The Faces of Climate Change

Over 63,000 ONE members have signed ONE´s petition asking the Danish Prime Minister not to double count development funding and call it climate change funding. That’s an impressive number of people, and it’s worth taking a moment to remind ourselves exactly why bother.

ONE petitions governments and makes as much noise as possible because there are people who are already experiencing droughts and floods fueled by climate change, and lack the resources to adapt to these changing conditions. Here are the stories of those people.

Also, singer and ONE Campaigner Bob Geldof was in Ethiopia recently seeing all the changes that have taken place in the 25 years since the 1984 famine.That was the reason why he oranised Live Aid and Bono and Ali Hewson travelled to Ethiopia to work and see how people were affected. The trip moved them deeply and the rest is history!

Here he shares some of his thoughts on the impact of climate change he saw there:

25 years ago he helped spur the world into action over the then famine in East Africa. As well as finding out how much progress has been made since then, he saw first hand how climate change is threatening the development gains of recent years.

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