Peoples' Movement on Climate Change

Who we are

The Peoples' Movement on Climate Change (PMCC) seeks to advance the People's Protocol on Climate Change as the Southern peoples' strategy and response to the climate change issue.

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What we advocate

The Peoples' Protocol on Climate Change (PPCC) aims to involve the grassroots sectors in the climate change discourse by developing their capacities for engagement and action. It also aims to pressure governments and international bodies to put the people's perpectives and aspiration on the negotiating table in drawing up a post-2012 climate change framework.

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Why we advocate

The people are the worst affected and yet are the least empowered. It is urgent, more than ever, for the people to unite and create their own spaces to raise their own concerns and issues on climate change.

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PPCC's five-point platform for action

Comprehensive and concerted but differentiated and equitable global effort to achieve deep, rapid, and sustained emissions reductions to stabilize CO2 concentrations at 350ppm and hold global average temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius.
Demand the reparation of Southern countries and the poor by Northern states, TNCs, and Northern-controlled institutions to redress historical injustices associated with climate change.
Reject false solutions that allow Northern states and corporations to continue harming the environment and communities, provide new and greater opportunities for profit, and reinforce and expand corporate control over natural resources and technologies.
Struggle for ecologically sustainable, socially just, pro-people, and long-lasting solutions.
Strengthen the peoples' movement on climate change.

TWN Durban News Update No. 16

Tuesday, 06 December 2011 16:50

6 December 2011
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Divergent Views on Market Approaches

Durban, 5 Dec (Payal Parekh) – The Informal group on various approaches, including opportunities for using markets, to enhance the cost-effectiveness of, and to promote, mitigation actions, bearing in mind different circumstances of developed and developing countries under the Ad-hoc Working Group on Long Term Action (AWG-LCA) met on 5 December to discuss the amalgamation text of 3 December.

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TWN Durban News Update No. 15

Tuesday, 06 December 2011 16:46

6 December 2011
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Reactions to "amalgamation draft texts"

Durban, 6 Dec (Meena Raman) – As Ministers from many countries land in Durban, Parties under the Ad-hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Action (AWGLCA) under the UNFCCC are busy with intense negotiations to arrive at the draft decisions needed.

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TWN Durban News Update No. 14

Tuesday, 06 December 2011 16:38

Second commitment period remains elusive

5 December 2011
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Durban, 5 Dec (Chee Yoke Ling and Xu Chengcheng) – At the end of the first week of the Durban climate negotiations, Parties to the Kyoto Protocol were presented with four options by the Chair of the AWG-KP with regard to the second commitment period of greenhouse gas emission reductions under the Kyoto Protocol. The first commitment period will end in 2012.

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TWN Durban News Update No. 12

Tuesday, 06 December 2011 16:31

2 December 2011
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Below are the statements made by China on behalf of Brazil, South Africa, India and China at the opening plenary session of the 17th meeting of the UNFCCC Conference of the Parties and the 7th meeting of the COP acting as the Meeting of Parties to the Kyoto Protocol on 28 November 2011

STATEMENT BY CHINA
ON BEHALF OF BRAZIL, SOUTH AFRICA, INDIA AND CHINA AT COP17
Durban, 28 November 2011

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Human rights is key in ensuring development effectiveness in climate financing

Monday, 05 December 2011 11:34

DURBAN, South Africa (December 4, 2011)—UN Independent Expert on Foreign Debt and Human Rights Dr. Cephas Lumina yesterday called on the world’s leaders negotiating the future of the Green Climate Fund to ensure that climate financing is indeed “new and additional” money that would help those most impacted by the changing climate to realize their fundamental human rights.Sovereignty (PCFS), Pesticide Action Network Asia Pacific (PAN AP), VOICE, Asia Pacific Indigenous Youth Network (APIYN), Coastal Development Partnership (CDP)