According to UK-based Oxfam's forecast released on April 21, hundreds of million people would suffer from climate change disasters in the next 6 years. The non-governmental organisation thus calls upon governments to figure out solutions for the problems.
Based on the fact of similar disasters since 1980, Oxfam estimates the number of people suffering from climate-change-related disasters would increase by 54% to 375 million a year by 2015.
Oxfam's executive director Barbara Stocking believes that international response to climate change has been in tardy progress as well as inefficient and there is a need to make a comprehensive reform in the way we have been dealing with climate change. Current situation requires governments' active initiatives to reduce the consequences of the disasters.
Furthermore, due to challenging global warming, Oxfam has launched a campaign urging prosperous economies, by 2020, to cut their greenhouse gases emission by at least 40% over 1990's.
Source: VietnamPlus (VNA)
Translated by TITC