Calling For Input and Action on Climate Equity

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Global warming is already seriously affecting our planet. Climate change threatens many areas around the world with more intense storms, flooding, droughts, decreased food production, water scarcity, and disease. The world’s poorest people will bear the brunt of the impacts, even though it is the United States and other rich countries that are largely responsible for the greenhouse gas pollution that causes climate change.

Responses to climate change must be aggressive and immediate, just and equitable, and must take into consideration the disproportionate role that the United States has played in creating global warming.

Tell the candidates what you hope to see the next president do on climate change -- specifically how she or he plans to help developing nations cope with the consequences of human-caused climate change.

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Making the Presidential Campaigns Take a Stand

The Climate Equity Campaign is focused on making the candidates for President take a public stand on climate change and climate equity. You can even help us get the candidates to take a stand by taking action here.

The U.S. is responsible for 25 percent of the world's greenhouse gas emissions and must work toward reducing U.S. emissions 80 percent by 2050. In order to do this we must work with other nations and through existing international channels.

Voices from Communities Affected by Climate Change
- Friends of the Earth International

International oil subsidies and climate change: Aiding Oil, Harming the Climate
- Oil Change International

Debt and Climate Change
- Jubilee Debt Campaign

Given the severe impacts on impoverished countries from climate change, the United States must provide new and additional funding to vulnerable communities in impoverished countries who must adapt to the severe consequences of climate change.

Adaptation: Compensating for Climate Change: Principles and Lessons for Equitable Adaptation Funding
- Action Aid USA

Adapting to climate change: What’s needed in poor countries, and who should pay
- Oxfam International