Jubilee South
Asia Pacific Movement on Debt & Development
A regional alliance of peoples’ movements, community organizations, coalitions, NGOs and networks
Jubilee South
Asia Pacific Movement on Debt & Development
A regional alliance of peoples’ movements, community organizations, coalitions, NGOs and networks
By Roger Harrabin, Environment analyst, Doha, Qatar
Details have emerged of a deal to solve the "hot air" row undermining the EU in the UN climate change talks in Doha.
The term refers to unused, tradeable carbon emission permits given to Eastern European nations.
They are among a number of issues that threaten to stall progress at the talks, due to end on Friday evening.
Poland had been reluctant to give up its permits; the EU has now said the country can keep them, but has put strict limits on their sale.
By Stephen Leahy
DOHA, Qatar, Dec 7 2012 (IPS) - Food prices will soar and hundreds of millions will starve without urgent action to make major cuts in fossil fuel emissions. That is what is at stake here on the last day of the U.N. climate talks known as COP 18, scientists and activists say.
Lidy Nacpil of Jubilee South Asia Pacific. Nacpil is based in the Philippines, which is currently experiencing devastation as a result of Typhoon Bopha. Credit: Stephen Leahy/IPS
Carbon emissions are already disrupting the world's climate, making extreme weather events like droughts, floods and storms more damaging. Agriculture and food production are extremely vulnerable to the impacts climate change, several scientific studies show.
The Earth’s climate is destabilizing and the planet is in crisis.
· Scientists predict that about 625,000 people will die each year from now until 2020 by causes driven by climate change.
· Many mountain glaciers, which act as source of water for millions of people, have significantly retreated. Changes in rain-fall patterns, due to climate change, are causing even greater water-stress particularly in Western Africa and South Asia.
· There is 80% less Arctic-sea ice today than in 1950. The melting of ice causes sea-level rise, threatening 600 million people living less than 10 meters above sea-level and coastal cities such as Mumbai, Shanghai, Manila, Rio de Janeiro, New York, Istanbul and 7 more of the world’s 20 biggest cities.
BANGKOK - Climate justice activists trooped to the venue of climate talks here Monday, condemning the rich, industrialized countries, especially the United States and European countries, for delaying the establishment and implementation of the much-needed adaptation fund for climate vulnerable countries or CVCs.
Led by Jubilee South- Asia Pacific Movement on Debt and Development (JS-APMDD), the protest action at the United Nations Conference Centre (UNCC) of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP) was participated in by around 50 activists from Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand, China, South Africa, Kenya, Chile, Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States.
BANGKOK - The latest offer of the European Union to cut its region's greenhouse gas emissions by 20 percent is "too low an ambition" and "will help kill the planet," climate justice activists claimed Sunday.
In a protest action outside the venue of climate talks here, advocates from various parts of Asia expressed dismay over the EU's proposal and demanded that "real solutions" to the climate crisis begin with deep, drastic and domestic emissions cuts by rich industrial countries, especially European countries and the United States.
A day before the celebration of International Women's Day, JSAPMDD joined more than 500 women...
JSAPMDD, in collaboration with the NGO Forum on the ADB and the Freedom from Debt...
On April 10, 2011, JSAPMDD organized a roundtable discussion on tax and trade at Mesa...
JSAPMDD organized workshops during the Association for Women's Rights and Development (AWID) International Conference on...