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With more than 440 participants from 36 countries of Africa, Asia, Europe, North America and the Caribbean, assembled for the 5th IIPT African Conference: Meeting the Challenges of Climate Change \u00a0to Tourism in Africa and the Developing World, at the Hotel Inter-Continental, Lusaka, Zambia, May 15 to 20, 2011, in support of the U.N. Millennium Development Goals.<\/p>\n

Considering:
\nWorld population has increased from 1.6 billion in 1900, to 6.0 billion in 2000, and will reach 9 billion by 2050, with 90% of 21st century growth in developing countries.
\nThat growth in population, global consumption and the global economy has stressed the earth\u2019s ecological systems and depleted much of the world\u2019s natural resources.<\/p>\n

It now takes the Earth one year and six months to regenerate what our world population consumes in one year resulting in collapsing fisheries, depleting forests, species extinction, water shortages, and crop failures \u2013 all with disproportionate impacts on the poor regions of the world.<\/p>\n

U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has stated that \u201cClimate change is the pre-eminent geopolitical and economic issue of the 21st century. It rewrites the global equation for development, peace and prosperity.\u201d<\/p>\n

Acknowledging:<\/strong>
\nThe year 2010 ranked as the warmest on record, together with 1998 and 2005; the 10 warmest years on record have all occurred since 1998; Arctic sea-ice cover in December 2010 was the lowest on record; and a growing number of extreme weather events have occurred in regions throughout the world in the past 2 years.<\/p>\n

African and other developing countries are least responsible for climate change, yet are particularly vulnerable to the effects, including reduced agricultural production, threats to food security, both drought and flooding, sea level rise, coastal erosion, coral bleaching, deforestation, loss of wildlife, reduced fresh water availability, spread of malaria and other disease, and increased risk of conflict over scarce land and water resources.<\/p>\n

Climate change and the combined stresses on ecological systems can hinder progress made on reducing poverty and the UN Millennium Development goals.<\/p>\n