Climate Change: On the Front Line

Associated Press Television News (APTN) produced this video report for the European Commission. The clip was made available to EUX.TV and other broadcasters free of charge.

On the eve of the UN Copenhagen conference, the urgent challenge for humanitarian aid as natural disasters increase

As the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen (COP15) approaches, this report brings testimony and analysis from the frontline of climate change. From Africa, South-East Asia and the Caribbean come stories of how lives are being affected, and what the challenge means for humanitarian aid.

More, and worse, natural disasters : This will be the future but its already the reality today. Whatever agreement is reached in Copenhagen, the impact of emissions already produced will linger for years to come. Climate Change is proving the greatest humanitarian challenge of our times. But how to prevent disasters becoming full-scale crises ?

Aid workers from the European Commission Humanitarian Aid department the worlds biggest donor of Humanitarian aid argue that tackling climate change will demand a fundamental shift in planning to help communities reduce the risks no longer just to prepare emergency aid once disasters have happened, but to make themselves less exposed, less vulnerable to crises.

This report shows the impact of climate change around the world, with powerful personal stories from Haiti and the Dominican Republic, from Malawi, Burkina Faso and Vietnam. From villagers living through desert drought, to shanty-dwellers on flooding riverbanks, to a typhoon-wrecked school, this report shows how vulnerable communities are living on the edge.

But also the response : remarkable grassroots initiatives street theatre and touring troupes, song, street art, and vital emergency exercises initiated by communities around the world to meet the challenge.

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[dirkamus]

climate change has been going on since before mankind. Its a natural process and has little to nothing to do with people.

[EUXTV]

it's got everything to do with people. it's a natural process accelerated by human behaviour.

[HKBM45]

Oh so now my car is making people starve on the other side of the world?

How do they get off thinking that after we already caught them trying to feed us this bull shit that they can keep pushing this "Global Warming Crisis" on us?

Go fuck yourselves UN, Al Gore, and EUX tv.

[EUXTV]

so you agree the earth is still flat....

[johphieri]

Goebbels would envy this clip... This is obviously propaganda from the European Comission

[ekultec]

its all the sun

[MG5319]

mono audio? are you stupid OMG

[manoman0]

If we allow it to be over, then we have lost. It's not about the Environment. It's about Power without control, trying to establish environmental dictatorship. I give you an example of a climate friendly country: North Korea. I bet they sure don't produce too much Carbon Dioxide. That's the path. You better be prepared for it.

[yahazif]

I actually believed this stuff at first. But after a while it became clear that the whole "climate scare" is just another tool the Left is using to advance its political agenda. Sadly the entire media, TV, Films, Magazines, Internet, Education etc is swamped with this same propaganda. The entire media continues to act like "the climate debate is over" when clearly it isn't. It's very frightening to watch real political decisions being fueled by obvious propaganda and lies. Very frightening.

[manoman0]

Let's remove 90% of the Carbon Dioxide on the Members of the IPCC

[manoman0]

LOL, you geniunly believe it, don't you?

[manoman0]

so obvious, isn't it....

[manoman0]

Dentist, baby, Dentist!!!

[yahazif]

All Leftist propaganda. A storm in Haiti - the caribbean always has storms. A flash flood in West Africa - it is the nature of desert regions to have flash floods. A typhoon in Viet Nam - typhoons happen yearly in SE Asia. It's called "Typhoon Season." South Africa a river burst its banks - like all rivers in all lands do during storms. All fear mongering. All demagoguery. All done in the context of "class struggle." The latest effort by the Left to grab power. That is all this is.

[dirkamus]

No I'm sorry we're going to have to disagree. I might agree with people helping a very little to accelerate it, but to go as far as people having EVERYTHING to do with it is ridiculous.

[HKBM45]

Just because I dont accept that my non earth friendly light bulbs and my gasoline fueled car are causing starvation for children around the world, does not mean that I dont accept modern science.

If it is such a sound theory that people are causing the earth to warm rapidly why do the scientists need to secretly collaborate on how to cover up the inconsistencies in the data as well as their peers that do not agree?

Seems you might be the one on the earth is flat train.