Annex 1 pledges insufficient, developing countries doing more

Bangkok, 5 April (Meena Raman) – Developing countries and several developed countries agreed that the current pledges for emission reductions by developed countries is insufficient to limit the temperature rise to 2 degree C.

Asia Pacific Climate Change Conference:Consolidating the People's Movement on Climate Change Towards COP15
23-24 March 2009
Suan Dusit Place, Bangkok, Thailand

The event, organized by the People's Movement on Climate Change, led by APRN, IBON and PCFS, and locally hosted by Thai SDF, is a public gathering that hopes to gather around 80-100 CSOs in the Asia Pacific region, with the objectives of providing a deeper understanding on the different aspects of the climate change issue from a grassroots perspective and consolidating the People’s Movement on Climate Change (PMCC) towards the COP15 activities.

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The Asia Pacific climate change conference is now formally named "Building the People's Movement on Climate Change: Towards COP 15 and Beyond". Said conference will take place on March23-24 at Suan Dusit Place, Bangkok, Thailand, as planned.

Documents from the conference "Building the People’s Movement on Climate Change: Towards COP 15 and Beyond" are now available for download. Click the links on the Topic column below to retrieve said documents.

• Noticing the strengths of the local wisdoms maintained by the indigenous peoples to ensure the sustainability of nature and environment that have become integrated parts of the daily life of the people in many parts of the world;
• Noticing the power of the collective ownership of natural resources that have been able to maintain the balance of nature between the use and protection, that have become regular practices and customary laws of communities in many parts of the world;
• Noting that the natural disasters that are caused by the human beings and technologies that are not environmentally friendly, and the excessive operations of big corporations;
• Noting that the people’s misery and destitution is caused by the operations of big corporations and government’s policies that are not pro-people;
• Witnessing the international agreements and the global decision making process about climate change that only accommodate the political and economic interests of a group of big corporations and certain interest groups;
• Witnessing the topics of negotiations in the UNFCCC that prioritize profits rather than the solutions to the climate change itself;
• Being aware that the biggest impacts of the climate change will hit the poor and disadvantaged, and we are parts of that society;
• Being aware that the victims of the exploitations of the natural resources by the corporations are not treated in equitable and human manner both by the corporations and the government;
• Recognizing the limitations of the poor communities to adapt to the climate change, both in the aspects of the production of basic needs and in the consumption aspects that have been at minimum level;
• Respecting the initiatives of the states to reduce the impacts of the Climate Change and the agreements that have been and will be made;