STWR - Share The World's Resources

Efforts to tackle climate change could result in the creation of millions of new green jobs in the coming decades, according to a new report from the United Nations on the impact of the emerging global green economy.

The world needs leaders with the vision to forge New Deal-type policies to tackle the potentially disastrous combination of climate change, high inflation and economic slowdown, say the New Economics Foundation in a new report.

Illegal immigration, ethnic violence, humanitarian crises and national security issues will worsen during the next two decades because of global warming, according to U.S. intelligence agencies.

A study of several recent environmental disasters across the world shows that it is minority and indigenous groups that have been worst affected by changing weather patterns, but in most cases when a disaster strikes help and relief reach them last, Minority Rights Group International (MRG) says in their flagship annual 'State of the World's Minorities' report.

Linking the issues of social justice and human rights to climate change, the landmark HDR 2007 argues that business-as-usual points in a clear direction: unprecedented reversal in human development in our lifetime, and therefore demands a fundamental rethink in how we view progress.

Prepared for the debate held at the UN climate change conference in Bali, December 2007, Christian Aid argue the links between mitigating climate change and eradicating global poverty - emphasising the need for sharing out the economic burden of staying below 2°C, alongside a similarly equitable sharing out of the burden of adapting to the damage already done.