{"id":1439,"date":"2007-06-20T20:15:56","date_gmt":"2007-06-20T18:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/en.greenmedia.md\/?p=1439"},"modified":"2007-06-20T20:15:56","modified_gmt":"2007-06-20T18:15:56","slug":"greenpeace-making-waves-climate-change-refugees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/greenpeace-making-waves-climate-change-refugees.html","title":{"rendered":"Greenpeace &#8211; Making Waves: Climate change refugees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is World Refugee day. A day to focus worldwide attention on the the estimated 40 million people world wide uprooted by violence and persecution.  But there is also a new kind of refugee. The climate refugee.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/main.jhtml?xml=\/news\/2007\/06\/20\/nimmigrant220.xml\">In the words of Antonio Guterres<\/a>, UN High Commissioner for Refugees:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Climate change and environmental damage lie behind increasingly frequent natural disasters with dramatic human consequences. Different models of the impact of climate change all present a worrying picture of human displacement. East Africa offers a stark example. All predictions are that desertification will expand steadily, making it difficult for people to earn a living and provoking further migration. All of this is happening in the absence of international capacity and determination to respond.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/weblog.greenpeace.org\/makingwaves\/archives\/2007\/06\/climate_change_refugees.html\" title=\"Climate change refugees\">Continue reading Climate change refugees&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is World Refugee day. A day to focus worldwide attention on the the estimated 40 million people world wide uprooted by violence and persecution. But there is also a new kind of refugee. The climate refugee. In the words of Antonio Guterres, UN High Commissioner for Refugees: Climate change and environmental damage lie behind [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}