7. News from our members: Ecoserveis participates in Fuel Poverty Group Our member organisation Ecoserveis is an active member of the Fuel Poverty Group. That is a network of people and organisations fighting energy poverty through energy advice for vulnerable consumers.
In the past months, over 50 activists have been involved in 80 events such as workshops about energy and energy saving.
So far, the Fuel Poverty Group is only active in Spain, but there are plans to replicate the model in other countries.
See http://energiajusta.org/ |
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8. Severe droughts all over the world Many regions in the Middle East, Asia, Africa and Latin-America are experiencing higher air temperatures, drier air and severe droughts.
Droughts are detrimental to the environment. But droughts also have serious consequences for people’s livelihoods, affecting everything from agriculture and water supply to transportation and health. Nearly 40 percent of the world relies on agriculture as its main source of income. So if severe droughts lead water shortages in an area dependent on agriculture, it puts the health and wellbeing not only of animals and crops at risk, but of the farmers and communities that depend on them too.
Studies revealed that the drought that is affecting the eastern Mediterranean Levant region since 1998 is likely the worst in the past 900 years and played (plays) a crucial role in the Syrian tragedy.
These paragraphs are partially based on the article The Link Between Climate Change and Drought.
For more news about the droughts, see also India Is Suffering One of Its Worst Droughts in Decades, Why Vietnam Is Running Dry, Worst Drought In Nearly 100 Years, Ethiopia struggles with worst drought for 50 years leaving 18 million people in need of aid, El Niño And Climate Change Are Making The Amazon Dry And Flammable, and many, many more... |
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