The Human Face of Climate Change

As disasters become more frequent, it is more difficult for people to recover, and more difficult for the humanitarian community to respond effectively.

Shifting rainfall patterns, sea level rise and increasing salinity, and seasonal shifts all have impacts on people’s lives: more hunger; inadequate access to water; increased health threats; declining productivity in natural resource-based livelihoods; and an increase in the frequency, scale and intensity of conflicts.

The world’s poorest are already feeling the effects.  

This photo exhibtion, presented at the European Development Days conference in Lisbon 7th to 9th November 2007,  and to be exhibited at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Bali 3rd-14th December 2007, captures the real consequences of climate change. Consequences that the poor are face every day, despite having contributed least to the problem.