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May 26th, 2008 - 12:24:20 |
Vicente Garcia-Delgado
Re World Bank clean technology fund
From CIVICUS UN
Dear all,
FYI, article appearing in The New York Times today:
May 26, 2008
World Bank, U.S., Britain and Japan Take on Warming
By BLOOMBERG NEWS
The World Bank will raise at least $5.5 billion with the United States, Britain and Japan this year for climate change funds that will help poor nations use clean technology and tackle global warming, a bank official said on Sunday.
The bank will agree to set up the funds at its July board meeting and will raise the money by autumn, the bank’s vice president for sustainable development, Katherine Sierra, said in an interview in the Japanese city of Kobe, where she is attending a meeting of the Group of 8 environment ministers.
“We are hoping that initially the clean technology fund may begin with $5 billion and the other one may be $500 million for climate resilience,” Ms. Sierra said, adding a further announcement may be made at the G-8 summit in July.
The three-day meeting in Kobe is part of efforts to develop a successor to the Kyoto Protocol on global warming, which expires in 2012. Japan wants the focus of a G-8 meeting in Japan’s northern island of Hokkaido to be the drafting of a new accord.
Australia, Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Mexico, South Korea, South Africa and Antigua and Barbuda are also taking part in the Kobe meeting.
The bank announced earlier last week 40 developing and industrialized countries had agreed to create two international investment funds to help developing countries use clean technologies and mitigate the impact of climate change.
May 25th, 2008 - 19:36:32 |
Vicente Garcia-Delgado
From CIVICUS UN
Re First Peoples Movement
Dear Viktor, Neva,
We look forward to receiving your First Peoples Movement article for e-CIVICUS, preferably by the end of Tuesday, May 26. The article should tell our readers a bit about FPM, and explain briefly the nature of FPM's work on climate change adaptation which is the subject of your presentation at the workshop.. The article should not excedd 750 words.
In addition, we encourage you to join the group "Climate Justice..." at the Taling-IT-Global web page. Please send an e-mail to Franziska indicating: "Please add me to the group."
The group's webpage is
http://projects.takingitglobal.org/climatejustice
Thank you, and best regards,
Vicente
May 25th, 2008 - 19:35:08 |
Vicente Garcia-Delgado
From CIVICUS UN
Re AYICC
Dear Dalia,
Thank you for your informative piece "Climate Change Adaptation Community Developing Countries (Sudan) – Best Practices."
I note that the article doe not make reference to the African Youth Initiative on Climate Change. May I ask you to add content on:
a) brief description of AYICC and
b) nature of AYICC's work on climate change adaptation, incuding the their role and participation in the Sudanese National Implementation Strategy plan for climate change adaptation.
We will also need a short biographical note of the presenter. This is important in order or the moderator to introduce you to the participants before you speak.
In addition, we encourage you to join the group "Climate Justice..." at the Taling-IT-Global web page. Please send an e-mail to Franziska indicating: "Please add me to the group."
The group's webpage is
http://projects.takingitglobal.org/climatejustice
Thank you, Dalia, and best regards,
Vicente
May 25th, 2008 - 14:40:20 |
Vicente Garcia-Delgado
Re Model for self-financing, ecological, sustainable, local integrated development projects for the world's poor.
From Terry Manning, Stichting Bakens Verzet ("Another Way") (The Netherlands)
Vicente Garcia-Delgado
Civicus at the UN
Dear Vicente Garcia-Delgado,
I have read your article dated 21 May 2008 "a few reflections on the Global Food Crisis and its implications for global peace and security" with interest.
The various problems are stated clearly in the article.
The question is : how do we solve them ?
NGO Stichting Bakens Verzet ("Another Way") promotes a Model for self-financing, ecological, sustainable, local integrated development projects for the world's poor. Projects under the Model provide some solutions to the food problem and contribute to reaching most of the MDG goals, targets, and sub-targets. This work enables grass-roots NGOs to draft their own advanced integrated development projects and to apply for their seed-financing. It describes step by step the local social, economic, productive and services structures which need to be created, and in which order, to form a cooperative, interest-free, inflation-free, local economic environment where individual initiative and genuine competition are free to flourish. The work is in the public domain and can be accessed and downloaded free of charge from website www.flowman.nl . Search engines rank the website as one of the world's leading resources on a wide range of development related issues.
Please feel free to make use of the material at the website as you see fit.
Sincerely,
T.E.Manning
Director
NGO Bakens Verzet (Another Way)
Wieringerwerf
Netherlands
May 25th, 2008 - 02:43:05 |
Vicente Garcia-Delgado
Re Workshop date, venue
Dear all,
Our workshop is now scheduled for June 20, from 2:30 to 4:00 pm at the Dochart 2 Room in the Convention Center.
I notice that Franziska is not listed. Will rectify.
Dochart 2 with translation Time: 2.30 - 4
Climate Justice: organizing for effective community action on climate change
This 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 the a new climate change regulatory framework (Copenhagen, December 2009
Viktor Kaisiepo; Presidium Dewan Papua
Vicente García-Delgado; CIVICUS UN Representative
Dominic Stucker, Eartth Charter Youth Initiative
Dalia Mohamed Ahmad, African Youth Initiative on Climate Change
Best regards,
Vicente
PS for up-to-date info, go to http://www.civicusassembly.org/default.asp?page=294
Vicente García-Delgado
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