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Climate Change : Voices from the Developing World  
Speakers from Kenya and El Salvador offer powerful perspectives on a global issue.

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