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Climate change and floods, the uninvited guests of Guyana

Climate change and floods, the uninvited guests of Guyana

#Voices2Paris – UNDP Storytelling Contest Story 17

MRS Doodnauth is being interviewed about the fact that the effects of climate change are what led the family to abandon their home and farmlands in the Mahaica Creek and relocate to an area identified by the authorities. She was clear climate change was not the reason.- “And what’s the reason?”

– “Too much rain,” she says. “We have never seen so…

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Northeast Brazil: Drought threatens water-truck lifeline in parched northeast Brazil

Northeast Brazil: Drought threatens water-truck lifeline in parched northeast Brazil

#Voices2Paris – UNDP Storytelling Contest Story 11

For the rural community of Pacheco in northeastern Brazil, the local school has never been so important. It is now the only place in the drought-stricken area that has water on tap.

But to fill the school’s tank, water must be trucked from a reservoir some 40 km away – and it is shrinking fast.

“This is the only way to get access to water here.…

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The Challenge of Climate Change: an Indian perspective

The Challenge of Climate Change: an Indian perspective

#Voices2Paris – UNDP Storytelling Contest Story 6

The city of Guwahati by the bank of river Brahmaputra, Assam.

Few countries in the world are as vulnerable to the effects of climate change as India is with its vast population that is dependent on the growth of its agrarian economy, its expansive coastal areas and the Himalayan region and islands. In 2014, the World Health Organisation (WHO) in…

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UNDP announces Winners of Climate Change Storytelling Contest for Aspiring Journalists

UNDP announces Winners of Climate Change Storytelling Contest for Aspiring Journalists

  Five young journalists have been selected to join the upcoming climate change conference (COP21) in Paris in December.

The journalists, winners of a ‘Voices2Paris’ storytelling contest run by United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and Oxfam, will help cover the conference and the critical issue of tackling climate change.

Over 130 articles were submitted from more than 40 countries…

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