environmental
http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/may2007/2007-05-10-01.asp
This article is about the climate change caused by globalisation affecting people living in low- lying areas in the pacific. There is a very large amount of financial assistance provided to them.
A new environmental strategy backed by a $100 million grant package from the Global Environment Facility (GEF) was agreed to on Wednesday by the heads of state and top government leaders of the 15 small island states and territories at the Pacific Leaders Conference.
The people living in these Pacific states are in grave danger from the rising ocean levels. Due to their low level of elevation, they will be among the first environmental refugees should the ocean levels continue rising.
All these happenings are due to the changing global climate caused by excessive pollution by humans, from transport or industrial uses. These all play a part in globalisation. For example, the improvements in transportation now enable people to get from one continent to another in a matter of hours, when it would have taken days a hundred years back. However the downside to this is the huge number of polluting cars. Also, due to huge worldwide demand, factories are built to cater to the huge demand. These factories often spew enormous amounts of pollution.
The pollution rises up and creates a greenhouse effect, causing the earth to be heated up. The ice in the poles will thus melt and result in the rise in sea levels.
This $100 million marks a huge increase in environmental funding in that region, as for the past 15 years all the funding there amounted to only $86 million. The $100 million, which will be spread over 3 years, will allow countries to focus their strategies on a set of priority issues for the global environment, build and capture synergies, and apply a common set of tracking tools to monitor progress, instead of working one project at a time.

Nathaniel