[Imc-climate-organising] Proposed: Industrialised World Intransigence on CO2 emissions dooms Climate Negotiations
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Sat Nov 7 14:23:55 PST 2009
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On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 11:15 PM, takver <veracity at takver.com> wrote:
> Fun Peace proposed an Indymedia Ireland story as the basis for a
> feature. I have subsequently worked up this article as a feature proposal.
>
> Takver
> one of Climate IMC, Australia IMC, www-features
>
>
> Heading:
> <a href="http://barcelona.indymedia.org/">Barcelona</a>:
> <a href="http://climateimc.org/">Climate Change</a>
>
> Main Title:
> Industrialised World Intransigence on CO2 emissions dooms Climate
> Negotiations
>
> ===Abstract =====
> <p>
> Africa abandons Barcelona's pre COP15 climate talks - Anger in the
> streets at rich nations inaction. Copenhagen Climate Treaty appears
> doomed - delays likely. Delay is not an option, delay kills.
> <p>
> This week (Nov 2 - 6) the Barcelona International Climate Change Talks
> are happening, five days of formal negotiations, in the lead up to COP
> 15 in Copenhagen in December 2009. Already Barcelona has seen a
> Manifestation in Barcelona streets - "The climate is not for sale" (<a
> href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnvp5lPWP2E">Youtube vid</a> | <a
> href="
> http://elclimanoestaenvenda.wordpress.com/2009/11/01/mes-de-4-000-persones-reclamen-al-carrer-mesures-urgents-i-drastiques-per-a-salvar-el-clima/
> ">report</a>),
> Outdoor film screening in city streets of <a
> href="http://www.ageofstupid.net/">Age of Stupid</a>, <a
> href="http://tcktcktck.org/stories/campaign-stories/waking-barcelona
> ">TckTckTck
> wake up call for climate talks</a>, Greenpeace banner drop (<a
> href="
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQNR1_Tu-Kw&feature=player_embedded
> ">Youtube</a>),
> <a
> href="http://barcelona.indymedia.org/newswire/display/385006/index.php
> ">Anarchist
> night greeting</a>, Africa boycott U.N. climate talks (<a
> href="
> http://www.grist.org/article/africa-walks-out-on-kyoto-talks-in-barcelona-citing-lack-of-commitment-from/
> ">Grist
> report</a>), <a
> href="
> http://elclimanoestaenvenda.wordpress.com/2009/11/04/activistes-descrobreixen-les-reunions-no-oficials-entre-el-lobby-hidroelectric-i-les-delegacions-oficials-de-diversos-paisos/
> ">Evening
> Water Lobby group targeted</a>, and the <a
> href="
> http://translate.google.es/translate?prev=hp&hl=es&js=y&u=http%3A%2F%2Fbarcelona.indymedia.org%2Fnewswire%2Fdisplay_any%2F385098&sl=ca&tl=en&history_state0=
> ">Main
> entrance shut down by activists</a>.
> <p>
> Conservation organisations have warned that the <a
> href="http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/10/30/18627188.php">Copenhagen
> climate treaty threatens to subsidise the destruction of the world's
> remaining rainforests</a> instead of financing their protection. In
> Indonesia Greenpeace established a <a
> href="
> http://climateimc.org/en/original-news/2009/11/03/climate-defenders-camp-established-preserve-indonesian-rainforest-peatlands
> ">Climate
> Defenders Camp to preserve Rainforest peatlands</a>. On October 24, 2009
> people in 181 countries came together through <a
> href="http://350.org">350.org</a> calling for carbon emissions to be
> capped at 350ppm. It was the most widespread day of environmental action
> in the planet's history, at over 5200 events around the world, many of
> them reported on the Indymedia Network. (<a
> href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/350org/sets/">Photos</a>)
> <p>
> See also: <a href="http://barcelona.indymedia.org/">Barcelona IMC</a> |
> <a href="http://www.indymedia.ie/article/94647">Indymedia Ireland</a> |
> <a href="http://climateimc.org/">Climate IMC</a>
>
>
> ===Main Article ===
>
> <p>
> Scientific studies have assessed the safe level in parts per million
> (ppm) of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere as 350ppm. "If humanity wishes
> to preserve a planet similar to that on which civilization developed and
> to which life on Earth is adapted, paleoclimate evidence and ongoing
> climate change suggest that CO2 will need to be reduced from its current
> 385 ppm to at most 350 ppm" This finding is based on the work of James
> Hansen and his team in a paper titled "<a
> href="http://arxiv.org/abs/0804.1126 ">Target Atmospheric CO2: Where
> Should Humanity Aim.</a>".
> <p>
> The 2007 International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report talks about
> the developed economies needing to reduce emissions 25 to 40% below 1990
> levels to have a reasonable chance of holding warming to 2 degrees
> Celsius. Scientists in March 2009 called for <a
> href="
> http://sydney.indymedia.org.au/story/scientists-rapid-sustained-effective-action-required-avoid-dangerous-climate-change
> ">Rapid
> Sustained Effective Action required to avoid Dangerous Climate Change</a>.
> <p>
> According to Climate policy analyst and author David Spratt "In Bali two
> years ago, the European Union proposed a framework that included global
> emissions peaking in 10-15 years and for developed countries to achieve
> emissions levels 20-40% below 1990 levels by 2020. The United States,
> supported by Australia and others, strongly opposed this. In a flood of
> tears and acrimony, the final Bali session sat through the night to
> produce a compromise that mandates 'deep cuts in global emissions', with
> footnote references to the 2007 IPCC report." (Climate Code Red: <a
> href="
> http://climatecodered.blogspot.com/2009/11/copenhagen-reality-check-25-by-2020.html
> ">Copenhagen
> reality check: 25% by 2020 isn't in the ball park</a>)
> <p>
> Pratt says that "The research tells us that a 2-degree warming will
> initiate large climate feedbacks on land and in the oceans, on sea-ice
> and mountain glaciers and on the tundra, taking the Earth well past
> significant tipping points."
> <p>
> "Likely impacts include large-scale disintegration of the Greenland and
> West Antarctic ice-sheets; sea- level rises; the extinction of an
> estimated 15 to 40 per cent of plant and animal species; dangerous ocean
> acidification and widespread drought, desertification and malnutrition
> in Africa, Australia, Mediterranean Europe, and the western USA." said
> Pratt on his blog.
> <p>
> <a
> href="
> http://sydney.indymedia.org.au/story/scientists-confirm-rising-sea-levels-may-exceed-one-metre-century
> ">Sea
> Level is forecast to rise by 1 metre or more</a> this century. Damien
> Lawson from Friends of the Earth Australia pointed out that research
> examining the paleoclimate record shows sea level rises of 3 metres in
> 50 years due to the rapid melting of ice sheets 120,000 years ago. "We
> need to take off the rose coloured glasses. Our planning for cuts to
> carbon pollution and dealing with sea level rise should be based on the
> worst case scenarios, not the best." he said (<a
> href="
> http://climateimc.org/en/original-news/2009/10/28/australia-impacts-rising-sea-level-wake-call-climate-change
> ">Australia:
> Impacts of Rising Sea Level a wake up call on Climate Change</a>)
> <p>
> The Industrialised countries of North America, Europe, Australia and
> Asia Pacific (Annexe 1 Countries) have ground negotiations to a halt in
> Barcelona by failing to agree to their new targets under the Kyoto
> Protocol, according to the Group of 77 comprised mainly of African
> nations plus China. The African delegates boycotted talks until rich
> countries say how much they will reduce their carbon.
> <p>
> Kamese Geoffrey of NAPE/Friends of the Earth Uganda warned, "Rich
> countries are attempting to dodge their legal and moral responsibilities
> to reduce emissions. Developing countries and communities have
> historically had practically no fault in the creation of climate change,
> yet they will be the first to face the devastating impacts of climate
> change." according to a <a
> href="
> http://www.grist.org/article/rich-countries-halt-barcelona-climate-talks-with-inaction-africa-walks-out/
> ">report
> on Grist</a>.
> <p>
> The chief negotiator for the European Commission has announced in
> Barcelona that the failure of the U.S. Congress to pass legislation
> before December has doomed the chances for success in Copenhagen. Europe
> now expects that a binding climate treaty may take a year or more to
> achieve, while industrialised nations continue dithering on emission
> reductions and propose insufficient emission reduction targets of 5-20%
> by 2020 when scienists say 40% or more targets are required. (Grist - <a
> href="
> http://www.grist.org/article/europe-places-outcome-of-copenhagen-squarely-on-obama/
> ">Europe
> places outcome of Copenhagen squarely on Obama</a>)
> <p>
> Friends of the Earth has called called on President Obama to earn the
> Nobel Prize he was given for his efforts to strengthen international
> diplomacy. "Change we can believe in isn't a continuation of Bush era
> climate policy," said Kate Horner, policy analyst at Friends of the
> Earth U.S. "To earn his Nobel, President Obama must put an end to this
> isolationist nonsense and commit to acting cooperatively to solve the
> climate crisis."
> <p>
> Antje von Broock, climate campaigner at Friends of the Earth Germany
> said "The rest of the world seems to be suffering from a severe case of
> amnesia, forgetting that we have once already allowed the United States
> to severely weaken international climate agreements," referring to the
> policy positions taken by the United States during the negotiations to
> establish the Kyoto Protocol in 1997. "The European Union must not fall
> into the same trap again." she said in a <a
> href="
> http://climateimc.org/en/press-releases/2009/11/04/friends-earth-international-calls-president-obama-earn-his-nobel
> ">FOE
> media release</a>.
>
>
>
> ====END====
> --
> Takver
> “The world is upheld by the VERACITY of good men [and women]: they make
> the earth wholesome. They who lived with them found life glad and
> nutritious. Life is sweet and tolerable only in our belief in such
> society.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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