Passage: In a statement issued here Thursday, Oxfam appealed to the delegates attending the ongoing United Nations conference on climate change to save the lives of pastoral communities such as the Turkana of northern Kenya. "Governments meeting at the UN climate change conference in Nairobi only have to look to a few hundred miles north to see how climate change is having an immediate and devastating effect on people's lives," said Antonio Hill, senior policy adviser of Oxfam.
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