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For most of these communities, climate change is experienced through water – too much or too little. Thanks to its expertise in climate change and water, as host nation of the crucial global climate conference, COP26, Scotland has an opportunity to show global leadership in 2021. Together we can help amplify the voices of those living with the consequences of climate change who are too often forgotten at international political get-togethers.
For millions of people across the world, the climate emergency is already here. It is unravelling development progress for the worlds most marginalised communities. That means in effect, people who were perhaps beginning to see a way out of generations of poverty, thwarted back into just trying to survive day by day. The prospect for their children and their children’s children is even more bleak.
Climate crisis means water crisis for many of the world’s poorest countries - Tim Wainwright
Type ‘climate change images’ into a popular internet search engine and you would be forgiven for believing that it was all about polar bears and empty barren landscapes.
Further down the page of search results, people start to appear, white-skinned and usually pointing at the horizon.
The real impact of climate change on the world’s poorest people is hidden from the headlines, a daily grind to survive and thrive against changing weather patterns, punctuated with more frequent catastrophes such as cyclones, floods and prolonged droughts.