A Joint Statement, Copenhagen, Denmark, December 14, 2009

Copenhagen - 14 December 2009:   We, members of Oilwatch Southeast Asiai and Indonesian Civil Society Forum for Climate Justice (CSF) declare our common position and demands on the current climate negotiation in COP 15 UNFCCC Copenhagen. We have witnessed the lack of leadership among industrial countries to significantly cut carbon emission let alone show their responsibility to support developing countries to tackle the impacts of climate change.

The planet is experiencing a severe ecological crisis and communities living in harmony with and caringfor nature are being pressured to unbearable extremes. The atmosphere is being polluted, rivers damaged, forests destroyed, and so is the livelihood of communities in the South, health of individuals, communities and nature.

Ecological debt, climate change and human and nature rights

REDEFINING CLIMATE CHANGE AND CLIMATE JUSTICE
Ivonne Yanez, OILWATCH

But also climate change is becoming a new ideology, with this own economic, political and juridical system,

Climate change is becoming a new and dangerous ideology, as danger as itself. It could represent death for millions but also it is the new XXIst century ideology with mass adoctrination, through media, propaganda and other mechanisms; and could cause enormous problems because diverts the attention out of what is behind it.

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Recommendations of Thai Civil Societyi
on the Thai Government’s Positions
Towards the 15th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention
on Climate Change (COP 15), Copenhagen, Denmark,
and Related National Policy Formulation

This document represents comments and recommendations of the Thai Working Group for Climate Justice (TCJ) and the networks of  Thai people organizations namely the Assembly of the Poor, Northern Resources Network, Thailand Land Reform Network, Surin Community Forest Network, Dong Khum Kham and Phu Kham Community Forest of Ubon Ratchathanee, Alternative Agricultural Network, Thailand Indigenous Network, Southern Women Traditional Fisheries Network, Southern Traditional Fisheries Association, and Energy and Industry Network. It is prepared to advocate the position of  the Government of Thailand towards the 15th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP 15), during December 7-18, 2009, Copenhagen, and to the related national policy formulation.

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We, over 500 representatives of the Community Forest Network,  Land Reform Network, Network of Indigenous and Tribal Peoples of Thailand, Thai Fisher-folk Federation, Network Against Fossil Power and Heavy Industries, Renewable Energy Network, Alternative Agricultural Network, Assembly of the Poor,  Women’s Network, and Small Scale Fisher-folk Youth Network of the South,  joined in solidarity during the two-day forum held on 3-4 October 2009, to exchange our experiences of sufferings and the problems caused by global warming and share our views towards how to solve these problems.  We finally agree to declare our statement to struggle for justice under the climate crisis:

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Recommendations of Thai Civil Society[i]
on the Thai Government’s Positions
Towards the 15th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention
on Climate Change (COP 15), Copenhagen, Denmark,
and Related National Policy Formulation

This document represents comments and recommendations of the Thai civil society (TCS) towards the forthcoming negotiations in the 15th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP 15).  It reflects our concerns on the dangerous climate change which is increasing in its frequency and severity especially to developing countries, especially among local communities, indigenous peoples and the poor.  The main cause of climate change is an ever increasing greenhouse gas (GHG) concentration in the atmosphere from the historical emissions under the conventional development paradigm that has been focusing upon economic growth, while disregarding the security of humankinds and social justice in a number of areas.  Furthermore, attempts to deal with the dangerous climate change, as seen for more than a decade, have not yielded any progress or promise to slow down the climate catastrophes.  On a contrary, governments of developed countries have remained ignorant to take urgent and immediate actions to cope with the dangerous climate change.

 

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The Southern People´s Ecological Debt Creditors Alliance supports the demand of Bolivia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Venezuela, Honduras, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Dominican Republic, Panama, Guatemala, Cuba, Belize, Dominica, St. Vincent & The Grenadines, Antigua and Barbados, Sri Lanka and Malaysia, for the RECOGNITION AND INTEGRAL REPARATION OF THE ECOLOGICAL DEBT DUE TO CLIMATE CHANGE THAT IS OWED TO COUNTRIES IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH BY COUNTRIES IN THE GLOBAL NORTH, within international agreements of the 15th United Nations Framework Conference on Climate Change in Copenhagen, Denmark (COP15).