UN process in reaching a new climate change deal excludes those most affected

Home of a Dalit family

covered in floodwater.

A new climate change deal will be seriously compromised if countries continue to shut out the voices of those most affected by global warming, MRG warns in a new briefing just ten days head of crucial UN climate change negotiations in Poznan, Poland.

See press release in English, Spanish and Hungarian.

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