Newsletter, July 2011

Dear colleague,

Please find a short condensed Executive Summary of our Climate Vulnerability Monitor 2010 (a 300 page report).  The CVM is a tool built to assess the vulnerability of our world to the many effects of climate change as communities virtually everywhere are facing them - each in radically different ways. 

I hope that you will find a moment to take a look at the summary and share it with your contacts.

Here are sample Tweets, should they prove helpful:

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NEW EXECUTIVE SUMMARY for the Climate Vulnerability Monitor 2010

A short introduction to:

• Why climate change is responsible for claiming over 300,000 lives each year
• Why virtually every country is vulnerable to climate change, with over 50 countries acutely at risk
• Cost-effective measures exist for dealing with every major climate stress

For those of you who didn´t manage to wade through the 300 page CVM launched by DARA and the Climate Vulnerable Forum last December, this short summary is for you.

The Executive Summary highlights salient information from the Climate Vulnerability Monitor in a comprehensive and accessible form.  It lays bare the sheer scale and breadth of the climate impacts we face today.

Climate suffering is global and unless measures are taken, the next 20 years will see explosive growth in every climate impact.  But we are not powerless.  While almost every country has high vulnerability in one major climate impact area, much damage caused by climate change is still readily preventable by a wide range of adaptation techniques.

Download the Executive Summary (6MB) or the Complete Report

Climate Vulnerability Monitor Blog

Check out our new Blog @ www.climatevulnerabilitymonitor.blogspot.com, where we explore current events surrounding climate change vulnerability.  Find our Climate Impact Series, a new media initiative from DARA that highlights various topics from the Climate Vulnerability Monitor 2010.  It explores the effects of climate change and disasters on vulnerable populations, pointing to preventive and adaptive measures.

Multimedia

Listen to the latest CVM podcasts from the Climate Impact Series : “Climate Change: The Human Impact of Desertification,” “Climate Change and Gender” and “Climate Change and Agriculture.”  Also, find interviews with Mohamed Nasheed, President of the Maldives, and John Ashton, UK Special Representative for Climate Change at the Foreign Office.

Watch the video

A Word from Ross Mountain at the 2010 Full Report Launch

Time to level on the risks of climate change

If proper measures are not taken, the explosive, unstoppable growth of every main climate stress will break the back of most communities already failed by a globalised world. We cannot just expect those worst off to up and move. Read more

Commentary

“This report provides a basis for discussion and debate on key vulnerabilities resulting from climate change, thereby enabling policy makers and the public to bring the issues of impacts and vulnerabilities into the mainstream of policymaking. Against that objective this report makes a major contribution.”

Rajendra Pachauri, Chairman of the IPCC, Director General of TERI

Check out more commentary on the report from experts involved in its development and in the media.

About DARA

Founded in 2003, DARA is an independent organization committed to improving the quality and effectiveness of aid for vulnerable populations suffering from conflict, disasters and climate change. Read more.

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