Climate change is already affecting the lives of people everywhere.



Through Climate Witness, WW helps people around the world share their story of how climate change impacts their lives and wha they are doing to take action. All Climate Witness stories have had an independant scientifc review by members of the Climate Witness Science Advisory Panel who provide their time voluntarily.



Time is running out. We need political leaders to commit to an ambitious, fair and science-based deal. Climate action will be benefcial for the economy and the survival of nations and people.

Although being one of the countries in the world with least emissions, Nepal is one of the most vulnerable countries because of fragile ecosystems, poverty, slow economic growth and lack of resources for adaptation. For Nepal, climate change is not just an environmental phenomenon but also an economical, social and political issue.



Recognizing these factors, WWF Nepal initiated the Climate Change Program in August 2003 and later in 2006, alternative energy component was integrated in the program.



Read more about about the campaign at www.climate4life.org

The Climate Witness team are proud to announce that two scientists on the CW Science Advisory Panel have published new works.



Dr Barrie Pittock, a specialist in climate change and variability, the El Nino-Southern Oscillation, solar-weather relations, climate impacts and adaptation.

• Climate Change: An Australian Guide to the Science and Potential Impacts, ed. Barrie Pittock
  
  http://greenhouse.gov.au/science/guide/index.html




• Climate Change: Science, Impacts and Solutions (2nd. edition), Barrie Pittock, in press, 2009
  
  http://www.publish.csiro.au/pid/6010.htm.

Prof. Mark Nuttal, who specialises in anthropology of the Arctic and North Atlantic; human-environment relations, sustainability of living marine resources, climate change, locality, identity and memory.

• http://www.lcoastpress.com/book.php?id=163




• http://www.iwgia.org/sw29098.asp

Thousands of delegates streamed into the Poznan World Trade Center in Poland this morning for the opening day of the United Nations Conference on Climate Change (COP14).



They were greeted by a blustery (zero degree) winter morning while cheerful WWF staff members handing out ‘climate nuts’ with a strong message that its time to crack the ongoing international negotiations.



Along with nuts, delegates were given the WWF Position Paper on COP14, which sets out clear points on how to reach a fair and ambitious treaty, setting a positive and optimistic tone for the long and difficult two weeks to come.



While inside the warm Trade Center, the buzz words changed from ‘climate nuts’ to ‘shared vision’, ‘global action’, ‘impacts of climate change on small states’, ‘rich countries need to act’ and ‘Obama’s climate solution to the financial crises’.



Donald Tusk, Poland’s Prime Minister, said that the financial crisis will come and go but climate change will last.



With the guiding Bali Roadmap agreed this time last year, and only 12 months to go until Copenhagen in Dec 2009, the mandate for negotiators at Poznan is to develop a concrete proposal for the new global climate deal.

How do we change our ways when it comes to energy consumption and reducing our carbon footprint? This one minute animation from WWF-Brazil does a great job of showing the way!