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Around the world, leadership on climate change and clean energy continues to build.

Despite this the challenge remains immense and the next few years are crucial to limiting the worse impacts of climate change. While in the past half century there has been substantive improvement in human wellbeing in many parts of the globe, the future will be less positive. World population has more than doubled in the past 50yrs to almost 7 billion and is expected to rise by 50% by 2050. Consumption of finite resources, ecosystem services and biodiversity loss continue to rise along with the cost of basic foods. Energy demands and fossil fuel use continues to grow worldwide and global energy use is projected to increase by 50% by 2030. Last year the International Panel on Climate Change released its most sobering assessment to date on climate science. At a time when we now know we should be decreasing our carbon emissions consumption of coal is soaring, hundreds of coal power energy plants remain on the drawing boards or are being built in the United States, Russia, China, EU, South America and Africa. Meanwhile transport, aviation and marine shipping emissions continue to rise alarmingly along with agricultural emissions. Tropical forests continue to fall at record rates and arctic sea ice is now at its lowest level on record and may disappear entirely by summer 2012. Desertification, water scarcity, sea level rise, biodiversity loss and drought affect hundreds of millions of people worldwide while the frequency and size of extreme weather events including storms, cyclones, hurricanes and typhoons, rainfall and flooding continues to worsen. So what can we do?



Partnership for Change (PFC) a new initiative set up by Declan Waugh Chartered Environmentalist and Environmental Scientist living in Bandon, West Cork and supported by leading Institutions, businesses and NGOs was established to focus on Climate Change and the concrete ways individuals, the scientific community, engineers, educationalists, media journalists, environmentalists, urban and regional planners, landscape architects, economists, professional institutions, local authorities, development agencies, political, corporate and civic leaders can work together to harness existing momentum and accelerate progress in Ireland, EU and worldwide. 



PFC aims to take on this education and communication challenge. In Nov 2008 PFC organised its inaugural conference on climate change held in Cork city, Ireland.

This inaugural conference was addressed by leading distinguished experts, speakers and panellists who explored specific issues and provided essential advice on tackling climate change and planning for an uncertain future. The conference was being organised on a not for profit basis with proceeds from the conference to go towards a number of worthy aid and environmental organisations that require financial assistance in tackling the impacts of climate change on a community level in developing countries.

PFC continues to work with communities in Ireland to raise awareness of climate change and highlight the urgent need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, develop sustainable energy strategies and built climate leadership within the community.