ECOS Magazine, Australia´s most authoritative magazine on sustainability in the environment, industry and community, published bi-monthly by CSIRO, featured an article on Green Cross Australia's National People's Assembly on sea-level rise and population displacement in the Asia Pacific region in their October Edition.  

 

"An April 2008 advertisement placed in The Australian newspaper by Green Cross Australia began a unique, deliberative process inviting the country to consider the role that Australians might play should sea-level rise and climate change  result in a significant displacement of  people in the Asia Pacific region. 

 

Green Cross Australia, the national  affiliate of Green Cross International founded by Mikhail Gorbachev, encourages  a shift in personal values and attitudes to achieve a more a peaceful, sustainable, and secure future for all.

 

The current  focus of activities is preparation for the  humanitarian impacts of climate change  in the Asia Pacific region, through ‘The  People’s Assembly: Sustainable Solutions  for Victims of Sea Level Rise’, held at the  Queensland State Library in late August. 

 

By generating early discussion and  debate, the organisation aims to encourage  strategies and policies that anticipate  and prepare for change, in order to avoid  suffering and conflict....."

 

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