Climate Justice Action -verkoston yhteinen lehdistotiedote 12.12.2009

First Week Of Climate Talks A Predictable Failure

At the end of the first week of the climate talks at Copenhagen, thousands of activists from the Climate Justice Action and Climate Justice Now! networks are joining the climate march under the banner of ‘System Change Not Climate Change’ to denounce the climate negotiations as a predictable failure. The protesters are demanding radical changes in economic and political systems in order to address the climate crisis.
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In Finland concerned citizens took part in the E.ON-F.OFF action weekend by hanging a banner near the Helsinki offices of E.ON and Fennovoima. The banner stated a math equation of dirty energy: FENNOVOIMA=E.ON x NUCLEAR + COAL = CLIMATE CHAOS Lue koko artikkeli »

Our future is at stake. Climate change is happening, and NOW is the time to take action against the forces driving it!

While the preparations and mobilisations for the COP15 are underway all over the world, a sinister meeting is under way. On May 24^th – 26^th 2009, again in Copenhagen, corporations, climate criminals, capitalists and their allies, will meet for the World Business Summit on Climate Change (WBSCC). Lue koko artikkeli »

Valko-Venäjän autoritäärinen presidentti Lukashenko ja kansainvälinen ydinvoimateollisuus aikovat rakentaa ydinvoimalan luonnonarvoiltaan merkittävälle ja maanjäristysherkälle alueelle. Tämä siitäkin huolimatta, että maa kärsi pahoja säteilyvahinkoja Tshernobylin onnettomuudesta. Valkovenäläisaktivistit järjestävät mielenosoituksen 26.4. ja toivovat tukea myös ulkomailta.  Lue alkuperäinen kutsu:

A call-out for common actions against the construction of a new nuclear power station in Belarus

26 April, the day of Chernobyl nuclear accident.

Present-day Belarus is a post soviet country, on which territory a regime, police state in form and neoliberal in essence, fortified its position. For already 14 years the country is run by one and the same person Alexander Lukashenko, a populist at the beginning of his governing and openly pursuing antisocial reforms now. The freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of assembly is not about our country. These basic values as well as the political opposition are suppressed. Peaceful gatherings dispersions, political trials, preventive detentions all this has become a norm of political practice in Belarus.
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Tämä Pascal Stevenin teksti on julkaistu alunperin SHIFT-lehdessä nro 5.

Everything is rational in capitalism, except capital or capitalism itself …the system is demented, yet it works very well at the same time”.
(Felix Guattarri, 1995)

“We mean business when we talk about climate change”.
(Jose Manuel Barroso, European commission president)

One of the biggest political spectacles of the coming year will be held in Copenhagen, (COP-15) in December. There, delegates from 170 countries, corporate lobbyists and NGO representatives will come together under the banner of the United Nations framework convention on climate change (UNFCC) in an attempt to solve the problem of climate change via the implementation of a global, market based, carbon cap and trade scheme. The deal brokered here will replace the Kyoto treaty which will expire in 2012. The COP-15 will be a core global governance mechanism through which climate change mitigation will be implemented. The deal that emerges from this has the potential to affect the entire socio-ecological field.
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Maaliskuun kokouksessa Kööpenhaminassa haetaan yksimielisyyttä toimintamuotojen suhteen ja mietitään liikkeen rakentamista myös YK:n huippukokouksen jälkeisellä ajalla. Alla koko kutsu englanniksi.

Kokoukseen voi ilmoittautua osoitteessa www.climateaction09.org/signup

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Climate camp 2009 /// Stopping carbon markets ///  Because nature doesn’t do bailouts.

First the city traders speculated with our homes, jobs and money – with disastrous results. Now they are speculating with our climate and the very future of life on earth – and once again our governments are cheering them on.

By creating a brain-bending system of carbon pollution licenses, fossil fuel companies and trading firms have found a way to keep on churning out global warming gases and to reap huge windfall profits at the same time.
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Many nuclear facilities like nuclear power stations and the cooling ponds and recycling plants of used nuclear fuel have been constructed on coastal areas. When nuclear facilities are situated near the sea, sea water can provide for much of the cooling required by the plants. This reduces the consumption of freshwater. However, the construction of nuclear facilities on coastal zones also exposes them to storm surges and tsunamis.

It is now more or less generally accepted that much of the extra heat remaining on our planet because of the atmosphere’s increasing greenhouse gas concentrations will be channelled into more powerful storms. On the Saffir-Simpson scale a category 5 hurricane is defined as a storm with wind speeds exceeding 249 kilometres per hour and strong enough to rise the sea level (temporarily) by at least 5.5 metres. In bays and fjords the temporary rise of sea level can be much more, especially if there are rivers that are flooding because of the heavy rains. Such hurricane storm surges are produced by the combined effect of two different factors: the strong winds push the surface water forward and against the shores, and the low-pressure area inside the storm adds to the height of the surge. The first factor is the more significant one.

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This is the first newsletter of the announcement-email-list towards Copenhagen. PLEASE DISTRIBUTE this information in the circles of people with whom you work. To join the announcement list go here:

Content:
1. Meeting in Copenhagen Sept. 2008
2. Meeting in Poznan Dec. 2008
3. Meeting in Belem Jan. 2009
4. The Next International Meeting
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We stand at a crossroads. The facts are clear. Global climate change, caused by human activities, is happening, threatening the lives and livelihoods of billions of people and the existence of millions of species. Social movements, environmental groups, and scientists from all over the world are calling for urgent and radical action on climate change.

On the 30th of November, 2009 the governments of the world will come to Copenhagen for the fifteenth UN Climate Conference (COP-15). This will be the biggest summit on climate change ever to have taken place. Yet, previous meetings have produced nothing more than business as usual. Lue koko artikkeli »