COP 17 Durban – Information Sheet

downloadable pfd with basic cop17 relevant information for delegates and civil society. Fairly broad, and includes standard tourist infomation.

This ppt was presented at the Gandhi trust annual conference, focused on climate change. It details South Africa’s toxic legacy, inequitable energy access and polluting industries.

Gandhi Trust, Vishwas Satgar. ppt

The “shared vision for long-term cooperative action” in climate change negotiations should not be
reduced to defining the limit on temperature increases and the concentration of greenhouse gases in the
atmosphere, but must also incorporate in a balanced and integral manner measures regarding capacity
building, production and consumption patterns, and other essential factors such as the acknowledging of
the Rights of Mother Earth to establish harmony with nature.

– People’s Agreement, April 2010, Cochabamba

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This image, by the fantastic Vanessa and we’re using everywhere. Please distribute through your lists. Feel free to reproduce, but please credit the artist.

‘Keep the oil in the soil and the coal in the hole’. this message supporting supply side mitigation and against new and old frontiers in fossil fuel extraction is one all climate activists can get behind.

by Lim Li Lin

There are two main treaties governing global climate change action, the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), which was part of the package of environmental treaties that was adopted in Rio in 1992 and entered into force in 1994, and the Kyoto Protocol (KP), which is linked to the UNFCCC and was adopted in 1997. The KP entered into force in 2005.

An important point about these treaties is that they are multilateral treaties under the UN. Under these two treaties there are two subsidiary bodies: the Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI) and the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA). These two bodies support the KP and the UNFCCC. continue reading…

The failure of Durban’s COP17 – a veritable “Conference of Polluters” – is certain, but the nuance and spin are also important. Binding emissions-cut commitments under the Kyoto Protocol are impossible given Washington’s push for an alternate architecture that is also built upon sand. The devils in the details over climate finance and technology include an extension of private-sector profit-making opportunities at public expense, plus bizarre new technologies that threaten planetary safety. continue reading…