No surprise here as the official US negotiating position at COP17 aligns with leaked information before the conference began in Durban of plans to postpone any new climate treaty until 2020.
Reporting from Durban, 350.org's Jamie Henn announces a collaborative effort to "raise an international alarm" and isolate the United States. In the next 48 hours, "we can convince the US to get out of way of progress and help unlock the global process that can lead to bold climate action all around the world."
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Earlier this morning, nearly 1,500 Durban children gathered on the beach in the formation of a lion to send a symbolic message to negoators: COURAGE!
Greenpeace reports:
The UN climate negotiations are now at a critical stage, with almost no progress so far, and only two days left to strike a deal for the climate. And as Ado celebrates his next birthday, at the end of the summit, will our leaders offer anything to give him hope? The impacts of climate change are already destroying lives and livehoods. The ‘grown ups’ in these negotatiations are responsible for delivering a safe, sustainable, and more equitable world. Instead, they are engaing in playground tactics to save face, rather than saving the climate.
Failure to reach an agreement in Durban is not only a tragedy for the climate, it is a betrayal of the hopes, dreams and futures of millions of young people, just like Ado. Outside the climate summit the voices of a new generation are roaring for climate justice, but inside the negotiations, the lion sleeps tonight.
Amy Goodman reported from Durban Hopes Fade for Binding Climate Deal as Durban Summit Enters Final Stages
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Over the two weeks of COP17, The Daily Durban provides a resource guide as well as a collaboration of writers and social media teams to provide 24x7 coverage of live events, news, side events, videos and radio shows from the United Nations Conference on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Durban, South Africa.
Contributing content for coverage of COP17 @ Kos are Kelly Rigg (GCCA); Franke James (Canadian enviroartist); Janet Redman, (Institute for Policy Studies); Bill McKibben (350.org); Nichole Ghio (Sierra Club); Polly Higggs (environmental attorney and ecocide mock trial author); and Victor Menotti (International Forum on Globalization).
eCOP is also sharing content from the People's Conference C17 and Occupy COP17.
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COVERAGE @ KOS
Monday 12/5 : Bill McKibben : The Most Important News Story of the Day/Millennium
Tuesday 12/6Nicole Ghio: Report from Durban - The Sierra Club at the Climate Change Conference
Ian Sullivan:Report from Durban: Oxfam on Saturday's March
Victor Menotti (IFG): Outing the Oligarchy: 50 Billionaires Who Profit From Today’s Climate Crisis
Wednesday: OneClimate TV: Africa ROARS as US Punts @ COP17
Thursday:
Ellinorianne: We are the 1% - The US and Climate Change
FishOutOfWater: eSci: "Global Cooling Assured for the Next 3 Decades"
Friday: Live Coverage
Sunday 11/27: Kelly Rigg : GCCA. Darwin Comes to Durban: Overcoming "Survival of the Fittest" Mentality at UN Climate Talks
Monday 11/28 Morning (Durban Time): Franke James
eCOP: Why would Canada censor artist, Franke James? See “Banned on the Hill”
Monday 11/28:
WarrenS : Drowning Songs, Drying Songs, Dying Songs,
beach-babe-in-fl: Macca's Meatless Monday...Come Together in Durban
Tuesday 11/29:
citisven: eCOP: HOT STUFF! From Durban to Rio - Introducing International Ecocity Framework & Standards
Sierra Club International: Durban's Dirty Energy Week
enviro writer : eCOP: Building US Leadership from the Inside
Wednesday 11/30:
Janet Redman: Institute for Policy Studies: 1000 Durbans: Occupy the COP!
Thursday 12/1
FishOutofWater: Arctic Enters a New State
Throughout the talks, Daily Kos Eco writers are also re-posting relevant diaries as well as new postings at The Durban Daily.
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5:13 PM PT: Our oceans are dying, our air changing, and our forests and grasslands turning to deserts. From fish and plants to wildlife to human beings, we are killing the planet that sustains us, and fast. There is one single greatest cause of this destruction of the natural world -- climate change, and in the next 48 hours, we have a chance to stop it.
The UN treaty on climate change -- our best hope for action -- expires next year, but a dirty and greedy US-led coalition of oil-captured countries is trying to kill it forever. It's staggeringly difficult to believe, but they are trading short term profits for the survival of our natural world.
The EU, Brazil and China are all on the fence -- they are not slaves to oil companies the way the US is, but they need to hear a massive call to action from people before they really lead financially and politically to save the UN treaty. The world is gathered at the climate summit for the next 48 hours to make the big decision. Let's send our leaders a massive call to stand up to big oil and save the planet -- an Avaaz team at the summit will deliver our call directly:
http://www.avaaz.org/...
5:13 PM PT: Carbon Credits Turning 'Junk' as Ban Shuts Door: Energy Markets
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/...
5:13 PM PT: Jamie Henn's article @ Grist http://www.grist.org/...
8:29 PM PT: COP17: The Great Escape III
December 7, 2011 in UN climate change negotiations
Pablo Solon (*)
After 9 days of negotiations there is no doubt that we saw this movie before. It is the third remake of Copenhagen and Cancun. Same actors. Same script. The documents are produced outside the formal negotiating scenario . In private meetings, dinners which the 193 member states do not attend. The result of these meetings is known only on the last day. In the case of Copenhagen it was at two in the morning after the event should have already ended. In Cancun, the draft decision just appeared at 5 p.m. on the last day and was not opened for negotiation, not even to correct a comma. Bolivia stood firm on both occasions. The reason: the very low emission reduction commitments of industrialized countries that would lead to an increase in average global temperatures of more than 4° Celsius. In Cancun, Bolivia stood alone. I could not do otherwise. How could we accept the same document that was rejected in Copenhagen, knowing that 350,000 people die each year due to natural disasters caused by climate change? To remain silent is to be complicit in genocide and ecocide. To accept a disastrous document in order not to be left alone is cowardly diplomacy. Even more so when one trumpets the “people’s diplomacy” and has pledged to defend the “People’s Agreement” of the World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth held in Bolivia last year.
Durban will be worse than Copenhagen and Cancun. Two days before the close of the meetings, the true text that is being negotiated is not yet known.
8:29 PM PT: link to Solon http://pwccc.wordpress.com/...
8:30 PM PT: revkin interviews Klein Naomi Klein’s Inconvenient Climate Conclusions http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/...
8:34 PM PT: Thousands say to @BarackObama + @WhiteHouse: don't kill #Durban #COP17 talks. You're signing Africa's death sentence
Thu Dec 08, 2011 at 7:48 AM PT: DURBAN, SOUTH AFRICA-- Abigail Borah, a student from the US, read a speech to disrupt the process at the negotiations. She was representing the concerns of other US youth that feel the US representatives no longer speak on behalf of the youth in America.
Thu Dec 08, 2011 at 7:49 AM PT: options for oucome in next 48 hours http://www.earthinbrackets.org/...