Laurie Goering
Laurie Goering is AlertNet's climate change editor. Prior to joining AlertNet in 2009, she was a Chicago Tribune correspondent based for 15 years in New Delhi, Johannesburg, Mexico City, Havana, Rio de Janeiro and London, covering a wide range of issues but with a special focus on climate change.
Climate change drives human displacement to worrying levels - experts
COPENHAGEN (AlertNet) - For years people have migrated as a way to adapt to environmental change, but climate change threatens to dramatically boost the scale of human movement. It could potentially force tens of millions of people from their homes at a time when restrictions on movement across international borders are growing. ...
Q+A: Let communities guide their own adaptation, Red Cross chief says
COPENHAGEN (AlertNet) - Communities that need to adapt to climate change can come up with appropriate adaptation ideas and do the work themselves - if they have adequate funding and freedom to use it, says Bekele Geleta, the secretary general of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. Governments and humanitarian agencies need to ease restrictions on how money is used to adapt to climate change if they want to see fast, flexible action, he urged in an interview with AlertNet during the Copenhagen climate negotiations. ...
Maldives president: 'The bottom line is dry land'
COPENHAGEN (AlertNet) - Mohamed Nasheed, the president of the Maldives, has done his best to draw the world's attention to the plight of his low-lying atoll nation, at risk of being submerged by climate change-related sea level rise. He's held an underwater cabinet meeting as an attention-getting stunt. He's declared his Indian Ocean nation's intention to cut its own carbon emissions by 100 percent within 10 years, and hosted a summit to urge other vulnerable nations to do the same. ...
Coping with climate change: Q+A with UN humanitarian chief
By Laurie Goering COPENHAGEN (AlertNet) - Of all the problems climate change causes, drought, displacement and conflict scare the United Nations' humanitarian chief most. Drought threatens to undermine agriculture across much of sub-Saharan Africa, John Holmes said. Battles over scarce resources may spur greater conflict, and if the Himalayan glaciers that supply much of Asia with water eventually disappear, hundreds of millions of people may need to move, he added. ...
Survey finds EU expected to provide leadership at Copenhagen
A new survey from GlobeScan finds that climate decision makers want Europe to take a lead in getting a deal from Copenhagen.
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