009 – Save the Rainforrest – UN REDD – Nature + People = Solution – 350.org – COP15
