Digging for drinking water in a dry riverbed (photo DFID)


knowledge exchange in order to progress a lower carbon economy and society around the world”.


Scotland’s role in helping to reduce the impact of climate change has also been boosted by plans to invest £12 million over the next four years to help the world’s poorest communities most at risk.


The Scotish Government’s Climate Justice Fund has already helped 11 projects in four sub-Saharan African countries. In Malawi, around 30,000 people now have access to safe clean drinking water and over 100 commitees have been trained in natural resources rights and management as a result of help from the fund.


“The most vulnerable are worst affected by climate change: the very young, the very old, the ill, and the very poor. Women are suffering disproportionately, since they are oſten the main providers of food, fuel and water,” said First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, as she announced a doubling of the Climate Justice Fund.


“The people who have done least to cause climate change, and are least equipped to cope with its consequences, are the people who are being hit hardest. The scale of the injustice is massive.


“The first and most important priority in tackling this injustice has to be to address climate change itself. That’s


why Scotland backed the case for an ambitious agreement at the Paris summit - one which is capable of limiting temperature increases to below two degrees Celsius. And we are determined to lead by example – we have some of the most ambitious statutory targets anywhere in the world.


“Te most vulnerable are worst affected by climate change: the very young, the very old, the ill, and the very poor. Women are suffering disproportionately, since they are oſten the main providers of food, fuel and water,”


:First Minister Nicola Sturgeon


“But we also know that work needs to happen now. In 2012 we became the first national government in the world to establish a climate justice fund and we have had some fantastic results.”


Welcoming the fund Jamie Livingstone, Head of Oxfam Scotland, said: “We know climate change is already making the daily lives of the world’s poorest women, men and children even harder and it is the single biggest threat to winning the fight against hunger.


“Globally, and here in Scotland, we must limit the damage by reducing emissions, but we must also ramp up our support to help those already affected adapt their lives to unavoidable climate impacts.”


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