GLOBAL WARMING:
VIETNAM'S NEW ENEMY
(3’21”) (No. 1213)

GRENADA GRAPPLES WITH CLIMATE CHANGE
(5'00”) (No. 1214)

BOLIVIA'S GLACIER:
A VANISHING FUTURE
(5'18”) (No. 1215)

Small Island Developing States, like Grenada, are already feeling the impact as storms and hurricanes become more rampant in the Caribbean Basin. At Copenhagen, the international community will continue negotiations within the context of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC), on legally binding agreements to reduce greenhouse gas emissions worldwide by 2020. The Alliance of Small Islands States is pushing for much higher ambitions on emissions targets than any other group.

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High up in the Bolivian Andes mountains, a disaster is in the making as many of the glaciers are melting at rates surprising even the experts. At risk are tens of thousands of people who rely on the water as a source of life.

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HAITI: MANGROVE PROTECTION
(3'57”) (No. 1216)

BULGARIA: ENERGY
EFFICIENT CITIES
(5’13”) (No. 1217)

A local non-governmental organization, Village Planete, is partnering with USAID to replant almost four kilometres of Haiti's north coast with more than 10,000 mangroves. Over the last 50 years, the mangrove forests were depleted as villagers cut them down to use for fuel wood; as the mangroves disappeared, so too did the fish, crabs and birds.

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Bulgaria, like many other Eastern European countries that were once part of the Soviet bloc, has cities riddled with deteriorating housing that consume lots of energy. A new initiative supported by the United Nations is helping retrofit buildings, making them more energy efficient, and lowering the carbon footprint of urban areas.

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