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Subject: HoC, C&C - Caught in the Act?
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 11:07:36 +0000
From: Aubrey Meyer <[log in to unmask]>
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18th November 2005
Launch of Contraction and Convergence Bill in UK Parliament.
This Bill is a world first. It is potentially an Act of Parliament and a
beacon to other parliamentarians around the world.
When: 1pm, Thursday 24th November
Where: Committee Room 6, House of Commons
Who: Colin Challen MP
Aubrey Meyer, Director, Global Commons Institute
Joshua Wairoto, Kenyan Meteorological Service
Mr Challen is already the sponsor of the very influential DTQ Bill
[Domestic Tradable Quota]. DTQs are being taken seriously by government
and now the subject of active institutional research.
Mr Wairoto comes hot-foot from the Commonwealth Heads of Government
meeting in Malta en route to COP-11 Montreal with the backing of his
Government to formally stake out the C&C position. He may well have news
of success on this in Malta.
Mr Meyer of GCI has provided technical support to this effort. The C&C
Resource Document for COP-11 [in thirteen languages] contains a firts
draft of the bill and is at: -
www.gci.org.uk/briefings/MONTREAL.pdf
[For any who had difficulty with this link, it should now be working
properly].
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Colin Challen MP will next week launch the Climate Change (Contraction
and Convergence) Bill, the first instance in any parliament of the C&C
framework being placed in a legislative format. Contraction and
Convergence is the framework devised by the Global Commons Institute
(GCI) for tackling climate change, in which contraction refers to the
need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to a sustainable level, and
where convergence means that within the same timescale emissions rights
are distributed on an equal per capita basis. This is the principle
which says that no individual has a greater right to carbon emissions
than any other.
C&C is becoming the benchmark framework against which other proposals
have to be measured against. On the eve of the Montreal COP 11 climate
change talks, the launch of this Bill puts all negotiators on notice
that they have to have a far more serious and disciplined approach to
climate change than has so far developed, notwithstanding Kyoto or other
lesser agreements.
Colin Challen said: “The urgency of climate change is relentlessly
bearing down on all of us, and we need to shake off the old way of doing
things, which was all about tweaking the controls and hoping for the
best. We need to change direction. I hope that this Bill will help start
a parliamentary movement, not just here but in parliaments around the
world, which adds to the pressure on governments to move further,
faster. People in Kenya, where one of our speakers is from, and from
other developing nations see that climate change could threaten any
benefit that may get from the development agenda. They are not looking
for our charity, but for us in the developed world to work with them to
address what is now the greatest threat we all face, but which will hit
them harder and earlier than it will us. C&C is a comprehensive
framework which has sufficient internal flexibility for us all to make
real headway.”
ENDS
Colin Challen MP is Chair of the All Party Group on Climate Change and a
member of the Environmental Audit Committee
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