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People living in poverty are feeling the effects of #climate change the soonest and most sharply. See the map below for the number of deaths due to climate change in 2000.

Is climate change a matter of human rights?

http://sustainablecitiescollective.com/g...man-rights

Climate change is a major threat to the realization of human rights as others participating in Blog Action Day (2013 theme human rights) will also say. People living in poverty are feeling the effects soonest and most sharply as the map below showing the distribution of deaths due to climate change in 2000 clearly shows. It’s essential that human rights are on the agenda at all the key meetings aimed at tackling climate change if effective solutions are to be enacted.

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Back in February we started talking with City of Melbourne about running an event to bring together people working toward a better food system. The main objectives were to discover existing and planned food enterprises and initiatives, explore ways all could support each other, and identify opportunities to work together – particularly with activities that could help City of Melbourne achieve the vision set out in its Food City food policy. The belief being that with shared knowledge, greater connection and collective action we can have greater impact with our efforts transforming our current food system to one that is sustainable, resilient and fair for all.

http://doingsomethinggood.com.au/ecocity...urne-2013/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pla...q3kG9kTntA

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China smog emergency shuts city of 11 million people
Date: 22-Oct-13
Country: CHINA
Author: Adam Rose

http://planetark.org/wen/70118

Choking smog all but shut down one of northeastern China's largest cities on Monday, forcing schools to suspended classes, snarling traffic and closing the airport, in the country's first major air pollution crisis of the winter.

An index measuring PM2.5, or particulate matter with a diameter of 2.5 micrometers (PM2.5), reached a reading of 1,000 in some parts of Harbin, the gritty capital of northeastern Heilongjiang province and home to some 11 million people.

A level above 300 is considered hazardous, while the World Health Organisation recommends a daily level of no more than 20.

The smog not only forced all primary and middle schools to suspend classes, but shut the airport and some public bus routes, the official Xinhua news agency reported, blaming the emergency on the first day of the heating being turned on in the city for winter. Visibility was reportedly reduced to 10 meters.

The smog is expected to continue for the next 24 hours.

Air quality in Chinese cities is of increasing concern to China's stability-obsessed leadership because it plays into popular resentment over political privilege and rising inequality in the world's second-largest economy.

Sao Paulo choking on its own smog: study
Date: 21-Oct-13 not any better.....
http://planetark.org/wen/70129