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Many Strong Voices: Turning Vulnerability into Strength

14 Dec 2009

Climate change presents the human race with profound choices that go beyond the current debate over new technologies, economic, and social costs and even concerns over environmental impacts. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has called climate change the “moral imperative and the defining issue of our era.”


Increasingly, climate change is being viewed as an ethical issue and a matter of justice. The Secretary General, “We have an ethical obligation to right this injustice. We have a duty to protect the most vulnerable.”


The goal of Many Strong Voices

The goal of Many Strong Voices is to promote the well-being, security, and sustainability of coastal communities in the Arctic and Small Island Developing States (SIDS) by bringing these regions together to take action on climate change mitigation and adaptation, and to tell their stories to the world. The Arctic and SIDS are barometers of global environmental change. They are considered critical testing grounds for the ideas and programmes that will strengthen the adaptive capacities of human societies confronting climate change. Lessons learned through MSV will support policy development at local, regional, and international levels. They will provide decision makers in the two regions with the knowledge to safeguard and strengthen vulnerable social, economic, and natural systems.

Author: GRID-Arendal, CICERO

Year of publication: 2009

Publisher: GRID-Arendal

Tags: Arctic climate change polar Small Island Developing States environment and security

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