Sandner, Thomas2019-09-252019-09-252010-03-032009-12http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12424/174007Climate change hits poor and marginalised people. “The sun is coming nearer every day! The river is dry and we are desperately searching for water. What is going wrong? What can we do? My livestock is dying and I am losing my livelihood”, says Abraham, an old pastoralist from Ethiopia. The world cannot deny any longer that climate change has become a reality and that it is in particular the poor people in tropical and subtropical countries as well as on low lying atolls of the Global South who are experiencing the adverse impacts of climate change. To them who themselves have minimal CO2 emissions and who have probably never heard about “greenhouse gases”, climate change comes as a dangerous threat to their lives and livelihoods.engWith permission of the license/copyright holderpovertynutritioneconomic justicejustice, socialclimate changehuman dignitysustainable developmenthuman rightsPolitical ethicsEnvironmental ethicsArticle