Profile | Adam MacIsaac

Weird if it ended 10 years ago you might want to talk to those who lost their homes due to flooding in Bangladesh or maybe citizens who are losing their culture not to mention homes as their small islands are eaten away by sea level rise in Tuvalu, Kiribati, Vanuatu or Carteret Island. If you knew anyone from any of these places you might think twice before the next time you make an anonymous post on information that is untrue.

This is such a great story, I have been pushing towards lower impact events while working at the East Coast Music Association to make things more sustainable. It has been a slow process but things are starting to pick up more. Keep up the great work.

Hello Susannah and Ed, I just wanted to invite you to submit a video to a United Nations Development Programme Youth Climate Change Project that I am currently working on. The video can touch on any of the key messages from the United Nations Human Development Report 2007/2008. The seven Key Messages are: 1. Climate Change - its effect on People: We've had the UN scientists' report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC); we've had the report on its economic impact in the Stern Report. This Human Development Report is about people and how we are all affected by climate change. 2. The poor suffer most from Climate Change - and will suffer more: Given that 2.6 billion live in poverty, unable to meet their basic needs, these people are likely to be the first to face the impacts of dangerous climate change and suffer human development reversals. The Report tells that the poor are already suffering, and will suffer more, as a result of climate change. But we will all suffer later. In fact, some rich countries are already seeing the impacts of climate change and are dealing with its consequences. If we do not avoid dangerous climate change, the consequences will be more severe and widespread. 3. Urgency: The Report argues that climate change needs urgent action: today we are living with what we did yesterday; tomorrow we will all live with what we do today. We need to take action now. 4. Climate change - a serious threat to our ability to meet the MDGs: - we depend on our world's eco- systems for water, for agriculture, for our industries, our livelihoods and many other aspects of our life - climate change poses a serious threat to our ability to meet the eight Millennium Development Goals especially as it is the poor who are already seeing its impacts. 5. Climate change - an immense threat to Human Rights: The UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights talks of the inalienable rights of the human family to "freedom, justice and peace". Climate change is an immense threat to those rights. Yet it is also a reminder that we are a single, interdependent human family sharing a common home on Planet Earth. The UN has a key role in the discussion, and the action, on climate change to protect human rights. 6. Both Mitigation and Adaptation needed: Mitigation means taking action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to avoid more climate change. It is about transforming the way that countries produce and use energy and changing industry and activities to reduce or eliminate emissions. Adaptation is the way people respond to new or changed conditions in climate, such as more droughts, flooding or severe storms. It means adapting our current and future lifestyles, towns, cities, infrastructure - everything! - to take account of climate change. The report states that both actions need to be taken to fight climate change and the threats it poses to humanity. 7. UN is well-placed to give Leadership: Climate change is exactly the kind of global challenge that the UN was set up to address. The Secretary-General has made it his personal priority to work with Member States to ensure that the United Nations takes effective leadership in the fight against climate change. Thank you for creating such amazing media, Adam MacIsaac