Statement of Climate Justice Now! on the COP 15

Corrupt Copenhagen ‘accord’ exposes gulf between peoples demands and elite interests

The highly anticipated UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen ended with a fraudulent agreement, engineered by the United States and dropped into the conference at the last moment. The "agreement" was not adopted. Instead, it was "noted" in an absurd parliamentary invention designed to accommodate the United States and permit Ban Ki-moon to utter the ridiculous pronouncement "We have a deal." [download, pdf]

Declaración de ¡Justicia Climática Ahora! Sobre los resultados de la COP15

El corrupto “acuerdo” de Copenhague muestra la gran brecha existente entre las demandas de los pueblos y los intereses de las élites

La tan esperada Conferencia de la ONU sobre Cambio Climático en Copenhague terminó con un acuerdo fraudulento, diseñado por los Estados Unidos y presentado ante la Conferencia en el último momento. El “acuerdo” no fue adoptado por la conferencia. En lugar de eso, la decisión fue “tomar nota” utilizando una nueva y absurda estrategia parlamentaria, diseñada para acomodar el resultado a los intereses de los Estados Unidos y permitir a Ban Ki-moon pronunciar la ridícula frase “Tenemos un trato". [descargar, pdf]

[This article is coming out with the EDM Magazine November-December issue. EDM is being produced by IBON International.]

Millions of people across the planet had hoped that governments under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) would walk away from Copenhagen with a strong, just, and timely climate deal. Predictably, the summit failed to deliver. Copenhagen is the latest, and – with runaway climate change looming large on the horizon – perhaps the costliest, of the UNFCCC’s long list of failures. [download statement]

After Copenhagen, Danny Chivers offers some thoughts on what comes next – complete with positive suggestions and glimmerings of hope.

Mr. Tony Tujan, Jr., IBON International Director, was recently interviewed by Redaktion E+Z/D+C on the challenges facing the international community after the failed UN climate summit (COP 15).

The climate negotiation in the Fifteenth Conference of Parties (COP 15) in Copenhagen has come to a sour end. The world's high expectation for a meaningful and binding agreement is doused with icy cold water by a non-binding deal dubbed as "Copenhagen Accord" - a deal primarily brokered by the most powerful and leading polluter country in the world - the United States.

Below is a link and photo of the Dec.7 protest action for the COP15 opening. This was taken in front of the US Embassy in Manila where protesters held a program after marching from Taft Avenue. Police officers blocked the protesters from getting near the embassy gate.

Copenhagen, 21 December (Meena Raman) - During the final hours of the Copenhagen climate conference, after a decision to "take note" of the Copenhagen Accord, high drama and intense exchanges continued among Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change as developed countries attempted to stretch the meaning of "taking note" into forming some kind of a plurilateral agreement among Parties who had agreed to the Accord.

Copenhagen, 21 December (Meena Raman) - Parties at the Copenhagen climate meetings have requested the Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Action under the Convention (AWG-LCA) and the Ad Hoc Working Group on Further Commitments for Annex 1 Parties under the Kyoto Protocol (AWG-KP) to continue their work and present results by the next meeting of the Conference of Parties (COP) and the COP serving as the Meeting of Parties under the Kyoto Protocol (CMP) in 2010.