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Rajen Awotar, of Mauritius and Coordinator of Southern African CAN, speaks about challenges to addressing climate change at the CAN Southern CSOs Pre-COP16 prep meeting.
7 September 2010, Mexico City
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Participants in the CAN Southern Civil Society pre-COP16 Prep meeting discuss threats to developing countries related to climate change in a breakout group.
7 September 2010, Mexico City
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Participants in the CAN Southern Civil Society pre-COP16 Prep meeting discuss threats to developing countries related to climate change in a breakout group.
7 September 2010, Mexico City
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CAN-International Executive Director David Turnbull speaks with OneWorld about the Bonn climate talks in June 2010.
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[Bonn, Germany] THE CAN INTERNATIONAL PRESS BRIEFING WILL TAKE PLACE TODAY AT 14h30 CET. (Immediately following the EU's closing press conference.)
**Please note that this time represents a correction from what is shown in the Press Briefing Schedule and Daily Schedule on the UNFCCC website**
You can view the press briefing live by following this link:
http://unfccc2.meta-fusion.com/kongresse/100802_AWG/templ/ovw_live.php?id_kongressmain=122
Speakers will include:
Moderator: Vanessa Bulkacz, CAN Europe
What: Live webcast previewing the August Bonn climate talks.
Where: UNFCCC On-line Newsroom, see link above
Climate Action Network (CAN) is a global network of over 500 non-governmental organizations working to promote government and individual action to limit human-induced climate change to ecologically sustainable levels. For more information:
Media contacts:
Vanessa Bulkacz, CAN Europe Communications Manager:
+32 494 525 738, mailto:Vanessa@climnet.orgVanessa@climnet.org
Rachel Baird, Christian Aid Media Officer
+44 207 523 2446, mailto:RBaird@christian-aid.orgRBaird@christian-aid.org
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Kyoto Protocol: Closing Plenary
CAN intervention
6th August 2010
Distinguished Delegates,
Tuesday's workshop left no doubt that we are on the way to exceeding the dangerous
threshold of 1.5 degrees if current Annex B pledges become their commitments for the
second period and current loopholes remain.
The projected abatement shortfall is between 7 and 10 Gigatonnes.
If you want to come to a global agreement to avoid dangerous climate change, you will
take any opportunity close this gap.
We hear a lot in this working group about the importance of the other track. To the
Annex B parties assembled here our message is simple. If you wish to secure progress in
the LCA track in December, you must act here. You must commit to the second
commitment period of this hard-won Protocol. You must indicate before the next
negotiating session, your intention to do so. The effect this has on both tracks in these
negotiations will be worth it.
Only by doing so will the other outcomes you seek so intensely, and which the global
community at large seeks to intensely, be achieved.
The Kyoto Protocol is crucial to the world's efforts to successfully limit climate change.
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Distinguished Delegates, today I speak on behalf of the Climate Action Network.
My name is Raju Chetri. I am from Nepal, and the future of my family and my people depends on the success of these negotiations. Yet I have only one minute to tell you what civil society wants from the LCA track.
The emissions reduction pledges made by many of you before and since Copenhagen, if met, would raise global average temperatures by above three degrees.
What would be the impact of that be on a vulnerable country like Nepal?
How can we survive that impact, when attempts by vulnerable countries to create an insurance mechanism to shield us from disaster have been blocked?
But we are not the only ones that will suffer from climate change. When your grandkids come and ask you where you were, when the future of the planet was decided, could you honestly say you were pushing as hard as you could - to get this issue resolved as soon as possible?
We have had enough of your time-wasting. You know what you need to do this year. Cut pollution so that global emissions peak by 2015. Provide the support that we need to cope with the problem you are exacerbating. Make the decision in Cancun. Do this, and give us back our future.
Thank you.
