More than 333 million people worldwide are at acute risk of starvation! It is precisely this drama that Upper Austrian Gernot Laganda, who works for the World Food Program WFP, is trying to bring to the more than 100,000 (!) participants at the World Climate Conference in Dubai.
“The number of those who barely have enough food to survive has doubled in recent years. Our aid deliveries are often the last straw in saving women and children, but also men, from death,” says Laganda in an interview with the “Krone”. The 51-year-old top expert from Schörfling am Attersee – he is head of the WFP’s “Climate and Disaster Risk Reduction Taskforce” based in Rome – tries tirelessly to alleviate disasters with his 20,000 employees, who are even on aid missions in Afghanistan and the Sahel region .12 million euros from Austria What is very clear to this idealist: climate change with all its dramatic effects (devastating floods, droughts, etc.) is fueling suffering more and more. Laganda recently received a commitment of twelve million euros from Austria and from Eco Minister Leonore Gewessler, who is negotiating in Dubai to the point of exhaustion, at COP 28! The courageous humanitarian wants to invest these and other international aid commitments primarily in meteorological early warning systems. Protect before disaster occurs. His approach: “Before the floods rain down on people, intervene with evacuations or other preventative measures.” This aid is more efficient and helps To use the financial resources that are never sufficient anyway more efficiently and sensibly, even before the catastrophe occurs. Motto: Protect beforehand so you don’t have to save afterwards.Already more than 100,000 participantsThe number of delegates is now increasing almost immeasurably. More and more participants are arriving. More than 100,000 participants are already milling about in and around the area, producing hot air. Striking: The global agricultural and food companies (Bayer, Nestlé, etc.) have sent a record number of hundreds of lobbyists.
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