Fw: [FDC-e] Would you like to co-sign the Climate Finance Action Alert? [2 Attachments]

[Rich De Los Santos]

Greetings! 

Forwarding you Lidy's email on CF Action Alert. Gusto ba nating mag-cosign dito as FDC Women's committee?

Maraming salamat!

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Subject: [FDC-e] Would you like to co-sign the Climate Finance Action Alert? [2 Attachments]

 

[Attachment(s) from Lidy Nacpil included below]

Dear Colleagues

 

Hi!  Taking forward what was discussed last conference call of the WB out of Climate Finance Campaign -- we prepared the following "Climate Finance Action Alert No.1" and the attached  Email Action and draft Letter to Ambassadors of Mexico, South Africa and Norway.

 

The Action Alert serves as a call to action to be circulated widel asking groups and individuals to send the email to Transition Committe members, send the letters to Co-Chairs and organize other actions with the message "No to World Bank Role in Green Climate Fund" - in the days before and during the TC meeting in Tokyo on July 13 to 14 next week.

 

Would you like to co-sign the Action Alert? 

 

We hope to circulate Action Alert widely at the latest on Wednesday 1:00 Manila time please let us know before then. Sorry for this late notice.

 

If by some reason you cannot get organizational decision to sign on - we hope you will take the time to respond to the calls! 

 

Many thanks!

 

Lidy

 

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Climate Finance Action  Alert Number 1

Climate finance is needed urgently by the people of the South to enable them to deal with the impacts of climate and pursue an alternative development pathway for equitable and sustainable societies.  Climate finance is part of the reparations for the climate debt that northern countries owe the South for causing the climate crisis. It is also an obligation of North countries (“Annex 1”) under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.  Climate justice movements have been advancing demands and proposals regarding 1) the scale and nature of climate finance, 2) sources, 3) a global climate fund, 4) allocation and use.   However, climate finance is also being used to promote policies and projects that are harmful to grassroots communities, workers,   farmers, fishers, indigenous peoples, women and other marginalized groups.  From the community level to country to global there are many struggles and campaigns resisting and protesting so called climate projects.

This Climate Finance Action Alert aims to facilitate collective and coordinated actions on climate finance issues.

 

To the Transition Committee of the UNFCCC:  No World Bank Role in the Green Climate Fund

 

A new global climate fund that will be responsible for collecting, managing and disbursing climate finance for the South is vital and has been the subject of climate justice campaigns and of international climate negotiations.  A key demand of climate justice campaigners as well many South countries (“developing countries”) is that the World Bank not be given a role in this new global climate fund given its track record in harmful projects and policies, undemocratic structures and operations, its neoliberal development paradigm, and its involvement in dirty energy.

 

One of the “decisions” of the Conference of Parties (COP) of the UNFCCC last December 2010 in Cancun was to set up  the “Green Climate Fund” or GCF.  The decision included the formation of a “Transition Committee” with the task of drafting a proposed design for the GCF and submitting it for action at the next COP in Durban, South Africa in December 2011.   A related decision was to name the World Bank as “trustee” of the Fund for the “interim period.” The role of the Trustee and the length of interim period were not made very explicit in the decision. 

 

The Transition Committee had its first meeting last April 28 to 29, and a major issue that sparked debate was the role of the World Bank in the Technical Support Unit (TSU) of the Transition Committee. A number of developing country members of the TC clearly stated their position that the World Bank not be given an influential role in the work of the Transition Committee and in the Green Climate Fund itself.  This position was also strongly articulated by many movements, NGOs and civil society groups in a statement/letter addressed to the Transition Committee.

 

It is urgent and vital that climate justice movements and all concerned groups and citizens to take action in the next six months to intervene in this process, with the aim of

·        Preventing the World Bank from being given a role in the Green Climate Fund

·        Expressing opposition to the role of the World Bank as Trustee of the Fund

·        Raising greater awareness of the World Bank’s harmful policies, projects, paradigm of development

·        Promoting demands and alternatives regarding the design of the Green Climate Fund

 

To these ends, we urge you to join us for immediate actions this coming week.  On July 12 to 13, the Transition Committee will be holding its Second Meeting.  In the days leading up to the meeting, we invite you to:

1.      Join an email action addressing members of the Transition Committee. Open the link:  (URL ADDRESS TO BE ADDED HERE) and sign and send the email. The email is urging members of the Transition Committee not to give the World Bank a role in the GREEN CLIMATE FUND

2.      Send letters addressed to the Ambassadors of Mexico, South Africa and Norway in your cities. These countries are the Co-Chairs of the Transition Committee. Please find attached a letter-template you can use.

3.      Send letters to the editor of your newspapers expressing your concerns as citizens.  A letter-template is also attached for your use.

 

SIGNED: 

Jubilee South - Asia/Pacific Movement on Debt and Development

Africa Jubilee South

European Network on Debt and Development (EURODAD)

LDC Watch

South Asian Alliance for Poverty Eradication

SEAFish

Daughters of Mumbi Kenya

World Development Movement UK

Jubilee Debt Campaign UK

Jubilee USA Network

Jubilee Scotland

EquityBD Bangladesh

VOICE Bangladesh

Bangladesh Krishok Federation (farmers movement)

SUPRO Bangaldesh

National Network on Right to Food Nepal

Campaign for Climate Justice Network Nepal

Rural Reconstruction Nepal

Freedom from Debt Coalition Philippines

Tambuyog Philippines

Kalayaan Philippines

KRuHA Indonesia

WALHI Indonesia

KAU Indonesia

Serikat Petani Indonesia

National Hawkers Federation India

Center for Environmental Justice Srilanka

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Attachment(s) from Lidy Nacpil

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DRAFT EMAIL ACTION FOR TRANSITION COMMITTEE MEMBERS.docx

LETTER TO AMBASSADORS of Mexico Norway South Africa.docx

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[gloria Santos]

good morning, I being the FDC womens committee and KUMPAS president would like to co-sign the Climate Finance Action Alert and give my support to this action. thanks  --- On Fri, 8/5/11, Rich De Los Santos <rich...@yahoo.com> wrote:

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