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Climate Justice and Tourism

People are at the heart of this call to action. Local communities in developing societies who have contributed least to global warming will be among the first to suffer its devastating consequences. Some are already experiencing them.

By Gan Pei Ling
editor@thenutgraph.com

"WE should do it for our children and future generations!"

This is one of the most common rallying cries used by some individuals and organisations to convince the public to take action to combat climate change. It's an appealing sound bite, but does it feel urgent?

PRESS STATEMENT

Immediate Climate Action Needed Action to Prevent Future Destruction

Nature will not wait for Copenhagen.

This situation was made more clear as Typhoon Ketsana left widespread flooding in many countries, unleashed unprecedented rainfall in Metro Manila and caught a lot of people unprepared both in the Philippines and Vietnam.

News Release
01 October 2009, Bangkok Thailand

Chanting “Climate Justice, Gender Justice, now!”, women and men activists from Asia-Pacific gathered in front of the United Nations (UN) Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) building despite the rains for the Asian Women’s Quilt on Climate Change while the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change meeting was ongoing inside the building.

1 October 2009
Bangkok, Thailand
PRESS STATEMENT

Threading together the calls for climate justice of Asian women and
grassroots organizations

We, women, environmental, indigenous people's and women’s rights
organizations from Mongolia, Pakistan, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand and
other Asian countries today unite by unfurling a giant collaborative quilt
on the impacts of global warming on Asian communities and the people's
responses to these problems in front of the United Nations ESCAP building
for the ongoing United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
intersessional meeting.