FNTG Climate Equity Track Information
December 13, 2009
Funders interested in climate equity are invited to join us at the CJN! morning briefing at 9 am in Piet Hein in the Bella Center. We will also be meeting in the evening at the 7 pm public CJN! briefing at the Klimaforum.
Earlier today, FNTG held a climate equity orientation for funders in Copenhagen with the following presenters:
Issues covered by the speakers listed above ranged from deforestation, climate debt, indigenous people’s efforts, the Climate Justice Now! Network, and US-based environmental injustices.
- Naomi Klein - Canadian journalist, author and activist known for her political analyses and criticism of corporate globalization
- Gopal Dayaneni – Lead delegate of U.S.-based grassroots social movement leaders to Copenhagen. Also part of Movement Generation’s Justice and Ecology Project.
- Janet Redman – Co-Director of the Sustainable Energy and Economy Network at the Institute for Policy Studies. Also part of the Climate Justice Now! Network
- Patricia Cochrane - Executive Director of the Alaska Native Science Commission (ANSC)
- Victor Minotti – Executive Director of International Forum on Globalization
- Mari Rose Taruc – State Organizing Director of Asian Pacific Environmental Network (APEN)
Resources, Articles, Background Documents
Deadlock at Copenhagen climate summit
By Martin Khor
More than half way through the UN Copenhagen Climate Conference, the fate of the meeting lies in the balance between partial success and outright failure.
http://fntg.org/news/index.php?op=read&articleid=7616
Copenhagen climate change summit in deadlock over rival texts
The Copenhagen climate change summit is likely to end with two rival texts because the main countries cannot agree on the key question of how to share the burden of cutting emissions to a safe level.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/copenhagen/article6954067.ece
Todd Stern: US' Copenhagen good cop, bad cop, climate traffic cop
America's chief negotiator, Todd Stern is gaining a reputation at Copenhagen as a one-man version of the archetype “good cop/bad cop” team.
http://www.thedailymaverick.co.za/article/2009-12-11-Todd-Stern-US-Copenhagen-good-cop-bad-cop-climate-traffic-cop
China demands more from rich to unlock climate talks
China led calls by developing nations for deeper emissions cuts from the United States, Japan and Europe at U.N. climate talks on Tuesday, as a study showed that this decade will be the warmest on record. But a rich-poor rift continued to cloud negotiations on finance and emissions cuts. Recession-hit rich countries have not yet made concrete offers to aid developing nations who also want the industrialized world to act faster to curb emissions.
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE5B517O20091208
Ministers try to unblock climate deal
Environment ministers tried to overcome rifts between rich and poor nations in Copenhagen on Sunday. Church leaders handed a petition with half a million signatures to the United Nations and prayed for climate justice, while hundreds of demonstrators marched through the city center for a second day to remind world leaders of the huge public pressure for a successful deal at the Dec 7-18 talks.
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE5BC0S520091213
Final Report: Indigenous People’s Global Summit on Climate Change
The Indigenous People’s Global Summit on Climate Change was held in Anchorage, Alaska, from 20 – 24 April 2009. The Summit enabled indigenous peoples from all regions of the globe to exchange their knowledge and experience in adapting to the impacts of climate change, and to develop key messages and recommendations to be articulated to the world at the fifteenth Conference of Parties (COP-15) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Copenhagen, Denmark in December 2009.
http://www.indigenoussummit.com/servlet/download?id=135
Race, Poverty & the Environment: A journal for social and environmental justice
“Climate Justice or Climate Chaos”
The emerging movement for climate justice provides an new platform to mobilize for age-old principles of social justice. Because of the planetary parameters of the problem this movement has a unifying potential for the species as a whole. Climate change respects no borders and neither can our organizing. Emissions reductions in one country is not an option. Climate change must be solved, locally, regionally and globally. It’s a tough test, but one that we can pass—or fail.
http://urbanhabitat.org/cj/16-2
FNTG Steering Committee
Alta Starr, Program Officer, Ford Foundation * Jeff Furman, Trustee, Ben & Jerry's Foundation * Lael Parish , Senior Program Officer, The Moriah Fund * Laura Livoti , Senior Program Officer, FACT, Inc. * Millie Buchanan , Program Officer, Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation * Nikhil Aziz, Executive Director, Grassroots International * Sarah Christiansen , Program Officer, The Solidago Foundation * Tom Kruse , Program Officer, Rockefeller Brothers Fund
Contact Information
Mark Randazzo, Coordinator, 415-577-1177, mark@fntg.org * Melissa Cariño, Program Associate, 617-233-3095, melissa@fntg.org
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