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Africa abandons Barcelona's pre COP15 climate talks - Anger in the streets at rich nations inaction
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Tuesday November 03, 2009 17:54 by Dunk fuspey at yahoo dot co dot uk Barcelona, el mundo
Delay is not an option, delay kills This week (monday 2 - friday 6) the Barcelona International Climate Change Talks are happening, five days of formal negotiations, in the lead up to COP 15. Since Saturday there have been a series of actions in the cities streets as well as at the conference centre to raise awereness, to unite eco movements and to try to force change during this window of opportunity in the conference centre at the far side of Montjuic. But will it be enough to get us out of our AGE OF STUPID? Perhaps not, news has just come through today that African countries have abandoned the talks. Eh sorry there, COP 15? "Five days of formal negotiations remain before countries meet in Copenhagen to finish the most complex international agreement in UN history. As the teams of negotiators from 191 countries come together tomorrow for a last week of talks in Barcelona, huge political gulfs remain between rich and poor." On Monday morning hundreds of people and 1000+ alarm clocks gave the delegates entering the building the TckTckTck WAKE UP CALL. The TckTckTck campaign is an unprecedented global alliance which represents more than 200 development, humanitarian and environment organizations. The TckTckTck Campaign Director Ben Margolis told the assembled crowd. “We stand here today united to tell our leaders that time is running out to agree on a fair, ambitious and binding climate deal. Real money must be put on the table now by rich nations to ensure that the people in the poorest countries who are suffering the most from climate change and who are the least responsible [for the problem] are able to adapt to this growing crisis. Delay is not an option, delay kills.” Later inside the conference Connie Hedegaard, the Danish environment minister who will be the official host of the Copenhagen talks, took the diplomatic gloves off within minutes of the Barcelona talks opening by challenging the US to set an emissions target: I feel it [is] very hard to imagine how the US president can receive the Nobel peace prize on December 10 in Oslo only a few hundreds kilometres [from Copenhagen] if he has sent an American delegation to Copenhagen with no offer. I remind the US that it is not the only country in the world that has to have discussions with its domestic parliament. The expectation out there worldwide among populations and the young [is for] the US to deliver on one of the key challenges of our century. The Americans will have to come up [with an offer] one way or another. That night there was also an anonymous anarchist attack on a corporate headquarters building in the city, showing how the city still has its fair share of old violent tradition. Then today bad news, frustrated and feeling the rich nations are serious in their desire to solve these massive problems, African countries have just walked out and abandoned the conference. As reported in Reuters: African nations boycott talks in protest against rich countries African nations boycotted U.N. climate talks on Tuesday in a protest to urge rich countries to set deeper 2020 cuts in greenhouse gas emissions. So where do we go from here? - Keep eyes and ears open to BCN in the next few days - Come to Copenhagen and join the rest of those who will be there, contact Irish Climate camp - Watch, if you havent already done so, the AGE OF STUPID, then maybe try to put on a screening in your area. Related infos Saturday - Manifestation in the streets - el clima no està en venda (The climate is not for sale) Sunday - Outdoor film screening in city streets - 11th hour - Age of Stupid - Eco hopes Monday - TckTckTck wak up call to kick off the week of climate talks - Anarchist night greeting Tuesday - Africa boycott U.N. climate talks, demands CO2 cuts Saturday - manifestation in the streets - el clima no està en venda (The climate is not for sale) - call out - http://elclimanoestaenvenda.wordpress.com/2009/10/22/31...-bcn/ - report - Més de 4.000 PERSONES RECLAMEN AL CARRER MESURES URGENTS I DRÀSTIQUES PER A SALVAR EL CLIMA (more than 4000 people reclaim the streets in urgent measures to save the climate) - report with video - La Vanguardia - Unas 700 personas exigen en Barcelona medidas contra el cambio climático (Some 700 people take to the streets against climate change) - http://www.lavanguardia.es/ciudadanos/noticias/20091031....html Sunday - Outdoor film screening in city streets - 11th hour - Age of Stupid - Eco hopes - links later Monday - TckTckTck wak up call to kick off the week of climate talks Wake up call - AVAAZ call out - http://www.avaaz.org/en/barcelona_climate_wakeup/?cl=35...=4379 report - TckTckTck welcomes negotiators to Barcelona climate talks with a wake up call http://tcktcktck.org/stories/campaign-stories/waking-ba...elona Thousand Alarm Clocks Ring Out - Calling for World Leaders to “Wake Up” to Climate Change Peril Anarchist attack on corporate building Konica-Minolta- Acción contra el COP15 en Barcelona - http://barcelona.indymedia.org/newswire/display/385006/...x.php Tuesday - Africa boycott U.N. climate talks, demands CO2 cuts http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSTRE5...91103 Related articles of interest - Global warming could create 150 million 'climate refugees' by 2050 - http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/nov/03/globa...ugees - Five days of formal talks to go - http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/nov/01/copen...elona - Barcelona diary: Fighting talk, Russian roulette and Gaudí's 'green' makeover - http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2009/nov/02/...talks - S21-S22 : A world awakening out of its "age of stupid" - http://www.politics.ie/environment/106415-s21-s22-world....html
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