In attendance of next week's COP 15, AlertNet published a list of humanitarian focal points for Copenhagen. Although not party to the actual negotiations, aid agencies will try to influence the negotiations with presentations on the sidelines of the conference. In so doing, they will provide the negotiators with the humanitarian story of climate change.
A few of the points discussed:
- How much money will be available to help communities adapt to an increasingly erratic climate?
- How will money be channelled to affected countries or communities?
- How do you define who is most vulnerable to climate change?
- Will forest-dwelling communities receive benefits from REDD?
- What about the rights of people displaced by increasing and more intense natural disasters?
- Will food security and agriculture get their due?
- Is anyone paying attention to protecting people's health?
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