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May 29th, 2008 - 13:41:18 |
Vicente Garcia-Delgado
Re Conference Civil Society on Climate
Change and Justice
From CIVICUS UN
Hi all,
I plan to present the outcomes of our workshop at this SIDA conference in late August.
Best,
Vicente
nternational Arena Conference
Civil Society on Climate
Change and Justice
25 – 27 August, 2008, Härnösand
Dear Vicente García-Delgado,
The Sida Civil Society Centre is pleased to invite you to participate in the conference "Civil society on climate change and justice", to be held at the Center in Härnösand, Sweden, on 25-27 August. [www.sida.se/scsc]
Aim:
The conference is intended to provide a platform for Swedish development CSOs and their partners in the South to discuss their responses and strategies for meeting the threats of climate change, in ways that do not compromise the development and rights of the poor. We are also inviting a number of resource persons from European and international CSOs and networks, in order to broaden the debate and explore opportunities for sharing of experiences, cooperation and coordination.
Background:
A reference group of CSOs has been formed, and a preliminary program has been drafted. A background briefing has also been produced, with the aim of providing an overview of a broad range of climate and development linkages, and of CSO responses in different contexts and situations. You are welcome to provide comments on the report, which is still in draft form, and to suggest additional examples that can be included in the overview. The draft program and background report are attached.
Within the next few days we will send you a registration form and a letter of invitation as well as information regarding travel arrangements and other
practical matters.
Welcome!
Dag Jonzon & Göran Eklöf
Sida Civil Society Center
May 26th, 2008 - 21:17:29 |
Vicente Garcia-Delgado
Re Physical Format for Workshop
From CIVICUS UN
Hi guys,
I was thinking that it might be a good idea to arrange the room chairs in a circle, with the presenters sitting among the participants rather than all together. Also, whoever speaks (moderator, facilitator, presenters) should stand up in the center of the circle, turning around their bodies as they make their presentations.
Down with top-down sitting arrangements!!
What do you think?
Best,
Vi
Vicente García-Delgado
May 26th, 2008 - 19:49:46 |
Vicente Garcia-Delgado
Re Climate Justice Workshop Articles for e-CIVICUS
CIVICUS UN/GYAN Article
Final Text sent to e-CIVICUS 26 May 2008
CIVICUS UN and GLOBAL YOUTH ACTION NETWORK
Climate Justice Workshop:
Organising for effective community action on climate change
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 Reijkiavik 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 predominantly poor South lack the capacity to minimize the effects 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 (leading up to the important climate change negotiations to be held in Copenhagen in December 2009,) aim to facilitate the development of community-based 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, 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.
Please join us at: http://projects.takingitglobal.org/climatejustice
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
Supporters: Plataforma Federal de Juventudes Argentinas
Organización Argentina de Juventud pro NNUU
May 26th, 2008 - 13:53:19 |
Vicente Garcia-Delgado
Dear Viktor, Neva
Re First Peoples Movement article for e-CIVICUS
From CIVICUS UN
Dear Viktor, Neva,
This is a friendly appeal regarding the FPM article for e-CIVICUS due today.
Please let us know if you are encountering difficulties in meeting today's deadline.
We would very much appreciate it if you would complete the other items set forth in my email yesterday.
Best regards,
Vicente
May 26th, 2008 - 13:43:14 |
Vicente Garcia-Delgado
Re Draft CIVICUS/GYAN Article for e-CIVICUS
From CIVICUS UN
CIVICUS UN and GLOBAL YOUTH ACTION NETWORK
Climate Justice Workshop:
Organising for effective community action on climate change
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 Reijkiavik 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 effects 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 (leading up to the important climate change negotiations to be held in Copenhagen in December 2009,) aim to facilitate the development of community-based 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, 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.
Please join us at: http://projects.takingitglobal.org/climatejustice
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
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