3HO Foundation UN Office - Climate Issues at Bali Conference

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3HO FOUNDATION

UNITED NATIONS OFFICE

 

Sat Nam!

Dear Friends,

 

I would be grateful if you can share with all those who may be interested

the forwarded alert (please scroll down) from AVAAZ, a non-profit global

campaigning organisation working to ensure that the views and values of

the world's peoples inform the global decision making process.

www.avaaz.org

Humbly in service,

 

Deva Kaur

 

 

CLIMATE WRECKING AT UN CONFERENCE

IN BALI ON CLIMATE CHANGE:

 

 

 

 

Dear friends,

 

We're here at the climate summit in Bali -- but it's

reached crisis point. Working late, negotiators were nearing consensus

that developed countries should pledge post-Kyoto emissions cuts by

2020 --a step which the scientists say is needed to avert the worst

ravages of global warming, and which will help to bring China and the developing

world onboard. But then the news broke: the US, Canada and Japan rejected

any mention of such cuts. Every few hours the draft changes.

 

We can't let three governments hold the world to ransom: so we're launching

a global emergency petition before the summit climax in 48 hours. We'll

deliver our message every way we can -- a stark full-page advertisement

in the Jakarta Post conference supplement which all the delegates are reading,

stunts at the conference gates, direct to country negotiators -- telling

Canada, Japan and the US to accept the option of post-Kyoto targets, and

the rest of the world to settle for nothing less.

 

Please take a moment right now to sign the new global emergency petition

-- the text is in the box above, so click this link to sign automatically

if you've taken action with us before -- then tell all your friends

:

 

http://www.avaaz.org/en/bali_emergency/7.php

 

 

Today marks the 10th anniversary of the expiring Kyoto pact, but Japan,

the US and Canada don't seem to want a workable global deal to follow it.

There is almost universal agreement in Bali that the idea of 2020 climate

targets should be included, making possible a deal to bring the developing

world onboard over time. As the news links below make clear, the US, Japan

and Canada are destroying that delicate bargain, not even allowing the

idea to be mentioned.

 

We're doing everything we can. Tens of thousands of Canadian Avaaz

members have launched an ad campaign telling their government not to betray

them -- our Japanese members are emailing their leaders -- while our American

members will send their own message to Bali as Al Gore and Congressional

and local representatives land there, asking negotiators to ignore the

official US delegation because it does not represent them.

 

Coming from every country on earth, all of us can play a direct role

in the Bali face-off by signing this global emergency petition -- delivered

at the summit gates, in a full-page Financial Times ad, and direct to delegates.

Add your name at this link, act now and spread the word -- we have just

48 hours:

 

http://www.avaaz.org/en/bali_emergency/7.php

 

 

With determination and hope,

 

Paul, Ricken, Galit, Ben, Iain, Graziela, Milena and the whole Avaaz team

 

 

PS This article explains a bit of what's going on:

 

http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/12/10/news/climate.php

 

The New Scientist has more detail here:

 

http://www.newscientist.com/blog/environment/2007/12/bali-draft-hints-emissions-targets-may_10.html

 

 

 

ABOUT AVAAZ

Avaaz.org

is an independent, not-for-profit global campaigning organization that

works to ensure that the views and values of the world's people inform

global decision-making. (Avaaz means " voice " in many languages.)

Avaaz receives no money from governments or corporations, and is staffed

by a global team based in London, New York, Paris, Washington DC, Geneva,

and Rio de Janeiro.

 

 

To contact Avaaz, please do not reply to this email. Instead, write

to info

.. You can also send postal mail to our New York

office: 260 Fifth Avenue, 9th floor, New York, NY 10001 U.S.A.

 

If you have technical problems, please go to http://www.avaaz.org.

 

 

 

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