As the UN climate talks end in Barcelona, the prospects for getting a fair deal which will be strong enough to stop catastrophic climate change are looking slim. In response, a handful of people in Australia and the US have started a hunger strike for Climate Justice.
The second half of this programme is an extended edit from the press conference at which Anna Keenan and Sara Svenson announced the start of the Climate Justice Fast in Barcelona on 6 November. It leaves us speechless…
In the first half of the programme we take a look at some of the ways that the poor majority world is disadvantaged in the UN climate talks and at some of the dirty tactics employed by the rich world. The South African delegation reminds us what everyone agreed to under the Bali Roadmap in 2007 and why the rich world seems intent on reneging on that. And in extracts from the UNFCCC’s final press conference, General Secretary Yvo de Boer gives his expectations on the Copenhagen deal in relation to whether it will be legally binding (no, but maybe we can tie that up next year) and whether it will be informed by the latest science (no chance).
Links & references:
Climate Justice Fast
http://www.climatejusticefast.com/
Lifting the lid on the climate change talks (Guardian, 7 November)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/nov/07/climate-change-talks-2009
Divide & rule: the politics of climate change negotiations (Oilwatch, June 2009)
http://www.oilwatch.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=611&Itemid=48〈=en
Bali Roadmap
http://unfccc.int/meetings/cop_13/items/4049.php
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The 300-350 Show is made for ResonanceFM in London and is syndicated free to not-for-profit community radio stations and independent media outlets around the globe.
The programme is named after what is now believed to the safe level in parts per million (ppm) of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. This finding is based on the work of James Hansen and his team in a paper titled "Target Atmospheric CO2: Where Should Humanity Aim." http://arxiv.org/abs/0804.1126
In the first half of the programme we take a look at some of the ways that the poor majority world is disadvantaged in the UN climate talks and at some of the dirty tactics employed by the rich world. The South African delegation reminds us what everyone agreed to under the Bali Roadmap in 2007 and why the rich world seems intent on reneging on that. And in extracts from the UNFCCC’s final press conference, General Secretary Yvo de Boer gives his expectations on the Copenhagen deal in relation to whether it will be legally binding (no, but maybe we can tie that up next year) and whether it will be informed by the latest science (no chance).
Links & references:
Climate Justice Fast
http://www.climatejusticefast.com/ Lifting the lid on the climate change talks (Guardian, 7 November)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/nov/07/climate-change-talks-2009 Divide & rule: the politics of climate change negotiations (Oilwatch, June 2009)
http://www.oilwatch.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=611&Itemid=48〈=en Bali Roadmap
http://unfccc.int/meetings/cop_13/items/4049.php ---
The 300-350 Show is made for ResonanceFM in London and is syndicated free to not-for-profit community radio stations and independent media outlets around the globe.
The programme is named after what is now believed to the safe level in parts per million (ppm) of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. This finding is based on the work of James Hansen and his team in a paper titled "Target Atmospheric CO2: Where Should Humanity Aim."
http://arxiv.org/abs/0804.1126 
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