The 300-350 Show: UN Climate Talks - Poznan
First Broadcast: 18 December 2008
Featuring:
- Kevin Smith (CarbonTradeWatch)
- Oliver Tickell (Kyoto2)
- Tom Athanasiou (Greenhouse Development Rights)
The UN Climate Talks are at crisis point. Nothing on the table matches the scale of the challenge and corporate interests are rife. As the talks in Poznan come to an end, we take stock with three key protaganists. Developments include:
- UNFCCC tenders a report on alternative frameworks
- 350 ppm CO2 target endorsed by Al Gore, AOSIS & the LDC country blocks
- Potsdam Institute shows how we can achieve the 350 ppm target
- Climate Justice Now! coalition grows in size from 20 to 160 organisations
- Carbon trading advances despite a crisis of credibility
- 142 organisations sign a statement against the World Bank's involvement with climate funds
- The China+G77 block support climate funds being managed by UN
- Rich nations still failing to fulfill their commitments 16 years on
- Plans develop for a mass mobilisation in Copenhagen December 2009
- Could extending the scope of the Montreal Protocol and controling black soot be two effective ways forward outside the UNFCCC process?
Friends of the Earth International - final assessment
www.foei.org/en/media/archive/2008/rich-nations-to-blame-for-climate-inaction-and
Earth Negotiations Bulletin Summary www.iisd.ca/vol12/enb12395e.html
Economist Debate on Carbon Trading www.economist.com/debate/debates/overview/136
Climate Justice Now! Poznan Statement http://focusweb.org/radical-new-agenda-needed-to-achieve-climate-justice.html?Itemid=1
Climate Justice Now! Email List https://lists.riseup.net/www/info/cjn
Climate Justice Now! Conference Report http://focusweb.org/climatechange/index.php/conference-report
World Bank Unfit to Manage Climate Funds (FoEE + 142 organisations) www.foei.org/en/media/archive/2008/world-bank-unfit-to-manage-climate-funds
Draft REDD Conclusions http://unfccc.int/resource/docs/2008/sbsta/eng/l23.pdf
EU Fails the World on Climate (Christian Aid) www.christianaid.org.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/December2008/EU-fails-world-on-climate.aspx
TWN report on UN "shared vision" workshop www.twnside.org.sg/title2/climate/news/TWNpoznanupdate3.doc
Al Gore Speech (video) http://copportal1.man.poznan.pl/Archive.aspx?EventID=100&Lang=floor
Jonathan Porritt calls for an emergency review of climate change science www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/dec/10/comment-porritt-poznan-copenhagen-environment
Soot reduction 'could help stop global warming'
www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/soot-reduction-could-help-to-stop-global-warming-1224481.html
Available Audio
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