Our next Monthly Meeting will take place on Wednesday 2 April at 7pm in Nasc, Mary Street, Cork. We will be showing a number of short documentaries lent to us by the Latin America Solidarity Centre on the issue of water in Latin America, followed by a discussion. Water is the theme of Latin America Week 2008 which is taking place from 5 - 12 April, check out www.lasc.ie for further information.

From this month, our Monthly Meetings will take place the first Wednesday of every month at Nasc - pencil it in your diary! If you have any issues you would like raised please let us know. We will also soon begin working on our next Irish Aid funding proposal so if you have any ideas you would like explored please let us know so we can include them.

Best regards,

Ethical Development Action
www.edacork.org

Climate change is a global justice issue. Carbon emissions from rich countries have contributed most to climate change, yet it is the poor in developing countries who are being hit hardest by its consequences.  If we are to truly face up to the challenge of climate change, the voices and ideas of those in developing countries need to be heard.This spring,Trocaire are offering the public throughout Ireland a chance to hear from two speakers Dr. Dominic Walubengo and Martha Yvette Aguilar, who have a unique insight and expertise on the real impact of climate change – coming from two of the countries directly affected.

Galway  Monday March3rd   7.30pm  Galway City Museum, Spanish Arch
In association with Galway One World Centre

Cork    Tuesday  March 4th 7.00 pm  Room 1.01, Brookfield Health Science Building, University College CorkIn association  with  UCC One World Society and Environment Society

Dublin    Wednesday March 5th  7.30 pm  Cultivate Centre, Essex St. West, Temple Bar,
In association with Cultivate Centre and Trinity One World Society

Belfast     Thursday March  6th    7pmRoom GEO/0G/029, School of Geography, Archaeology & Palaeoecology, Queen’s University Belfast

All are welcome,  for further information contact campaigns@trocaire.ieor call us on +353(0)1 5053278  

Martha Yvette Aguilar is a contributing researcher with the IPCC and has over ten years experience in shaping El Salvador’s national and international environmental policies. She combines a strong understanding of the current and future impact of climate change on vulnerable communities with a powerful expertise on the policies and possibilities of adaptation.

Dr. Dominic Walubengo is the Director of Forest Action Network Kenya and an expert on institutional reform in the natural resources sector. A former consultant with the Food Agricultural Organisation’s  ’Forests, Trees and People Programme’, he played a key role in the development of Kenya’s Forest Policy and Legislation.  Emphasising the relationship between poverty, environment and good governance, Dr Walubengo is a committed advocate of participatory approaches to resource management.

Trócaire’s ADMIT campaign  is asking Ireland and the UK to act now by supporting vital adaptation measures in the developing world and urgently reducing their own emissions. To learn more about the ADMIT campaign visit www.trocaire.org/lent or text ADMIT followed by your email address to 51155

Time: 7.00 pm

Fair Food - Bitter Value? - an open forum on the real impacts of low prices on farm livelihoods in Ireland and Developing Countries/

Speakers include:

• Juiam Oram, ActionAid UK
• Jim Griffin, The Irish Farmers Association

We look forward to seeing you on Thursday.

EDA Cork