4 responses to “Den sidste time”

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  Tommy 20. december 2009 kl. 17.50

  Ja men aftalen kunne ikke laves fordi de såkaldte “fattige” lande ikke ville.
  Så kan man jo diskuterer om KINA er et fattigt land.
  Kina låner penge til USA – hvem er så fattig?.
  Afrika´s forskellige lande støttes med mange millioner hvert år, til trods for at det ville være muligt at høste korn & frugter flere gange årligt i Afrika.
  Næe problemet er ikke Ilandene – men de G77 lande som ikke ville accepterer noget ud over at de skulle have flere penge.
  De forskellige Afrikanske lande burde lave en børne begrænsning – menneskerne er også en stor udleder af CO2

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  Knud Wernberg - Møller 22. december 2009 kl. 20.11

  Det er dog det mest enfoldige sludder, jeg har læst længe. at ilandene skulle være parate til at tvinge ulandene til at acceptere en aftale, der dømmer millioner af mennesker til døden??? For 7 Søren og en løbsk hest – nu er du da vist faldet i muddergrøften med din kyklopforståelse af Verden. Så enkelt er der ingen ting, der er!!
  Den mangfoldighed af udfordringer vi står over for, både nu og især i fremtiden, løses ikke med et enkelt slag i CO2 bolledejen.
  Op på hesten, min ven,og vis lidt courage i stedet for at sidde der og klynke. Der er brug for din handlekraft!!
  Mange hilsner
  Knud Wernberg – Møller

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  Kristian Bro 24. december 2009 kl. 11.53

  Se pictures and video from 16.dec.2009: http://www.flickr.com/photos/45694700@N04/4194131312/in/photostream/

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  Kristian Bro 24. december 2009 kl. 12.08

  Ana Greenheart skriver:
  Dear all,

  Many thanks for all your messages of support and for all the actions that you have carried out to actively help and encourage the work being done in Copenhagen. This email is a final report put together for you all with much love, to comment on the results of the UNFCCC conference, which ended with a text called the Copenhagen Accord, that you will find attached.

  This text is not legally binding, and came out of a truly outrageous process (see The Guardian’s report on it here) which has seen:
  · small and empoverished countries being bullied or bribed (making the UN look more and more like the WTO)
  · corporate lobbyists waltzing around wheelin’ and dealin’, carving up the planet’s surface and the atmosphere into convenient tradeable commodities, and sharing out the huge future benefits involved
  · access to civil society official representatives seriously restricted (from 7,000 down to 90 people allowed in to the Bella Center on the last day)
  · serious harassment and violent repression by the police towards peaceful protesters and even towards accredited UN delegates (something unheard of!). Around 1500 people have been preventively arrested (some people being picked off buses or detained as they cycled around town), with the main activist spokespeople imprisoned and some people even deported. At present there are still a number of spokespeople in preventive prison and they could stay there up to 4 weeks under Danish law.
  · intransparency and authoritarianism all the way, getting worse and worse towards the end
  Obama swept in on the last day and made a very disappointing, disrespectful speech. The US claims to be “acting” by pledging 100 billion dollars a year for helping developing countries adapt to climate change. This may sound generous… but when you think that they have just approved over 600 billion for next year’s military budget, that the “carbon trade market” itself is worth about 4 TRILLION dollars a year (at the moment!), and that a great deal of American prosperity rides on the backs of poor countries and the historic exploitation of their resources… the “generous” offer suddenly seems like loose change. As the representative of Sudan pointed out, it will not even pay for the coffins to bury African victims of climate chaos. These are some of the reasons why the concept of “climate justice” has been clearly demanded all the way through this whole conference by those expressing dissent inside and outside of the Bella Center.

  Obama then met privately with China, India, Brazil, and South Africa and, after a night of frantic negotiations, the leading countries bashed out the Copenhagen Agreement. In the text, there is no clear mechanism on how the Annex 1 countries (main polluting countries) will reduce their emissions, and there are no commitments as to how much they will reduce them and when. The only things that are clearly promoted are the “transfer of technology” (transgenics or geoingeneering to manipulate the world’s climate would fit in that description) and mechanisms like REDD-plus, which is clearly bad path to go for communities and small farmers since it will result in further land-grabbing by large corporations, hunger, exodus and deforestation. As land is allocated to grow monoculture trees and GM crops for biofuels, biomass and biochar, instead of native forest or food, more and more farmers and communities will be kicked off their land.

  Under these conditions, no deal was definitely better than a bad deal!

  Democracy Now has very good reports on its website and so has The Guardian, with articles like this, if you are interested in more details. Also, the following website is where activists have been putting their videos, photos and reports: http://indymedia.dk/. At the end of this email you will find a list of links to inform you more in-depth about issues like geoengineering, REDD, etc… if you are interested.

  The good news of the whole Copenhagen experience is that Klimaforum, with infinitely less resources than COP15 but infinitely more commitment and passion, has successfully hosted over 50,000 activists from around the world who have been able to set their differences aside to jointly write a detailed Declaration … In order to have the voices of people heard in the UN, thousands of people marched onto COP15 and were violently met by the police forces… so a large group of people sat down on the road in front of the Bella Centre and held a People’s Assembly to talk about true solutions to climate change. Here is a beautiful image of that moment: http://www.flickr.com/photos/45694700@N04/4194131312/in/photostream/ Civil society was then given TWO MINUTES (!!) on the last day to address the world leaders, during which a man and a woman presented the above Declaration and the demand that the voice of the people be heard – obviously, it was not…

  After all the work, long marches in the bitter cold, shocking repression by police forces and the strong understanding that corporations are definitely and shamelessly running the show, all these activists and groups have become more united than ever in their resolve to continue a struggle towards the changes we need to see in the world:
  SYSTEM CHANGE, NOT CLIMATE CHANGE

  Under this clear message, hundreds or organisations have come together and worked intensely, creating new links that will result in a number of global campaigns as well as regional, national and local ones too. Please join in when they come your way!

  As Copenhagen recovers its calm, our thoughts go out to the people beaten and imprisoned for expressing the views of the majority of civil society, to the millions of victims of climate chaos that are and that will be… and to the rest of our human brothers and sisters, for it is in all of our daily actions that we will be creating a future for all of us. 50,000 people have acted in your name these two weeks… now we need the rest of the population to actively be the change we need to see.

  With warmest regards and best wishes to all for these festive days spent with family and friends,

  Ana
  P.S. Interesting links:
  http://www.klimaforum09.org – official page of the alternative people’s summit
  http://www.etcgroup.org – see their latest document “Who will feed us?” and their critiques on geoengineering solutions
  http://www.grain.org – great resources and articles re. agriculture and seeds
  http://www.carbontradewatch.org/ – the place to go for all infos about carbon trading
  http://www.econexus.info/ – scientific research and analysis of all things related to biotechnology and geoengineering
  http://www.biofuelwatch.org.uk/ – one of the best at studying the UNFCCC mechanisms in depth, especially those related to monocultures and “bio”fuels
  http://www.wrm.org.uy/ – World Rainforest Movement, about forests and technology, eg. REDD
  http://www.ourworldisnotforsale.org/ – fab infos, check out their seminal downloadable book “Change Trade, Not Our Climate”
  http://viacampesina.org/main_en/ – global movement of small-scale farmers, fisherfolk, pastoralists, forest managers…