Peoples' Movement on Climate Change

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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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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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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 Panama News Update No.14

Thursday, 13 October 2011 13:38

10 October 2011
Published by Third World Network
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Progress in Panama but big challenges ahead in Durban

Geneva, 10 October (Meena Raman) – The last day of the climate talks in Panama on 7 October under the Ad-Hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Action (AWG-LCA) saw some progress in producing some texts by Parties to advance further negotiations in Durban, South Africa where the talks will resume in late November.

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TWN Panama News Update No.13

Thursday, 13 October 2011 13:32

7 October 2011
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Disagreement over linkage between mitigation ambition of developed countries to developing countries actions

Panama City, 7 October (Lim Li Lin) – Disagreements arose between developed and developing country Parties over the insistence by developed countries to link discussions on their mitigation ambition to developing country mitigation actions at the meeting of informal group on mitigation actions of developed countries under the Ad-hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Action (AWG-LCA) held on Thursday, 6 October.

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TWN Panama News Update No.12

Thursday, 13 October 2011 13:30

7 October 2011
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Statement by the Third World Network at the AWG-LCA informal group on legal options, 6 October 2011, Panama City

We do not support any outcome that undermines or terminates the Kyoto Protocol, or that enshrines a weaker system than the Kyoto Protocol in international law. A bottom-up domestic pledge and review system represents just such a weak, deregulated system. And the negotiations certainly seem to be headed in that direction.

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TWN Panama News Update No.11

Thursday, 13 October 2011 13:29

6 October 2011
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Developed countries blocking progress on key issues

Panama City, 6 October (Meena Raman)- Mid-way in the climate change negotiations in Panama City, developing countries expressed deep concerns that some developed countries were blocking progress on key issues relating to long-term finance, adaptation and impacts of response measures under the Ad-hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Action (AWG-LCA).

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TWN Panama News Update No.10

Thursday, 13 October 2011 13:25

5 October 2011
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Legal form should not re-write Climate Convention – say developing countries

Panama City, 5 October (Meena Raman) – Several developing countries including China, India, Saudi Arabia, Bolivia, Venezuela, Egypt and the Philippines expressed strong views that the legal form of the outcome of the negotiations of the working group under the United Nations Framework Convention (UNFCCC) should not re-write the Convention. They also stressed that the UNFCCC and its Kyoto Protocol were existing legally-binding treaties for the global climate change regime and there should be no new mandate for a new agreement to replace them.

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Reflections on REDD+ presentation at the PWRDF office last Oct. 4th.

Friday, 07 October 2011 10:46

Climate Change Marketplace

I've just come back to my desk after a fascinating presentation by Maria Theresa Nera-Lauron of the People's Movement on Climate Change. Tetet (only her mother calls her Maria Theresa- and only when she is in trouble!) came to Canada from the Philippines to present in Ottawa and Montreal and now in Toronto on issues relating to climate change and land grabbing. While I won't go into details about everything she talked about (it would fill screens and screens, and I don't want too may tl;dr reactions) I did want to reflect a bit about one topic- REDD+.

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