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[Tom Kucharz - Ecologistas en Acción]

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Asunto: 	[climate justice now!] SIGN-ON LETTER CALLING FOR REPAYMENT OF
CLIMATE DEBT
Fecha: 	Wed, 27 May 2009 18:17:11 +0800
De: 	meena raman <meenaco en pd.jaring.my>
Para: 	<cjn en lists.riseup.net>





Dear Friends,



*SIGN-ON LETTER CALLING FOR REPAYMENT OF CLIMATE DEBT*


As the climate negotiations intensify on the road to Copenhagen, a key
issue that has occuppied much attention is the issue of mitigation and
the burden-sharing between developed and developing countries.


In this regard, these past few months, issues have been raised about
the Earth’s limited carbon budget and how there should be fair shares in
the use of this environmental space for enabling sustainable
development. Issues of historical responsibility, fair effort sharing
and the repayment of a climate debt have been advanced by several
developing countries, including the Heads of States of several Latin
American Countries, Bolivia, Sri Lanka, China, Algeria and others.
Indigenous peoples and civil society groups have also been highlighting
this. Please see below this message quotes from the various governments
and of social movements and civil society that are evidence of this.


These issues are key in ensuring that there is equity, justice and
fairness in any climate deal.


We in the Third World Network have taken the initiative to prepare a
sign-on letter to galvanize members of civil society and social
movements globally to support the call for the *repayment of the climate
debt *and to advance these calls in the climate negotiations.


Please find attached the letter called 'Repay the climate debt'..


As negotiations in Bonn begin on the 1^st June, we are keen to get as
many sign-ons by as many organisations as possible, so that this can be
circulated and have an influence over the negotiations.


We look forward to you support in endorsing this sign-on letter.


Please let us know if we can add your organisation on and also do
indicate the country you are based in.


Kindly send your endorsements to Yvonne Miller at twngeneva en bluewin.ch


Thank-you very much for supporting these efforts.



Meena Raman and Lim Li Lin

For the TWN Climate team



*          DECLARATION BY HEADS OF STATE OF BOLIVIA, CUBA, DOMINICA,
HONDURAS, NICARAGUA AND VENEZUELA (CUMANA DECLARATION)*

As for climate change, developed countries are in an environmental debt
to the world because they are responsible for 70% of historical carbon
emissions into the atmosphere since 1750. Developed countries should pay
off their debt to humankind and the planet; they should provide
significant resources to a fund so that developing countries can embark
upon a growth model which does not repeat the serious impacts of the
capitalist industrialization.


*SPEECH BY SRI LANKAN ENVIRONMENT MINISTER*

IPCC reported that 70% of global warming is due to burning of fossil
fuel. That heat pollution would be the biggest environmental catastrophe
that humankind ever faced. To avoid this, IPCC suggested a carbon budget
(1456 trillion tons of carbon for the whole century). However this
budget will expire in 2032 if we continue business as usual.

According to IPCC’s Carbon Budget, the environmental permissible carbon
quota per person for 2009 is 2170 kg. In Sri Lanka each person emits 660
kg annually. In USA and Canada it is 22,000 kg per person, that is more
that ten times the permissible quota. The world average is 4700 kg, that
is twice the permissible level. That means low emitting countries like
us could not emit more because our space has already been exploited by
developed or global polluting countries without our consent. And more
importantly they exploited future generations’ quota as well. If we
adopt scientific criteria of IPCC these so called developed countries
should cut their emission level by at least 70-90 % by 2020. On the
other hand they owe environmental debt to other countries and should
compensate them by establishing an adaptation fund. Now these countries
adopt delaying tactics by setting out long goals (promising a 50%
emission cut by 2050) which are to be honored by their children and
blaming developing world for increasing emissions which are now well
below the permissible level.

If we look at the SAARC region, the region is having a population of
nearly one sixth of the global population and has a total CO2 emission
level of around 1330 million tones per year which is only 3.7% of the
global total emission.

Let me share information with regard to the CO2 debt of developed
countries towards SAARC region estimated in line with the HDI report
published by UNDP in 2007/2008 and based on the principle that if the
global per capita emission level of CO2 is 2.1 t and the countries that
exceed this acceptable level are depriving the opportunities of the low
emitting countries as well as the future generations. Bangladesh has
468.33 million credits available in terms of tonnes of CO2.whereas Sri
Lanka has 56.96 million, Pakistan: 481.75, India:3342.6, Nepal: 83.23
and Afghanistan 80.12

It is necessary to assess the cost either in terms of monetary values or
as an index to measure past accumulated “Environmental Debt” owed by the
developed countries to the developing counties. This index could be used
to estimate the environmental impacts of development activities of
developed nation that have already caused natural resource depletion and
environmental degradation in terms of an environmental debt to future
generations of both developing and developed nations.

In order to fight climate change we need new criteria for emission cuts
based on IPCC’s carbon budget and there should be an adaptation fund
estimating the actual cost of climate change. A new monitoring
institution and a new international climate change court of justice,
where defaulting nations would to be answerable in order to ensure
environmental justice, should be established...


We can define sustainable development as a new development which treats
all living beings equally and shares capital as well as natural wealth
equally among the present and future generations while maximizing the
wellbeing and happiness of human kind. Ecologically it would be the new
development which preserves the dynamic equilibrium of the planet while
enhancing Ecosystem diversity.

*BOLIVIAN SUBMISSION TO UNFCCC*

The climate debt of developed countries must be repaid, and this payment
must begin with the outcomes to be agreed in Copenhagen.

Developing countries are not seeking economic handouts to solve a
problem we did not cause. What we call for is full payment of the debt
owed to us by developed countries for threatening the integrity of the
Earth’s climate system, for over-consuming a shared resource that
belongs fairly and equally to all people, and for maintaining lifestyles
that continue to threaten the lives and livelihoods of the poor majority
of the planet’s population. This debt must be repaid by freeing up
environmental space for developing countries and particular the poorest
communities.

There is no viable solution to climate change that is effective without
being equitable. Deep emission reductions by developed countries are a
necessary condition for stabilising the Earth’s climate. So too are
profoundly larger transfers of technologies and financial resources than
so far considered, if emissions are to be curbed in developing countries
and they are also to realise their right to development and achieve
their overriding priorities of poverty eradication and economic and
social development. Any solution that does not ensure an equitable
distribution of the Earth’s limited capacity to absorb greenhouse gases,
as well as the costs of mitigating and adapting to climate change, is
destined to fail.

*ANCHORAGE DECLARATION*

*AGREED BY CONSENSUS OF THE PARTICIPANTS IN THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES'
GLOBAL SUMMIT ON CLIMATE CHANGE, ANCHORAGE, ALASKA, APRIL 24TH 2009*

         We call upon the Parties to the UNFCCC to recognize the
importance of our Traditional Knowledge and practices shared by
Indigenous Peoples in developing strategies to address
climate     change. To address climate change we also call on the UNFCCC
to recognize the historical and ecological debt of the Annex 1 countries
in contributing to greenhouse gas                 emissions. We call on
these countries to pay this historical debt.

*STATEMENT BY PAN AFRICAN CLIMATE JUSTICE ALLIANCE (63 NGOS FROM ACROSS
AFRICA)*

We, Pan-African Climate Justice Alliance (PACJA), representing 63 civil
society organisations from across Africa, call for a fair, just and
equitable global deal to urgently respond to climate change.

PACJA believes that climate change is fundamentally a justice issue. The
53 African countries are responsible for less than 4% of global
emissions and have over 15% of the global population. The developed
countries have emitted almost three quarters of all historical emissions
but they represent less than one fifth of the world’s population.

By their excessive emissions, this wealthy minority has appropriated the
majority of the Earth’s atmospheric space, which belongs equally to all
and should be fairly shared. For their disproportionate contribution to
the causes of climate change – denying developing countries their fair
share of atmospheric space – the developed countries have run up an
“emissions debt”.

These excessive emissions, in turn, are the principal cause of the
current adverse effects experienced by developing countries,
particularly in Africa. For their disproportionate contribution to the
effects of climate change – causing rising costs and damage in our
countries that must now adapt to climate change – the developed
countries have run up an “adaptation debt”.

Together the sum of these debts – emissions debt and adaptation debt –
constitutes the climate debt.

Proposals by developed countries in the climate negotiations, on both
mitigation and adaptation, are inadequate. They seek to pass on the
costs of adaptation and mitigation, avoiding their responsibility to
finance climate change response efforts in Africa.

They also seek to write-off rather than reduce their emissions and
continue their high per-capita emissions. This would deepen their debt
and deny atmospheric space to the developing countries like ours, which
would be asked to crowd into a small and shrinking remainder.

We therefore call on developed countries to fully, effectively and
immediately repay the climate debt they owe to African countries....


In conclusion, PACJA strongly believes that meeting these demands is a
basic prerequisite for success in December 2009. Copenhagen must be a
key turning point for climate justice – a crucial milestone on the
journey to stabilizing the Earth’s climate and securing the rights and
aspirations of all people.



*STATEMENT OF TRADE UNION CONFERENCE OF THE AMERICAS (LATIN AMERICA AND
THE CARIBBEAN)*

The case for climate justice is grounded in the recognition that the
industrialized countries have a huge environmental debt toward the
countries of the South on account of the development that, for more than
150 years, they have pursued on the basis of overexploiting fossil
fuels: gas, carbon, and oil. The case in question is about a climate
debt, which, therefore, they must pay off. Climate justice will only be
reached when the Rich States of the North recognize this environmental
debt, which also entails a drastic and urgent reduction of their
contaminating emissions, the provision of funds for poor countries for
climate change mitigation and adaptation processes, and the transfer
of “clean” technologies to the global south for the development of
environmentally sustainable productive processes.






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