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| Pa Ousman Jarju Gambian minister |
Dear President Obama:
As former chair of Least Developed
Countries group in the United Nations climate change negotiations, and former
Special Envoy for the group, I am speaking on behalf of LDCs who are already
suffering from the devastating impacts of climate change.
The latest IPCC report indicates
that the evidence of human-caused climate-change impacts is unequivocal, and
that increased warming likewise increases the likelihood of severe, pervasive,
and irreversible impacts.
The research shows that these
increases in temperature will be linked to increases in the level and the
extent of poverty around the world, making more difficult our recovery from
climate-related disasters. Both will set back decades of human development
efforts and create new security risks for the world.
