we're also joined in sweden by tim gore of oxfam.aleemul huq in london, if you could talk about the effect of climate change on the least for stickingries with the theme of how this increases disparity in the world. as you just heard, poor countries have been hit hardest by the impacts of climate change. we are all ready seeing those impacts. there are groups of the poorest countries in the world called the least developed. mostly in sub-saharan africa, but also bingo --. they're recognized to be the most vulnerable. the obligation the rich world have taken on to support them, they have pledged funding but they have not met the pledges fully. that is one aspect. on the other hand, one of the new outcomes from the report is these countries aren't sitting idle. they are trying to adapt to these potential effects of climate change. for example in my country, bangladesh has a far-reaching climate change strategy, and action plan and the order of half $1 billion of their own money. at the same time, they're asking for international donors

well, we end up losing money selling that tim gore so-- timb to companies, as well.e have a backlog of road to be maintained. yet, this is essentially so we can sell timber at a loss. >> that's a subsidy -- that is a subsidy to the timber companies in which we are essentially picking up the cost to do their work for them on federal public land. that subsidy, the taxpayer pays for, and is transferred into the pockets of the timber companies. >> exactly. exactly. and probably the biggest western subsidy of all is really under the bureau of reclamation which is the water subsidies and the fact that we build these enormous water projects like the central valley project in california. that the whole purpose of the bureau of reclamation in 1902 when it was created was to make the desert bloom. to move people out west which a lot of subsidies are about trying to -- western expansion. hey, we got it. it's done. their people are there. but when you look at water, we've lost billions of dollars providing low-cost water, pennies on the dollar of what that water is worth. and yo

[tim dechristopher] i'm guided by most of our best scientists who are seeing this threat to our very civilization. [narrator] former vice president al gore won the nobel peace prize for his work on climate change. [al gore] the trajectory that we have been on is one that leads toward catastrophe. [mike noel] the chinese are building power plants. the indians in india are building power plants. we can't just crush our economy and take jobs out of our economy to meet a very minimal amount of increased climate in our country. [jayne belnap] the western u.s. is warming much more quickly than the rest of the country. in fact, the bull's eye is about on the four corners area of colorado, new mexico, utah and arizona. [senator bob bennett] i think we need to take time looking at the question of emissions and, if possible, do everything we can to cut down the emissions, but i'm not one who says it's inevitable that the climate is going to be destroyed in the next 50 to 100 years. [narrator] small towns of the west struggle with boom and bust economy. many search for an economic engine that will preserve a rural way of life. sigurd, utah, like a