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Nauti Primary School grounds, Funafuti, Tuvalu

One of DS’ latest projects – Coastal Kids – will be starting in earnest in early 2012. The Coastal Kids Project will initially bring schools and students living in coastal areas in Bangladesh, Kiribati and Tuvalu into direct contact with schools and students in Australia who are also themselves coastal dwellers. Using communications technology such as Skype and other forms of internet-based connections and learning, the Coastal Kids Project will bring children from these four countries into direct face-to-face contact during which time they can discuss the reality of climate change, learn how climate change is affecting them and what kids in all of these countries can do to better understand the needs and wishes of coastal kids everywhere. Check here soon for further updates!

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We are excited to announce our plans to expand our One House, One Family at a Time Project to directly benefit climate displaced families. We began this project with our partners YPSA in Bangladesh and have built homes for more than 50 people thus far, and are deep into Phase 3 of OHOF-Bangladesh. If you would like to contribute to this project, please be in contact and we will walk you through the process: info@displacementsolutions.org. We are now in the process of planning to launch three new OHOF Projects in 2022 - OHOF-Papua New Guinea, OHOF-India and OHOF-Sri Lanka. We will have a lot more to report next year but wanted to let everyone know that this world's first programme designed to directly benefit climate displaced families funded entirely by ordinary people who want to make a difference is strong and growing. Top achieve our results we need your help, so please do consider making a donation and know that - as always - DS takes no funds for this project and does the work associated with it on a voluntary basis meaning that 100% of your contribution goes straight to the countries where the housing construction takes place. Please…...

It's Time for a Climate Displacement Levy!

Whether we like it or not, the truth is that the money needed to prevent and resolve climate displacement has not been forthcoming and is unlikely to be for a very long time, if ever. The UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change estimates that 1.6-3.8 trillion (1.6T-3.8T) will be needed each year to avoid warming of more than 1.5C.]In 2021, global GDP is just shy of 93T. In 2009 the world's wealthy nations committed to channel USD 100 billion (100B) to less wealthy countries annually to tackling climate change, but to date have fallen far short from this target. Some have alleged that the estimates of the funds that have been raised thus far are wildly exaggerated, and that even if 100B were provided each year that this would come nowhere near solving the climate crisis. While calculations vary widely from only slightly more than 10B in total to just short of 100B, the prevailing understanding is simply that "Trillions of dollars will be needed each year to meet the 2015 Paris agreement goal of restricting global warming to well-below 2C, if not 1.5C, above pre-industrial temperatures. A Climate Displacement Levy on the world's 2,800 billionaires at 1% of their respective fortunes…...

Model Constitutional Article on the Right to Adequate Housing

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Longtime DS collaborator and photojournalist extraordinaire Kadir van Lohuizen of NOOR Images has just released his latest beautiful photo collection, After Us The Deluge. This incredible book captures the uniquely presented images of climate change the world over using Kadir's insightful eyes as a frontline guide to the horrors of climate change already devastating ever growing portions of our vulnerable planet. DS has had the great honour of working with Kadir in climate devastated parts of Bangladesh, along the eastern coastlines of Panama where the Guna people are already moving to new homes because of climate change, in Kiribati and beyond. After Us The Deluge contains chapters by a series of authors accompanied by Kadir's award winning pictures from Greenland, the United States, Bangladesh, Panama, the Carteret Islands, Fiji, his home country of the Netherlands and many other parts of the globe that are very much living through the beginnings of the ravages of ever-worsening climate change, something hinted at in the title of this masterpiece. DS invites everyone who cares about climate change and those who wish to learn more get a copy of Kadir's book and then as our initials say - Do Something - to become part of…...