UN Haiti Rescue Mission
Helping to counteract the sense of 'helplessness' that images of climate impacts can produce, this striking photo tells a positive human story, in the face of adversity.
UN Photo
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WHAT IT SHOWS: Members of the Jordanian battalion of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) carry children through flood waters after a rescue from an orphanage destroyed by hurricane "Ike".
Photo by
UN Photo/Marco Dormino (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
Principles:
Climate change impacts are emotionally powerful
Show 'real people', not staged photo-ops
Show local (but serious) climate impacts