About us
Mission
As the United Nations curently has no status for those who are Environmental Refugees, also known as Climate Refugees, our first goal is to inform as many people about this dire situation and to provide support for their recognition as a refugee population.
Secondly, we are committed to putting together an action plan for the most vulnerable residents on the most threatened islands. This action plan will be focused on long term solutions for relocating families who have lost their homes and way of life due to the impact of global climate change. While some countries have assisted in relocation, such as Papua New Guinea and New Zealand, the growing costs will soon become too much for individual countries to absorb.
This will be an historic effort, taking years and a concerted effort by the industrialized nations to prevent the potentially deadly outcome of Environmental Genocide.
Funding will be sought through both public grants through intergovernmental agencies, foundations and trusts, and through private donors.
Staff
Sarah and Wade Norris are co-founders of PRAER.
About Sarah and Wade
Sarah is the political director for the local branch of the fastest growing labor union in the United States. She has a degree in film studies and is currently working on a documentary on poverty and global solutions.
Wade is involved in political action related to local and national U.S. Politics. He is a graduate of Divinity School and has a radio talk and internet news show which focuses on politics and environmental solutions. You see past interviews at these two sites:
UP News and the most recent videos here:
UltimatePolitics
Board of Directors
Faren Fleming
Roberta Lonsdale is a business consultant and also is the serving secretary of PRAER.
Negin Sobhani - is an Iranian American who has wroked for the U.N. in Iran, and works on refugee cases from various regions, such as Darfur, Sudan.
About Negin
Doug Vilsack is an Environmental lawyer and activist. He has worked in Ecuador alongside Ecuadorian lawyer Pablo Fajardo for the lawsuit against Chevron and has seen first hand the toxic environment left behind by the oil extraction process.
About Doug
Contact:
email ultimatepolitics@hotmail.com
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To Contribute:
Donations can be made out and sent to:
PRAER
PO Box 19521
Denver, Colorado
80219
USA
or Donate online here:
You will be redirected to my email address at praer@live.com Thanks!