By Tim Kirkpatrick | GVI Seychelles Country Director
At the November 2011 climate change conference in Durban, South Africa, climate science experts announced that their latest findings confirm that the planet is on course for catastrophic climate change due to green house gas emissions from the burning of fossil fuels. Mankind’s response to the problem we have created has been too little too late to avert a 2 degree C + rise in average global temperatures over the next 50-100 years. Extreme weather events such as droughts, floods, deep freezes and hurricanes will increase dramatically. The nations least able to cope will be the hardest hit.
Small island states such as the Seychelles islands are in the direct line of fire. Their wonderfully diverse and fragile ecosystems are in danger of being destroyed forever in the near future. GVI Curieuse is raising money for the installation of a Solar system to help the base become an example of zero emissions living. As an international company working in over thirty countries reducing our carbon footprint is a priority. Leading by example not only educates our volunteers and the local population but demonstrates that renewable energy technologies, once installed are a cheap, clean and efficient way to produce the energy we need not only to exist in a modern world but also to develop for the future.
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