legislators in this parliament at the end of the twenty first century will judge us here today on how successful we were in simultaneously addressing climate change and reducing poverty while the majority of the focus of the copenhagen climate negotiations will be on getting the developed countries to commit to ambitious binding emissions reduction targets let us not forget that we too have to adapt to climate change and play our role in mitigating it it must be noted that seventy five percent to eighty percent of the costs of the damage from climate change will be carried by the developing world climate change will most acutely be felt in africa where ninety five percent of agriculture is rainfall dependent the other likely effects including the higher incidents and frequency of extreme weather events will be equally devastating i_letter trust therefore that everyone in this house will take climate change seriously