A BRENT MP will be speaking at a public meeting about climate change this week in Wembley.
Barry Gardiner, Brent North MP, is one of the speakers at a meeting called Food, Floods and Climate Change: Pakistan, Africa, Britain.
The meeting is being organized by Brent Campaign Against Climate Change.
The full list of speakers includes Councillor Jonathan Essex, from the Green Party and Glen Hart from the Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT).
Ken Montague, secretary of the Brent Campaign against Climate Change, said: “The return of devastating floods to the Sindh province of Pakistan may be further evidence that man-made climate change is already a life-threatening reality to millions of people around the world.
"The terrible drought in East Africa, floods in Thailand, the drought that has killed huge tracts of Amazonian rain forest, are the kind of extreme weather events that scientists predicted would occur with global warming.
"Although the poor in developing countries are bearing the main costs, droughts and floods in countries like Russia and Australia are pushing up food prices for us in Britain.
“This meeting will discuss the extent of the problem, what action Governments should take at the forthcoming climate talks in Durban, and what we can do to press for climate justice and future food security for ourselves and our children.”
It will be held on Thursday at Chalkhill Community Centre, in Wembley, at 7.30pm.
