Many voices are saying that the traditional subsistence economy of
the world’s forest-dwelling people is endangered by the new climate,
that forest villagers need for help in adaption to now-unavoidable
change, and that this need is largely ignored as rich nation’s try to
meet their own interests.
The news story below is focused on this issue’s place in the
international climate conference now underway in Poznan, Poland.
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Jakarta Post (Jakarta, Indonesia)
December 06, 2008
Engage forest groups, conference told
Stevie Emilia, The Jakarta Post, Poznan
For forest communities, adapting to climate change is a matter of
life or death, but this aspect of the global issue tends to be
neglected, experts say.
“For many forest communities, adapting to climate change is already a
matter of survival. We need to act now to ensure a better future,”
said Frances Seymour, the director of the Bogor-based Center for
International Forestry Research (CIFOR), a leading group of forest
scientists.