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Title: Climate Justice: organising for effective community action on climate change
Location:
Global
Categories: Environment
Climate Change
Status:
In Planning
Timeline:
March 9 08 to December 11 09
Description:
'Climate Justice: organising for effective community action on climate change' is the title of workshop jointly sponsored by CIVICUS UN and the Global Youth Action Network during the CIVICUS World Assembly in June 2008. The workshop is intended to be the launching point of larger civil society collaboration around the issue of climate change.
Background:
In addition to being one of the most urgent and complex global challenges facing all of humanity, climate change encompasses most, if not all other global challenges, from environmental deterioration and sustainable development (most immediately, the Millennium Development Goals) to poverty eradication, human rights, health, food, water, gender equity, migration, deforestation and desertification, peace and security, etc. Vulnerable communities in poor countries are already experiencing the first adverse effects of climate change and stand to suffer the most.
Unfortunately, large numbers of citizens around the world either remain unaware of the grave potential for loss and suffering that climate change events can thrust upon their families and communities, or feel impotent about taking effective action. In many poor areas in developing countries, as well as in pockets of poverty and exclusion in some developed countries, possible climate change events are hardly the main priority. When your own life and that of your children may depend on whether you find access to food and water today, the words “climate change” don’t mean very much. At most, climate change may sound vaguely as something some governments are said to be concerned about, particularly in the North.
And yet, in the next few decades it will be essential to these communities’ very survival that they become aware of the gravity of the situation, of how, for example, lack of food and water are intimately related to climate change; and beyond that, it will be necessary that these communities organize themselves for effective action both in terms of joint adaptation efforts as well as efforts to ensure that their communities are treated with justice and equity, and that financial, technological, and both adaptation and development assistance is made available to them.
It is these vulnerable communities that are the primary intended beneficiaries of the workshop and the Climate Justice project. Thus, particular emphasis will be placed on issues of adaptation by vulnerable communities in developing countries, technology transfer, and financial assistance for both adaptation and sustainable development.
Objectives:
The workshop aims to bring together all constituencies and individuals interested in exchanging ideas and exploring ways to organize for effective citizen action on climate change in two major respects: (a) civil society role in climate change adaptation by vulnerable communities in poor regions, and (b) civil society role in post-Kyoto treaty negotiations leading to a new climate change regulatory framework (Copenhagen, December 2009).
Milestones:
- workshop at CIVICUS World Assembly (Glasgow, Scotland, June 18-21, 2008)
- COP 14 (Poznan, Poland, December 1-12, 2008)
- COP 15 (Copenhagen, Denmark, Nov 30 - Dec 11, 2009)
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