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*Please find attached (in Eng & Esp) and below (Eng) the statement to
denounce corporate takeover of UN Climate Summit (Fr & It version also
available - please come back to me in this case)To endorse the statement,
please send the name of your organization to: espace...@gmail.com
<espace...@gmail.com> (If you would like to be included in the statement
to be released to the media, please send us your endorsement on or before
September 14, 2014)*
Thanks
Maxime Combes, Attac France:
--
Maxime COMBES
maxime...@gmail.com
+33 6 24 51 29 44
skype : maxime.combes
Twitter : MaximCombes
---
*We call upon all fellow social movements, peoples organizations and
environmental and climate justice movements to sign on this statement and
join us in this call to action.*
*On the 23rd of September, United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki Moon,
will host a Climate Summit in New York, bringing political leaders, big
business and a highly select few civil society representatives. The Summit
has been surrounded by a lot of fanfare but proposes voluntary pledges for
emission cuts, market-based and destructive public-private partnership
initiatives such as REDD+, Climate-Smart Agriculture and the Sustainable
Energy for All Initiative. These are all false solutions of the green
economy that seeks to further commodify life and nature and further
capitalist profit. The undersigned social movements that all together
represent more than 200 million people around the world, denounce this
corporate take over of the UN and the climate negotiations process and call
for a deep systemic change. Climate change is the result of an unjust
economic system and to deal with the crisis, we must address the root
causes and change the system. There will be no going back from the climate
chaos if we do not fight for real solutions and do nothing to confront and
challenge the inaction of our governments’ policy-making being hijacked by
polluting corporations. It is crucial for us to unify and strengthen our
economic, social and environmental struggles and focus our energies on
changing the capitalist system.*
*To sign on the statement, please send the name of your organization to: *
*espace...@gmail.com* <climat...@gmail.com>* If you would like to
be included in the statement to be released to the media, please send us
your endorsement on or before September 14, 2014. *
*September 19 – 23, New York:Mobilize and organize to Stop and Prevent
Planet Fever!*
When we, as human beings, get a fever, we immediately get worried and take
action. After all, we know that if our body temperature rises to 1.5ºC, let
alone 2ºC [3.6 ºF] above the normal average, there can be severe damage,
while an increase of 4-6ºC [7.2-10.8 ºF] or more can cause a comatose
situation and even death.
So it is, when planet Earth gets a fever. For the past 11,000 years, the
average temperature of the Earth has been around 14ºC [57.2ºF]. It is now
about to reach an increase of 1ºC. And, if we do not take appropriate
measures now to stop this fever from spreading, the forecast is that our
planet will be well on its way to anywhere between 2ºC to 6ºC rise in
temperature before the end of this century. Under such feverish conditions,
life as we know it will dramatically change on planet Earth.
We have no other recourse but to take action now. Not just any action but
the right action and at the right time. When, for example, a human person
has a fever, we urge them to rest their body, give them a lot of liquids,
prescribe the right medicine, and if the fever goes up we bring them to the
hospital and try to find the underlying cause of the fever, which can range
from a simple infection to life-threatening diseases like cancer.
*Right Prescriptions*
In the case of a planetary fever, the right prescription requires at least
10 actions to be undertaken and applied.
1. Make immediate binding commitments --- not voluntary pledges --- to
control planetary temperature rise to no more than 1.5ºC [2.7 ºF] this
century by reducing global greenhouse gas emissions per year to 38
Gigatons
by 2020.
2. Let the Earth rest by making binding commitments to leave more than
80% of known fossil fuel reserves under the soil and beneath the ocean
floor.
3. Move away from resource extractivism by placing bans on all new
exploration and exploitation of oil, bitumen sands, oil shale, coal,
uranium, and natural gas including pipeline infrastructure like Keystone
XL.
4. Accelerate the development and transition to renewable energy
alternatives such as wind, solar, geothermal and tidal power with more
public and community ownership and control.
5. Promote local production and consumption of durable goods to satisfy
the fundamental needs of the people and avoid the transport of goods that
can be produced locally.
6. Stimulate the transition from industrialized, export-oriented
agriculture for the global supermarket to community-based production to
meet local food needs based on food sovereignty.
7. Adopt and apply Zero Waste strategies for the recycling and disposal
of trash and the retrofitting of buildings to conserve energy for heating
and cooling.
8. Improve and expand public transportation for moving people and
freight within urban centres and between cities within urban regions
through efficient trains.
9. Develop new sectors of the economy designed to create new jobs that
restore the balance and equilibrium of the Earth system such as climate
jobs to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and Earth restoration jobs.
10. Dismantle the war industry and military infrastructure in order to
reduce greenhouse gas emissions generated by warfare, and divert war
budgets to promote genuine peace.
*Wrong Prescriptions*
At the same time, we must also be aware that all actions are not
appropriate actions and that some initiatives can worsen the situation.
Perhaps our most pressing challenge is the fact that big corporations are
capturing the climate agenda to make new businesses designed to take
advantage of the crises. In response, we need to send a message, loud and
clear, to corporations: ‘Stop Exploiting the Tragedy of Climate Change!’
More specifically, we need to resist the ‘greening of capital’ as the
solution by rejecting the following policies, strategies and measures:
- The commodification, financialization and privatization of the
functions of nature through the promotion of a false “green economy”
agenda
which places a price on nature and creates new derivative markets that
will
only increase inequality and expedite the destruction of nature.
- This means saying No to REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation
and forest Degradation) … No to Climate Smart Agriculture, Blue Carbon
and
Biodiversity offsetting --- all of which are designed to create new
for-profit business for corporations.
- Techno-fix “solutions” like geo-engineering, genetically modified
organisms, agrofuels, industrial bioenergy, synthetic biology,
nanotechnology, hydraulic fracking, nuclear projects, waste-to-energy
generation based on incineration, and others.
- Mega and unnecessary infrastructure projects that do not benefit the
population and are net contributors to greenhouse gasses like, mega dams,
excessively huge highways, stadiums for world cups, etc.
- Free trade and investment regimes that promote trade for profit and
undercut domestic labor, destroy nature, and substantially reduce the
capacity of nations to define their own economic, social and
environmental
priorities.
*Preventative Cure*
Finally, we also need to go beyond identifying right and wrong
prescriptions to naming the disease that constantly causes and drives this
planetary fever*. *If we don’t take this step, the fever will keep coming
back again and again in a much more aggressive way. We need to take stock
of the roots of the disease in order to weather the storm.
Scientists have clearly traced the problem of increasing greenhouse gas
emissions back to the industrial revolution 250 years ago while tracking
the spurt that has taken place during the past century. From this analysis,
it is clear that the industrial model of increased extraction and
productivism for the profit of a few is the prime cause of the problem. We
need to replace capitalism with a new system that seeks harmony between
humans and nature and not an endless growth model that the capitalist
system promotes in order to make more and more profit. We need a system
that links climate change and human rights and provides for the protection
of most vulnerable communities like migrants, and recognizes the rights of
Indigenous peoples.
Mother Earth and her natural resources cannot sustain the consumption and
production needs of this globalized modern industrialized society. We
require a new system that addresses the needs of the majority and not of
the few. To move in this direction, we need a redistribution of the wealth
that is now controlled by the 1%. In turn, this requires a new definition
of wellbeing and prosperity for all life on the planet under the limits and
in recognition of the rights of our Mother Earth and Nature.
We urgently need to organize and mobilize in September in New York and the
world to push for a process of transformation that can address the
structural causes that are driving the climate crisis.
Initial signatures:
*Alternatives International*
*ATTAC - France*
*Coordinadora Latinoamericana de Organizaciones del Campo – La Via
Campesina (CLOC-LVC)*
*Corporate Europe Observatory*
*Ecologistas en Acción*
*ETC Group*
*Fairwatch - Italy*
*Focus on the Global South*
*Fundación Solón - Bolivia*
*Global Campaign to Dismantle Corporate Power and end TNCs’ impunity*
*Global Forest Coalition *
*Grassroots Global Justice Alliance*
*Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF) - Nigeria*
*Indigenous Environmental Network*
*La Via Campesina*
*Migrants Rights International*
*No-REDD Africa Network*
*OilWatch International*
*Polaris Institute – Canada*
*SENTRO - Philippines*
*Thai Climate Justice Working Group (TCJ)*
*Transnational Institute*
*Asociacion Raxch' och' Oxlaju Aj (Tierra Verde 13 Aj) AROAJ AROAJ*
Norma Maldonado
Asociacion Raxch' och' Oxlaju Aj (Tierra Verde 13 Aj) AROAJ
Guatemala
VENTANA SOBRE LOS CICLOS
La gente, hecha de maiz, hace el maiz. La gente, creada de la carne y los
colores del maiz, cava una cuna para el maiz y lo cubre de buena tierra y
lo limpia de malas hierbas y lo riega y le habla palabras que lo quieren.
Y cuando el maiz esta crecido, la gente de maiz lo muele sobre la piedra y
lo alza y lo aplaude y lo acuesta al amor del fuego y se lo come, para que
en la gente de maiz siga el maiz caminando sin morir sobre la tierra.
Eduardo Galeano
--
The Post 2015 Women's Coalition listserv is a key communications platform
for feminist, women's and social justice organizations working on women's
rights and gender equality in the post 2015 sustainable development
framework.
Follow us on Twitter!
twitter.com/Post2015Women
Like us on Facebook!
facebook.com/post2015women
Visit our website for more information!
post2015women.com
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*Elina Doszhanova*
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From: 'Norma Maldonado' via Post_2015_Women's_Coalition <
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Date: Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 2:38 AM
Subject: [Post 2015 Women's Coalition] denounce corporate takeover of UN
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Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2014 12:47 AM
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denounce corporate takeover of UN Climate Summit (Fr & It version also
available - please come back to me in this case)To endorse the statement,
please send the name of your organization to: espace...@gmail.com
<espace...@gmail.com> (If you would like to be included in the statement
to be released to the media, please send us your endorsement on or before
September 14, 2014)*
Thanks
Maxime Combes, Attac France:
--
Maxime COMBES
maxime...@gmail.com
+33 6 24 51 29 44
skype : maxime.combes
Twitter : MaximCombes
---
*We call upon all fellow social movements, peoples organizations and
environmental and climate justice movements to sign on this statement and
join us in this call to action.*
*On the 23rd of September, United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki Moon,
will host a Climate Summit in New York, bringing political leaders, big
business and a highly select few civil society representatives. The Summit
has been surrounded by a lot of fanfare but proposes voluntary pledges for
emission cuts, market-based and destructive public-private partnership
initiatives such as REDD+, Climate-Smart Agriculture and the Sustainable
Energy for All Initiative. These are all false solutions of the green
economy that seeks to further commodify life and nature and further
capitalist profit. The undersigned social movements that all together
represent more than 200 million people around the world, denounce this
corporate take over of the UN and the climate negotiations process and call
for a deep systemic change. Climate change is the result of an unjust
economic system and to deal with the crisis, we must address the root
causes and change the system. There will be no going back from the climate
chaos if we do not fight for real solutions and do nothing to confront and
challenge the inaction of our governments’ policy-making being hijacked by
polluting corporations. It is crucial for us to unify and strengthen our
economic, social and environmental struggles and focus our energies on
changing the capitalist system.*
*To sign on the statement, please send the name of your organization to: *
*espace...@gmail.com* <climat...@gmail.com>* If you would like to
be included in the statement to be released to the media, please send us
your endorsement on or before September 14, 2014. *
*September 19 – 23, New York:Mobilize and organize to Stop and Prevent
Planet Fever!*
When we, as human beings, get a fever, we immediately get worried and take
action. After all, we know that if our body temperature rises to 1.5ºC, let
alone 2ºC [3.6 ºF] above the normal average, there can be severe damage,
while an increase of 4-6ºC [7.2-10.8 ºF] or more can cause a comatose
situation and even death.
So it is, when planet Earth gets a fever. For the past 11,000 years, the
average temperature of the Earth has been around 14ºC [57.2ºF]. It is now
about to reach an increase of 1ºC. And, if we do not take appropriate
measures now to stop this fever from spreading, the forecast is that our
planet will be well on its way to anywhere between 2ºC to 6ºC rise in
temperature before the end of this century. Under such feverish conditions,
life as we know it will dramatically change on planet Earth.
We have no other recourse but to take action now. Not just any action but
the right action and at the right time. When, for example, a human person
has a fever, we urge them to rest their body, give them a lot of liquids,
prescribe the right medicine, and if the fever goes up we bring them to the
hospital and try to find the underlying cause of the fever, which can range
from a simple infection to life-threatening diseases like cancer.
*Right Prescriptions*
In the case of a planetary fever, the right prescription requires at least
10 actions to be undertaken and applied.
1. Make immediate binding commitments --- not voluntary pledges --- to
control planetary temperature rise to no more than 1.5ºC [2.7 ºF] this
century by reducing global greenhouse gas emissions per year to 38
Gigatons
by 2020.
2. Let the Earth rest by making binding commitments to leave more than
80% of known fossil fuel reserves under the soil and beneath the ocean
floor.
3. Move away from resource extractivism by placing bans on all new
exploration and exploitation of oil, bitumen sands, oil shale, coal,
uranium, and natural gas including pipeline infrastructure like Keystone
XL.
4. Accelerate the development and transition to renewable energy
alternatives such as wind, solar, geothermal and tidal power with more
public and community ownership and control.
5. Promote local production and consumption of durable goods to satisfy
the fundamental needs of the people and avoid the transport of goods that
can be produced locally.
6. Stimulate the transition from industrialized, export-oriented
agriculture for the global supermarket to community-based production to
meet local food needs based on food sovereignty.
7. Adopt and apply Zero Waste strategies for the recycling and disposal
of trash and the retrofitting of buildings to conserve energy for heating
and cooling.
8. Improve and expand public transportation for moving people and
freight within urban centres and between cities within urban regions
through efficient trains.
9. Develop new sectors of the economy designed to create new jobs that
restore the balance and equilibrium of the Earth system such as climate
jobs to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and Earth restoration jobs.
10. Dismantle the war industry and military infrastructure in order to
reduce greenhouse gas emissions generated by warfare, and divert war
budgets to promote genuine peace.
*Wrong Prescriptions*
At the same time, we must also be aware that all actions are not
appropriate actions and that some initiatives can worsen the situation.
Perhaps our most pressing challenge is the fact that big corporations are
capturing the climate agenda to make new businesses designed to take
advantage of the crises. In response, we need to send a message, loud and
clear, to corporations: ‘Stop Exploiting the Tragedy of Climate Change!’
More specifically, we need to resist the ‘greening of capital’ as the
solution by rejecting the following policies, strategies and measures:
- The commodification, financialization and privatization of the
functions of nature through the promotion of a false “green economy”
agenda
which places a price on nature and creates new derivative markets that
will
only increase inequality and expedite the destruction of nature.
- This means saying No to REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation
and forest Degradation) … No to Climate Smart Agriculture, Blue Carbon
and
Biodiversity offsetting --- all of which are designed to create new
for-profit business for corporations.
- Techno-fix “solutions” like geo-engineering, genetically modified
organisms, agrofuels, industrial bioenergy, synthetic biology,
nanotechnology, hydraulic fracking, nuclear projects, waste-to-energy
generation based on incineration, and others.
- Mega and unnecessary infrastructure projects that do not benefit the
population and are net contributors to greenhouse gasses like, mega dams,
excessively huge highways, stadiums for world cups, etc.
- Free trade and investment regimes that promote trade for profit and
undercut domestic labor, destroy nature, and substantially reduce the
capacity of nations to define their own economic, social and
environmental
priorities.
*Preventative Cure*
Finally, we also need to go beyond identifying right and wrong
prescriptions to naming the disease that constantly causes and drives this
planetary fever*. *If we don’t take this step, the fever will keep coming
back again and again in a much more aggressive way. We need to take stock
of the roots of the disease in order to weather the storm.
Scientists have clearly traced the problem of increasing greenhouse gas
emissions back to the industrial revolution 250 years ago while tracking
the spurt that has taken place during the past century. From this analysis,
it is clear that the industrial model of increased extraction and
productivism for the profit of a few is the prime cause of the problem. We
need to replace capitalism with a new system that seeks harmony between
humans and nature and not an endless growth model that the capitalist
system promotes in order to make more and more profit. We need a system
that links climate change and human rights and provides for the protection
of most vulnerable communities like migrants, and recognizes the rights of
Indigenous peoples.
Mother Earth and her natural resources cannot sustain the consumption and
production needs of this globalized modern industrialized society. We
require a new system that addresses the needs of the majority and not of
the few. To move in this direction, we need a redistribution of the wealth
that is now controlled by the 1%. In turn, this requires a new definition
of wellbeing and prosperity for all life on the planet under the limits and
in recognition of the rights of our Mother Earth and Nature.
We urgently need to organize and mobilize in September in New York and the
world to push for a process of transformation that can address the
structural causes that are driving the climate crisis.
Initial signatures:
*Alternatives International*
*ATTAC - France*
*Coordinadora Latinoamericana de Organizaciones del Campo – La Via
Campesina (CLOC-LVC)*
*Corporate Europe Observatory*
*Ecologistas en Acción*
*ETC Group*
*Fairwatch - Italy*
*Focus on the Global South*
*Fundación Solón - Bolivia*
*Global Campaign to Dismantle Corporate Power and end TNCs’ impunity*
*Global Forest Coalition *
*Grassroots Global Justice Alliance*
*Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF) - Nigeria*
*Indigenous Environmental Network*
*La Via Campesina*
*Migrants Rights International*
*No-REDD Africa Network*
*OilWatch International*
*Polaris Institute – Canada*
*SENTRO - Philippines*
*Thai Climate Justice Working Group (TCJ)*
*Transnational Institute*
*Asociacion Raxch' och' Oxlaju Aj (Tierra Verde 13 Aj) AROAJ AROAJ*
Norma Maldonado
Asociacion Raxch' och' Oxlaju Aj (Tierra Verde 13 Aj) AROAJ
Guatemala
VENTANA SOBRE LOS CICLOS
La gente, hecha de maiz, hace el maiz. La gente, creada de la carne y los
colores del maiz, cava una cuna para el maiz y lo cubre de buena tierra y
lo limpia de malas hierbas y lo riega y le habla palabras que lo quieren.
Y cuando el maiz esta crecido, la gente de maiz lo muele sobre la piedra y
lo alza y lo aplaude y lo acuesta al amor del fuego y se lo come, para que
en la gente de maiz siga el maiz caminando sin morir sobre la tierra.
Eduardo Galeano
--
The Post 2015 Women's Coalition listserv is a key communications platform
for feminist, women's and social justice organizations working on women's
rights and gender equality in the post 2015 sustainable development
framework.
Follow us on Twitter!
twitter.com/Post2015Women
Like us on Facebook!
facebook.com/post2015women
Visit our website for more information!
post2015women.com
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*sincerely,*
*Elina Doszhanova*
--
From: 'Norma Maldonado' via Post_2015_Women's_Coalition <
post2015wom...@googlegroups.com>
Date: Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 2:38 AM
Subject: [Post 2015 Women's Coalition] denounce corporate takeover of UN
Climate Summit
From: "Elina" <edos...@gmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2014 12:47 AM
Subject: [can-eecca] Fwd: [Post 2015 Women's Coalition] denounce corporate
takeover of UN Climate Summit
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