Global Warming Threaten Targets For the Poor

A unique new coalition launched to fight climate change, and including several Christian agencies, is warning that unless action is taken immediately, human development gains will go ‘up in smoke’.

The warning comes in a new report, launched today in London, which says that global warming threatens to make the international targets on halving global poverty by 2015, known as the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) unattainable.

The launch of the report, entitled “Up in Smoke” and endorsed by Archbishop Desmond Tutu comes a few days after churches around the world commenced a global campaign to mobilise millions of Christians in 100 countries to press their governments to halve poverty by 2015, and take a lead in putting pressure on governments to achieve the eight MDGs.

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