The jury explained Klein won "for exposing the structural causes and responsibility for the climate crisis, for inspiring us to stand up locally, nationally and internationally to demand a new agenda for sharing the planet that respects human rights and equality, and for reminding us of the power of authentic democracy to achieve transformative change and justice".
Although EU leaders voiced support for the UNFCCC, they also promised to pursue climate agreements bilaterally and within the G20, the same group of rich countries that are most responsible for causing the climate crisis.
Keeping this in mind it looks sarcastic that life-styles like those in Australia seem to be the most important cause for climate change, for the misery many Pacific Islanders will suffer in a few decades from now despite having contributed nothing to it.
The cause for the onset of this climate change is thought to be due to the development of a strong Andean rain shadow associated with the uplift of the Andes to mean elevations > 2 km.
Although no single 'silver bullet' cause for the declines was identified, climate change impacting early ocean rearing conditions, infectious disease, predators, and aquaculture were considered perhaps most important of proposed factors, with a strong recognition that multiple cumulative stressors, some which may interact, were likely involved.
Our governments cannot back down from our demand for compensation for the harm caused by the climate change locked-in by the pollution of the rich".
He may not have done too much for the climate cause, but at least he probably didn't set it back.
The Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change (IPCC), the internationally recognized authority on global warming, has warned us that the carbon dioxide that's already in the atmosphere will cause the climate to change for the next 40 to 80 years and that more natural disasters are inevitable.
First, I am certainly pro-environment, and anyone who thinks we aren't the major cause for climate change needs to sit and examine the facts.
Mr Davey is a pro-business free-market liberal, or, as one Conservative ministerial colleague approvingly jokes: "he's basically a Tory in disguise".It may be counter-intuitive, but I would argue that Mr Huhne's resignation is good news for the climate change cause.
