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HI All
Please sign on.
Des
From: Lidy Nacpil [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 07 July 2011 03:29 AM
To: undisclosed-recipients:
Subject: URGENT ACTION NEEDED:: NO TO WORLD BANK ROLE IN THE GREEN CLIMATE
FUND
Friends and Colleagues,
We urge you to act on the calls in the Climate Finance Action Alert #1 below
and also circulate this widely to your members and other networks. If you
want to, you can add the name of your organization as one of the signatories
to this Action Alert when you send it on to others.
Please note - we are not asking you to write us back saying you would like
to sign on. We are asking you to:
>> Click this URL for the email action addrressed to all the TC Members
<http://www.worldbankoutofclimate.org/?p=536>
www.worldbankoutofclimate.org/?p=536
>> Use the attached template to send letters to the Ambassadors of Norway,
Mexico and South Africa in your city.
Many thanks and cheers!
Lidy
Climate Finance Action Alert Number 1
Climate finance is needed urgently by the people of the South to enable them
to deal with the impacts of climate change and pursue an alternative
development pathway for equitable and sustainable societies. It is part of
the reparations for the climate debt that northern countries owe the South
for causing the climate crisis. It is also an obligation of northern
countries under the UNFCCC. Climate justice movements have been advancing
demands regarding 1) the scale and nature of climate finance, 2) sources, 3)
a global climate fund, 4) allocation and use.
Climate finance is also being used to promote policies and projects that
are harmful to communities, workers, farmers, fishers, indigenous peoples,
women and other marginalized groups. From the local to global there are
many struggles resisting and protesting so called climate projects.
This Climate Finance Action Alert aims to facilitate collective and
coordinated actions on climate finance issues.
Send Messages To the Transitional Committee of the UNFCCC:
No to World Bank Role in the Green Climate Fund!
A new global climate fund that will be responsible for managing and
disbursing climate finance for the South is vital and has been the subject
of climate justice campaigns and of international climate negotiations. A
key demand of climate justice campaigners as well many South countries
("developing countries") is that the World Bank not be given a role in this
new global climate fund given its track record in harmful projects and
policies, undemocratic structures and operations, its neoliberal development
paradigm, and its involvement in dirty energy.
One of the "decisions" of the Conference of Parties (COP) of the UNFCCC last
December 2010 in Cancun was to set up the "Green Climate Fund" or GCF. A
"Transitional Committee" was formed with the task of drafting a proposed
design for the GCF and submitting it for action at the next COP in Durban,
South Africa in December 2011. Further, the World Bank was appointed as
"trustee" of the Fund for the "interim period."
The Transitional Committee had its first meeting last April 28 to 29, and a
major issue that sparked debate was the role of the World Bank in the
Technical Support Unit (TSU) of the Transitional Committee. A number of
developing country members of the TC clearly stated their position that the
World Bank not be given an influential role in the TSU and in the regular
structures and operations of the Green Climate Fund itself. This position
has been strongly articulated by many movements and civil society groups in
various statements addressed to the UNFCCC and the Transitional Committee.
It is urgent and vital that climate justice movements and all concerned
groups and citizens take action in to intervene in this process, with the
aim of
. Expressing opposition to the World Bank being appointed Trustee of
the Green Climate Fund in the interim period; Preventing the World Bank from
being given any further role in the Green Climate Fund
. Raising greater awareness of the World Bank's harmful policies,
projects, paradigm of development
. Promoting demands and alternatives regarding the design of the
Green Climate Fund
Join us in immediate actions this coming week. On July 12 to 13, the
Transitional Committee will be holding its Second Meeting. In the days
leading up to the meeting, we invite you to:
1. Join an email action addressing members of the Transitional
Committee. Open the link: <http://www.worldbankoutofclimate.org/?p=536>
www.worldbankoutofclimate.org/?p=536 and sign and send the email.
2. Send letters addressed to the Ambassadors of Mexico, South Africa
and Norway in your cities. These countries are the Co-Chairs of the
Transition Committee. Please find attached a template you can use.
3. Send letters to the editor of your newspapers expressing your
concerns as citizens.
Jubilee South - Asia/Pacific Movement on Debt and Development * Africa
Jubilee South * Pan African Climate Justice Alliance * Third World Network *
European Network on Debt and Development (EURODAD) * LDC Watch * South Asian
Alliance for Poverty Eradication * South East Asia Fishers for Justice
(SEAFish) * Migrants Forum Asia (MFA) * NGO Forum on the ADB * World
Development Movement UK * Jubilee Debt Campaign UK * Jubilee Scotland *
Jubilee USA Network * Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns - USA * Slett
U-landsgjelda (SLUG) Norway * Campagna per la Riforma della Banca Mondiale
(CRBM) Italy * Alliance Sud - The Swiss Coalition of Development
Organisations Switzerland * ATTAC Japan * Daughters of Mumbi Kenya *
EquityBD Bangladesh * VOICE Bangladesh * International Campaign on Climate
Refugees' Rights (ICCR) Bangladesh * Bangladesh Krishok Federation (Farmers
movement) * SUPRO Bangaldesh * Unnayan Onneshan Bangladesh * KRuHA Indonesia
* WALHI/Friends of the Earth Indonesia * Koalisi Anti Utang (KAU) Indonesia
* Serikat Petani Indonesia (SPI) * Solidaritas Perempuan (SP) Indonesia *
Institute for Essential Services Reform (IESR) Indonesia * National Hawkers
Federation India * Indian Social Actin Forum India * Himalaya Niti Abhiyan
(HNA) India * Monitoring Sustainability of Globalization Malaysia *
National Network on Right to Food Nepal * Campaign for Climate Justice
Network Nepal * Rural Reconstruction Nepal * General Federation of Nepalese
Trade Union (GEFONT) * Freedom from Debt Coalition Philippines * Tambuyog
Philippines * Kalayaan Philippines * Makabayan Pilipinas * AMA Philippines
* Pakistan Fisherfolk Forum * Center for Environmental Justice / Friends of
the Earth Sri Lanka * Kenya Debt Relief Network (KENDREN) * INFID Indonesia
* Philippine Movement for Climate Justice * SANLAKAS Philippines * mines
minerals and People (mmP) India * Plateforme Haitienne de Plaidoyer pour un
Developpement Altrernatif (P APDA) Haiti * LATINDADD
----- End forwarded message -----
HI All
Please sign on.
Des
From: Lidy Nacpil [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 07 July 2011 03:29 AM
To: undisclosed-recipients:
Subject: URGENT ACTION NEEDED:: NO TO WORLD BANK ROLE IN THE GREEN CLIMATE
FUND
Friends and Colleagues,
We urge you to act on the calls in the Climate Finance Action Alert #1 below
and also circulate this widely to your members and other networks. If you
want to, you can add the name of your organization as one of the signatories
to this Action Alert when you send it on to others.
Please note - we are not asking you to write us back saying you would like
to sign on. We are asking you to:
>> Click this URL for the email action addrressed to all the TC Members
<http://www.worldbankoutofclimate.org/?p=536>
www.worldbankoutofclimate.org/?p=536
>> Use the attached template to send letters to the Ambassadors of Norway,
Mexico and South Africa in your city.
Many thanks and cheers!
Lidy
Climate Finance Action Alert Number 1
Climate finance is needed urgently by the people of the South to enable them
to deal with the impacts of climate change and pursue an alternative
development pathway for equitable and sustainable societies. It is part of
the reparations for the climate debt that northern countries owe the South
for causing the climate crisis. It is also an obligation of northern
countries under the UNFCCC. Climate justice movements have been advancing
demands regarding 1) the scale and nature of climate finance, 2) sources, 3)
a global climate fund, 4) allocation and use.
Climate finance is also being used to promote policies and projects that
are harmful to communities, workers, farmers, fishers, indigenous peoples,
women and other marginalized groups. From the local to global there are
many struggles resisting and protesting so called climate projects.
This Climate Finance Action Alert aims to facilitate collective and
coordinated actions on climate finance issues.
Send Messages To the Transitional Committee of the UNFCCC:
No to World Bank Role in the Green Climate Fund!
A new global climate fund that will be responsible for managing and
disbursing climate finance for the South is vital and has been the subject
of climate justice campaigns and of international climate negotiations. A
key demand of climate justice campaigners as well many South countries
("developing countries") is that the World Bank not be given a role in this
new global climate fund given its track record in harmful projects and
policies, undemocratic structures and operations, its neoliberal development
paradigm, and its involvement in dirty energy.
One of the "decisions" of the Conference of Parties (COP) of the UNFCCC last
December 2010 in Cancun was to set up the "Green Climate Fund" or GCF. A
"Transitional Committee" was formed with the task of drafting a proposed
design for the GCF and submitting it for action at the next COP in Durban,
South Africa in December 2011. Further, the World Bank was appointed as
"trustee" of the Fund for the "interim period."
The Transitional Committee had its first meeting last April 28 to 29, and a
major issue that sparked debate was the role of the World Bank in the
Technical Support Unit (TSU) of the Transitional Committee. A number of
developing country members of the TC clearly stated their position that the
World Bank not be given an influential role in the TSU and in the regular
structures and operations of the Green Climate Fund itself. This position
has been strongly articulated by many movements and civil society groups in
various statements addressed to the UNFCCC and the Transitional Committee.
It is urgent and vital that climate justice movements and all concerned
groups and citizens take action in to intervene in this process, with the
aim of
. Expressing opposition to the World Bank being appointed Trustee of
the Green Climate Fund in the interim period; Preventing the World Bank from
being given any further role in the Green Climate Fund
. Raising greater awareness of the World Bank's harmful policies,
projects, paradigm of development
. Promoting demands and alternatives regarding the design of the
Green Climate Fund
Join us in immediate actions this coming week. On July 12 to 13, the
Transitional Committee will be holding its Second Meeting. In the days
leading up to the meeting, we invite you to:
1. Join an email action addressing members of the Transitional
Committee. Open the link: <http://www.worldbankoutofclimate.org/?p=536>
www.worldbankoutofclimate.org/?p=536 and sign and send the email.
2. Send letters addressed to the Ambassadors of Mexico, South Africa
and Norway in your cities. These countries are the Co-Chairs of the
Transition Committee. Please find attached a template you can use.
3. Send letters to the editor of your newspapers expressing your
concerns as citizens.
Jubilee South - Asia/Pacific Movement on Debt and Development * Africa
Jubilee South * Pan African Climate Justice Alliance * Third World Network *
European Network on Debt and Development (EURODAD) * LDC Watch * South Asian
Alliance for Poverty Eradication * South East Asia Fishers for Justice
(SEAFish) * Migrants Forum Asia (MFA) * NGO Forum on the ADB * World
Development Movement UK * Jubilee Debt Campaign UK * Jubilee Scotland *
Jubilee USA Network * Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns - USA * Slett
U-landsgjelda (SLUG) Norway * Campagna per la Riforma della Banca Mondiale
(CRBM) Italy * Alliance Sud - The Swiss Coalition of Development
Organisations Switzerland * ATTAC Japan * Daughters of Mumbi Kenya *
EquityBD Bangladesh * VOICE Bangladesh * International Campaign on Climate
Refugees' Rights (ICCR) Bangladesh * Bangladesh Krishok Federation (Farmers
movement) * SUPRO Bangaldesh * Unnayan Onneshan Bangladesh * KRuHA Indonesia
* WALHI/Friends of the Earth Indonesia * Koalisi Anti Utang (KAU) Indonesia
* Serikat Petani Indonesia (SPI) * Solidaritas Perempuan (SP) Indonesia *
Institute for Essential Services Reform (IESR) Indonesia * National Hawkers
Federation India * Indian Social Actin Forum India * Himalaya Niti Abhiyan
(HNA) India * Monitoring Sustainability of Globalization Malaysia *
National Network on Right to Food Nepal * Campaign for Climate Justice
Network Nepal * Rural Reconstruction Nepal * General Federation of Nepalese
Trade Union (GEFONT) * Freedom from Debt Coalition Philippines * Tambuyog
Philippines * Kalayaan Philippines * Makabayan Pilipinas * AMA Philippines
* Pakistan Fisherfolk Forum * Center for Environmental Justice / Friends of
the Earth Sri Lanka * Kenya Debt Relief Network (KENDREN) * INFID Indonesia
* Philippine Movement for Climate Justice * SANLAKAS Philippines * mines
minerals and People (mmP) India * Plateforme Haitienne de Plaidoyer pour un
Developpement Altrernatif (P APDA) Haiti * LATINDADD
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