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Jan - Feb 2010
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COP-15 was a failure waiting to happen.
Hardly any of the disagreements between countries on major issues that the two-year Bali Roadmap intended to resolve were bridged, in time to conclude with a full set of agreements in Copenhagen. Coming into the summit, almost everyone knew that a final deal could not be reached. As the deadline closed in, leaders downgraded expectations for the summit’s presumed outcome to a “political agreement”, something that can at least provide a framework for details to be filled in as negotiations extend for another six to twelve months. This, despite the science pointing to the need for urgent and drastic action, particularly as emissions continue to climb and as changes in the climate continue to overshoot earlier projections.
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Jan - Feb 2010
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It has to be the least satisfying ‘I told you so’ in history.
Climate justice activists across the world had been predicting a shambolic outcome from COP15 all year. To actually see the desperate, miserable affair being played out, however, was another matter entirely. To see wealthy governments squirming out of their climate commitments whilst blaming the rest of the world for their failure to act; to see representatives of small and impoverished nations bullied and derided for daring to suggest that their countries might be better off above the oceans, with fertile soils and drinkable water; to see dissenting voices locked out and marginalized while the self-selected powers-that-be met behind closed doors to carve up the future; to see a final ‘agreement’ so weak and meaningless that negotiators may as well have spent the week go-carting instead; there’s no triumph to be had in any of this. The fact that we saw it coming doesn’t make it any less of a disaster.
But the COP15 summit wasn’t
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Jan - Feb 2010
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From 7-18 December 2009, the 15th Conference of the Parties (COP 15) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) was held in Copenhagen, Denmark. In this event, 192 nations with 115 heads of government gathered to work on a framework for climate change mitigation beyond 2012.
But the COP 15 collapsed after 11 days of negotiations as it concluded without reaching concrete agreements on the Kyoto Protocol and on how countries especially in the North will respond to the climate crisis.
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July - Aug 2009
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Nairobi, Kenya, 30 August 2009
We, the leaders of various people’s movements, community based groups, academia, NGOs and civil society organizations meeting in Nairobi under the banner of Peoples Movement on Climate Change (PMCC) to discuss strategies to confront the Climate Change Crisis for Copenhagen and beyond from 27 to 28 August 2009,
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Jan - Feb 2009
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CAPE TOWN, Jan 19 (IPS) - Climate change will have a significant impact on southern Africa’s already compromised food security, environmental experts warned at the fifth Alexander von Humboldt International Conference at the University of Cape Town (UCT) in South Africa.
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