voces de comunidades afectadas por el cambio climático

This report by Friends of the Earth International presents testimonies from nine countries, highlighting the disproportionate vulnerability of the Global South to climate change. It emphasizes that local communities often possess ancestral knowledge and traditional practices—such as agroecology and sustainable water management—that are more effective for adaptation than top-down institutional measures. The document calls for a global movement for climate justice and a transition away from fossil fuels to protect the most marginalized populations.

• Countries in the Global South are more vulnerable to the climate crisis because their livelihoods are deeply connected to land, water, ancestral knowledge, and ecosystem diversity.
• In Australia, climate change is expected to increase average temperatures by 1.3 °C by 2020 and 6.7°C by 2080, leading to severe water security issues in the east and southeast by 2030.
• The 2004 Hurricane Catarina in southern Brazil caused over 470 million dollars in damages, affecting 40,000 homes and destroying up to 90% of maize crops, serving as a warning of more extreme weather events in the region.
• Honduras faces extreme vulnerability due to climate events like Hurricane Mitch (1998), which killed approximately 7,000 people and damaged 123 health facilities, while subsequent neoliberal policies and mining concessions have further degraded the environment and public health.
• Malaysia's high greenhouse gas emissions are driven largely by an inefficient transport system (49% of CO2 emissions in 1994) and a polluting industrial sector (41% in 1994), while coastal populations face rising sea levels and the loss of protective mangrove forests.
• Peru is considered the third most vulnerable country to climate change, with tropical glaciers retreating at an alarming rate; nearly a quarter of the total glacial area has been lost in the last 35 years.
• Swaziland is essentially carbon neutral but suffers from extreme drought and food insecurity; in April 2007, crop failures left approximately 400,000 people (40% of the population) in need of food aid.
• Tuvalu faces an existential threat from rising sea levels, which contaminate freshwater lenses and poison soil with salt, potentially forcing the population to become climate refugees.
• In the United Kingdom, the community of Selsey is threatened by sea-level rise and erosion, but faces a lack of government funding for coastal defenses, leading to a conflict between centralized 'managed retreat' policies and local desires for sustainable adaptation like artificial reefs.

APA

Friends of the Earth International (2007). voces de comunidades afectadas por el cambio climático. https://www.foei.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/climate-testimonies-ES.pdf

Chicago

Friends of the Earth International. voces de comunidades afectadas por el cambio climático. 2007. https://www.foei.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/climate-testimonies-ES.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{friendsoftheearthinternational2007voces, author = {{Friends of the Earth International}}, title = {{voces de comunidades afectadas por el cambio climático}}, institution = {Friends of the Earth International}, year = {2007}, month = nov, url = {https://www.foei.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/climate-testimonies-ES.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }