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The objective of the cartoon contest is to support advocacy that bring people to the centre of climate change and human development debates. The contest encourages people from Asia-Pacific developing countries to portray issues of concern related to climate change in the region from a people’s perspective.
Contest Theme:
Climate Change in Asia-Pacific – A People’s Perspective
“The basic purpose of development is to enlarge people’s choices…to create an enabling environment for people to enjoy long, healthy and creative lives.”
Mahbub ul Haq (1934-1998)
Founder of the Human Development Report
Human development is about expanding people’s opportunities, freedoms, and choices to live the lives that they value. Climate change presents a major development challenge to sustainable livelihoods as it threatens to undermine international, national, and community efforts to combat poverty, and exacerbates already existing inequalities between and within countries. Some of the most vulnerable groups are islanders, slum communities, mountain dwellers, delta inhabitants, women and children… Read more
