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De:	BhuwaN [ Profil ]
Sujet:	MILITARY EXPERTS FROM FIVE CONTINENTS WARN OF IMPACT OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON SECURITY
Envoyé:	Nov 2nd, 2009 - 21:45:44
Pièces-jointes:	MAC Statement_1.pdf

	Dear colleagues, A group of serving and retired military officers from Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America and the US released a statement calling on all governments to work for an ambitious and equitable international agreement at the global climate talks in Copenhagen in December. The Statement, presented on 29 October at the CCSC-III Conference at Brookings in Washington, DC, and issued simultaneously in Brussels, Dhaka, Georgetown, London, New Delhi and The Hague, says that incremental, and at times, abrupt, climate change is resulting in an unprecedented scale of human misery, loss of biodiversity and damage to infrastructure with consequential security implications that need to be addressed urgently. The officers are members of the Military Advisory Council (MAC) of the project on Climate Change and the Military led by the Institute for Environmental Security (IES) in partnership with 10 other think tanks from Asia, Europe and North America. IES Vice-Chair, Tom Spencer, former President of the European Parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights and Defence Policy, said the aim of the statement was to stress that climate change creates a common security problem that requires global and comprehensive co-operation. Géraud de Ville Information Officer & Project Coordinator ----- Institute for Environmental Security The Hague - Brussels - London - Beirut - California - New York - Toronto - Washington DC International Secretariat Anna Paulownastraat 103 2518 BC The Hague, The Netherlands Tel: + 31 70 365 2299 Fax: + 31 70 365 1948 Email: conference (at) envirosecurity.org Url: www.envirosecurity.org -- Bhuwan K.C. Member, Global Youth Advisory Panel of United Nations Population Fund, www.unfpa.org Country Leader, YES Campaign, www.yesweb.org Board, Association of Youth Organizations Nepal, www.ayon.org General Secretary, Youth Engagement in Sustainability, www.yes.org.np M +977- 97510 04437 \| POB 8975, EPC 7282 \| E bhuwan007 (at) gmail.com ************* Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. Think before YOU PRINT. http://profiles.takingitglobal.org/bhuwan007 Be the Change! See the Change!! Live the Change!!!

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