The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has measured record levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere in 2013 and saw these CO2 levels rising at their fastest rate between 2012 and 2013 over the past thirty years. This unprecedented rise in greenhouse gas production has created an untenable situation for the world’s peoples. The resulting changes in our planet’s climate systems are now bearing heavily on the world’s poor and vulnerable communities.

The increasing concentration of greenhouse gas in the atmosphere has caused the global average temperature to rise by 0.85°C in the past 120 years bringing upon us a shrinking ice cover, warming oceans and sea level rise. Seawater is becoming more acidic which puts our ocean and coastal biodiversity in peril. Global warming affects our terrestrial flora and fauna and directly impacts the production of the world’s primary cereals and grains.

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