This is the statement on climate change that has been drafted by a coalition of some 42 NGOs in Morocco, consensually agreed upon over a series of roundtable discussions held around the country in September and November. The statement has been named "Ourikaßs Call" to commemorate the victims of an incredibly violent storm that decimated a rural village near to Marrakesh in 1995, killing a number of people and making many more homeless.
A summary of weather news stories from around the world in another record breaking year for climate change.
A YEAR OF CLIMATE CHANGE
JANUARY
2000 WAS A RECORD YEAR FOR NATURAL DISASTERS
The world's largest insurer Munich Re announced that 2000 was another record year for natural disasters. A series of devastating forest fires in the United States caused losses of more than $1 billion. Dry weather and drought in Europe caused losses of more than $300 million when a severe heat wave in May and June 2000 destroyed crops in southeast Europe (Reuters December 29, 2000).
CARBON TRADING IS CONTRARY TO SOCIAL JUSTICE
THE LARGEST RESOURCE GRAB IN HISTORY
You can't trade in something unless you own it. When governments and companies "trade" in carbon, they establish de facto property rights over the atmosphere; a commonly held global commons. At no point have these atmospheric property rights been discussed or negotiated - their ownership is established by stealth with every carbon trade.
Jutta Kill from Fern
email jutta@gn.apc.org or see www.fern.org
Climate Change recognized as a problem by governments. This led to UN Framework Convention on Climate Change 1992. Aim was to stabilize emissions of greenhouse gases.
Governments realised that the convention alone, without binding targets was unable to achieve that goal. After years of negotiations, governments adopted the Kyoto Protocol in 1997, which set out to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in over-developed (=industrialised) countries by 5.2% (compared to 1990 emission levels).
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THE INCLUSION OF SINKS HAS SUNK THE KYOTO PROTOCOL
World Rainforest Movement
Statement by Indigenous Peoples
Statement on Bonn
WHY THE KYOTO PROTOCOL IS PANTS
George Marshall 27th July, 2001
We hear a lot about how great the Kyoto Protocol is- and how desperately important it is that the Protocol is implemented. Here's the real arguments why it's important and why it's pants.
THE KYOTO PROTOCOL IS IMPORTANT BECAUSE....
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