Copenhagen climate change conference in pictures: galeria Guardian
dezembro 12, 2009
Climategate = propaganda
Sarah Palin escreveu (!) um artigo (!!) que foi publicado no WashingtonPost e Guardian (??) com o sugestivo título de "Boycott Copenhagen", apoiada pelo recente mas facilmente desacreditado "Climategate", uma campanha patrocinada por empresas com interesse em espalhar dúvidas na opinião pública sobre a credibilidade de conclusões científicas validadas por uma enorme parte da comunidade científica. Sarah Palin, uma criacionista, escreve "I've always believed that policy should be based on sound science" e fica tudo dito. Não vale a pena citar o texto quando encontramos logo nos primeiros comentários:
"With the publication of damaging emails from a climate research center in Britain, the radical environmental movement" - Wow. Wrong before you'd finished your first sentence. The legends are true. Its not the "radical environmental movement" that says man-made climate change is happening and needs to be averted. Its not a few scientists who acted inappropriately either. Its the entire science of climatology. There you go. Done in four paragraphs. One of which was yours, and two of which were me just mucking about. I can see why Obama had such an easy time last autumn."
mas para que não fiquem dúvidas:
Climate denial industry
Num informativo (e informado) artigo de George Monbiot, podemos ficar a saber mais sobre a
"But people behind these campaigns know that their claims are untrue. One of the biggest was run by the Global Climate Coalition, which represented ExxonMobil, Shell, BP, the American Petroleum Institute and several big motor manufacturers. In 1995 the coalition's own scientists reported that "the scientific basis for the greenhouse effect and the potential impact of human emissions of greenhouse gases such as CO2 on climate is well-established and cannot be denied". The coalition hid this finding from the public, and spent millions of dollars seeking to persuade people that the opposite was true."
mais exemplos como o da imagem aqui
A antiglobalização quer chegar à idade adulta
artigo do jornal Público
"Há dez anos, uma manhã em Seattle mudou para sempre a forma de organizar mega-eventos internacionais. Mudou também a ideia de que o mundo acreditava na inevitabilidade do pensamento único e do capitalismo como resposta para todos os males. O movimento dos movimentos ou antiglobalização começava a sua ascensão. Os que fizeram refém a cidade de Seattle em 1999 querem agora mais. Querem tomar Copenhaga."
Activist Preparations in Copenhagen
Ahead of Major Climate Protests, a Rare Glimpse at Activist Preparations in Copenhagen
Here in Copenhagen, tens of thousands of people are expected to take part in a march Saturday protesting the failure of world leaders to address the climate crisis. Saturday’s march is just one of a series of major demonstrations scheduled over the week. Activists from around Europe and the world are flooding into Copenhagen. Meanwhile, the Danish police have launched its largest security effort. Last night, Democracy Now! got a rare tour inside several of the key convergent spaces where protest organizers are preparing for the demonstrations.
Police in Copenhagen arrested 68 protesters during the first day of serious demonstrations connected with the UN climate talks.
According to police, 250 activists met in Nytorv Square in the centre of the city at 10am before dispersing to targets including the Danish Energy Association, McDonalds, Deloitte, Repsol, Shell and the shipping company Maersk. Organisers, who had distributed maps to guide protesters, put the number of protesters at between 500 and 1,000.
A polícia dinamarquesa dispersou hoje uma manifestação, que acontecia ao som de frases anti-capitalistas, no centro de Copenhaga. Dezenas de pessoas foram detidas.
A manifestação, que respondeu ao apelo da coligação Climate Action Justice, reuniu cerca de 200 pessoas. Várias delas foram libertadas ontem à noite depois de terem sido detidas durante uma marcha para pedir um novo acordo climático global mais ambicioso.
dezembro 11, 2009
Climate Justice Fast
Climate Justice Activists Enter Day 34 of Hunger Strike
entrevista em Copenhaga (video) da Democracy Now à activista australiana Anna Keenan, de 24 anos, em greve de fome há 34 dias.
"My name is Anna Keenan. I’m from Australia, but I’ve been living in Europe for the last year. And I had my twenty-fourth birthday on day ten of the hunger strike. And now it’s day thirty-three of Climate Justice Fast, so I haven’t eaten in over a month."
mais sobre o Climate Justice Fast em:
Chief Bolivian Negotiator Says Developed Countries Owe Climate Debt - entrevista da Democracy Now
One of the countries leading the call for just climate reparations here at the COP15 talks is Bolivia. We speak with Bolivia’s chief climate negotiator, Angelica Navarro. “Twenty percent of the population have actually emitted more than two-thirds of the emissions. And as a result, they have caused more than 90 percent of the increase in temperatures,” Navarro says. “We are not begging for aid; we want developed countries to comply with their obligation and pay their debt.”
ANGELICA NAVARRO: What the Danish text seems to do is a merger of the two, which impose new obligations to developing countries. So we are the ones who are supposed now to be mitigating. And I’m asking, what will a developing country, rural men or women—indigenous women in Bolivia doesn’t even have electricity—will mitigate? And for what? So that developed countries can even have still have two, three cars?
Africa e a Cimeira de Copenhaga
Reacção africana (grupo G77 das nações mais pobres) ao esboço do texto de acordo preliminar entre Estados Unidos, Reino Unido e Dinamarca ("the danish text"). Este texto não contempla compensações significativas relativas ao Climate Debt, pretende acabar com o protocolo de Kyoto e desviar o controlo dos acordos sobre o Clima da ONU para o Banco Mundial e prevê ainda um nível aceitável para o aumento de temperatura na ordem dos 2 Cº:
Developing countries react furiously to leaked draft agreement that would hand more power to rich nations, sideline the UN's negotiating role and abandon the Kyoto protocol
"Today I witnessed an unexpected and extraordinary outburst of candour from one of the key players in these negotiations — Lumumba Di-Aping, Sudanese by birth and chief negotiator of the so-called G77 bloc (which mostly consists of poor countries)
He did not start his speech immediately. Instead he sat silently, tears rolling down his face. He put his head in his hands and said “We have been asked to sign a suicide pact.” The room was frozen into silence, shocked by the sight of a powerful negotiator, an African elder if you like, exhibiting such strong emotion. He apologised to the audience, but said that in his part of Sudan it was “better to stand and cry than to walk away.”
Speaking in measured tones, Di-Aping first attacked the 2 degrees C warming maximum that most rich countries currently consider acceptable. Referring continuously to science, in particular parts of the latest IPCC report (which he referenced by page and section) he said that 2 degrees C globally meant 3.5 degrees C for much of Africa. He called global warming of 2 degrees C “certain death for Africa”, a type of “climate fascism” imposed on Africa by high carbon emitters. He said Africa was being asked to sign on to an agreement that would allow this warming in exchange for $10 billion, and that Africa was also being asked to “celebrate” this deal.
He explained that, by wanting to subvert the established post-Kyoto process, the industrialised nations were effectively wanting to ignore historical emissions, and by locking in deals that would allow each citizen of those countries to carry on emitting a far greater amount of carbon per year than each citizen in poor countries, would prevent many African countries from lifting their people out of poverty. This was nothing less than a colonisation of the sky, he said. “$10 billion is not enough to buy us coffins”.
Obama, he said, would probably be brought to Copenhagen to ’sanctify’ this deal. “What is Obama going to tell his daughters? That their [Kenyan] relatives’ lives are not worth anything? It is unfortunate that after 500 years-plus of interaction with the West we [Africans] are still considered ‘disposables’
Calling the current deal that was being proposed “worse than no deal”, he called on Africans to reject it — “I would rather die with my dignity than sign a deal that will channel my people into a furnace.” Africans had to make clear demands of their leaders not to sign on. He suggested a couple of slogans: “One Africa, one degree” and “Two degrees is suicide”
O primeiro esboço oficial do novo plano global de luta contra as alterações climáticas salienta que a temperatura do planeta não deve aumentar mais do que 1,5 a 2ºC, segundo um documento a que a AFP teve acesso na conferência de Copenhaga.
O G8 e as principais economias do planeta chegaram a acordo, em Julho, na localidade italiana de L'Aquila (Itália), para um limite do aumento da temperatura a 2ºC, para lá do qual as consequências para o planeta seriam perigosas.
Mas os pequenos Estados insulares têm vindo a insistir que essa meta é perigosa. Durante a conferência de Copenhaga, estes países reforçaram os alertas, lembrando a ameaça real da subida do nível da água dos oceanos. A meta dos 1,5ºC é defendida por cem países.
Os representantes do Grupo Africano na conferência de Copenhaga declararam esta manhã em conferência de imprensa que a meta dos 2ºC não é suficiente porque, um aumento de 2ºC em todo o planeta traduz-se em mais de 3ºC no continente africano. "Precisamos de mais para garantir a sobrevivência do povo africano", declarou um dos representantes
Police Activity
A polícia dinamarquesa deteve esta manhã 35 simpatizantes do movimento “Our Climate - Not Your Business”, a título preventivo, por suspeitar que “se estariam a preparar para cometer actos ilegais”, informou Rasmus Bernt Skovgaard, o seu porta-voz.
Em resposta ao apelo daquele movimento, cerca de 250 jovens manifestaram-se em pontos estratégicos no centro da cidade de Copenhaga, com o slogan “Don’t buy the lie” (Não comprem a mentira). A manifestação não tinha sido autorizada pela polícia.
Activists: Police out of proportion
Last night at 3 am, around 200 police officers raided the Ragnhildgade centre in Northern Copenhagen where activists were staying during the Copenhagen climate talks. The police surrounded the building where the activists were sleeping and proceeded to confiscate a number of tools and materials, before leaving at around 4am.
In the early hours of Wednesday 9th December hundreds of police raided the accomodation centre at Ragnhildgade where climate protestors were sleeping. The police seized many items including work tools, meeting notes and work rotas, documents and permits, paint, and items for self defence including shields.
Police detain 200 activists at their Copenhagen accommodation and seize items they claim could be used for acts of civil disobedience
Uma rusga policial realizada ontem de madrugada em Copenhaga, capital dinamarquesa onde decorre a conferência climática das Nações Unidas, às instalações onde estavam alojados 200 activistas acabou na apreensão de um “kit” de desobediência civil.
12 Dezembro 2009
Dia Mundial de Acção pelo Clima:
350.org - Weekend of Action: 11-13 December - "The World Wants a Real Deal!"
Global day of Action - International Demonstrations on Climate Change
Porto:
12 December 2009 - 10:00pm - 11:45pm
Praça Mouzinho de Albuquerque
A partir das 22:00 do dia 12 de Dezembro, em plena Cimeira de Copenhaga, vamos acender uma vela de esperança num sítio emblemático e central do Porto, para mostrar que estamos de olhos postos na Cimeira e queremos que de lá saiam decisões vinculativas, imediatas e abrangentes a todo o planeta, quanto ás políticas sobre as Alterações Climáticas, e para mostrar a nossa solidariedade para com os cidadãos das nações cuja sobrevivência está ameaçada por esta crise climática.
Foto do dia
United States proposes to cut emissions to close to 4% below 1990 levels - pending congressional approval
como diz a t-shirt, Obama: You've won it, now earn it
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