Mobilise all over the world:Thousands of Cancuns for climate justice!
Thousands of women and men, people affected by the destruction of the environment, farmers, landless, Indigenous Peoples and activists from all sectors of society will gather in Cancun to propose thousands of solutions to confront climate change. They will show the world leaders their opposition to the false solutions to climate chaos discussed by the UNFCCC, such as market-based proposals on carbon trading and REDD, agrofuels and geo-engineering.
Meanwhile, echoing the Via Campesina call for thousands of Cancun, we call on social movements, popular organisations and all people of the world to amplify the resistence in Cancun and to organise thousands of protests and actions to reject false solutions and to support a people’s agenda for climate justice. We declare ourselves in permanent mobilisation during the UNFCCC conference and especially on December 7, the date of the mass farmers protest in Cancun and International Day of Action "Thousands of Cancuns".
Wherever your are: Join us!
Mobilisations can take many shapes: direct actions, parties, markets, festivals, discussions or exhibitions.... They can take place in any city, village, school or community.
Sunday, November 28, 2010
Saturday, November 27, 2010
The Club of Rome 2005 "All you need is Love"
Over the past two years, Mr Blair, the British Prime Minister, has consistently claimed global leadership in tackling what he described as "long term, the single most important issue we face as a global community", which he stressed "can only properly be addressed through international agreements". In mid-September 2005, sharing a platform with US Secretary of State, Condoleeza Rice, at the meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative in New York, he confessed "Probably I'm changing my thinking about this", adding that he "hoped the world's nations would not negotiate international treaties". He justified his volte-face, which reversed the commitments he had initiated at the G8 Summit last July, and effectively pulled the carpet from beneath the IPCC Kyoto meeting currently taking place in Montreal, by saying that "countries would not negotiate environmental treaties that cut their growth or consumption."
Early this morning I received an urgent e-mail form Peter Wadhams, the professor of Oceanography at Cambridge University who has been responsible for monitoring the thinning of Arctic ice and the reduction of the drivers of the thermo-haline conveyor system which powers the Gulf Stream. He drew my attention to an article published three days ago in Nature, which indicated that rising concentration of atmospheric CO2 is leading to increased acidity of ocean surface water. Within decades this will reach levels that will start to dissolve the calcium-carbonate-based shells of plankton, so putting in jeopardy a major element at the very base of the ocean food-chain.
C. I think this is fiction...
Early this morning I received an urgent e-mail form Peter Wadhams, the professor of Oceanography at Cambridge University who has been responsible for monitoring the thinning of Arctic ice and the reduction of the drivers of the thermo-haline conveyor system which powers the Gulf Stream. He drew my attention to an article published three days ago in Nature, which indicated that rising concentration of atmospheric CO2 is leading to increased acidity of ocean surface water. Within decades this will reach levels that will start to dissolve the calcium-carbonate-based shells of plankton, so putting in jeopardy a major element at the very base of the ocean food-chain.
C. I think this is fiction...
IPCC Official: “Climate Policy Is Redistributing The World's Wealth”
IPCC Official: “Climate Policy Is Redistributing The World's Wealth”
Climate policy has almost nothing to do anymore with environmental protection, says the German economist and IPCC official Ottmar Edenhofer. The next world climate summit in Cancun is actually an economy summit during which the distribution of the world's resources will be negotiated.
Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 14 November 2010
Interview: Bernard Potter
NZZ am Sonntag: Mr. Edenhofer, everybody concerned with climate protection demands emissions reductions. You now speak of "dangerous emissions reduction." What do you mean?
Ottmar Edenhofer: So far economic growth has gone hand in hand with the growth of greenhouse gas emissions. One percent growth means one percent more emissions. The historic memory of mankind remembers: In order to get rich one has to burn coal, oil or gas. And therefore, the emerging economies fear CO2 emission limits.
But everybody should take part in climate protection, otherwise it does not work.
That is so easy to say. But particularly the industrialized countries have a system that relies almost exclusively on fossil fuels. There is no historical precedent and no region in the world that has decoupled its economic growth from emissions. Thus, you cannot expect that India or China will regard CO2 emissions reduction as a great idea. And it gets worse: We are in the midst of a renaissance of coal, because oil and gas (sic) have become more expensive, but coal has not. The
Climate policy has almost nothing to do anymore with environmental protection, says the German economist and IPCC official Ottmar Edenhofer. The next world climate summit in Cancun is actually an economy summit during which the distribution of the world's resources will be negotiated.
Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 14 November 2010
Interview: Bernard Potter
NZZ am Sonntag: Mr. Edenhofer, everybody concerned with climate protection demands emissions reductions. You now speak of "dangerous emissions reduction." What do you mean?
Ottmar Edenhofer: So far economic growth has gone hand in hand with the growth of greenhouse gas emissions. One percent growth means one percent more emissions. The historic memory of mankind remembers: In order to get rich one has to burn coal, oil or gas. And therefore, the emerging economies fear CO2 emission limits.
But everybody should take part in climate protection, otherwise it does not work.
That is so easy to say. But particularly the industrialized countries have a system that relies almost exclusively on fossil fuels. There is no historical precedent and no region in the world that has decoupled its economic growth from emissions. Thus, you cannot expect that India or China will regard CO2 emissions reduction as a great idea. And it gets worse: We are in the midst of a renaissance of coal, because oil and gas (sic) have become more expensive, but coal has not. The
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More than 5,000 parishioners of 75 churches, religious organizations and faith groups will gather next Tuesday, November 30, in Cancun to pray for climate action at the United Nations climate conference.
This act, unprecedented in the city, will reunite catholics, christians, evangelical and jewish, who will congregate in the Plaza de la Reforma square to lift their prayers.
The prayer was announced at a press conference by religious leaders of more than 500 Cancun temples and the director of Religious Subjects of the City council of Benito Juárez, Hugo González Reyes.
The shepherd of the Presbyterian Church, Samuel May, emphasized that the prayer will be for the Mother Earth so that the man assumes his responsibility with her. Alexander Ramos Hernadez, one of the organizers of the event, revealed that two orations will be included in the prayer: the first for the Earth, and the second for the delegates of each of the 192 participant countries. Organizers will also try to encourage a peaceful atmosphere so that the necessary agreements can be reached during the 12 days of the conference.
Participants in the climate prayer are asked to wear white clothes and gather in the square located in front of the Municipal Palace at 5pm local time. The event is expected to extend up to 4 hours and will also include a performance by the children’s choir from the church Cristo Rey.
More than 5,000 parishioners of 75 churches, religious organizations and faith groups will gather next Tuesday, November 30, in Cancun to pray for climate action at the United Nations climate conference.
This act, unprecedented in the city, will reunite catholics, christians, evangelical and jewish, who will congregate in the Plaza de la Reforma square to lift their prayers.
The prayer was announced at a press conference by religious leaders of more than 500 Cancun temples and the director of Religious Subjects of the City council of Benito Juárez, Hugo González Reyes.
The shepherd of the Presbyterian Church, Samuel May, emphasized that the prayer will be for the Mother Earth so that the man assumes his responsibility with her. Alexander Ramos Hernadez, one of the organizers of the event, revealed that two orations will be included in the prayer: the first for the Earth, and the second for the delegates of each of the 192 participant countries. Organizers will also try to encourage a peaceful atmosphere so that the necessary agreements can be reached during the 12 days of the conference.
Participants in the climate prayer are asked to wear white clothes and gather in the square located in front of the Municipal Palace at 5pm local time. The event is expected to extend up to 4 hours and will also include a performance by the children’s choir from the church Cristo Rey.
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