Supporting a climate for change: the EU and developing countries working together

Background material for UN Climate Change Conference in Cancun (COP 16/ CMP 6):

This package contains (i) an information sheet on EU's actions on the environment and climate change in the world and (ii) stories from the field, including disaster prevention and preparedness activities in Vietnam and Dominican Republic. It argues that development is at risk due to changes in climate patterns, citing the more severe drought, increase of extreme weather events such as cyclones, sea level raise, and glacier melting are turning former development strategies upside down; and considers adaptation to climate change as a key issue for development on top of mitigation efforts at the global scale to limit the temperature rise.