[Indigsol] Urgent online action in support of Cochabamba Peoples Agreement to be reflected into LCA negotiating text

[Indigenous Peoples' Solidarity Movement -Ottawa]

For your action!  Please see the message below from Canadians for Action
on Climate Change" <canadianclimateaction at gmail.com>


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Dear Friends,

*Action Alert from Friends of the Earth:*


Below is a link to an online action that we urgently need  people to take as
part of the pressure we are exerting on the Chair of the LCA (at the UNFCCC
negotiations) so that the key recommendations of the Summit are included in
the draft negotiating text. At present the text overwhelmingly reflects the
weak and ineffectual Copenhagen Accord which will commit the world to
climate disaster.

We need to ensure that all options are reflected in the text so that there
is an option for more ambitious action to be agreed.


*This action is critical - please forward to your lists.*

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http://www.foe.co.uk/campaigns/climate/press_for_change/peoples_accord_23703.html
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20 Per Year Will Not Solve Climate Change

June 2, 2010 in Press

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*Peoples Voices must be heard in the Climate Negotiations *

*BONN – Today, Ambassador Pablo Solon of the Plurinational State of Bolivia
highlighted Bolivia’s concern over current UN climate negotiations. The
Ambassador talked of the voices of the real victims of climate change being
excluded from the negotiations.*

“In April 2010 more than 35,000 people from 140 countries gathered in
Cochabamba, Bolivia and developed the historic Cochabamba People’s Agreement
a consensus-based document reflecting substantive solutions to the climate
crisis.” Ambassador Solon said.

“We are therefore deeply concerned that the new text proposed as a basis for
climate change negotiations does not reflect any of the main conclusions
reached in Cochabamba. We made this proposals in line with UN rules, by the
April deadline, but still they have not been included.” Ambassador Solon
said.

“Proposals from Cochabamba have been side-lined but every single element of
the so called ‘Copenhagen Accord’ has been included, even though it was not
recognized by the United Nations.  This means that on finance we are only
considering $100 billion a year to respond to climate change – just $20 per
person in the developing world – to solve climate change. It’s clear that
climate change impacts are not going to be dealt with for just $20 per
person.” Ambassador Solon said.

“We urge the UN to embrace the conclusions reached by social movements,
indigenous peoples and international civil society in Cochabamba. It is both
undemocratic and non-transparent to exclude particular proposals from the
negotiations, and it is imperative that the United Nations listens to the
global community on this issue critical to humanity.” Ambassador Solon
said.

“In total 18 different ideas were excluded, including 50% emission cuts for
rich countries by 2017, a 300ppm greenhouse gas stabilization target, a
proposal for a declaration on the Rights of Mother Earth and a new,
realistic assessment of finance needed to fight climate change.” Ambassador
Solon said.

“There cannot be an equitable, transparent, and inclusive negotiation
process, nor true solutions to the urgency of the climate crisis, if the UN
negotiating text ignores the voices of the peoples of the world that the
negotiators should be representing.” Ambassador Solon said.

A document detailing the issues missing in the Chair’s text can be provided
upon request.

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http://pwccc.wordpress.com/2010/06/02/20-per-year-will-not-solve-climate-change/
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*Read the People’s Agreement:*

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*http://pwccc.wordpress.com/2010/04/24/peoples-agreement/*

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