Peru
Climate change impacts
It takes only 44 days for the average Canadian to produce as much greenhouse gases as the average Peruvian will produce over the course of the entire year. Therefore, February 13th (44 days into the year) is "Climate Change Impacts in Peru Day."
Due to climate change, Peru can expect an increase in average temperature. It is likely that this will result in the disappearance of the country’s glaciers, which will lead to losses of water supply and energy supply for a large portion of Peru’s population.
Peru will also suffer from an increase in extreme weather events, such as episodes of extreme cold with frost and hail, called friaje. Though the friaje is not new, highland dwellers believe it is getting more frequent, abrupt and extreme, and now comes without warning.
For more information about these climate change impacts, see the section on Peru in the Friends of the Earth International report, “Climate Change: Voices from communities affected by climate change”.
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"Climate change is affecting farmers in rural Peru right now, in the highland regions of Cusco and Piura. The Citizen’s Movement Against Climate Change (MOCICC), a Peruvian coalition including Oxfam, recently gathered testimonies from farmers directly affected by climate change."
"Cirilo Quispe Latorre, mayor and resident of the district of Cachimayo. 'Eighty percent of the farmland is seasonal. In other words, if there is rain, we plant. If there isn’t enough rain, we can’t keep planting. I’m a native of this region. When I was a child, there was quite a lot of water in this region.'"
Visit Oxfam's site to continue reading about how farmers in Peru are being impacted by climate change.
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