Climate Change and the Global South: A Roundtable Discussion

Saleemul Huq is a Bangladeshi-born scientist who now heads the climate change group at the International Institute for Environment and Development. He was a lead author on parts of the last two reports by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The Nation Magazine recently wrote, “Saleemul Huq has done more to help poor people and countries prepare for climate change than perhaps anyone else in the world.” Lidy Nacpil. She is the International Coordinator of Jubilee South and Vice President of the Freedom from Debt Coalition of the Philippines. and Tim Goldtooth, executive director of the Indigenous Environmental Network.

Saleemul Huq, Bangladeshi-born scientist who now heads the climate change group at the International Institute for Environment and Development. He was a lead author on parts of the last two reports by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Lidy Nacpil, International Coordinator of Jubilee South and vice president of the Freedom from Debt Coalition of the Philippines

Tom Goldtooth, executive director of the Indigenous Environmental Network

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