Africa: Climate Change Victims Need Help to Adapt or Move On, Archbishop Makgoba Says

People suffering from the catastrophic effects of climate change need help to adapt or - where the effects are so significant that adaption is not a possibility - they need help to move on, the Archbishop of Cape Town, Thabo Makgoba said.

The Primate of Southern Africa made his comments in a statement issued on the eve of the UN climate change talks in Paris - COP 21 - by the Act-Alliance, a global network of 140 churches and faith-based organisations working together in over 140 countries "to create positive and sustainable change in the lives of poor and marginalised people regardless of their religion, politics, gender, sexual orientation, race or nationality."

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