Climate Change - a shared responsibility Climate change is unequivocal and is identified as the most seious threat facing humanity today, including developing and developed countries. If there is one issue that strikes at the heart of the entire humanity, it is the climate variability. According to scientists, a rise of at least two metres in the world’s sea levels is now almost unstoppable. Remember Maldive islands.... Since 80% of its 1,200 islands are no more than 1m above sea level, within 100 years the Maldives could become uninhabitable. The entire populations of nearly 360,000 need to be evacuated and relocated. The impact of climate change on human and natural systems poses a severe challenge to reducing poverty and spreading of diseases. This is evident now from looking at recent images in newspapers worldwide - heavy flood in Manila and choking of Sydney by dust storm, and observation of increases in global average air and ocean temperatures, widespread melting of snow and...