Learn how people in Zimbabwe and Cambodia find solutions to climate change - South Bend Tribune
Talk explores climate change solutions in Zimbabwe and Cambodia
Learn how people in Zimbabwe and Cambodia find solutions to climate change
Joseph Dits
GOSHEN — Two speakers will share their efforts of helping their home communities in Zimbabwe and Cambodia to find solutions to climate change in a free, public program on Feb. 22.
It will begin at 2 p.m. at Jennings Auditorium at Greencroft Senior Center, 1820 Greencroft Blvd., as an offering of the Mennonite Central Committee and the Anabaptist Climate Collaborative.
Caroline Pugeni, from Zimbabwe, has been program director for a decade for Score Against Poverty, a grassroots women-led organization in the African country’s Mwenezi district.
Victor Odinda, from Cambodia, is a climate solutions partner advisor for MCC Cambodia, where he helps partners across the country.
MCC’s partners around the world work to support people in adapting to the challenges of climate change.
Admission is free, and advance registration is not required.
For more information, visit climateactionforpeace.com.
Related Knowledge Center: Climate economics
Climate change is now a driver of the world’s economy. The impact is profound:
- Catastrophic weather events — hurricanes, floods, droughts, high temperatures — are more frequent and more extreme. The cost can be measured in both the initial damage caused and the longer-term impact on the economy.
- Vulnerable communities are increasing climate-related investments, hardening infrastructure and taking other protective measures.
- Investment in carbon capture and storage technologies is increasingly rapidly.
- Governments are making investments and crafting regulations to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.
On top of all of this is the cost of uncertainty. As the Fourth National Climate Assessment, released in 2018 by the U.S. Global Change Research Program, says, “The assumption that current and future climate conditions will resemble the recent past is no longer valid.”