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May 25th, 2008 - 01:49:52 |
Vicente Garcia-Delgado
From African Youth Initiative on Climate Cgange (AYICC)Forwarded Message:
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Date: 5/22/2008 12:24:59 PM Eastern Daylight Time
From: alhebber@yahoo.com
To: CIVICUSUN@aol.com
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Dear Mr.Vicente I have to send to u this article .
Climate Change Adaptation Community Developing Countries (Sudan) – pest Practice.
Introduction;
The problem of human – induce climate change first came to the attention of the global public and interactional policy markers when the intergovernmental panel on the climate change (IPCC0 Published it is first assessment report in 1990 . This drew attention to the significant increases in atmospheric green change house gas concentration observed over the last 150 year .
However Climate Change justice became an important issues all over the World .According to different reasons . for example the African continent consider as one of the region of the world that is most vulnerable to Climate Change , although the rate emission of green house gases released in Africa remains negligible due to the low degree of industrialization in the continent , which it produce less than 7% of global emission and only 4% of co2 emission , thus , the reasons for this vulnerability include, susceptibility to recurrent droughts , limited capacity for adaptation and agricultural dependence on climate and / or over – exploited water resources .
Electronic News Letter :
.Sudan is among the most vulnerable countries to climat change , therefore adaptation is considered to be apriorty in the National implementation Strategy of the climate change convention.to achive this ,Sudan has carried out aprocess consisting of three steps.
The firest step was devoted for bulding the reguired capacities, the second step consisted of studies and research on vulnerability and impact of climate change , the third one was about defining practical adaptation option forplanning and policy makers. Certain environmental management strategies (Sustinable livelihood activities ) in sudan have guite effective in this regard.
The work in this regard has been based on the activities carried out by the project titield : Range Rehabilitation for Caron Seguestration (Gireigikh,North Kordfanstate)
The project aimed at increasing the species diversity of plant and fauna as well as increasing soil cover , reducing soil eerosion and[S1]
Improving socioeconomic vironment conditrion for livestock producers,partiulary the poor .One of the outstanding outcomes of the project was bulding the capacity of the local communities to manage and preserve the ecosystem. The Sudanese Environment Conservation Society (SECS) has been contracted by the project to conduct an intensive environmental awareness campaign in the five localities that comprise the project area .this has resulted in the establishment of a branch for SECS in Ciregikh. The branch members have been subject to intensive training to build their capacities and they were able to solicit funds following the termination of the project in 2001. These funds were used to consolidate the work of the project in range rehabilitation &tree planting activities. Additional activities included changing building materials of the houses from wood to clay to reduce the dependence on trees as building materials. About 6000 units were built using this method & is going more support from the community.
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May 3rd, 2008 - 10:33:21 |
Vicente Garcia-Delgado
Draft Climate Justice Workshop description
Climate Justice: Organising for effective community action on climate change.
CIVICUS World Assembly, Glasgow, 19 June 2008
Climate change is already affecting every corner of the world, every eco-system and every community, from Los Angeles to the Carteret Islands and from Helsinki to Ushuaia; but its effects are uneven, and the capacity of communities to adapt differs widely. For example, the wealthy North has the financial and technological resources to counter the worst effects of rising sea levels with costly engineering projects such as sea walls, but large swaths of the poor South lack the capacity to minimize the consequences of increasingly destructive climate impacts.
Climate change is not the consequence of a fortuitous cause: it is not just a natural disaster like an earthquake or a tsunami. Climate change is the result of a 250-year process of industrial growth which first ignored, and then dismissed the ecological costs inherent to such process. The resulting accumulation of wealth in the rich North has come at the expense of the Commons both in terms of depletion of natural resources and the devastation of our environment.
Ironically, poor communities in developing and less-developed countries are most vulnerable to climate change and least able to minimise its impacts. It is only fitting that the countries that caused the current climate crisis and benefited disproportionably from market globalisation should assist these vulnerable communities to cope. Indeed, rich countries have a legal obligation to do so under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
Our workshop and its 18-month follow-up process aim to facilitate the development of community-based climate adaptation initiatives, capacity-building and best practices, networking and information dissemination, identifying resources, education and coalition-building. The project further aims to promote Climate Change advocacy in connection with the ongoing UNFCCC negotiations in three distinct respects: demanding Just and Equitable outcomes on Climate Change adaptation assistance for vulnerable communities; demanding immediate Climate Change adaptation assistance, and demanding immediate Climate Change mitigation implementation by developed countries, so as to minimize the degree of climate change impacts on vulnerable communities and thus reducing the mounting human and financial costs of adaptation.
The workshop and its Follow-up process are mostly a Youth-led project, but the project is intended to be fully intergenerational, ethnically and geographically diverse, and gender balanced. All sectors of civil society, governments and business are encouraged to participate.
Mindful that CIVICUS is a generic civil society movement where members work on diverse sectorial areas, the workshop will ensure maximum participation and engagement by reaching out to civil society communities that are not necessarily focused on climate change. In the same spirit, with a view to assure inclusiveness and in order to reach out to the widest possible range of people in both the global South and the North, the workshop organizers, and presenters shall remain attentive to differences in cultural attitudes and geographic perspectives on climate change.
Organisers/Main Sponsors: CIVICUS UN and Global Youth Action Network
Co-sponsors: African Youth Initiative on Climate Change
First Peoples Movement
Earth Charter Youth Initiative
May 3rd, 2008 - 10:26:26 |
Vicente Garcia-Delgado
Draft "Climate Justice Workshop Participant Input Form" (Comments requested)
Climate Justice Workshop: Participant Input Form
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Name____________________________ e-mail____________________________
Organization______________________ website_________________________
Location___________________________ Country__________________________
Geographical Scope: Local__ Provincial__ Nat´l__ Regional__ Global__
Mission______________________________________________________________________________________________________
Activities on Climate Change Adaptation? Yes__ No__ Don’t know __
Brief description of Climate Change impacts already experienced in your community____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
What’s being done about it?________________________________________________________________________
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What in your opinion needs to be done about it?_______________________________
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At what level? Local__ Provincial__ Nat’l__ Global__ (mark one or more)
What resources are available?________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Please use back of form for additional information or to elaborate answers. Please return completed form to Vicente.
Apr 22nd, 2008 - 21:54:34 |
Vicente Garcia-Delgado
Climate Justice Workshop
2008 CIVICUS World Assembly
Status Report #1
21 April, 2008
Re: April 9 meeting: CIVICUS UN – Global Youth Action Network, co-organizers
From: Vicente García-Delgado CIVICUSUN@aol.com and
Franziska Seel franziska@takingitglobal.org
To: co-sponsors, supporters, contributors
Summary of meeting outcomes:
1. Civil Society organizations involved as of April 9, 2008:
1.1 CIVICUS UN and Global Youth Action Network, Main co-sponsors/organizers
African Youth Initiative on Climate Change (AYICC), co-sponsor and presenter
First Peoples (FP), co-sponsor and presenter
Earth Charter Youth Initiative (ECYI), co-sponsor and presenter
Federal Platform of Argentinean Youth (PFJA), supporter
Argentinean Youth Organisation for the United Nations, (OAJNU), supporter
1.2 On April 9, WWF-UK contacted us in connection with our earlier invitation to co-sponsor the workshop. They sought detailed information and are currently considering the matter.
2. Theme of workshop:
2.1 The primary focus of the workshop is Climate Change adaptation by vulnerable communities in developing and less-developed countries, including empowerment, capacity-building, best practices (what works and what doesn’t), networking, information dissemination, education, mobilization for adaptation, coalition building, resources, etc.
2,2 A secondary theme of the workshop is Climate Change advocacy in connection with ongoing UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) negotiations in three distinct respects:
Demanding Just and Equitable outcomes on Climate Change adaptation assistance for vulnerable communities;
Demanding immediate Climate Change adaptation assistance, and
Demanding immediate Climate Change mitigation implementation by developed countries, so as to minimize the degree of climate change impacts on vulnerable communities and thus reducing the mounting human and financial costs of adaptation.
3. Participants:
3.1 The workshop and its Follow-up process are mostly a Youth-led project, but are intended to be fully intergenerational, ethnically and geographically diverse, and gender balanced. All sectors of civil society, governments and business are welcome
3.2 Mindful that CIVICUS is a generic civil society movement where members work on diverse sectorial areas, the workshop will ensure maximum participation and engagement by reaching out to civil society communities that are not focused on climate change. In the same spirit, with a view to assure inclusiveness and in order to reach out to the widest possible range of people in both the global South and the North, the workshop organizers, and presenters shall remain attentive to differences in cultural attitudes and geographic perspectives on climate change.
4. Workshop format:
4.1 Rather than relying on a lecture-based facilitation methodology, the workshop is intended to encourage engagement and participation among all participants in order to bring forth ideas, suggestions and proposals on how best to organize, form new coalitions or empower existing efforts, develop common strategies and designs, and facilitate networking on citizen action/climate change (both at the local and global levels.)
4.2 Therefore, presenters time shall be limited to 5 minutes in order to maximize participation and interaction. Presenters and their organizations shall be introduced by the moderator based on individual bios, descriptions of their organizations and their specific activities on Climate Change adaptation previously submitted to the organizers in writing. (See Action Points under paragraph 12.3 below.)
4.3 One idea to actively involve workshop participants is to ask them in the few minutes prior to the start of the conversation, to write down on a file card their names, organizations, and a very brief description of the following 3 items:
How his/her community is being affected by Climate Change
What’s being done in terms of adaptation to Climate Change
What more needs to be done
These cards will be returned to the moderator, who shall aim to refer to as many of them as possible during the discussion, grouping them as appropriate on the basis of similar situations. The content of all cards shall be posted in the Follow-up webpage.
4.4 A “Story-telling” format for the presentations and discussions shall be favoured over more abstract descriptions.
4.5 Most important, the workshop shall be action oriented, emphasizing best practices and opportunities for positive results rather than simply describing situations.
5. Workshop outline:
The total time of the workshop is 90 minutes. It is suggested to use the time as follows:
1) Welcome & Introductions (5 mins)
2) Brief presentations by co-sponsors (15 mins; 5 mins each)
3) Interactive component involving workshop participants (40 mins)
4) Discussion about Follow-up process (30 mins)
6. Facilitation of workshop preparation:
6.1 To facilitate the preparation of the workshop a Project page has been set up on TakingITGlobal. The page can be accessed at:
http://projects.takingitglobal.org/climatejustice
6.2 All co-sponsors and supporters are expected to join the group mailing list, which will facilitate communication and information sharing leading up to the workshop. To join the group mailing list, please send your Name, E-Mail address and TIG username (if you already have one) to franziska@takingitglobal.org. You will then receive an invitation to join the group.
7. Main expected outcome:
A vibrant, participatory, interactive Follow-up process through which to carry out the themes that bring us together for effective community action on Climate Change.
8.Time-frame of Follow-up process:
From June 2008 (date of the workshop) to December 2009 (expected date of new Climate Change agreement)
9. Key time milestones of Follow-up process:
UNFCCC COP14, Poland, December 2008
UNFCCC COP15, Denmark, December 2009
10. Format of Follow-up process:
10.1 The format of the Follow-up process shall be determined by the organizers and co-sponsors taking due consideration of all suggestions offered by all workshop participants, and the needs of the civil society movement at large.
10.2 To the greatest extent possible, Follow-up from the workshop will be aligned with and support existing networks, programs and discussion groups, rather than create new structures.
10.3 Assuming funding is available, a particular focus of the Follow-up process could include the creation of a technologically advanced, user-friendly webpage designed to maximize participation and collaboration of civil society groups in adaptation implementation and advocacy efforts. Ideally, the webpage would provide spaces for text and video blogging, networking and interaction; list-serve; links to all organizations involved; useful links, etc.
11. Articles for e-CIVICUS:
11.1 e-CIVICUS, CIVICUS’ electronic newsletter has allocated five slots for articles on the themes of the workshop before, during and after the 2008 CIVICUS World Assembly.
11.2 The organizers and co-sponsors are encouraged to submit articles (max. 750 words) for publication in e-CIVICUS according to the following schedule:
Article #1, Pre-WA, Co-authored by CIVICUS UN and GYAN, co-organizers of the workshop (Deadline May 26)
Workshop description/experiences, Pre-WA, also co-authored by CIVICUS UN and GYAN (Deadline May 26)
Article #2, During-WA, Authored by Earth Charter Youth Initiative, co-sponsor (Deadline May 26)
Article #3, During-WA, Authored by African Youth Initiative on Climate Change, co-sponsor (Deadline May 26)
Article #4, During-WA, Authored by First Peoples, co-sponsor (Deadline May 26)
Article #5, Post-WA, co-authored by CIVICUS UN and GYAN (Deadline June 23)
11.3 Articles will also be published in the Follow-up process webpage, without limitation as to number.
12. Call for input and Action points:
12.1 Co-sponsors and contributors are encouraged to provide comments, suggestions and other input in regard to the contents of this Status Report, which should be viewed only as a working document, to be improved and adjusted as we go forward.
12.2 Co-sponsors are also asked to provide a brief summary of the ideas and input their organizations would like to present at the workshop itself (what do you think will be your organization’s unique contribution to this workshop?). The summaries should be shared with everyone through the group mailing list.
12.3 Action Points:
A) Presenter’s bio (including head-shot photo); brief description of co-sponsor organization and the nature of their work on climate change adaptation, including examples of specific actions or activities. Send to Vicente. Deadline April 30.
B) “Comments and suggestions” under pa. 12.1. Send to Franziska and Vicente and post in webpage. Deadline April 30.
C) “Summary of Ideas” under pa. 12.2. Send to Franziska and Vicente and post in webpage. Deadline, May 26
D) Organizers and co-sponsors’ articles for e-CIVICUS. Send Final Drafts and Final Version to Vicente. Deadlines: for Final Draft, May 22; Final Version, May 26.
E) Recommended background reading: UNDP 2006/2007 Human Development Report, particularly Chapter 4, “Adapting to the inevitable…”
http://hdr.undp.org/en/media/hdr_20072008_en_chapter4.pdf
Remember the two big dates: April 30 and May 26!
And, first of all, join the Project web page. (See pa 6.) Deadline for this, Yesterday!
Let’s try our best to make this workshop meaningful and helpful to all who may benefit from it and its Follow-up process.
We look forward to hearing from you all!
Vicente García Delgado, CIVICUS UN, CIVICUSUN@aol.com
Franziska Seel, Global Youth Action Network, franziska@takingitglobal.org
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