Canadian Cleantech Seminar Program,

Energy Efficiency Exporters Alliance sponsored by the EDC. Jeff Culp here promotes the progress of Net Zero Energy Housing project (NZEH) in Mexico.

Nova Scotia Clean Technologies:
1)Enabling Transformation to Low Carbon Economy
2)LED Roadway Lights
3)Tidal Power

Fiesta Americana Coral Beach Hotel ,Cancun,Coral Gallery B room Dec.8th,2010
(9:30am-11:30am)

Oil Reps:Courtesy of Alberta Gov't.-Dec.8th,2010

David Hone: Senior Climate Change Adviser, Shell International
Paul Jefferiss :Head for Energy, Climate and Environment, BP
Dr. Eugenio Laris: Project Director, Federal Electricity Commission (Comisión Federal de Electricidad, CFE), Mexico
Bob Pegler: Senior Vice President Europe Global Carbon Capture and Storage Institute
Rob Renner: Minister of Environment of Alberta, Canada


From left to right: BP rep;..Alberta Environment Minister-Rob Renner;...Shell Rep. at the Cora Beach Hotel meeting room. Not very well attended. Strong presence of Alberta every which way.
Edmonton... Environment Minister Rob Renner travelled to Cancun, Mexico to represent Alberta’s interests and priorities for a global greenhouse gas reduction framework at the United Nation’s 16th annual climate change conference (COP16) from December 6 to 10.

“The world must find solutions to the challenge of meeting a growing global energy demand, retaining economic growth and reducing emissions,” said Renner. “While climate change is the focus in Cancun, others will want to hear about the environmental performance of our oil sands. I will take this opportunity to talk about Alberta’s successes, challenges and the importance of our energy resource to all Canadians. We have a record to be proud of and an important story to tell.”
As a part of the Canadian delegation at COP16, Alberta will continue to put forward priorities for an international agreement that is fair, achievable and transparent. From the province’s perspective, an agreement must include all emitters and have the right focus on technology development and deployment, while creating confidence that the world can reduce emissions and have strong economies.

Renner will also meet with other jurisdictions to discuss Alberta’s:

$2-billion investment in carbon capture and storage;
experience operating North America’s only emission reduction program;
mandatory targets for all large emitters;
regulated offset market;
price on carbon; and
clean energy technology fund, which has already collected $187 million.
The estimated cost for Renner and his Executive Assistant to attend for five days is $4,500.

Room Coral Kingdom 2 of Coral Beach

Rishchynski:Ambassador to Mexico

Guillermo E. Rishchynski was appointed as Canada’s Ambassador to the United Mexican States in September 2007.
The Ambassador was born in Toronto, Ontario in 1953 and was raised in Panama and the United States before returning to Canada to complete university studies at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, where he obtained an Honours B.A. in Political Science in 1975. He has also undertaken Graduate Studies at the Norman Patterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University in Ottawa. He speaks English, Spanish, French and Portuguese fluently, and has participated as a speaker and panellist at numerous international conferences and fora.

Ambassador Rishchynski is married to Jeannette Portillo Tinoco, and they have two children: Giselle Marie and Anthony Joseph

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SIANI:Swedish International Agricultural Network Initiative

There is currently no provision for soil carbon sequestration within the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) and overall there are very few financing mechanisms that support agricultural mitigation.

Panel:
Mr Peter Holmgren, Director Environment, Climate Change and Bioenergy at the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Rome

Dr Ademola Braimoh, Senior Natural Resources Management Specialist, Agriculture and Rural Development Department (ARD) at the World Bank, Washington

Dr Joan Kagwanja, Policy Officer at the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), Nairobi

Mr Juan Hoffmaister, Negotiator for Bolivia on Agriculture and Researcher at the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI), Stockholm

Mr Amos Wekesa, Environment and Climate Change Advisor to the Vi-Agroforestry program of the Swedish Cooperative Centre (SCC), Kenya

Ms Shefali Sharma, Senior Program Officer of Trade and Global Governance at the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP), Minneapolis

This event was organised and moderated by the Swede Melinda Fones- herself a farmer-
(P.S. She did NOT look too happy- maybe due to the vast expense-maybe due to lack of interest..But I am very grateful that she allowed me to attend- Imagine Bio-char??!!)

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An Edmonton Couple, who run the Captain Hook Tourist Business down the road, explained to me the Restoration of the beach- which had been devastated by Hurricane Juan, a few years ago; And that a Norwegian business had dug up sand and rebuilt the beach P , which is now the Jewel of the Caribbean. Ingenuity, Money and Norwegian know how! Interesting!

Biodiversity Sub-plenary Session: Forest Day

5 December 2010, Cancun Center, Conventions and Exhibitions, Boulevard Kukulcan, Cancún

The aim of this session at Forest Day 4 is to bring together a group of key experts and decision makers to identify and promote
synergies between efforts to safeguard biodiversity, tackle climate change, and implement sustainable forest management.
We will discuss achievements of the International Year of Biodiversity, and identify further opportunities for synergies in policy
and practice during the International Year of Forests in 2011 and towards Rio+20 in 2012.
Encouraging examples exist of the inclusion of biodiversity objectives in pilot and demonstration activities for Reducing
Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+), as well as in national climate change adaptation efforts.
The session will build on successful efforts at national level to conserve, restore and sustainably use forest biodiversity in
support of climate change mitigation and adaptation, and it will identify how the international policy framework could further
support such synergies.

A high level panel will address the following issues:
1. How are national governments mainstreaming biodiversity objectives into REDD+ pilot and demonstration activities?
2. How can countries harness the potential of forest biodiversity for climate change adaptation?
3. How can the international policy framework better support countries in their efforts to achieve biodiversity and climate
change synergies?
4. What opportunities for forest biodiversity lie ahead in the International Year of Forests 2011 and towards Rio +20 in 2012,
and how can we best use them?

Panelists:
• Maria Fernanda Espinosa, Minister of National Heritage, Ecuador (Very Good!!)
• Connie Hedegaard, European Commissioner for Climate Action ( No Show)
• Jose Sarukhan, President, CONABIO, Mexico
• Vicky Tauli-Corpuz, TEBTEBBA (Indigenous Peoples’ International Centre for Policy Research and Education)

Bus Hub at Cancun Messe

The transit Hub at Cancun Messe

The view outside my window

Bureaucrats Gone Wild in Cancun

by the Tea Party

Co-chair of IPCC: Climate policy distributes the world’s new wealth « Canadians for Action on Climate Change

Co-chair of IPCC: Climate policy distributes the world’s new wealth « Canadians for Action on Climate Change

Edenhofer, a German economist who is "co-chair of the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) Working Group III on Mitigation of Climate Change

"The climate summit in Cancun at the end of the month is not a climate conference, but one of the largest economic conferences since the Second World War."

"it’s a big mistake to discuss climate policy separately from the major themes of globalization."

"has almost nothing to do with environmental policy anymore, with problems such as deforestation or the ozone hole."

German to English translation | Original Speech Below

14 November 2010, NZZ am Sonntag
"Climate policy distributes the world’s new wealth

Climate change has to do with environmental protection, with little, says the economist Ottmar Edenhofer. The next world climate summit in Cancun is really a business summit during which concerns the distribution of resources.

Interview: Bernard Potter

COP16 | CMP6 :International Union of Architects (UIA)

COP16 CMP6 - Details - News
The leader of the International Union of Architects (UIA), Louise Cox, presented the "Notice of Cancun," after the demonstration in the town of Climate Change. Cox said it is necessary to work against climate change to keep our way of life and local heritage.

According to the document explains, the architectural design can’t be independent of its environment must be constructive and responsible to the environment.Buildings must have a strong foundation to nurture the welfare of its inhabitants, who are comfortable while sustainable and affordable for everyone.

The future vision of the architects needs to include an appreciation of the natural principles of environment, cultural heritage and use materials that are available in the region.

Through the "Notice of Cancun," the UIA want to disseminate and reinforce the strategy Architectural Design Manager launched during the COP15 in Copenhagen, Denmark, in December 2009. The members of this NGO are committed to building a sustainable world through design and ensure that architects take a responsible attitude.

Tar Sands tailings poisons muskeg and nearby First Nations community

Tar Sands tailings poisons muskeg and nearby First Nations community | rabble.ca by Ben Powless with pictures.
The trip out to the tar sands tailings pond reminded me of other recent trips to places where indigenous people were trying to survive.

It recalled for me a trip out to the Russian Arctic earlier this year to visit a group of Saami (Indigenous) reindeer herders struggling to maintain their way of life, and also the work I did last year with a group of Amazonian peoples who were trying to stop oil companies and oil spills in the Peruvian jungles.

But in the end this was far worse, even compared with those two dire situations, and it was being promoted by the Canadian and Alberta governments.

We left on a pair of four wheelers in the afternoon, embracing the freezing temperatures and snow for about six hours to gather footage of what I was promised would be a shocking find. And it was -- when we finally arrived on the site of the Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. -- CNRL -- tailings pond (which, at about five-km long and one-km wide, was more of a lake), we saw tailings being released on the opposite shore, flowing out and covering the muskeg and bush underneath. I was accompanied by Mike Orr, a councillor in the community of Fort McKay and avid hunter and trapper, and his daughter.

Here we were, standing on traplines and hunting trails that remain in use by members of the Fort McKay First Nation, as the toxic waste covered many hectares with an oily ooze...

IIED activities at COP16 in Cancun

Planet Earth We Have A Problem

Planet Earth We Have A Problem
Video 2008 in Sweden.


Planet Earth We Have A Problem


Beyond the Tipping Point: Feedback Dynamics

and the onset of Runaway Climate Change
David Wasdell delivered this copiously illustrated presentation on the 29th June 2008 to the Strategy-Planning workshop of the Tällberg Forum in the heart of Sweden. It was subsequently recorded in studio conditions and beautifully produced by the staff team of the Tällberg Foundation who also added an introduction by their Chairman, Bo Ekman.

After a basic introduction to climate dynamics, the powerful feedback system, already accelerating climate change, is analysed. It is argued that we have already passed the tipping point that marks the onset of runaway climate change, and are fast approaching the critical threshold beyond which the behaviour becomes unstoppable. The presentation concludes with an outline of the global strategy now urgently required to re-stabilise the life-support system of Planet Earth.

Bali and Beyond:HOC 2007 Briefing-Scary

Bali and Beyond

This leading edge scientific update was delivered to a packed audience in the House of Commons in June 2007. It was released in the approach to the Bali Meeting of the UNFCCC because it presents material not yet addressed by the IPCC, but which is absolutely critical to the decision-making process at and beyond that event.

Over the last two years there has been a profound shift in the scientific understanding of the behaviour of the earth's climate system. Although some specific feedback mechanisms were included in the more advanced climate models, the analysis of climate dynamics as a whole has proceeded far beyond that portrayed in the latest IPCC Assessment Report. It was not taken into consideration in the Stern Report, in the formulation of the Climate Bill currently before the UK Parliament, or in the process of target-setting of the present round of International negotiations.

Almost all of the systems known to affect climate change are now in a state of net positive (amplifying) feedback. Each feedback mechanism accelerates its own specific process. The output of each feedback is an input to all other feedbacks, so the system as a whole constitutes an interactive set of mutually reinforcing sub-systems.

This "second order" feedback system accelerates the rate of climate change and faces us with the possibility of a "tipping point" in the whole earth system. If we go beyond the point where human intervention can no longer stabilise the system, then we precipitate unstoppable runaway climate change.

The implication is that climate change is non-linear. Once set in motion it is acceleratingly self-perpetuating. There is then only a small time-window within which human intervention has any (rapidly diminishing) chance of halting the process and returning the system to a stable state. Failure to act effectively within that window of opportunity would inevitably precipitate cataclysmic change on a par with the five mass extinction events known to have obliterated almost all life on earth.

Strategically we have to generate a negative feedback intervention of sufficient power to overcome the now active positive feedback process. We then have to maintain its effectiveness during the remaining period of rising temperature, while temperature-driven positive feedbacks continue to operate. That is an extraordinarily difficult task, out of all comparison with

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Rumbo a Cancún: - Decolonizing Environmentalism

This is the first of many blog posts that I will be posting from México introducing these unlikely negotiators and observers where, as Martin Khor said after Copenhagen last year, we are "not only negotiating the future of humanity and the earth but also the future distribution of the GDP of the world."

We are calling the delegation the "Grassroots Solutions to Climate Justice" Alliance for North America. We are Indigenous and Native peoples from North America, youth and young people from frontline and fenceline communities, economic and racial justice representatives from the same (where incinerators, pipelines, oil rigs, refineries, chemical plants, power plants, uranium mines, nuclear power plants, coal mines, in Indian Country and Appalachia, in urban America and the Gulf Coast, are located), and environmental justice organizations and leaders.


The blog posts will include updates from the inside of the negotiations, but also updates from members of our delegations who are on the road, meeting with indigenous and small farmer organizations and communities along the way, from caravans with La Via Campesina, that originated in Chiapas, Acapulco and other points.

It is fitting that we begin the coverage with a profile of the Indigenous Environmental Network, or IEN. At home in the United States, most people are preparing meals and gathering together families of all kinds for what is called Thankgiving, but is also called Thanks-taken, or Indigenous People's Genocide Day, or Indigenous People's Day of Mourning. Where I grew up, in the Northeast, the myth of

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The Dialogs for Water and Climate Change will be held from December 1st to 6th, 2010, during the 16th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP 16), in the Fiesta Americana Coral Beach hotel, in Cancun, Mexico. As these events will be held outside the COP 16 venue, to take part you only need to register through this website and have your registration confirmed by the organizers. On December 8th, a high-level panel will be held on the Mexican Pavilion in Cancun Messe, one of the official venues of COP 16, which is open only to accredited COP 16 participants. This section will provide details on how to take part, including hotel accommodation and visa requirements to enter Mexico.

Cancún is indeed a nest of serpents – sitting in a vast, toxic rubbish dump | Luis Hernandez Navarro | Comment is free | The Guardian

Cancún is indeed a nest of serpents – sitting in a vast, toxic rubbish dump Luis Hernandez Navarro Comment is free The Guardian

Cancún is indeed a nest of serpents – sitting in a vast, toxic rubbish dumpLet's hope the UN climate change convention will expose the devastation wreaked on Mexico by its government's negligence


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Luis Hernandez Navarro guardian.co.uk, Thursday 25 November 2010 21.30 GMT Article historyNext week, Mexico hosts the UN convention on climate change in Cancún. It is ironic that such an important conference on the environment should take place in a country whose environment has been devastated, and in a city that exemplifies everything you should not do if you wish to protect the environment.

Cancún the city perfectly illustrates the light and shade of uncontrolled development; it is an emblem of both modernity and backwardness. Cancún – "nest of serpents" in the pre-Hispanic language – was born four decades ago from a government decision. A place of great natural beauty – a deserted island separated from the mainland by narrow channels, a series of lagoons, and a stretch of coast surrounded by virgin rainforest and pristine beaches – it was decided that it should be transformed into the country's most important tourist attraction.

Hundreds of tons of concrete, steel and glass were used to create "the bankers' dream" – a massive enterprise involving developers, politicians and multinational hotel chains who financed the construction of more than 27,000 hotel rooms and an urban centre with more than 700,000 inhabitants. The project has proved to be ecocidal, and left thousands without proper sanitation or adequate water or electricity.

Cancún draws in foreign currency and attracts almost half of Mexico's tourist trade; at the same time, it is a symbol of poverty. This expanding city in a nation without jobs draws in every kind of fortune seeker – money launderers, sex traders, drug traffickers.

In reality there are two cities, linked by a broad avenue, that share a name. One is the city of privilege and pleasure, the other a place of scarcity. There can be few places less appropriate for a world climate change conference.

Food Security and Human Rights in Small Island Developing States and the Arctic - CICERO

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Beaches, bargaining and building blocks at the Cancun climate talks | Pembina Institute

Beaches, bargaining and building blocks at the Cancun climate talks | Pembina Institute by Clare Demers

Like a lot of climate colleagues from around the world, I'll be packing my flip-flops later this week for the UN climate talks in Cancun, Mexico. Although I've never been much of a beach person, I'm hoping that the two-week conference can deliver some of the building blocks we need for a global effort to tackle climate change.

A year ago, we headed into a similar meeting in Copenhagen hoping to see countries agree to a binding deal. Those negotiations fell far short, and as a result, expectations are more modest this time: Cancun is widely understood as a potential stepping stone on the path to a full agreement a year from now, at the South Africa talks in 2011.....

Todd Stern's remarks on the United Nations Climate Change

Q&A: Cancun climate change conference 2010 - Telegraph

Q&A: Cancun climate change conference 2010 - Telegraph

Q&A: Cancun climate change conference 2010
More than 190 nations are meeting in Cancun, Mexico for the latest round of United Nations talks towards a global deal on stopping catastrophic climate change.
By Louise Gray, Environment Correspondent 4:16PM GMT 23 Nov 2010
What is happening at the Cancun climate summit?

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) was set up to stop global temperatures rising above dangerous levels as a result of man made emissions. Each year the Conference of the Parties (COP) meet to discuss progress. This is COP 16. The ultimate aim is a global deal that commits the world to cutting greenhouse gases by 50 per cent by 2050. Other ways to cut emissions include deals to stop deforestation and help poor countries develop in a green way.

Who will be there?

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Officials and environment ministers from 194 countries will meet at the Moon Palace Hotel and the Cancunmesse on the coastal resort of Cancun, Mexico. All together an estimated 15,000 people representing Governments, charities and media will travel to Cancun for the conference.

What does this have to do with Copenhagen?

The last meeting of the COP in Copenhagen ended in recrimination and failure. The meeting was billed as ‘the last chance to save the planet’ and world leaders including US President Barack Obama turned up. However rich and poor nations failed to agree on a legally binding target to cut emissions. Instead a weak ‘Copenhagen Accord’ was signed that allows countries to choose their own targets but has no power to force them to keep the promises.

Will this time be different?

In comparison to Copenhagen this meeting has been massively down played, largely because ministers from all countries do not want to look stupid again for promising a deal that is unlikely. World leaders are not even turning up this time, leaving it to their environment and foreign ministers.

So will anything be achieved?

It is generally agreed that a global deal to cut emissions is unlikely. Indeed Christiania Figueres, the head of the talks, believes a single, definitive and all-encompassing deal is unlikely to happen in her lifetime. However supporters of the process are hopeful that the talks could make progress towards a deal by putting in place the ‘functioning architecture’. For example it needs to be decided how emissions will be “monitored, reported and verified” before countries are happy to sign up to targets.

Who are the main players?

Christiania Figueres, the executive secretary of UNFCCC, a former negotiator from Costa Rica, is in charge of the talks. Fernando Tudela, Mexico’s main delegate, who is hoping for a breakthrough. Connie Hedegaard, EU climate action commissioner, is not too optimistic about negotiations. Xie Zhenhua, China's lead climate official, wants to see developed countries "do more and do better". Todd Stern, the US special envoy for climate change, believes each country should choose their own targets.

What are the main issues?

The ultimate aim of agreeing a global deal on cutting emissions is likely to be put to one side for now because it is so difficult for the world to agree. Instead there may be a series of ‘mini-deals’ on issues like deforestation, with rich nations agreeing to pay poor nations not to chop down trees. Countries could also decide how to share information on green technology so poor nations do not miss out on the opportunities to cut emissions through new inventions. A key issue is 'climate finance', which is the money paid out to poor countries to help them fight climate change.

Is there any money on the table?

Yes $100 (£60) billion by 2020 to help poor countries adapt to climate change and cut emissions. However there are further discussions on how this money will be raised. One of the most popular suggestion is through a tax on aviation and shipping. There is also a question over who will dole out funds. Will it be the World Bank or a whole new institution? This money will be used to help persuade developing nations to cut emissions. In the short term there is $10 (£6) billion per annum up to 2013 to help poor countries start adapting to climate change now. The UK has pledged £1.5 billion towards this ‘Fast Start Fund’.

COP16 Hysteria UN “World Is On Track For Mutually Assured Destruction” « Tory Aardvark

COP16 Hysteria UN “World Is On Track For Mutually Assured Destruction” « Tory Aardvark
You can always tell when there is another Climate Change scam conference due, there is a definite change in the climate, or should that be weather?

It is all one and the same to the disciples of the Church of Climatology as the ill wind of warming alarmist fear radiates from the new scam central in Cancun.

Climategate was barely hatched and wobbly on it’s feet at Copenhagen, a year down the road and Climategate has hatched Glaciergate, IPCCgate in fact more gates than a gate shop has, the lasting damage done to the credibility of the IPCC and whole Climate Disruption scam is incalculable, Anthropogenic Global Warming is dead it just hasn’t hit the ground yet.

The Church of Climatology is in terminal decline but still the warming alarmists persist with their junk science and fear messages but then the Oracle at Delphi for the warming alarmists, the IPCC says there is no Climate Emergency, it’s all been a scam to redistribute wealth.

If you feel like a laugh you can read the script for the low budget horror movie here.

Climate Change - Andrew Steer "The Silent Revolution"

Developing countries urgently need a global deal on climate change but they’re not waiting for it says Andrew Steer, the World Bank’s Special Envoy for Climate Change.

Speaking to reporters in advance of the UN climate conference in Cancun next week, Steer outlined how developing countries are taking action on climate change and how the World Bank Group is helping.

The World Bank is supporting climate change activities in some 130 countries, Steer said, and a “silent revolution” is going on in terms of developing countries taking action.

"We are struck month by month by how much innovation is going on. Over the last two years, 80 percent of Bank client countries have asked that climate change be one of the pillars we work with them on,” he said. “This is up from about 10 percent ten years ago.”

This is money they could be using for other things but countries are choosing to use it for adaptation, to acquire clean technology, Steer continued.

Asked about what he thinks constitutes success in Cancun, he said progress can be made on two levels—a set of formal decisions on key topics like finance, forests, transfer of technology, mitigation and monitoring and a series of new initiatives on a range of issues that represent real progress.

Describing what he calls such “complementary” initiatives, Steer said there is enormous potential with agriculture.

Action on soil carbon is an opportunity to transform agriculture from climate change problem

The World Bank - Climate Change - Deal or no deal at Cancun, developing countries not waiting: Andrew Steer

The World Bank - Climate Change - Deal or no deal at Cancun, developing countries not waiting: Andrew Steer Video

Businesses Join Together to Drive Global Climate Protection at COP16 – Press Releases on CSRwire.com

Businesses Join Together to Drive Global Climate Protection at COP16 – Press Releases on CSRwire.com

The World Climate Summit is hosting a business and finance conference accelerating solutions to climate change on December 4-5, in Cancun, Mexico. This new, open and collaborative summit is the beginning of a 10-year framework that will support business, finance, and government leaders with designing and implementing solutions locally and globally, setting the world on a clean and prosperous path by 2020.

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Monbiot.com » The Process Is Dead

Monbiot.com » The Process Is Dead That is good enough for me - I am too unable to walk to go...besides it is a lost cause.

Conferencia de Prensa Green solutions@COP16

Climate Denial Crock of the Week - Climate Change and National Security

Cancun Climate Conference News and Video

Cancun Climate Conference News and Video
Interactive live coverage Dec.1st-10th

A fair climate deal for the Pacific now

A fair climate deal for the Pacific now
Oxfam's Wave of Change united people from around New Zealand to tell decision makers to Protect our Pacific. Climate change costs lives. It's already having a devastating impact on poor communities in developing countries, particularly in the Pacific. Last year world leaders failed to agree to a fair and strong climate deal in Copenhagen. In November of this year they are gathering again, this time in Cancun. The problem has not gone away and neither has public concern that industrialised countries should be doing much more to help vulnerable communities on the front lines of climate change. For more information, visit: www.oxfam.org.nz/climatechange

Nagoya's hopes and dreams- The Protocol

For business, particularly companies using biodiversity as the source and
inspiration for innovative ingredients for food and personal care products,
the Nagoya Protocol will mean growing calls for measures to consider
and put in practice fair and equitable benefit sharing. The Nagoya Protocol
now clearly encompasses research and development to identify new
bioactive compounds and natural ingredients for food, supplement and
cosmetics products. The Nagoya Protocol also foresees mechanisms
that will facilitate and control the implementation of access and benefit
sharing principles along the supply chain. As a result, the Nagoya Protocol
reasserts the need for companies to monitor, understand and comply
with access and benefit sharing requirements. In addition, by providing
a clearer and more level playing field, it also opens up opportunities for
companies already working towards ethical practices in their sourcing of
biodiversity.
The objective of this note is to provide a brief overview of the Nagoya
Protocol. In particular, this note focuses on the provisions that may have
a bearing on companies working with biodiversity-based ingredients in
the food and personal care sectors, and explains their relevance and
rationale. It should be kept in mind, however, that the Nagoya Protocol
is only a starting point. A lot of the meaning and practical consequences
of its provisions will depend on its further development in the context of
the CBD, as well as its implementation at the national level.

UEBT technical brief on the Nagoya Protocol

Dear colleagues,
The recently-adopted Nagoya Protocol on access and benefit sharing constitutes a landmark in the international governance of biodiversity, even if only with time will its exact meaning and possible implications be ascertained. As a reaffirmation of the importance of access and benefit sharing and a set of rules to facilitate, promote and ensure its effective implementation, it is already clear, however, that the Nagoya Protocol is relevant for a range of stakeholders - particularly companies using biodiversity in their research and development activities.

Please find enclosed a technical brief on the Nagoya Protocol, prepared by the Union for Ethical BioTrade (UEBT). Although not a comprehensive or in-depth analysis of the Nagoya Protocol, the technical brief does provide an overview of its main provisions, particularly as they may have a bearing on companies working with biodiversity-based ingredients in the food and personal care sectors. It may be more broadly useful, nevertheless, in all your work towards analyzing and putting in practice these provisions.

Any questions or comments are most welcome.

Many thanks,

Julia

Agriculture and Rural Development Day 2010: Dec.4th,Sat.

Agriculture and Rural Development Day 2010
Agriculture is where climate change, food security, and development intersect!
Agriculture and Rural Development Day 2010, held in parallel to COP16, will bring agriculture sector adaptation and mitigation strategies to the forefront of the global climate treaty negotiations. It will demonstrate clearly that agriculture is where climate change, food security, and development intersect. It informs the climate change negotiations and advocates for a COP decision on a “work program for agriculture” — and at the same time looking beyond the negotiations.

Agriculture and Rural Development Day 2010 will show how agricultural development can contribute to low emission futures, while adapting to climate change and enhancing supporting sustainable food security. The ensuing messages together with those of Forest Day 4 will be presented jointly at an official COP side event.

Last year’s Agriculture and Rural Development Day had increased the focus on the link between agriculture, food security and climate change, as well as forestry. This year we will build on that success by identifying policies and practical solutions to reduce agriculture-related greenhouse gas emissions and strengthen global food security and rural development.

Planned 2010 themes
•Agricultural intensification as an REDD strategy
•Agricultural mitigation and carbon sequestration
•Adaptation for food security and development outcomes
•Capturing carbon finance, including through forestry, for agricultural development
•What scientific, technological, and methodological aspects need to be considered to advance agriculture’s contribution to mitigation and adaptation?

Agriculture to Have Its Day Again « CGIAR in Action

Agriculture to Have Its Day Again « CGIAR in Action

Building on vigorous efforts made last year to incorporate agriculture into climate change negotiations, Agriculture and Rural Development Day 2010 will be held in parallel with the 16th Conference of the Parties (COP16) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) taking place at Cancún, Mexico, in early December.

A similar event held last year in conjunction with COP15 in Copenhagen – the first such meeting – brought together about 300 policy makers, scientists, farmers and others to discuss strategies and actions needed for climate change mitigation and adaptation in agriculture. This year, a larger group of experts will focus on global agriculture at the intersection of climate change, food security and rural development, with the aim of identifying policies and practical solutions to address these closely intertwined issues.

Hosted by a consortium of organizations, including the CGIAR, Agriculture and Rural Development Day 2010 will feature keynote speeches, round-table discussions and a marketplace of ideas. The outcomes will be presented, together with those of Forest Day 4, at an official COP16 side event to inform climate change negotiations.

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Global Forum Ocean Day : Dec.4th,2010

Global Forum Ocean Day | Ocean Climate

London - Cancun, closer to COP16 - Blog Judith Macgregor

I guess some people have it all- chauffeur limousine to the airport; jet setting around the world as "WORK"; and dressed nice and clean - without the mishap of dirt;of cold; or rain.
I guess I am jealous- but I am grateful to have a warm shelter during this Canadian blizzard; and I thought the goal was for those that " have" to give to the "have not"- NOT a trade excursion for Britain.

And her taxi is paid for her- ...I can only dream on..those that have ,just get more...

Indígenas exigen un papel en la cumbre de cambio climático de Cancún - Planeta CNN - CNNMéxico.com

Indígenas exigen un papel en la cumbre de cambio climático de Cancún - Planeta CNN - CNNMéxico.com

MEXICO CITY (AP) - Representatives of several Indian groups on Wednesday demanded the right to participate in discussions to combat climate change, in the context of the summit to be held in Cancun from 29 November to 10 December next.

Meeting at the National Indigenous Council on Climate Change, developed this week, leaders of ethnic-like Purépecha, the Zapotec and Totonac- announced an action plan to be presented at the Sixteenth Conference of the Parties (COP 16) of the UN, to be attended as observers.

In a document entitled Declaration of Indigenous Peoples of Mexico on Climate Change, the groups are calling on all parties involved in this summit, especially the Mexican government to take them into account in making decisions.

The text in addition to demand- reduction of emissions of greenhouse gases and dependence on fossil fuels, greater respect for life forms and indigenous development models, as well as recognition of the rights they have on their territories.

The declaration calls for leaving "the false solutions to climate change linked to market mechanisms," citing as an example mega wind power and hydropower, as well as carbon credits, nuclear power, biofuels and GM crops to begin without prior consultation indigenous groups.

The partnerships seek to exploit the COP 16 to establish itself as collective subjects of rights, which can make proposals to combat climate change.

Of the 107 million Mexicans, at least 12 million are indigenous, divided into 64 ethnic groups and often affected by conditions of poverty and marginalization.

World Mayors Sign Climate Agreement in Mexico City -- MEXICO CITY, Nov. 21, 2010 /PRNewswire/ --

World Mayors Sign Climate Agreement in Mexico City -- MEXICO CITY, Nov. 21, 2010 /PRNewswire/ --

100 mayors have globally signed a Climate Pact

Alcaldes de más de 100 ciudades de todo el mundo firman un pacto climático - Planeta CNN - CNNMéxico.com

MEXICO CITY (CNNMéxico) - Leaders and rulers of cities around the world gathered on Sunday in Mexico City for the signing of the Pact of Cities, which has the purpose of committing actions to reduce emissions of urban agglomerations .

The agreement is part of the actions of the World Mayors Council on Climate Change. Marcelo Ebrard, head of the Government of Mexico City, said the importance of cities in fighting global warming is the power to act faster and extend the plan of federal government action.

He stressed that cities have set the example that it is possible to reach voluntary agreements to reduce emissions and verification, and show initiative to national governments.

Cities Pact was signed by mayors of more than 100 cities around the world to engage in reducing greenhouse gases, mitigation measures and develop plans for adaptation to climate change, and a system to measure, report and verify their progress.

Responsible for bringing this document to the next COP 16 in Cancun will be the same Ebrard, who also represents the world

Introducing COP16

THE OCEANS DAY AT CANCUN | Global Forum on Oceans, Coasts and Islands

THE OCEANS DAY AT CANCUN | Global Forum on Oceans, Coasts and Islands Saturday December 4th,2010
The Global Forum was first mobilized in 2001 to help the world’s governments place issues related to oceans, coasts, and SIDS on the agenda of the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) in Johannesburg, South Africa (the ten-year review of progress achieved (or lack thereof) in the implementation of the outcomes of the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro),and was later formalized at the 2002 World Summit.



In the preparatory process for the WSSD, it became evident that ocean issues were not on the World Summit agenda. Hence, the Global Forum was mobilized to hold the first Global Conference on Oceans, Coasts, and Islands (in December 2001 at UNESCO, Paris) to lay the groundwork for the inclusion of an oceans perspective at theWSSD by calling atte ntion to the economic and social importance of oceans, coasts, and small island developing States and the serious problems besetting these areas. These efforts were successful in assisting governments in putting oceans on the WSSD agenda. At the World Summit on Sustainable Development in September 2002, Government delegates agreed on an action plan for oceans, coasts, and islands, with specific targets and timetables for action, to address the problems and threats, to sustainable development noted above. The ocean targets and timetables found in the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation represent an important advance because there is now a global consensus reached at the highest political levels that there is an urgent need to take specific actions to achieve the sustainable development of oceans, coasts, and of small island developing States.

But where is the venue??

Clark Labs Unveiling New Tools for REDD+ at Forest Day During COP16

Clark Labs Unveiling New Tools for REDD+ at Forest Day During COP16

Forest Day 4 will take place on December 5th alongside COP16, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change 16th Conference of the Parties, in Cancún, Mexico. Forest Day is one of the world's leading global platforms for those interested in forests and climate change. The theme for Forest Day 4 is "Time to Act," highlighting the urgent need to protect the world's forests, conserve habitats and prevent biodiversity loss. Forest Day includes plenary sessions, learning events, posters and an exhibition. It is hosted by the Government of Mexico, through the National Forestry Commission, the Collaborative Partnership on Forests and CIFOR. Clark Labs will be exhibiting at booth #22.

Last year, nearly 1,500 people attended Forest Day 3 in Copenhagen, including world leaders, three Nobel Prize winners, top scientists, donors, global and regional media, policymakers, leaders of indigenous communities, and notably, 250 climate negotiators.

CGIAR Home

CGIAR Home
World Forest Day 4

Doha Round failure will be a big blow: Lamy

Doha Round failure will be a big blow: Lamy

Luncheon TO: Mar.9th,12 noon 718 South

Wednesday, March 9

PDAC-CIM Luncheon
12 noon – 2:00 pm
MTCC, South Building, Room 718


Climate Science? The Real Social, Environmental and Economic Costs.
In a desire to stop global warming, governments are adopting policies that promise to regulate much of our personal and professional lives. Lawrence Solomon, columnist, National Post and founder and managing director of Energy Probe Research Foundation, discusses that in the absence of sound science, it is reckless to pursue policies that will transform the planet for the worse. The good news: Thanks to a global backlash, governments everywhere are failing in their attempts to impose their vision on their citizens.
Wine sponsor:
The City of Timmins 100th Anniversary Committee and The Porcupine Prospectors and Developers Association
Tickets: $65 each

Venue: Forest Day

Venue

El cambio climático afectará a la disponibilidad de agua dulce - Planeta CNN - CNNMéxico.com

El cambio climático afectará a la disponibilidad de agua dulce - Planeta CNN - CNNMéxico.com

Maybe the Harper Government is right?? Maybe they feel our Canadian water is theirs to take??
Wish I had somebody intelligent to talk with.- My finances have reached a threshold where I can no longer be a jet setter.

MEXICO CITY (CNNMéxico) - The possible rising temperatures and changing precipitation levels caused by climate change not only affect the intensity and frequency with which they are floods or droughts. They could also decrease the availability of freshwater for human consumption.

Carlos Patiño Gómez, assistant coordinator of Integrated Water Management, the Mexican Institute of Water Technology (IMTA), said that according to scientific estimates, climate change could affect the quantity and quality of available fresh water, and therefore, sectors such as agriculture.

Patino explained that the IMTA performs calculations to estimate how much water could be lost because of global warming, because such information is currently unknown.


According to mathematical models developed by IMTA, which calculate the impacts of climate change in specific

International Climate Policy -U.S./Papers& Docs

International Climate Policy | World Resources Institute

has many experts and staff who work on international climate negotiations, including those under the United Nations Framework on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and related climate agreements. Our experts have been closely involved in negotiations, developing solutions, and forging new agreements.

Check out our latest research and findings on adaptation, climate finance, deforestation (REDD), the latest country positions, measurement, reporting & verification (MRV), technology, and other issues relevant to international climate policy.

UN: Caution, not climate tinkering

UN: Caution, not climate tinkering | rabble.ca
How will we address the multiple crises of climate, biodiversity, food, and water?

There are two profoundly different schools of thought. One is based on the belief that we should reduce resource exploitation and more fairly distribute resources. The other favors market-based approaches in conjunction with high-dollar technological fixes -- such as the deliberate manipulation of the Earth's climate through geoengineering (proposed examples include seeding clouds with chemicals, obstructing solar rays with space-based mirrors, or using vertical ocean pipes to bring cooler deep-ocean water to the surface).

At the meeting of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in Nagoya, Japan, on Oct. 30, those who favor the first approach scored a major victory. In a landmark consensus decision, the 193-member CBD closed its 10th biennial meeting in with a de facto moratorium on geoengineering projects and experiments.

"Any private or public experimentation or adventurism intended to manipulate the planetary thermostat will be in violation of this carefully crafted UN consensus," said Silvia Ribeiro, Latin American Director of ETC Group, who was in Nagoya lobbying for the moratorium.

"This is a victory for common sense, and for precaution. It will not inhibit legitimate scientific research."

The ETC Group -- the same civil society organization that successfully pushed for an international ban on Monsanto's infamous "terminator seed" a decade ago -- led the charge for the moratorium. The group's new report, Geopiracy: The Case Against Geoengineering, offers a critique of this emerging set of planetary-scale technologies, which the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change defines as "the deliberate large-scale manipulation of the planetary environment." David Keith, a leading proponent

Norton Rose Group - Webinar - Climate change negotiations 2010, Cancun

Norton Rose Group - Webinar - Climate change negotiations 2010, Cancun

Norton Rose Group will be attending this year's Climate Conference in Cancun, Mexico (COP16). We will be hosting a webinar on Thursday 25 November which will remind participants of the negotiating process and outline some of the key issues for consideration at this year's negotiations.
Issues to be considered include:
Mitigation targets and actions
Finance
REDD/forestry
Technology Transfer
Market Mechanisms
Date
Thursday 25 November 2010
Time
09:30 GMT
RSVP
To register a place at this webinar and to receive dial in details please email greeneconomy@nortonrose.com by close of business on Wednesday 24 November 2010.
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Natural Gas Fracking Threatens Drinking Water (Video)

Natural Gas Fracking Threatens Drinking Water (Video)

Fighting Climate Change in Mexico | Pembina Institute

Fighting Climate Change in Mexico | Pembina Institute

Under the UN's climate agreements, developed countries like Canada have to do more than just cutting their own greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. We also have a responsibility to help poorer countries reduce theirs.

In advance of the UN climate talks in Cancun in December 2010, this fact sheet looks at opportunities to cut greenhouse gas pollution in Mexico — and at the role that countries like Canada can play in realizing those opportunities.

Large investors at climate talks .

Large investors urge progress at climate talks | Reuters

(Reuters) - Stronger domestic and international policy is needed to help unlock investment in low-carbon technology in the absence of a global climate deal, investors with over $15 trillion of assets said on Tuesday.

A United Nations summit in Cancun, Mexico, starts in just two weeks' time to negotiate a new global climate deal but expectations have sunk to a modest package that includes a fund to manage aid to poor nations, new ways to share clean technology and to protect tropical forests.

Around 260 investors, including Dutch pension fund ATP, HSBC and Deutsche Bank Asset Management, called for Cancun to deliver $30 billion of climate aid promised last year, in a statement released by the U.N. Environment Programme Finance Initiative.

"Among the investors' key priorities is delivery of promised fast-start climate financing, consistent with pledges at last year's U.N. climate negotiations in Copenhagen," a UNEP Finance Initiative statement said

Amazon Watch

Amazon Watch ok- I take it back Meloche is to save the Ecuador Rain forest..Videoclip by James Cameron produced'Belo Monte Dam' and defend the Amazon.

Bâtirente - Our Team

Bâtirente - Our Team

Quebec's solution to climate change......Financial Planners-True to its operational model based on the significant delegation of powers to third parties, the Bâtirente team is small. It comprises a General Co-ordinator, an Assistant Co-ordinator – Institutional Markets, two Group-Annuity Advisors, an Extrafinancial Risks Manager, a Communications Manager, an Office Agent and, occasionally, a number of subcontractors or students in training.

Organizaciones civiles de México y redes sociales de todo el mundo inician las Jornadas Civiles en torno a la Cumbre Climática en Cancún | Centro Nacional de Comunicación Social AC

Organizaciones civiles de México y redes sociales de todo el mundo inician las Jornadas Civiles en torno a la Cumbre Climática en Cancún | Centro Nacional de Comunicación Social AC
Hundreds of civil society organizations and representatives of social movements in Mexico and worldwide coordination created a platform called Bombay Area Climate Dialogue (Dialogue is-Mex), in order to articulate and promote the voices of society in its search for climate justice. To the Summit of the UNFCCC United Nations Climate Change (COP 16), to be held soon in Cancun, Mexico, has developed a broad convergence of indigenous networks, unions, women, environmentalists, farmers and citizens of all possible activities that demand real solutions to stop climate change, address its impacts, compensate communities which have been strongly affected and questioning the model of development that leads to the devastation of the earth and life.

Dialogue is-Mex will present "a peaceful and purposeful 'in the heart of Cancun, on the super block 21, which has renamed the MUP BLADES (referring to the Popular Urban Movement of Cancun), together with all civil society networks world by an international forum of Climate Justice, as well as cultural and artistic activities, walks in the climate, peaceful demonstrations, and willing to discuss and influence the decisions made in official negotiations at COP 16.

They will also be suing the Mexican government to "stop playing the double game of having a strong international discourse for climate, while in severe driving national policies and substantial budgets is very far from being aimed at tackling climate change and reduce carbon footprint, the contrary. And as for Mexico's role in the climate summit, demanding that we leave the defeatist position that nothing can be won in Cancun, and put to work to make progress on substantive issues, such as a second commitment period Kyoto protocol, the need to assume primary responsibility for binding commitments to reduce emissions and ultimately, stop global warming, and to establish mechanisms and public funding is allocated to meet the immediate to the impacts of climate change without compromising natural resources and without compromising the sovereignty and territory of communities and nations, "said Raul Benet, Dialogue is-Mex.

Greening the Economy in North America:Joint Public Advisory Committee (JPAC) Regular Session 10-03

Greening the Economy in North America:<br>Joint Public Advisory Committee (JPAC) Regular Session 10-03

Sustainable Prosperity : SP Network Montreal Conference Series: Fall/Winter 2010

Sustainable Prosperity : SP Network Montreal Conference Series: Fall/Winter 2010

SEORS | Side events list

SEORS | Side events list

Side Events & Exhibits | COP 16 / CMP 6

Side Events & Exhibits | COP 16 / CMP 6

Rio Convention- a 'virtual' Pavilion

Overview and Programme - a 'virtual' Pavilion

Overview and Programme - a 'virtual' Pavilion
Owing to limited space and resources available within the conference venue, as well as the large demand to accommodate UNFCCC Parties and over 1300 admitted observer organisations, the Rio Conventions’ Ecosystems and Climate Change Pavilion will be a virtual Pavilion, bringing together a series of activities that make maximum use of the exhibition and side event facilities kindly put in place by the Government of Mexico.



Relevant activities of a number of Pavilion partners and other organisations will be promoted daily through a special section of the COP16/CMP 6 Daily Programme as well as on the Ecosystems Pavilion website.

Key elements of the Ecosystems Pavilion at Cancun include:

•The Pavilion website updated regularly, with links to the key messages from the Ecosystems Pavilion held at the CBD COP10 (18-28 October, 2010) in Japan.
•A Pavilion exhibit
•A number of side events on topics highlighting the linkages between biodiversity, climate change and sustainable land management. These side events would also be included in the COP16/CMP 6 Daily Programme.
Preliminary Programme of the virtual Ecosystems Pavilion side events within the UNFCCC side event programme at Cancun Messe

For further information, please visit the UNFCCC COP16/CMP 6 Side event schedule

Monday 29th Nov 13:20 – 14:40
Enhancing synergies: Launch of the Rio Conventions’ Ecosystems and Climate Change Pavilion Organizer: SCBD
Tuesday 30 Nov, 15:30-17:30, EU Pavilion

ICO2N

ICO2N

Who is ICO2N?ICO­2N is the Integrated CO­2 Network, an organization of Canadian companies committed to helping Canada meet its climate change objectives while supporting economic growth.

Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS)Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) — is the process of capturing carbon dioxide (CO2) from large industrial sources before it is released to the atmosphere, and then safely transporting the CO­2 and storing it in mature oil and gas reservoirs or in other deep geological formations.

CCS is a proven, technically viable and environmentally safe means of reducing greenhouse gases (GHG). It is the country’s largest potential CO2 mitigation option and is a critical part of Canada’s GHG reduction and energy strategies.

media21geneva.org - Introduction

media21geneva.org - Introduction

CONCEPT: Media21 will organize its 27th journalist workshop on global issues as a side-event of the International Workshop on Addressing the Livelihood Crisis of Farmers - Weather and Climate Services, Belo Horizonte, Brazil - 12-14 July 2010, organized by the World Meteorological Organization together with several co-sponsors.

A similar workshop has been successfully achieved in Nairobi (6-16 April) with the participation of 40 mostly African journalists. They visited various project of sustainable agriculture and forestry in Kenya, and met 35 experts, diplomats and policy makers during the 1st Conference of ministers responsible for meteorology in Africa. The Belo Horizonte meeting will be a framework to report on the impact of climate change, particularly in Latin America, and the solutions towards a sustainable agriculture in order to meet the challenge. Journalists will interact with actors of different sectors (governments, NGOs, business, farmers, universities).

Some panels will also feature the sharp conclusions of IAASTD (International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and Technology for Development: www.agassessment.org), a global 2000 pages report prepared by 400 experts. It appears as a road map towards sustainable food production in order to cope with population growth and climate change, with new knowledge to fight poverty, hunger, diseases, etc.

The focal point of the workshop will be the role of media in passing down scientific assessments and meteorological information to small farmers, rural population and decision makers. This will require a discussion on the necessary language and story-mapping in order to reach out to the population. Local and regional journalist organizations will collaborate with Media21 on this.

COP16 | CMP6 - ¿Cómo opera la Villa de Cambio Climático? - Villa de Cambio Climático

COP16 | CMP6 - ¿Cómo opera la Villa de Cambio Climático? - Villa de Cambio Climático

I guess this is where the 'Opening Ceremonies' will be held.
so...:
- do not drink the tapp water
-only drink bottled water
- do NOT eat street food
- only eat food in fancy hotels. Buy alot of nutrigrain,granola bars...5 boxes $50,00 of Mexican Pesos.

Batteries as garbage.

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Explosion Kills 5 in Mexico Hotel

Explosion Kills 5 in Mexico Hotel

Cop 16 / Explosion Kills 5 in Mexico Hotel - CRIENGLISH.com

Cop 16 / Explosion Kills 5 in Mexico Hotel - CRIENGLISH.com

Ecopolity » Will the G20 help Cancun to succeed?

Ecopolity » Will the G20 help Cancun to succeed?

“Fossil Fuel Subsidies: We reaffirm our commitment to rationalize and phase-out over the medium term inefficient fossil fuel subsidies that encourage wasteful consumption, with timing based on national circumstances, while providing targeted support for the poorest. We direct our Finance and Energy Ministers to report back on the progress made in implementing country-specific strategies and in achieving the goals to which we agreed in Pittsburgh and Toronto at the 2011 Summit in France.” From The Seoul Summit Document: Framework for Strong, Sustainable and Balanced Growth

“Medium term” and “timing based on national circumstances” give any country a legitimate exit option based on the subjective interpretation of “medium” and “circumstances”. Chance of achievement near zero.

Here’s what they said about climate change and the low carbon economy:

“Climate Change and Green Growth: Addressing the threat of global

Green Party of Canada urges public mobilization for Cancun : Climate and Capitalism

Green Party of Canada urges public mobilization for Cancun : Climate and Capitalism

[As ecosocialists, we at C&C feel that the demands outlined in this statement are inadequate. But such disagreements take second place to our pleasure at seeing the Green Party issue an important call for action against climate change and against Canada's anti-environmental policies. We look forward to working with Green Party activists in building mass public actions.]

News release issued by the Green Party of Canada, October 29, 2010

Green Party of Canada leader Elizabeth May called today for a re-politicization of the climate movement and for a major public mobilization during the one month lead-up to the UN’s Framework Convention on Climate Change 16th Conference of the Parties. The meeting will be held in Cancun, Mexico, on November 29, 2010.

“In the wake of the Copenhagen Summit disaster a year ago, much of the climate change movement has become either demoralized or depoliticized and instead focused on voluntary, personal initiatives like planting trees or growing local food. However positive, voluntary individual measures are highly inadequate when considering the breadth and scale of the

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Reuters AlertNet - India: Cancun will test climate talks' credibility

Reuters AlertNet - India: Cancun will test climate talks' credibility

By Matthias Williams

NEW DELHI, Nov 10 (Reuters) - U.N. climate talks in Cancun will be the last chance for nations to agree on thorny issues such as technology transfers and will test the dialogue's credibility, India's environment minister said on Wednesday.

Nations must reach a consensus on sharing green technology between rich and developing countries and resist the temptation to cling to old positions "like a mantra", Jairam Ramesh told a news conference after a two-day climate meeting in New Delhi.

Nations were so divided on intellectual property rights (IPR) for costly technology that some saw it as an essential ingredient of a deal, while others refused to talk about it, he said.

"We have to find a middle path because these two extreme positions have held back an agreement for too long, and frankly we are running out of time," Ramesh said.

"Cancun is the last chance. The credibility of the entire climate change negotiating system is at stake. If you do not get a set of operational and meaningful decisions at Cancun, everybody is going to get sick and tired of us."

Prospects for the Nov. 29-Dec. 10 climate change talks in the Mexican resort of Cancun have dimmed in recent months because of near-deadlock in the 194-nation negotiations over how to share the burden in cutting greenhouse gas emissions

Monbiot.com » A Ghost Agreement-Biodiversity in Japan

Monbiot.com » A Ghost Agreement

A Ghost Agreement
Posted November 1, 2010 Everyone agrees that the new declaration on biodiversity is a triumph. Just one snag: it doesn’t appear to exist.

By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 2nd November 2010

“Countries join forces to save life on Earth”, the front page of the Independent told us. “Historic”, “a landmark”, a “much-needed morale booster”, the other papers chorused(1,2,3). The declaration agreed at the summit in Japan last week to protect the world’s wild species and wild places was proclaimed by almost everyone a great success. There’s only one problem: none of the journalists who made these claims has seen it.

I checked with as many of them as I could reach by phone: all they had read was a press release, which, though three pages long, is almost content-free(4). The reporters can’t be blamed for this: though it was approved on Friday, the declaration has still not been published. I’ve now pursued people on three continents to try to obtain it, without success. Having secured the headlines it wanted, the entire senior staff of the Convention on Biological Diversity has gone to ground: my calls and emails remain unanswered(5). The British government, which lavishly

Climate Change Expanding Dead Zones in Great Lakes, Other Waters | OnEarth Magazine

Climate Change Expanding Dead Zones in Great Lakes, Other Waters | OnEarth Magazine
Nitrogen and phosphorous-laden sediments flowing into Lake Erie from inland sources are a primary cause of oxygen-starved dead zones. This animation shows sediment plumes in Lake Erie during March 2010.

Areas of low oxygen are 30 times more prevalent in the nation’s waterways now than they were in 1960, according to a recent federal report. And climate change means they will continue to worsen.

The multi-agency report [PDF, 2.7 MB], released in September, states that the low-oxygen condition known as hypoxia has been detected in half of the more than 600 national waterways analyzed by the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration, the U.S. Geological Survey, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Hypoxia is often caused by increased nutrients such as phosphorous and nitrogen. These common components of fertilizer often enter lakes and streams with runoff from farms and lawns. Nitrogen released into the atmosphere from fossil fuel combustion can also settle onto the water’s surface.

“What we do affects the amount of nutrients that wash off the land and are ultimately carried by rivers to the coast,” said report co-author Herb Buxton, coordinator of the Geological Survey’s program on toxic substances hydrology. “Runoff is the conveyer belt for moving nutrients from the landscape to our coastal systems.”

'Dodo Awards’ presented to Canada and the EU ;then Brazil ,China

'Dodo Awards’ presented to Canada and the EU  - News and Updates - a network of activists and civil society representatives advocating for improved participation in CBD processes

Civil society organizations at the 10th Conference of the Parties (COP10) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) have announced the winners of the Dodo Awards as the Convention begins its second week of negotiations. The Awards, named after the Dodo Bird -- the quintessential symbol of biodiversity loss -- signify governments’ failure to evolve

Cdn. Meet in Seoul,Korea G-20 25/10/10 8:30am

Toronto, Seoul and Beyond: The G20 Seoul Pre-Summit Conference

Monday, October 25, 9:00 AM - 8:30 PM

Co-sponsored by Korean Capital Markets Institute, Chosun Ilbo, G20 Research Group, Asian Institute

Registration: g20@utoronto.ca

Grand Hyatt Hotel, Seoul, Korea

WWF: Canadians' footprints among world’s heaviest

WWF - WWF: Canadians' footprints among world’s heaviest But did not the WWF loose its credibility when it sold out to the corporate world?? Why are the Liberals hitching their wagon to the WWF?? Of all people...no offense- but why??

Canadians are among the worst offenders contributing to a continued decline in global biodiversity and an increase in the global ecological footprint, according to WWF's 2010 Living Planet Report, released today

COP10名誉大使MISIA就任メッセージ

Guy Saint-Jacques | adoptanegotiator.org

Catching up with Guy Saint-Jacques | adoptanegotiator.org

Guy Saint-Jacques replaces Micheal Martin (now in Privy Council) as chief negotiator??

Decided to Cancel.

Mature Decision: Attendance has been cancelled.
I thought I would take this opportunity to lie in the sun; and get a tan...but due to fear of boredom..I signed myself unto things which I have neither the immune system;physical strength nor even the mental aptitude to be there. Those that are wanted to be there are having their way paid- are wanted.

Also as a sideline- it was comforting to know that Micheal Martin was concerned about us in Civil Society. I do NOT know Mr.G.St.Jacques ? Friend or Foe?? Of Washington DC?
(Maybe the Canadian Club of Winnipeg should invite him as a Guest speaker-..just an idea..)

I get the feeling I will have nothing to do with Canada's new Chief Negotiator. I hope the young people will drive him crazy with their sincere, honest queries. (With NO security guards to block their persistent questioning.) ...I think I do NOT want to be there- because they will all flock to Linda Duncan for shelter from the confusing mind storm.

Meeting Documents;REDD

Meeting Documents

convention of Biodiersity: Based out of St.Jacques St., Montreal. Read Cory Star's arcticle about what Indigeneous People think about Deforestration to Reduce Emmssions.

Webcast: South Centre

UNFCCC Webcast: On demand

South Centre ,Based in Europe- where they still drink bottled water. A Press Briefing from here in Tianjin, China to Cancun, Mexico.

What I do not understand is that the Filipinos in Winnipeg North use paper plates,bottled water, drive gas guzzling SUV- with no awareness of the harm they are doing to our country's environment.
Is Kevin Lamoreux representing Liberal values?? NO- and wearing RED does not mean anything!

Again if I go to Cancun- I will be relegated to the social masses , with no power!

Tianjin Climate Change Talks-Tuesday 5.10.2010

LEGAL MATTERS: In the morning, Co-Chair Daniel Ortega opened the legal matters contact group with a discussion on the organization of work, explaining that the group would meet six times to address entry into force, other issues, including proposed amendments to the Kyoto Protocol, and issues referred to the group by other contact groups.

CHINA noted that discussions beyond the amendment of Article 3.9 (Annex I parties’ further commitments) are outside the mandate of the AWG-KP. With SAUDI ARABIA, BRAZIL, INDIA, BOLIVIA, Ghana, for the AFRICAN GROUP, EGYPT and SUDAN, she stressed that substantive discussions on other proposals to amend the Kyoto Protocol, contained in the Chair’s text, would be unacceptable and urged focusing the limited negotiating time on discussions under the numbers contact group. Several parties noted that the COP/MOP is the appropriate venue for discussing the proposed amendments.

AUSTRALIA emphasized the need to discuss the other proposed amendments in the Chair’s text. TUVALU, supported by the Federated States of Micronesia, for AOSIS, stressed that consequential amendments, which arise from the amendment of Annex B, must be considered to ensure legal consistency with the Kyoto Protocol. SWITZERLAND emphasized that “rigid interpretations” of the AWG-KP mandate would not help move discussions forward.

Co-Chair Ortega said he would take parties’ views back to the AWG-KP Chair, adding that parties should have raised these concerns in plenary. China emphasized that the negotiations are a party-driven process. AUSTRALIA stressed that as a party that will “actually be taking on an Annex I commitment,” he had “trouble understanding” why parties would prevent discussions that would help with making those commitments, underlining that those parties were blocking progress on a second commitment period.

Co-Chair Ortega said he would report back to the group on possible ways to move forward.

UNFCCC Webcast: On demand-Opening Ceremonies

UNFCCC Webcast: On demand

Tianjin Climate Change Talks October 4th-October 9th,2010:

Throughout Tuesday, October 5th,2010,variouse drafting groups convened under the AWG-LCA to consider adaptation,mitigation,and finance,technology and capacity building...

Lest We Forget : Climate Justice Action Now!

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Cop 16,Cancun,Mexico

Cop 16,Cancun,Mexico

COP16 | CMP6 - Ground Transportation in Cancun - Participants

COP16 | CMP6 - Ground Transportation in Cancun - Participants

COP16 | CMP6 - Accommodation - Participants

COP16 | CMP6 - Accommodation - Participants

UNEP Finance Initiative and partners launch the World Climate Summit

UNEP Finance Initiative and partners launch the World Climate Summit
The group includes the UNEP Finance Initiative, The UN Global Compact, The Prince of Wales's Corporate Leaders Group, The Climate Group, The World Bank, Sir Richard Branson's Carbon War Room, ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability, Carbon Disclosure Project, Bright Green, Club of Beijing, and the International Finance Corporation.

It will also have the support of the Mexican government's international economic promotion agency, ProMexico.

As the first founding partner of the WCS and focal point of partner investment networks, The UNEP Finance Initiative is supported by the largest coalition of investors through their membership and network who represent more than $30 trillion of assets under management.
As world leaders drive towards a global agreement on climate change, investors in the world´s capital markets cannot afford to simply sit and wait. Investors and other financial institutions are determined to work with policy-makers to catalyse new low carbon markets worth USD trillions.

"What is needed now is a stronger commitment to collectively support bottom-up efforts and to amplify the uptake of green solutions. The World Climate Summit is a platform where business can lead and inspire Governments to act to ultimately turn the tide on climate change," noted
George Kell, Executive Director, The UN Global Compact
Some key highlights of the World Climate Summit include:

•Convening, under the leadership of The UNEP Finance Initiative, the largest network of investors and financial intermediaries demanding climate change action ever assembled-representing more than $30 trillions of assets under management.

•Providing an unparalleled global media platform with CNN International, TIME, Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, and Dow Jones.

Key steps on global warming need to be agreed in Mexico later this year | Jake Schmidt's Blog | Switchboard, from NRDC

Key steps on global warming need to be agreed in Mexico later this year | Jake Schmidt's Blog | Switchboard, from NRDC

This December, 194 countries will be in Cancun, Mexico to continue negotiations on international efforts to address climate change. My colleagues and I are in Mexico City this week for a series of discussions with key government officials, NGOs, businesses, and members of the media so we’ve been reflecting on Cancun. The Cancun climate negotiation session (COP16) must serve three critical functions to ensure the continued progress on international climate change efforts and to rebuild some of the trust lost during and after Copenhagen.

First, at Cancun, the international community needs to prove to countries and the world public that it can work together to address climate change. It is essential that countries make some progress in Cancun and show that the international system can work. This is paramount, as a perceived failure will make it even more difficult to build political momentum within the UN system and may lead the public and countries to disengage.

Second, Cancun needs to produce agreement on aspects of the key implementing activities to be delivered by the international agreement –e.g., clean energy technology deployment, deforestation reductions, improving the resilience of countries to the impacts of climate change, etc. While it is unlikely that every aspect of these issues will be resolved in Cancun, it is possible to make significant progress on each of these issues at Cancun. The notion of “nothing is agreed, until everything is agreed” must be set aside in favor of re-establishing confidence by progressively building the agreement component by component.

MEXICO: Civil Society Divided Ahead of Climate Summit - IPS ipsnews.net

MEXICO: Civil Society Divided Ahead of Climate Summit - IPS ipsnews.net
Civil Society Divided Ahead of Climate Summit
By Emilio Godoy

MEXICO CITY, Jun 4, 2010 (IPS) - With less than six months before Mexico hosts the next global climate change summit, Mexican environmental organisations hosting the parallel civil society forum are divided on how to carry it out -- which some fear could ultimately weaken their role at the negotiating table.

The differences are centred on the scenario for bringing together non- governmental organisations (NGOs) in Mexico's Caribbean resort city of Cancún, where the 16th Conference of Parties (COP 16) to the United Framework Convention on Climate Change will be held Nov. 29 to Dec. 10.

At the COP 15 summit held in Copenhagen last December, the NGOs organised the Kilmaforum09, and some of the Mexican environmental groups want to repeat that formula, while many others want an approach that better reflects the Mexican and Latin American reality.

The disagreements "arise primarily because of power imbalances," Miguel Valencia, one of the 10 members of the Klimaforum 2010 Mexican organising committee, told IPS.

"The big international NGOs, like Greenpeace and Oxfam, are well connected and tolerate too many things from the governments. They accept programmes and issues in the summit negotiations which are unacceptable to the social movements," he said.

Following the failure of the official Copenhagen summit, a group of 30 Danish NGOs passed the Klimaforum baton to representatives of Mexican NGOs. Last December, the parallel forum, also known as the Peoples' Climate Summit, involved some 50,000 activists in more than 300 events.

The organising committee was established in February and meetings immediately began with Mexican NGOs to work together to create a civil society space for the Cancún summit.

The first major open meeting took place during the Peoples' Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth, held in the Bolivian city of Cochabamba, Apr. 20-22.

At that event, a group of Latin American NGOs issued a statement saying, "While we respect and value the experience of the Klimaforum, it responds to the European, and more specifically, Danish, context."

"An attempt to transfer or import it to our region would not respect the reality of our struggles, the identity or history of the mobilisations in our hemisphere," argued the NGOs opposed to imitating the Copenhagen civil society forum.

The split among the Mexican NGOs came at a May 12 meeting in Mexico City, when it became impossible to overcome the differences on how to best represent the interests of the people at the Cancún summit.

On one side are the Klimaforum10 organising committee and about 50 Mexican NGOs, and on the other are the Mexican affiliates of big international groups -- including Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace and Oxfam -- and the usual leaders of local environmentalism, such as the Mexican Centre for Environmental Law.

Gustavo Ampugnani, Greenpeace's Latin American policy coordinator, played down the discord.

"They are two spaces that coexist. Perhaps some are more interested in influencing the official negotiations, while others have lost faith in that process," Ampugnani told IPS, referring to organising committee member Valencia's harsh criticism of the role played by the major international environmental groups in the UN-sponsored talks.

The dispute generated concern among some of the European NGOs planning to participate in Cancún. They are hoping the situation can be resolved, and avoid the creation of two opposing forums claiming to represent global civil society -- as was predicted at the divisive May planning meeting.

World Gone Mad | Derrick Jensen | Orion Magazine

World Gone Mad | Derrick Jensen | Orion Magazine

BoliviaSol/Sept 30.2010/U.S. DC

BoliviaSol

Fragil Planet by Sting - Spanish Subtitles

CLIMATE CHANGE: Forests Not for Absorbing Carbon, Say Activists

CLIMATE CHANGE: Forests Not for Absorbing Carbon, Say Activists - IPS ipsnews.net As in the Canadian Boreal Agreement.

Climate Justice Treks from Cochabamba to Cancún

Climate Justice Treks from Cochabamba to Cancún - IPS ipsnews.net

Currently, the concentration of this greenhouse gas is 387 ppm. According to scientists, if it cannot be reduced to 350 ppm or less, the global average temperature will rise more than two degrees Celsius -- with catastrophic environmental, social and economic consequences.

The delegates in Bonn also agreed to discuss a 50-percent cut in greenhouse gas emissions by industrialised countries for the second period of commitments under the Kyoto Protocol on climate change, from 2013 to 2017.

They also agreed to bring in the concept of the rights of Mother Earth, the perspectives of indigenous peoples, and the issues associated with human migration spurred by climate change.

At the core of the official negotiations is determining just how far the wealthy countries are willing to reduce their greenhouse emissions.

The draft text also covers some of the Cochabamba meet's more controversial demands: the exclusion of market mechanisms in forestation activities, and opposition to converting natural

e8 Network of Expertise of International Hydro

e8 Network of Expertise for the Global Environment Montreal based.
What is the e8?

Created in the wake of the 1992 Rio Summit, the e8 is a non-profit international organization, composed of 10 world leading electricity companies, whose mission is to play an active role in global electricity issues within the international framework and to promote sustainable energy development through electricity sector projects and human capacity building activities in developing and emerging nations worldwide.

The Enclosure: Moon Palace & Cancun Messe.

COP16/CMP6 enclosure
The COP16/CMP6 will be held on the premises of Hotel Moon Palace and Cancunmesse , located along the Cancun- Chetumal road , a distance of approximately 7 km apart.

Access to government delegates , media and observers between the two spaces will be constant , safe and unhindered. However, if there is a contingency or force majeure, shall take the measures deemed necessary to guarantee safety of participants .

The number of observers who will have access to the various conference rooms in which to carry out the governmental negotiations are determined in accordance with United Nations practice . In this regard , the Secretariat of the Convention will distribute the corresponding secondary passes to ensure access to various meeting rooms in an orderly manner . The government of Mexico has no interference in it.

As usual it takes money to reserve a room at $265.00/night x 7 nights at the Moon Palace and the CancunMesse.
Maybe again , I will be along the fringe- and outsider looking in..I just hope that I will be safe- and maybe get a tan/healthy glow- and NOT get sick!

COP16 | CMP6 - WHO CAN PARTICIPATE!

COP16 | CMP6 - ¿Quiénes pueden participar? - Acerca de la COP16/CMP6

COP16 | CMP6 -Notice

COP16 CMP6 - Noticias - Sala de Prensa

Canada and the CEC as headed by JIM Prentice.
energy management stand of 13 cities in Mexico , USA and Canada
Mexico
Notimex
18/09/2010
The Commission for Environmental Cooperation ( CEC) , composed of the governments of Mexico, the United States and Canada, noted the success of energy management in 13 cities in the three countries as part of actions against climate change.

Moon Palace Beach

http://www.cop16accommodation.com/

Moon Palace Beach, Mexico sight of COP 16 UNFCCC. I wish the Liberal Party would help me in this regard.- or else I will left with the chattering classes/youth again.

Yvo de Boer: Cop 16 won’t produce binding agreement - Risk.net

Yvo de Boer: Cop 16 won’t produce binding agreement - Risk.net

UNFCCC Calendar

UNFCCC Calendar

Cancun, Mexico - Ecovillage Network of Canada

COP-16 UN Climate Change Conference: Cancun, Mexico - Ecovillage Network of Canada

The latest news is that the event has been moved from Mexico City. GEN is now beginning the discussions on how to participate. There are 13 ecovillages in Mexico. As more information regarding GEN's participation is received it will be posted here.

Dion ,Food Poison,Mexican University ,Climate Change

Mexico City — The Canadian Press
Last updated on Wednesday, Sep. 08, 2010 11:58AM EDT
.Former federal Liberal leader Stéphane Dion is out of hospital in Mexico after being treated for a severe case of food poisoning.
A spokeswoman says Mr. Dion is feeling better after spending two nights in hospital and is set to fly home Wednesday this afternoon.
Mexican media reported that Mr. Dion was attending a climate conference at a university outside Mexico City on Monday when he started to feel ill.
Mr. Dion became Liberal leader in 2006 and was replaced by Michael Ignatieff two years later.
He represents the Montreal-area riding of Saint-Laurent—Cartierville and served as environment minister in Paul Martin's government