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35:45 Minutes Global Exchange¹s Speaking Tour
Oil and Global Warming Today: Voices from the Front Lines
presents Ben Namakin from the Pacific Island of Kiribati
As scientists warn that global warming is getting worse, climate change
leader from the Pacific Island of Kiribati will speak in Arizona.
Attend a special event about global warming with grassroots environmental
leader Ben Namakin from the Pacific Island of Kiribati. Hear about the
impact of climate change and ways that you can take action from someone
whose homeland is beginning to sink due to rising sea levels. Ben will
share his first-hand experience of how global warming is affecting his
community and provide solutions and hope for the future.
Global Exchange¹s Speaking Tour
Oil and Global Warming Today: Voices from the Front Lines
presents Ben Namakin from the Pacific Island of Kiribati
As scientists warn that global warming is getting worse, climate change
leader from the Pacific Island of Kiribati will speak in Arizona.
Attend a special event about global warming with grassroots environmental
leader Ben Namakin from the Pacific Island of Kiribati. Hear about the
impact of climate change and ways that you can take action from someone
whose homeland is beginning to sink due to rising sea levels. Ben will
share his first-hand experience of how global warming is affecting his
community and provide solutions and hope for the future.
Monday, October 9, 2006 12:00 Noon
Where: Mesa Community College, the Kiva Room in the Kirk Student Center,
Mesa, Arizona
For more information contact: Michelle Pulich Stewart, 623-217-4093
sun7river@yahoo.com
Sponsored in part by a grant from the Maricopa County Community
College District¹s International & Intercultural Education Committee.
Ben Namakin
At the age of 26, Ben Namakin, is an environmental educator who grew up on
the Pacific Islands of Kiribati and Micronesia where he witnessed first hand
how increased erosion and rising sea levels from global warming threaten the
survival of islands. Since 2002, Ben has worked as an Environmental
Educator with the Conservation Society of Pohnpei where his work includes
taking on the issue of climate change and initiatives such as the
Youth-to-Youth in Environmental Education and Awareness Program, and an
array of other successful outreach initiatives. Ben has taught a summer
course on climate change and its implications for island systems at the
College of Micronesia. He has produced footage showing sea level rise,
coastal erosion and other changes on island systems. His footage of the
split of Deketik Island from sea flooding was shown during the United
Nations 2005 Climate Change Conference COP11/MOP1 in Montreal, Canada. Ben
was selected as the only Pacific Islander to join the Beyond Kyoto/It's Us!
International Youths at the Youth Summit and Youth Delegation to the United
Nations 2005 Climate Change Conference. He participated in making the
International Youth Declaration "Our Climate, Our Challenge, Our Future" and
was one of five youth speakers who addressed the 10,000 delegates in a
plenary at the COP11/MOP1. Ben continues to collaborate with the Beyond
Kyoto youths to share information on possible actions to stop climate
change, research climate change impacts in the Pacific, and raise awareness
about the issue.
For more information about Ben, please see:
http://www.globalexchange.org/getInvolved/speakers/162.html
For more information about the Oil and Climate Affected Communities Tour,
please see:
http://www.globalexchange.org/war_peace_democracy/oil/voices.html