The Global Humanitarian Forum notes with regret the failure of the governments in Copenhagen to reach a strong agreement on climate change. The results represent a neglected opportunity to come to terms with the crisis in a meaningful way, and many smaller nations feel marginalized by the process. Nevertheless, the fact that the major economies of Brazil, China and India were able to agree on a “Copenhagen Accord” with the U.S., with which they were previously in opposition, represents decided progress.
 

• Positions on the table mean an approximate 5% increase in emissions by 2020
• A reduction, not an increase, is needed by 2020 to avoid humanitarian catastrophe
 

GENEVA, December 4, 2009 – Latest emission targets from major nations are not yet enough to safeguard against a mass humanitarian disaster, the Global Humanitarian Forum said today.

 • First ever global musical petition created to mobilise people to pressure their leaders to agree a climate justice deal at the UN’s Copenhagen Climate Change Summit in December.

In its just-released report of its annual conference in June, the Global Humanitarian Forum’s Youth Forum details exciting and innovative initiatives developed by participants to help mitigate and adapt to climate change.

Geneva, 21 August 2009 – The world governing body for track and field today endorsed a major initiative of former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan to build support for a global agreement on climate change.

Global Humanitarian Forum, Ericsson, WMO, and Zain and other mobile
operators to deploy up to 5,000 automatic weather stations in mobile network
sites across Africa, where less than 300 are reporting today

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