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Stop Kicking Us With Carbon! We’re trying to Prosper Too You Know!
By Abraham Williamson Haiti desperately requires a treaty in Copenhagen for numerous reasons. We haven’t contributed to CO2 emissions, but we suffer incredibly from emissions. We need to reach an agreement in which those responsible for the damage pay for the detriment as well as make the shift from fossil fuels to alternative energy. If this treaty goes undeveloped Haiti could drift into oblivion, perpetually wounded by gargantuous problems with zero solutions.
From Lindale High School
Madagascar Delegate
By Won Sang Yoo Ladies and gentlemen I am the delegate of Madagascar to tell why the climate treaty in Copenhagen is an action which the world must take. I would like to start off by giving you five words: Present, Future, Urgency, Responsibility, and Abundant. These five words are explaining the reasons for the need of the climate treaty in Copenhagen.
From CheongShim International Academy
For Developing Countries, Why is a Comprehensive Climate Treaty in Copenhagen Necessary?
By Brittany Cox, Rachel Hickling, Ashley Johnson While not completely effective to date, the Kyoto Protocol, through the requirement that countries reduce carbon emissions to 6% below their 1990 levels, has served to aid global climate change. However, this protocol runs out soon. In December, 2009, approximately 170 countries will be represented at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) summit in Copenhagen for the express goal of creating a new and more effective protocol.
From Calvary Baptist Day School
Interview Someone in Your School or Community
Interview someone in your school or community and tell us what people know about the connection between poverty and climate change and why it is important to combat both. Interviewed: Silvia Zabulica, teacher of geography at the “Prometeu-Prim” lyceum.
What the World Needs Now is Cooperation
By Jake Roach, Lindale High School The old song, “What the World Needs Now is Love”, can be changed, just a little, to “What the World Needs Now is Cooperation”. Two of the major problems surrounding our world would be both poverty and climate change. Most people would not think of these to problems coinciding with one another, but we know they relate to one another, and that the United Nations is trying to slow both down at the same time.
Global Warming: Outcome of Ignorance, Input for Poverty
By Savannah Williamson, Lindale High School While interviewing the students and teachers around me on poverty and climate change, I was troubled to find just how few people truly knew about the connection between the two. I was even more concerned by the lack of education on the incentives to combat both. After a brief talk with my chemistry teacher, who was sadly one of the only people who was able to provide answers to my questions, and some research of my own, I found that the strongest connection between poverty and climate change is the effect temperatures have on the production of food.
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