tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75584607354841850872024-03-06T08:28:23.685+01:00Daniel's WorldDaniel Mittlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03354823008712270397noreply@blogger.comBlogger272125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7558460735484185087.post-41784054522426586562021-12-19T18:56:00.005+01:002021-12-19T19:01:29.400+01:00The system isn’t broken, ‘Davos man’ built it this way. So let’s change it<div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #020202; font-family: Lora, serif; hyphens: none; margin: 16px 0px 32px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #020202; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: var(--text--x-large-and-up--font-size,1.25rem);">There will not be the usual</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #020202; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: var(--text--x-large-and-up--font-size,1.25rem);"> </span><a class="external-link" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/davos-guests-private-jets-climate-crisis-2020-1?r=DE&IR=T" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: var(--text--x-large-and-up--font-size,1.25rem); text-decoration: var(--link--text-decoration,none);" target="" title="This link will lead you to businessinsider.com">flood of private jets heading to Davos</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #020202; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: var(--text--x-large-and-up--font-size,1.25rem);"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #020202; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: var(--text--x-large-and-up--font-size,1.25rem);">in Switzerland next week.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #020202; font-family: Lora, serif; hyphens: none; margin: 16px 0px 32px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: left;">Due to Covid, the World Economic Forum will be <a class="external-link" href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-07/world-economic-forum-to-be-held-in-singapore-in-may-reuters" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: var(--link--text-decoration,none);" target="" title="This link will lead you to bloomberg.com">virtual this January – and its elite audience will only meet in person in May – in Singapore.</a> A symbolic move showing how geopolitics are shifting, especially as many countries in Asia deal so much more competently with Covid-19 than Europe or North America.</div><figure class="wp-block-image size-large caption-style-medium caption-alignment-center" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #020202; cursor: pointer; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 16px 0px 32px; max-width: 100%; position: relative; width: auto;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-46257" height="1250" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 1666px) 100vw, 1666px" src="https://www.greenpeace.org/static/planet4-international-stateless/855d8c2e-gp1stu2c_pressmedia.jpg" srcset="https://www.greenpeace.org/static/planet4-international-stateless/855d8c2e-gp1stu2c_pressmedia.jpg 1666w, https://www.greenpeace.org/static/planet4-international-stateless/855d8c2e-gp1stu2c_pressmedia-300x225.jpg 300w, https://www.greenpeace.org/static/planet4-international-stateless/855d8c2e-gp1stu2c_pressmedia-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https://www.greenpeace.org/static/planet4-international-stateless/855d8c2e-gp1stu2c_pressmedia-768x576.jpg 768w, https://www.greenpeace.org/static/planet4-international-stateless/855d8c2e-gp1stu2c_pressmedia-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://www.greenpeace.org/static/planet4-international-stateless/855d8c2e-gp1stu2c_pressmedia-453x340.jpg 453w" style="border-radius: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="1666" /><figcaption style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #45494c; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; text-align: center;">Coronavirus shows vulnerabilities of the existing economic models that have to be challenged and turned into new thinking. To keep us safe and resilient we have to put people and nature beyond monetary profits. © Max Zielinski / Greenpeace</figcaption></figure><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #020202; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: var(--text--x-large-and-up--font-size,1.25rem); hyphens: none; line-height: var(--text--x-large-and-up--line-height,1.75rem); margin: 16px 0px 32px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Cancelled private plane trips aside, the <a class="external-link" href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/dec/19/ten-billionaires-reap-400bn-boost-to-wealth-during-pandemic" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: var(--link--text-decoration,none);" target="" title="This link will lead you to theguardian.com">billionaire class is doing very well indeed out of the current crisis</a> you and I are feeling. I don’t know about you, but, stuck at home – and seeing friends losing their jobs and incomes – the fact that <a class="external-link" href="https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/pandemic-profits-companies-soar-billions-more-poorest-pay-price" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: var(--link--text-decoration,none);" target="" title="This link will lead you to oxfam.org">Jeff Bezos could have paid <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">each and every one of his Amazon employees </em>more than $100,000 US dollars</a> – and would <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">still</em> be as rich as before this pandemic hit – just makes me furious. And ever more convinced that Jeff Bezos and his ilk must pay for the green and just recovery we so urgently need to start this year.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #020202; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: var(--text--x-large-and-up--font-size,1.25rem); hyphens: none; line-height: var(--text--x-large-and-up--line-height,1.75rem); margin: 16px 0px 32px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">That’s why I am glad that Greenpeace is backing the <a class="external-link" href="https://makeamazonpay.com/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: var(--link--text-decoration,none);" target="" title="This link will lead you to makeamazonpay.com">Make Amazon Pay</a> campaign by trade unions and other allies. That’s why I am asking you today to join the <a class="external-link" href="https://www.fightinequality.org/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: var(--link--text-decoration,none);" target="" title="This link will lead you to fightinequality.org">Fight Inequality Alliance</a> week of action for a People’s Recovery. Together, let us show the virtual Davos gathering that starts on January 25th, that people’s solutions are <a class="external-link" href="https://twitter.com/FightInequality/status/1346011000827482112?s=20" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: var(--link--text-decoration,none);" target="" title="This link will lead you to twitter.com">#BetterThanDavos</a>.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #020202; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: var(--text--x-large-and-up--font-size,1.25rem); hyphens: none; line-height: var(--text--x-large-and-up--line-height,1.75rem); margin: 16px 0px 32px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">In 2020, significantly more people woke up to the need for fundamental change. Across the globe vast majorities indicated (in polls) that they are looking for radically better policies. In Japan, for example, 60% want transformational economic change – and in many countries, including India, Mexico, China, as well as Brazil and South Africa, <a class="pdf-link" href="https://cic.nyu.edu/sites/default/files/zamore-phillips-covid19-public-support-radical-policies-web-final.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: var(--link--text-decoration,none);" title="This link will open a PDF file">support for a green economic recovery is at 80 percent or higher</a>.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #020202; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: var(--text--x-large-and-up--font-size,1.25rem); hyphens: none; line-height: var(--text--x-large-and-up--line-height,1.75rem); margin: 16px 0px 32px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Even parts of the elites are getting the need for fundamental change: the <a class="external-link" href="https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/covid-pandemic-climate-crisis-paris-agreement-b1769330.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: var(--link--text-decoration,none);" target="" title="This link will lead you to independent.co.uk">UN Secretary General, has been bluntly calling out governments for spending too much money in their recovery packages on fossil fuels and business as usual</a>.</p><figure class="wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #020202; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 16px 0px 32px; width: 630px;"><div class="wp-block-embed__wrapper" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-bottom: unset; position: relative;"><div class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; max-width: 550px; width: 550px;"><iframe allowfullscreen="true" allowtransparency="true" class="" data-tweet-id="1346394093291675649" frameborder="0" id="twitter-widget-0" scrolling="no" src="https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?creatorScreenName=Daniel%20Mittler&dnt=false&embedId=twitter-widget-0&features=eyJ0ZndfZXhwZXJpbWVudHNfY29va2llX2V4cGlyYXRpb24iOnsiYnVja2V0IjoxMjA5NjAwLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X2hvcml6b25fdHdlZXRfZW1iZWRfOTU1NSI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJodGUiLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X3NwYWNlX2NhcmQiOnsiYnVja2V0Ijoib2ZmIiwidmVyc2lvbiI6bnVsbH19&frame=false&hideCard=false&hideThread=false&id=1346394093291675649&lang=en&origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.greenpeace.org%2Finternational%2Fstory%2F46221%2Fdavos-fight-inequality-system-change%2F&sessionId=23b893dae09936c194a8c60cc0fd35b547860279&siteScreenName=Greenpeace%20International&theme=light&widgetsVersion=9fd78d5%3A1638479056965&width=550px" style="border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; flex-grow: 1; height: 921px; max-width: 100%; position: static; visibility: visible; width: 550px;" title="Twitter Tweet"></iframe></div></div></figure><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #020202; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: var(--text--x-large-and-up--font-size,1.25rem); hyphens: none; line-height: var(--text--x-large-and-up--line-height,1.75rem); margin: 16px 0px 32px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">As more and more people demand radical change, I am hopeful that we can make real progress this year with a <a class="external-link" href="https://twitter.com/FightInequality/status/1346394093291675649?s=20" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: var(--link--text-decoration,none);" target="" title="This link will lead you to twitter.com">People’s Recovery</a>. Most immediately, let’s ensure we get a <a class="external-link" href="https://twitter.com/peoplesvaccine/status/1336746933721903108?s=20" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: var(--link--text-decoration,none);" target="" title="This link will lead you to twitter.com">#PeoplesVaccine</a>, not a profit vaccine, so that all people, all over the world, can get access to Covid 19 vaccines fast. The United Nations has backed calls for free and universal access, because no-one is safe from this virus until everyone is. But trade rules that secure profits for multinationals are preventing faster, fairer production and <a class="external-link" href="https://www.msf.org/governments-must-support-proposal-waive-coronavirus-covid-19-patents" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: var(--link--text-decoration,none);" target="" title="This link will lead you to msf.org">need to be urgently changed</a>.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #020202; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: var(--text--x-large-and-up--font-size,1.25rem); hyphens: none; line-height: var(--text--x-large-and-up--line-height,1.75rem); margin: 16px 0px 32px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Watch, though, as the billionaire class next week <a class="external-link" href="https://www.weforum.org/events/the-davos-agenda-2021/about" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: var(--link--text-decoration,none);" target="" title="This link will lead you to weforum.org">in their virtual meeting</a> tries to circumvent calls for such fundamental changes. It’s telling that the meeting is pitched as aiming to “rebuild trust” and talks of “reforming” systems. Indeed, it describes <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">systemic changes</em> as something that may be happening in the world but not as something to <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">seek.</em> </p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #020202; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: var(--text--x-large-and-up--font-size,1.25rem); hyphens: none; line-height: var(--text--x-large-and-up--line-height,1.75rem); margin: 16px 0px 32px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><a href="https://www.greenpeace.org/canada/en/story/40377/what-exactly-is-system-change-and-how-can-we-build-back-better-from-covid-19/#:~:text=Simply%20put%2C%20system%20change%20is,are%20designed%20to%20do%20something." style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: var(--link--text-decoration,none);">We disagree</a>. We do not need small fixes and a restoration of a broken system. After all, 2020 was the hottest year on record – and saw inequalities rise further amidst the pandemic.</p><figure class="wp-block-image size-large caption-style-medium caption-alignment-center" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #020202; cursor: pointer; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 16px 0px 32px; max-width: 100%; position: relative; width: auto;"><img alt="Greenpeace Justice Activity at the World Economic Forum in Davos. © Greenpeace / Lumina Obscura" class="wp-image-46229" height="684" loading="lazy" src="https://www.greenpeace.org/static/planet4-international-stateless/71afdbcb-gp0stri2h-1024x684.jpg" style="border-radius: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="1024" /><figcaption style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #45494c; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; text-align: center;">Civil society comes together with united demands for urgent changes to an unjust system that exacerbates inequality, damages the environment and threatens human rights. World Economic Forum 2018 © Greenpeace / Lumina Obscura</figcaption></figure><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #020202; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: var(--text--x-large-and-up--font-size,1.25rem); hyphens: none; line-height: var(--text--x-large-and-up--line-height,1.75rem); margin: 16px 0px 32px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">In response, we need nothing less than transformational green and just recoveries. Recovery programs that strengthen our communities, respect our planet and address the root causes of injustice. That’s why, in 2021, Greenpeace is working with allies on advancing the radical policies people around the world demand: </p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #020202; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: var(--text--x-large-and-up--font-size,1.25rem); hyphens: none; line-height: var(--text--x-large-and-up--line-height,1.75rem); margin: 16px 0px 32px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">In Canada we are pushing <a href="https://www.greenpeace.org/canada/en/story/38421/make-the-rich-pay-the-much-needed-wealth-tax-on-multimillionaires/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: var(--link--text-decoration,none);">for a Wealth Tax</a> to pay for the recovery; in the Philippines, we are demanding a <a href="https://www.greenpeace.org/philippines/act/betternormal/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: var(--link--text-decoration,none);">New Normal</a>, including local food production and making cities fit for people, not cars. In France, we have called for a <a class="pdf-link" href="https://cdn.greenpeace.fr/site/uploads/2020/05/REPORT-Financing-climate-chaos-1.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: var(--link--text-decoration,none);" title="This link will open a PDF file">ban on dividends</a> for shareholders of all companies that fail to act on the climate crisis in the Covid recovery. Greenpeace groups in <a href="https://www.greenpeace.org/india/en/press/10591/greenpeace-india-floats-towards-better-to-highlight-the-need-for-green-recovery-plans-post-covid/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: var(--link--text-decoration,none);">India</a>, the <a href="https://www.greenpeace.org/usa/greenpeace-usas-just-recovery-agenda/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: var(--link--text-decoration,none);">United States</a>, <a class="external-link" href="https://es.greenpeace.org/es/en-profundidad/darle-la-vuelta-al-sistema/?utm_medium=social_network&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=Reconstruccion&utm_content=lanzamientotransformaci%C3%B3n&utm_term=lanzamientotransformaci%C3%B3n" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: var(--link--text-decoration,none);" target="" title="This link will lead you to es.greenpeace.org">Spain</a> and <a href="https://www.greenpeace.org/new-zealand/campaign/the-green-covid-response-2020/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: var(--link--text-decoration,none);">New Zealand</a> have all published inspiring proposals for a green and just recovery. We have set out how we can make <a href="https://www.greenpeace.org/international/story/43288/trade-agreements-covid-19-coronavirus-neoliberalism-capitalism-economics-relocalisation/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: var(--link--text-decoration,none);">trade work for people,</a> and asked other activists to <a href="https://www.greenpeace.org/international/story/46082/climate-activists-on-system-change/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: var(--link--text-decoration,none);">re-imagine tax and stewarding nature with us</a>.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #020202; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: var(--text--x-large-and-up--font-size,1.25rem); hyphens: none; line-height: var(--text--x-large-and-up--line-height,1.75rem); margin: 16px 0px 32px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">I hope we can all take part in this movement in 2021 so that we can finally tackle the <a class="external-link" href="http://www.ipsnews.net/2019/01/davos-inequality-climate-emergency/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: var(--link--text-decoration,none);" target="" title="This link will lead you to ipsnews.net">twin crises of inequality and climate change</a>. You can start by showing your support for the <a class="external-link" href="https://www.fightinequality.org/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: var(--link--text-decoration,none);" target="" title="This link will lead you to fightinequality.org">#BetterThanDavos</a> action week on <a class="external-link" href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CKMAxYmDYEC/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: var(--link--text-decoration,none);" target="" title="This link will lead you to instagram.com">social media</a>. Find a <a class="external-link" href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qJug6N3Di_1cuEtVxmK5NhgX1qjkfC7Qde67VO0Gz4k/edit" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: var(--link--text-decoration,none);" target="" title="This link will lead you to docs.google.com">protest to join</a>. Or <a class="external-link" href="https://storytelling.greenpeace.org/map/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: var(--link--text-decoration,none);" target="" title="This link will lead you to storytelling.greenpeace.org">tell us y<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">our </em>story</a> of pushing for change.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #020202; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: var(--text--x-large-and-up--font-size,1.25rem); hyphens: none; line-height: var(--text--x-large-and-up--line-height,1.75rem); margin: 16px 0px 32px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: var(--text--x-large-and-up--font-size,1.25rem);">First published in January 2021 on <a href="http://greenpeace.org">greenpeace.org</a> </span></p><div><br /></div>Daniel Mittlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03354823008712270397noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7558460735484185087.post-54812393038854639832019-05-28T21:25:00.001+02:002019-05-28T21:25:48.135+02:00Europe´s choice: division or leadership<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<br />Daniel Mittlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03354823008712270397noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7558460735484185087.post-9229112773541982832019-03-05T12:04:00.001+01:002019-03-05T12:04:25.906+01:00Davos, inequality and the climate emergency<span id="docs-internal-guid-b547bb7e-7fff-6470-b0ee-05df94c508d1"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Four of the top five most impactful threats in this year’s World Economic Forum´s Global Risks report are related to climate change. The report warns that we are </span><a href="https://twitter.com/wef/status/1085469216977887242" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“sleepwalking to disaster”</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> . </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The disaster is already here, it´s not something we are still walking towards. Climate change is no future threat, it´s a current one. We have entered a new phase, one in which the impacts are coming faster, with greater intensity. Already this year, Thailand has seen its worst storm in 30 years rip through coastal areas. In the Alps, just east of Davos, extreme weather is causing snow chaos. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The climate crisis also isn´t caused by sleep or ignorance. The rich and powerful gathered in Davos </span><a href="https://twitter.com/NaomiAKlein/status/1085586660874698754" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">brought us to the the existential brink wide awake</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. The “profit first” neoliberal economic model has dominated policy making around the world for too long. It has resulted in national laws, trade and finance rules that drive our current overconsumption of resources, lead to climate disruption - and bring about more and more inequality. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The failure by governments to prioritize climate action and the fight against inequality is caused by state institutions and decision-makers - in South as well as North - being captured by specific corporate interests. The report </span><a href="https://www.greenpeace.org/archive-international/Global/international/publications/other/2018/Justice-for-people-and-planet.pdf" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #2980b9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Justice for People and Planet</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, for example, showcases 20 examples of how the rules that govern our global economy (and sometimes the lack thereof) result in environmental destruction and corporate human rights abuses. The sad truth is, that those cases are just the tip of the iceberg. They merely illustrate the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">systemic </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">problem we face. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Because the crises we face are the result of our current economic and political rules, neither the climate emergency nor inequality can be </span><a href="https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/01/globalization-4-0-will-help-us-tackle-climate-change-here-s-how/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">fixed by public private partnerships, as Klaus Schwab, the founder and director of the World Economic Forum tries to make us believe</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">To the contrary. We only have a chance to stop walking towards catastrophe if we force our governments to adopt </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">new</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> rules - nationally and globally - that have ending climate pollution and inequality at their heart. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This is certainly possible. At the global level, we </span><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">do have some regulations with teeth. The World Trade Organisation, for example, can sanction countries that break its rules. Those very rules have prevented many positive laws and changes - because the threat of the WTO overruling a social or environmental measure always looms.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We need similarly strong rules to counter the climate emergency and to fight inequality. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Environmental and social bodies should be able to impose sanctions and fines. </span><a href="https://trade-leaks.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/10-Principles-for-Corporate-Accountability.pdf" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Corporate accountability and liability</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> needs to extend to</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> all corporate </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">impacts on people and the environment around the world. Trade rules, similarly, need to be revamped to </span><a href="https://trade-leaks.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/10-PRINCIPLES-FOR-TRADE-ENGLISH-WEB.pdf" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">put people and planet first</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">At the national level, we need binding targets to at least halve global emissions by 2030, and we need tax rules that ensure that the corporations and the rich pay their fair share. We can take heart in some rules that are already on the statute books. </span><a href="http://corporatejustice.org/news/393-france-adopts-corporate-duty-of-vigilance-law-a-first-historic-step-towards-better-human-rights-and-environmental-protection" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">France</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, for example, requires corporations to identify potential risks to people and the environment as a result of their activities, and act to prevent harm to people and the environment. The </span><a href="https://business-humanrights.org/en/uk-modern-slavery-act" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">UK’s Modern Slavery Act</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> meanwhile require businesses to tackle slavery and human trafficking in their supply chains - one extreme part of the inequality crisis. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We need more such laws, in more countries. Urgently. And that´s, luckily, what grassroots movements are demanding around the world. As the World Economic Forum gathers in Davos, people are </span><a href="http://www.ipsnews.net/2018/12/movement-fighting-inequality-growing/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">mobilizing in many countries to put an end to inequality as part of the Fight Inequality alliance week of action.</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Feminists, workers, environmentalists and many more movements have come together in this alliance in the knowledge that we do not need nice words or acts of charity from the Davos elite but fundamentally different rules for our global economy if we are to survive. As the global </span><a href="https://www.fightinequality.org/vision.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Fight Inequality alliance manifesto</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> says: “</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #191919; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We stand together to build a world of greater equality – where all people’s rights are respected and fulfilled, a world of shared prosperity, opportunity and dignity, living within the planet’s boundaries.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #191919; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">”</span></div>
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Daniel Mittlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03354823008712270397noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7558460735484185087.post-7414087085681142052018-10-01T12:25:00.001+02:002018-10-01T12:36:37.130+02:00Justice for people and planet - Greenpeace and corporate accountability<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaz_fgkZIHwBVO-QNCBvK8r2RjNwHaI-OSsGOl35uVb7kL4qxsYfE3cWAFgKeapYKwlhLsDGEePEmGtLJJgg1ZHCvWkNP43WIb3KEz-DuEMpQtb_RxXJnAzg226_zSRj4DnrJnYGxf6wcL/s1600/download-4.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="119" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaz_fgkZIHwBVO-QNCBvK8r2RjNwHaI-OSsGOl35uVb7kL4qxsYfE3cWAFgKeapYKwlhLsDGEePEmGtLJJgg1ZHCvWkNP43WIb3KEz-DuEMpQtb_RxXJnAzg226_zSRj4DnrJnYGxf6wcL/s320/download-4.jpg" width="320" /></a><br />
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Greenpeace is famous for corporate campaigning. We make “Choke” out of Coca-Cola´s logo to draw attention to the <a href="https://act.greenpeace.org/page/8009/action/1?locale=en-US">massive plastic pollution impact that company </a>has around the world. We stand in the <a href="https://www.greenpeace.org.uk/latest-photos-greenpeace-volunteers-block-volkswagen-cars-entering-uk/">way of imports of dirty cars </a>and expose corporate misbehaviour wherever we encounter it.<br />
The public image of Greenpeace is therefore often one of "corporate bashers". We can indeed be pretty harsh and irreverent when calling attention to corporate misdeeds (like in <a href="https://www.facebook.com/greenpeace.international/videos/its-not-business-its-personal/10155629266093300/">this satire video</a>). <br />
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Of course, we don't believe that everyone in a corporation thinks like the man in the video. There are many in business - and many businesses - that want to do the right thing for people and planet. We applaud them.</div>
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Greenpeace never says no without offering an alternative. We are so committed to getting the solutions our world needs adopted fast, that we are, at times, willing to praise corporations that are still part of the problem. We <a href="http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/news/features/ask-and-ye-shall-receive-comp/">say “well done” to Coca Cola</a> for eliminating climate damaging refrigerants from their cooling equipment because the benefits for our climate and future generations are significant and real. But we do so in the context of us demanding more fundamental change. And we do so at the very same time as we campaign against them on plastic pollution. In the corporate world, we have “no permanent friends or enemies”. It’s part of our <a href="http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/about/our-core-values/">core values</a> - and it works to achieve change. The work with Coca-Cola to eliminate climate damaging gases, for example, also started as a ´brand jam´ when they were providing the “green Sydney Olympics” with cooling equipment that destroyed our climate. <br />
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It’s a fact, though, that corporations who misbehave are too rarely punished - and too often have captured our political leaders. The public good - our planet, our future - is the loser.<br />
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You can see that clearly in our new report Justice for People and Planet, which showcases 20 case studies of corporate capture, collusion and impunity. The report describes how some corporations have abused and violated human and environmental rights - across different countries and environments. The examples are as shocking as they are diverse, ranging from deforestation, water and air pollution, plastic pollution, or waste dumping, to chemical spills, nuclear disaster, violations of Indigenous rights and more. <br />
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Our report argues that it is the rules that govern our global economy (and lack thereof) that are the real reason behind such corporate misdeeds. Economic globalisation has created significant governance gaps. There are no enforceable social and environmental global rules governing global economic players. That we lack these rules to deliver a sustainable and fair economy worldwide is the result of specific political choices by our leaders. The cases presented in our report show that corporate impunity for environmental destruction and human rights violations is a result of the current economic and legal system(s). The failure to protect human rights and the environment is often caused by state institutions and decision makers being captured by specific corporate interests. This all too often leads to politicians failing to pass binding laws and failing to ensure corporations are held to account. <br />
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There is a different way. Effective state action could end corporate capture and close the governance gap. Global regulations with teeth are clearly possible – they exist! The World Trade Organization (WTO), for example, can sanction countries that break its rules. <br />
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We need similarly strong roles for the environment and human rights. That’s why today we put forward 10 Principles for Corporate Accountability:<br />
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1. People and the environment, not corporations, must be at the heart of governance and public life.<br />
2. Public participation should be inherent to all policy making. <br />
3. States should abandon policies that undermine environmental and human rights.<br />
4. Corporations should be subject to binding rules both where they are based and where they operate.<br />
5. States should require due diligence reporting and cradle to grave responsibility for corporate products and services.<br />
6. States should promote a race to the top by prohibiting corporations from carrying out activities abroad which are prohibited in their home state for reasons of risks to environmental or human rights.<br />
7. States should create policies that provide transparency in all corporate and government activities that impact environmental and human rights, including in trade, tax, finance and investment regimes.<br />
8. Corporations and those individuals who direct them should be liable for environmental and human rights violations committed domestically or abroad by companies under their control.<br />
9. People affected by environmental and human rights violations should be guaranteed their right to effective access to remedy, including in company home states where necessary.<br />
10. States must actually enforce the regulatory and policy frameworks they create.<br />
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You can find much more detail about these principles (and why they are needed) in the report itself. <br />
And you can, like us, take heart in some steps in the right direction that are already underway: <a href="http://corporatejustice.org/news/393-france-adopts-corporate-duty-of-vigilance-law-a-first-historic-step-towards-better-human-rights-and-environmental-protection">France</a>, for example, recently required corporations to identify potential risks to people and the environment as a result of their activities, and act to prevent harm to people and the environment. Switzerland is gearing up for a people’s referendum that would legally oblige corporations to incorporate respect for human rights and the environment in all their business activities. New, specialised laws such as the <a href="https://business-humanrights.org/en/uk-modern-slavery-act">UK’s Modern Slavery Act</a> also require businesses to tackle slavery and human trafficking in their supply chains. All these show how governments can make rules with teeth to govern corporate activities around the world. If they want to. </div>
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A more just and sustainable world is possible. If all who want a livable planet push for it - together. <a href="https://www.greenpeace.org/international/act/justice-for-people-and-planet/">Are you in?</a></div>
Daniel Mittlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03354823008712270397noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7558460735484185087.post-37477299185924423932017-11-23T12:21:00.001+01:002017-11-23T12:25:21.339+01:00True climate leadership still missing<b>The world is moving ahead without Trump - but not as fast and decisively as needed.</b><br />
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Another round of climate negotiations is over. And, like last year, President Trump has failed to stop the <a href="https://au.news.yahoo.com/world/a/37907739/un-climate-talks-wrap-up-as-us-stands-firm-on-fossil-fuels/">global climate talks from moving forward</a>. Indeed, his announcement to withdraw from the Paris Agreement has brought even louder and clearer <a href="http://www.news.com.au/world/breaking-news/china-eu-step-up-to-fill-us-climate-gap/news-story/aed0e800e46eab97eab4d0189929e4da">voices for climate leadership from the United States to Bonn</a>. Civil society, cities, governors and some businesses have shown the true face of America here, exposing how Trump and his regressive fossil fuel agenda does not stand for the majority of Americans. <a href="https://www.wearestillin.com/us-action-climate-change-irreversible">America is still in </a>- and Americans are rising up for climate action.<br />
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We have also seen some positive announcements in recent days: a new alliance pledging to <a href="http://www.dw.com/en/cop23-canada-and-uk-launch-anti-coal-alliance-in-bonn/a-41412516">phase out coal was formed</a>; Europe's biggest coal port, Rotterdam, decided to phase out coal <a href="https://twitter.com/Willem_GP/status/930692654370902016">to deliver on the Paris Agreement</a> and the Pacific Island Development Forum nations <a href="http://sdg.iisd.org/news/pacific-island-leaders-sign-lofoten-declaration/">signed on to the Lofoten Declaration</a>, that calls for a just transition - a managed phase out of fossil fuels. We have also seen <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-11-16/norway-s-1-trillion-wealth-fund-wants-out-of-oil-and-gas-stocks">the largest wealth fund in the world announcing that they want to divest from oil and gas</a>. <br />
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Overall, though, there has been too much talk and not enough action. France, Germany and China have claimed to be leaders here - but Chancellor Merkel embarrassed herself on the global stage when she <a href="https://www.ft.com/content/62219ee8-ca23-11e7-ab18-7a9fb7d6163e">failed to commit to a coal phase-out</a>; French President Macron has put off the phase out of nuclear, which will slow down the urgently <a href="https://www.euractiv.com/section/energy/news/france-backtracks-on-nuclear-phase-out-pledge/">needed French energy revolution</a>. And China, too, has seen <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/11/13/climate/co2-emissions-rising-again.html">emissions rise this year</a> again after three years of coal consumption decline (though that may turn out to be a <a href="https://unearthed.greenpeace.org/2017/11/13/global-carbon-dioxide-emissions-rise-china/">temporary blip</a>). <br />
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In a year that has seen ever more devastating climate impacts, that is simply not good enough. This<br />
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conference was led by Fiji - the first time a climate summit was led by a Pacific island nation. The Pacific has been dealing with the devastating impacts of climate change for years - and this meeting did not deliver as much hope and support to them as would have been warranted and just. <br />
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One of my highlights of the last two weeks has been watching our Fijian volunteers, Alisi Nacewa and Samu Kuridrani, interview people about climate change - and these, at times crazy, negotiations. I encourage you to watch their <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZjXwY2QD2rl621nMJdrwQw">Kava Chats</a>. It's for the home of people like Alisi and Samu that we are fighting for. </div>
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We will not win against dangerous climate change unless we work together across sectors and movements. This week, we held a joint event with the <a href="https://twitter.com/ituc/status/930739414099222529">International Trade Union</a> Confederation, discussing how we can unite to advance a just transition - and make climate action work for workers and the planet alike. We also brought together activists from climate impacted communities <a href="https://twitter.com/JanvandeVenis/status/931204924330868736">with National Human Rights institutions</a>. We hope that many of them will follow the example of the Philippine Human Rights Commission, that is investigating the <a href="http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/press/releases/2017/Filipino-typhoon-survivors-demand-climate-action-on-Haiyan-anniversary/">human rights impacts of 47 carbon producers, including ExxonMobil, Shell, BP, Chevron, and Total</a>. <br />
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There is an encouraging wave of legal action against polluters. This week a German court accepted a case brought by a Peruvian farmer against energy giant RWE. RWE, he argues, must share in <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/nov/14/peruvian-farmer-sues-german-energy-giant-rwe-climate-change">the cost of protecting his hometown Huaraz from a swollen glacier lake</a> at risk of overflowing from melting snow and ice. And our legal colleagues have been in a courtroom in Norway making the case that additional oil drilling in the Arctic not only undermines the Paris Agreement but actually undermines<a href="https://uk.reuters.com/article/us-climatechange-accord-lawsuit/seeking-to-slow-climate-change-lawsuits-look-to-the-constitution-idUKKBN1DD1C7"> the Norwegian constitution</a>. Add your name to this case of The People vs Arctic Oil <a href="http://www.savethearctic.org/peoplevsarcticoil/">here</a>. <br />
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We will hold polluters accountable for their impacts. We will continue to push for quicker climate action so that even more devastation is prevented. The world is moving ahead. But we are in a race against time. And we need governments and corporations to move faster than we have seen them doing over the last two weeks here in Bonn.<br />
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This blog was first published on <a href="http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/news/Blogs/makingwaves/climate-leadership-missing/blog/60738/">greenpeace.org</a></div>
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For centuries the ocean has been considered to be an infinite source of food and natural resources and able to absorb anything dumped into it. It was never true, of course, but the lie is only becoming obvious now. And we are starting to realize that nothing could be more essential to our survival than healthy oceans.</div>
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Covering more than 70 percent of the planet, the ocean gives us food, oxygen, it regulates and stabilise our climate and provides <a class="bn-clickable" data-beacon-parsed="true" data-beacon="{"p":{"lnid":"many essential “services”","mpid":1,"plid":"http://voices.nationalgeographic.com/2011/04/05/ocean-productivity-can-increase-but-only-if-we-take-less/"}}" href="http://voices.nationalgeographic.com/2011/04/05/ocean-productivity-can-increase-but-only-if-we-take-less/" rel="nofollow" style="box-shadow: rgb(13, 190, 152) 0px -2px 0px inset; box-sizing: inherit; color: black; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">many essential “services”</a>, as the scientists call it, that are vital to sustain life on Earth. The United Nation’s<a class="bn-clickable" data-beacon-parsed="true" data-beacon="{"p":{"lnid":"","mpid":2,"plid":"http://www.un.org/Depts/los/global_reporting/WOA_RegProcess.htm"}}" href="http://www.un.org/Depts/los/global_reporting/WOA_RegProcess.htm" rel="nofollow" style="box-shadow: rgb(13, 190, 152) 0px -2px 0px inset; box-sizing: inherit; color: black; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"> </a><a class="bn-clickable" data-beacon-parsed="true" data-beacon="{"p":{"lnid":"First Ocean Assessment","mpid":3,"plid":"http://www.un.org/Depts/los/global_reporting/WOA_RegProcess.htm"}}" href="http://www.un.org/Depts/los/global_reporting/WOA_RegProcess.htm" rel="nofollow" style="box-shadow: rgb(13, 190, 152) 0px -2px 0px inset; box-sizing: inherit; color: black; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">First Ocean Assessment</a> tells us that many areas of the ocean have been seriously degraded due to - us - due to human activities: from overfishing, to oil and gas extraction, coastal development and plastic pollution, all of these work to destroy our oceans and decrease their ability to nurture life. This is not only true of areas close to our shores, but also of those out on the High Seas - in called <a class="bn-clickable" data-beacon-parsed="true" data-beacon="{"p":{"lnid":"areas beyond national jurisdiction","mpid":4,"plid":"http://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/issue-briefs/2016/03/marine-protected-areas-beyond-national-jurisdiction"}}" href="http://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/issue-briefs/2016/03/marine-protected-areas-beyond-national-jurisdiction" rel="nofollow" style="box-shadow: rgb(13, 190, 152) 0px -2px 0px inset; box-sizing: inherit; color: black; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">areas beyond national jurisdiction</a>.</div>
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In the <a class="bn-clickable" data-beacon-parsed="true" data-beacon="{"p":{"lnid":"Call For Action","mpid":7,"plid":"https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/content/documents/15259Final_Draft_Call_for_Action_PGA_Letter.pdf"}}" href="https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/content/documents/15259Final_Draft_Call_for_Action_PGA_Letter.pdf" rel="nofollow" style="box-shadow: rgb(13, 190, 152) 0px -2px 0px inset; box-sizing: inherit; color: black; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Call For Action</a> that governments will formally adopt at the conference, a particular focus is given to the importance of cutting carbon pollution and implementing the Paris Climate Agreement (despite the Trump administration’s <a class="bn-clickable" data-beacon-parsed="true" data-beacon="{"p":{"lnid":"disgraceful attempts","mpid":8,"plid":"http://www.reuters.com/article/us-climatechange-oceans-idUSKBN18Q1T5"}}" href="http://www.reuters.com/article/us-climatechange-oceans-idUSKBN18Q1T5" rel="nofollow" style="box-shadow: rgb(13, 190, 152) 0px -2px 0px inset; box-sizing: inherit; color: black; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">disgraceful attempts</a> to prevent this important link being made). This is due to the <a class="bn-clickable" data-beacon-parsed="true" data-beacon="{"p":{"lnid":"alarming impacts","mpid":9,"plid":"http://undocs.org/A/72/70"}}" href="http://undocs.org/A/72/70" rel="nofollow" style="box-shadow: rgb(13, 190, 152) 0px -2px 0px inset; box-sizing: inherit; color: black; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">alarming impacts</a> our use of oil, coal and gas and destruction of forests and other carbon stocks are already having on the ocean, causing it to become more warm, more acidic and less rich in oxygen.</div>
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The speed, depth and scale of these changes is difficult to grasp. For example, our ocean is currently becoming more acidic <a class="bn-clickable" data-beacon-parsed="true" data-beacon="{"p":{"lnid":"at a rate unprecedented","mpid":10,"plid":"http://ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment-report/ar5/wg2/WGIIAR5-Chap30_FINAL.pdf"}}" href="http://ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment-report/ar5/wg2/WGIIAR5-Chap30_FINAL.pdf" rel="nofollow" style="box-shadow: rgb(13, 190, 152) 0px -2px 0px inset; box-sizing: inherit; color: black; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">at a rate unprecedented</a> within the last 65 million years, if not the last 300 million years, threatening to fundamentally <a class="bn-clickable" data-beacon-parsed="true" data-beacon="{"p":{"lnid":"change marine life","mpid":11,"plid":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0kacyyLVB4"}}" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0kacyyLVB4" rel="nofollow" style="box-shadow: rgb(13, 190, 152) 0px -2px 0px inset; box-sizing: inherit; color: black; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">change marine life</a>within the span of a single human lifetime. For this reason alone, getting rid of fossil fuels as soon as possible and accelerating the transition to renewable energy, in the spirit of the Paris Agreement, will be crucial. Here the official conferences hosts, Sweden, who has pledged to <a class="bn-clickable" data-beacon-parsed="true" data-beacon="{"p":{"lnid":"lead","mpid":12,"plid":"http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/sweden-phases-out-fossil-fuels-in-attempt-to-run-completely-off-renewable-energy-a7047306.html"}}" href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/sweden-phases-out-fossil-fuels-in-attempt-to-run-completely-off-renewable-energy-a7047306.html" rel="nofollow" style="box-shadow: rgb(13, 190, 152) 0px -2px 0px inset; box-sizing: inherit; color: black; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">lead </a>in becoming fossil free and Fiji, who together with other Pacific Islands has called for an <a class="bn-clickable" data-beacon-parsed="true" data-beacon="{"p":{"lnid":"international moratorium","mpid":13,"plid":"http://pacificidf.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/PACIFIC-ISLAND-DEVELOPMENT-FORUM-SUVA-DECLARATION-ON-CLIMATE-CHANGE.v2.pdf"}}" href="http://pacificidf.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/PACIFIC-ISLAND-DEVELOPMENT-FORUM-SUVA-DECLARATION-ON-CLIMATE-CHANGE.v2.pdf" rel="nofollow" style="box-shadow: rgb(13, 190, 152) 0px -2px 0px inset; box-sizing: inherit; color: black; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">international moratorium </a>on new fossil fuel developments, are showing the way.</div>
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But getting rid of fossil fuels is not sufficient to stop the impact of climate change and protect the ocean’s precious functions. The <a class="bn-clickable" data-beacon-parsed="true" data-beacon="{"p":{"lnid":"science","mpid":14,"plid":"http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2017/05/31/1701262114"}}" href="http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2017/05/31/1701262114" rel="nofollow" style="box-shadow: rgb(13, 190, 152) 0px -2px 0px inset; box-sizing: inherit; color: black; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">science</a> is clear that a global network of marine protected areas, especially ocean sanctuaries - areas off limits to human activities - is necessary to reverse the ocean crisis, ensure food security and mitigate and build resilience against, climate change. That is one key reason why, back in 2010, the international community agreed to protect 10% of the ocean by 2020, a commitment that has been endorsed once again in 2015 when the world agreed the “to do list” for people and planet known as the <a class="bn-clickable" data-beacon-parsed="true" data-beacon="{"p":{"lnid":"Sustainable Development Goals","mpid":15,"plid":"http://www.greenpeace.org/international/Global/international/briefings/climate/2015/SDG-Briefing.pdf"}}" href="http://www.greenpeace.org/international/Global/international/briefings/climate/2015/SDG-Briefing.pdf" rel="nofollow" style="box-shadow: rgb(13, 190, 152) 0px -2px 0px inset; box-sizing: inherit; color: black; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Sustainable Development Goals</a>. More recently, following scientific advice, States have gone further and committed to protect <a class="bn-clickable" data-beacon-parsed="true" data-beacon="{"p":{"lnid":"at least 30% by 2030","mpid":16,"plid":"https://portals.iucn.org/congress/motion/053"}}" href="https://portals.iucn.org/congress/motion/053" rel="nofollow" style="box-shadow: rgb(13, 190, 152) 0px -2px 0px inset; box-sizing: inherit; color: black; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">at least 30% by 2030</a>.</div>
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These numbers are as vital as they are daunting. Right now l<a class="bn-clickable" data-beacon-parsed="true" data-beacon="{"p":{"lnid":"ess than 3% of the ocean","mpid":17,"plid":"http://www.mpatlas.org/explore/"}}" href="http://www.mpatlas.org/explore/" rel="nofollow" style="box-shadow: rgb(13, 190, 152) 0px -2px 0px inset; box-sizing: inherit; color: black; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">ess than 3% of the ocean</a> is under some form of protection, and only little over 1% is strongly protected in no-take areas. Numbers are even more alarming when it comes to the High Seas, which cover two-thirds of the ocean. Less than 1% of these are protected. It is quite clear that if we want to achieve the targets needed to ensure our future, areas must be protected, both in national and international waters. Sadly, for the High Seas, including the central Arctic, there is currently no global process to create and manage protected areas. <a class="bn-clickable" data-beacon-parsed="true" data-beacon="{"p":{"lnid":"To fill this gap","mpid":18,"plid":"http://www.greenpeace.org/international/Global/international/briefings/oceans/2016/UN-Ocean-Biodiversity-Agreement.pdf"}}" href="http://www.greenpeace.org/international/Global/international/briefings/oceans/2016/UN-Ocean-Biodiversity-Agreement.pdf" rel="nofollow" style="box-shadow: rgb(13, 190, 152) 0px -2px 0px inset; box-sizing: inherit; color: black; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">To fill this gap</a> the international community has been discussing the need to develop a new Treaty under the framework of the UN Convention of the Law of the Seas (UNCLOS) to protect marine life in waters beyond national jurisdiction. The process toward this Treaty is now coming to a crucial stage. In only a few weeks from now, the UN will decide on whether to convene a formal negotiation process to address outstanding issues and adopt the Treaty.</div>
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The <a class="bn-clickable" data-beacon-parsed="true" data-beacon="{"p":{"lnid":"UN Ocean Conference","mpid":19,"plid":"http://www.sustainablegoals.org.uk/healthy-oceans-healthy-planet/"}}" href="http://www.sustainablegoals.org.uk/healthy-oceans-healthy-planet/" rel="nofollow" style="box-shadow: rgb(13, 190, 152) 0px -2px 0px inset; box-sizing: inherit; color: black; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">UN Ocean Conference</a> therefore needs to send a strong signal about the need to launch formal negotiations of the “Paris Agreement for the Ocean” in <a class="bn-clickable" data-beacon-parsed="true" data-beacon="{"p":{"lnid":"2018","mpid":20,"plid":"http://highseasalliance.org/content/high-seas-protection-should-be-top-ocean-conference-agenda"}}" href="http://highseasalliance.org/content/high-seas-protection-should-be-top-ocean-conference-agenda" rel="nofollow" style="box-shadow: rgb(13, 190, 152) 0px -2px 0px inset; box-sizing: inherit; color: black; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">2018</a>.</div>
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In the run-up to the Conference, governments and all relevant stakeholders, including the industry, have been busy registering their voluntary commitments to protect the ocean. While of course, this is a good thing, the record of implementation of voluntary commitments has been traditionally appalling. The ocean doesn’t need more expressions of goodwill, it needs concrete action. My hope is that beyond collecting voluntary commitments, this Conference will catalyse real action for the ocean, for the people, for our Planet and prosperity of humankind.</div>
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Daniel Mittlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03354823008712270397noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7558460735484185087.post-77960020223064368992016-12-19T11:33:00.000+01:002016-12-19T11:33:27.311+01:00Protecting what protects us <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<br />Daniel Mittlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03354823008712270397noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7558460735484185087.post-19772775436911606962016-09-20T21:04:00.001+02:002016-09-20T21:04:44.511+02:00Shifting power to protect people and planet<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Der <a href="http://www.wbgu.de/">Wissenschaftliche Beirat der Bundesregierung Global Umweltveränderungen</a> hat 2014 eine Weltbürgerbewegung für den Klimaschutz gefordert und damit eine Kontroverse ausgelöst. Die Zeitschrift <a href="https://www.oekom.de/zeitschriften/gaia/">GAIA</a> hat diese Debatte aufgegriffen und voran getrieben und Ende 2015 auch einen <a href="https://www.oekom.de/fileadmin/zeitschriften/gaia_leseproben/GAIA4_2015_228_231_Mittler.pdf">Beitrag von mir</a> dazu veröffentlicht. Die gesamte Debatte ist auch auf <a href="https://www.boell.de/de/2015/10/19/die-rolle-der-zivilgesellschaft-der-klimapolitik">boell.de </a>dokumentiert. Hier zum nachlesen:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Eine “Weltbürgerbewegung” für den Klimaschutz - das klingt
attraktiv. Die Rede vom “Bürger” suggeriert - anders als die vom
"Konsumenten" -<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>ein
politisches Subjekt, das sich einmischt und - nach diskursiver
Auseinandersetzung – Regeln für die Gesellschaft<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>festsetzt. Und “Bewegung” klingt nach
Veränderung, nach Umwälzung, nach dem Aufbrechen von Althergebrachtem, nach
einem (erwünschten) Neuanfang.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span lang="DE" style="mso-ansi-language: DE;">Dennoch hat der
vom </span><span lang="DE" style="color: #262626; mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Wissenschaftlichen Beirat der Bundesregierung Globale
Umweltveränderungen</span><span lang="DE" style="color: #262626;"> (</span><span lang="DE" style="mso-ansi-language: DE;">WBGU) in seinem Sondergutachten
propagierte “Klimaschutz als Weltbürgerbewegung” (WBGU 2014) eine Kontroverse
entfacht. </span><span style="background: white; color: #222222;">Dem WBGU wurde vorgeworfen,
einer “Ökodiktatur” das Wort zu redden (Leggewie et al, 2015). Nun kritisiert
Achim Brunnengräber, dass die Vorschläge im Sondergutachten einer
“entstaatlichten Klimapolitik unter neoliberalen Vorzeichen” das Wort reden
würde (Brunnengräber, 2014, S. 307). </span><span lang="DE" style="color: #231f20; mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Sybille Bauriedl
analysierte, der WBGU unterstütze eine eurozentrische, marktkonforme
Lösungsideologie die “soziale und globale Ungleichheit” verschärft (Bauriedl
2015, S. 16); und Barbara Unmüßig stellt mit Bezug auf den </span><span lang="DE" style="mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">WBGU
kritisch fest: “</span><span lang="DE" style="background: white; mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Die
Weltbürger(innen), an die er denkt, kommen fast alle aus dem wohlhabenden
Norden” (Unmüßig, 2015, S. 161).</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="background: white; color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Das Ende des fossilen
Zeitalters bis 2050<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span lang="DE" style="mso-ansi-language: DE;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Die Kritiker(innen)
erkennen an, dass der WBGU die klimawissenschaftliche Notwendigkeit gut
darstellt, entschieden und eilig zu handeln. Das ist in der Tat <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>richtig. Brunnengräber (2014) und Bauriedl (2015)
merken zwar die Naturwissenschaftslastigkeit des Gutachten kritisch an und halten
die angestrebeten Maßnahmen für oft falsch und technokratisch. Das Ziel, die
klimaschädlichen Emissionen aus fossilen Rohstoffen bis 2070 zu beenden, wird
allerdings als durchaus weitreichend wiedergegeben. Mir hingegen erscheint
dieses Ziel nicht ambitioniert genug. Bis 2050 ist ein weltweiter Umstieg auf
erneuerbare Energien möglich - auch unter gegebenen ökonomischen und technologischen
Bedigungen. Die dazu notwendige Energierevolution schafft Arbeitsplätze und
senkt die Emissionen in dem Maße, wie es die Klimawissenschaft verlangt (Greenpeace
Deutschland 2015). Nichts weniger sollte deswegen auch der WBGU von
Entscheidungsträgern fordern und erwarten. Wir brauchen das globale Ende des
fossilen Zeitalters bis Mitte dieses Jahrhunderts.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span lang="DE" style="mso-ansi-language: DE;">Und das ist
machbar, auch weil vieles, was sich WBGU 2014 unter dem Schlagwort
“Weltbürgerbewegung” einfordert, heute bereits real ist. Das Momentum ist auf
der Seite der Klimabewegung. Verschiedenste Akteure auf den unterschiedlichsten
Entscheidungsebenen betreiben aktiven Klimaschutz und treiben diesen auch
politisch voran. Die Realität ist chaotischer als der vom WBGU angestrebte
“modulare Multilateralismus”, der nach Brunnengräber (2014, S. 308) nur als
"schöne heile WBGU-Klimawelt" existiert. Aber die Anzahl und
Durchschlagkraft der Initiativen ist trotzdem beeindruckend. Es finden sich
immer mehr Menschen weltweit zusammen, um das Ende des fossilen Zeitalters dort
voranzutreiben, wo sie Einfluss haben. Und das oft mit Erfolg. Die
philippinische Stadt Tacloban wurde im November 2013 durch den Taifun Haiyan,
einen der stärksten je aufgezeichneten tropischen Wirbelstürme, fast komplett
zerstört. Nun wird dort das neue öffentliche Verkehrssystem auf Elektrobusse,
die mit erneuerbaren Energien betrieben werden, umgestellt (Lipton 2014).
</span><span lang="DE" style="mso-ansi-language: DE;">Sydney<span style="font-size: 10.6667px;"> </span></span><span lang="DE" style="mso-ansi-language: DE;">in Australien will bis 2030 Strom,
Heizung und Kühlsysteme auf erneuerbare Energien umstellen. </span><span lang="DE" style="background: white; color: black;">Oslo,
Stockholm und Kopenhagen haben sich ebenfalls das Ziel gesetzt, ihren
Energiebedarf zu 100 % aus erneuerbaren Energien zu decken; ebenso wie </span><span lang="DE" style="mso-ansi-language: DE;">Konzerne wie </span><span lang="DE" style="background: white; color: black;">H&M, Ikea, Mars, Nestlé
oder Philips. Nicht alles ist Gold, was bei diesen freiwilligen Ankündigungen
glänzt. Trotzdem sind sie ein Zeichen, dass heute bereits von großen Teilen des
Mainstream akzeptiert wird, dass eine "erneuerbare Welt" nicht nur
technisch und ökonomisch machbar, sondern auch politisch wünschenswert ist. </span><span lang="DE" style="mso-ansi-language: DE;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span lang="DE" style="mso-ansi-language: DE;">Nicht nur die
Klimafolgen schreiten demnach schneller und dramatischer voran als
vorhergesagt,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>auch die Lösungen setzen
sich schneller und nachhaltiger durch als gedacht. Die erneuerbare Energien
sind heute weiter verbreitet – und nicht zuletzt billiger – als selbst
Greenpeace es noch vor Jahren vorhergesagt hatte. </span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span lang="DE" style="color: #559f0c; mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span lang="DE" style="mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">2014 gab es 15 Mal
mehr Solarenergie und drei Mal mehr Windenergie als noch 2007.<span style="color: #559f0c;"> </span></span></span><span lang="DE" style="mso-ansi-language: DE;">Die Internationale Agentur für Erneuerbare Energien (International
Renewable Energy Agency IRENA) hat errechnet, dass neue Anlagen zur Erzeugung
erneuerbarer Energien schon heute in den meisten Ländern die ökonomisch sinnvollste Variante
sind (IRENA, 2014).</span><span class="MsoCommentReference"><span style="font-size: 8.0pt;"><span style="mso-special-character: comment;"> </span></span></span><span lang="DE" style="mso-ansi-language: DE;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="mso-ansi-language: DE;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Die Aufgaben der Zivilgesellschaft<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span lang="DE" style="mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Dass die
Transformation trotzdem nicht so schnell vorangeht wie es die Klimawissenschaft
fordert, liegt – da stimme ich mit Unmüßig, Brunnengräber und Bauriedl überein –
an den vehementen und systemischen Widerständen derjenigen, die am
zerstörerischen Status quo verdienen. Diese Akteure und ihr starker Einfluss
auf die Klimapolitik sind im WBGU-Gutachten, freundlich formuliert, zu kurz
gekommen. Das ist kaum zu entschudligen, vor allem, da gerade die deutsche Bunderegierung
- die international oft durchaus beeindruckend für mehr Klimaschutz streitet – national
genau dann <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>klimaschädlich handelt, wenn
starke Lobbys wie die Kohle-, Stahl- oder die Automobilindustrie dies einfordern.
Auf Betreiben dieser Lobbys wurde eine Kohleabgabe verhindert, der
EU-Emissionshandel zur klimapolitischen Farce verwässert oder es wurden unzureichende
Autoabgasgrenzwerte festgesetzt (die dann zusätzlich noch durch Manipulation
unterwandert wurden ). Dieses klimapolitische Versagen war auch schon 2014 so
offensichtlich, dass man sich fragen muss, ob der WBGU seinen Auftraggebern
nicht ganz so deutlich sagen wollte, dass die extreme politische Macht der
fossilen Industrien auch in Deutschland zu einer erschreckend unzureichenden
Klimapolitik führt.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="DE" style="mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Soviel zu den
Verantwortlichen für die unzureichende nationale Klimapolitik. WBGU wie
Kritiker(innen) des Sondergutachtens stellen mit Blick auf die internationale
Arena eine Lähmung und Blockade im globalen Klimaschutzprozess fest. Beide
Seiten tendieren dabei dazu, den <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">formalen</i>
internationalen Verhandlungsprozess in seiner Bedeutung überzubewerten. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="DE" style="mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Die WBGU erachtet diesen
– auch ohne völkerrechtlich verbindlichen Vertrag – als so bedeutend, dass er
der von ihm gelobten Zivilgesellschaft zu mehr formaler Macht in dem Prozess
verhelfen will. Da kann man sich als internationale NGO natürlich eigentlich
nur geschmeichelt fühlen. Aber Barbara Unmüßig fragt zu Recht: “<span style="background: white;">Welche NRO kann denn für sich reklamieren, für die
Weltbürger(innen) zu sprechen?” (Unmüßig 2015, S. 162). Äh, keine. Und auch
strategisch hielte ich es nicht für wünschenswert, wenn die Zivilgesellschaft
noch stärker in das<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> formale</i> globale
Governanceregime hinein kooptiert würde. Wir dürfen – trotz der massiven
Einschränkungen für die Zivilgesellschaft in vielen Ländern, auf die Barbara
Unmüßig hinweist – den Anspruch, dass Staaten verpflichtet sind, die Rechte
ihrer Bürger(innen) durchzusetzen, nicht aufweichen. Wir müssen von den
Vereinten Nationen weiter erwarten, dass sie als Staatenverbund globale
Maßstäbe setzen - und auch bereit sind, die dazu notwendigen Maßnahmen
durchzusetzen. Aufgabe der Zivilgesellschaft ist es dann, die Zusagen von
Staaten zu überprüfen, gebrochene Versprechen aufzudecken und für öffentliche
Diksussion und Kritik zu sorgen. Sie darf aber darf nicht zu einer Art globalem
Umweltbundesamt werden, dessen formale Aufgabe die Prüfung nationaler
Klimapläne ist …<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span lang="DE" style="background: white; mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Gleichzeitig
verwundert es, dass sich Achim Brunnengräber fragt<span style="color: #444444;">
“</span></span><span lang="DE" style="color: #231f20; mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">woher die Impulse für einen ambitionierten
Klimaschutz kommen sollen, …wenn nur noch soft law oder gar keine
(völker-)rechtlich verbindlichen Ziele die Klimagovernance auszeichnen”
(Brunnengräber 2014, S. 307</span><span lang="DE" style="color: #231f20; mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">). Impulse gibt es doch zuhauf! Der Klimaschutz schreitet voran - wenn auch
nicht schnell genug. Das Scheitern von Kopenhagen 2009 hat den Durchbruch der
Erneuerbaren in den letzten Jahren nicht verhindert (ein Erfolg in Kopenhagen
hätte ihn wahrscheinlich zusätzlich beschleunigt). Und selbst bei den globalen
Verhandlungen im Rahmen der <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">United
Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)</i> ist heute erstmals von
einer Beendigung der globalen klimaschädlichen Emissionen die Rede. Als der
WBGU dies 2014 forderte, war es auf dieser Ebene noch ferne Zukunftsmusik.
Viele erfahrene Verhandler(innen) sagten in den letzten Jahren voraus, dass
alle Formulierungen zur globalen “Dekarbonisierung” lange vor der UN-Klimakonferenz
in Paris wieder aus den Verhandlungstexten verschwinden würden. Aber auch bei
Drucklegung – als die Verhandlungen in Paris in die letzte Runde gingen - enthiellt
der Text, der den Ministern vorlag, noch die Option, dass die globalen
Emissionen beendet werden müssen. Egal was am Ende in Paris beschlossen wurde,
auch auf der Ebene der internationalen Diplomatie ist die Diskussion über das Ende
des fossilen Zeitalters angekommen. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="color: #231f20; mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Was Klimagipfel leisten - und was nicht<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span lang="DE" style="color: #231f20; mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Man sollte dabei den UNFCCC-Prozess weder
positiv noch negativ verklären. Statt dessen sollte man realistisch
einschätzen, welche Impulse er geben kann und welche nicht. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span lang="DE" style="mso-ansi-language: DE;">Gipfel setzen zum
Beispiel Fristen. Regierungen werden durch sie gezwungen, sich die Zeit zu nehmen,
um Gesetze zu verabschieden. Verfeindete Ministerien müssen sich einigen.
Brasilien etwa hat Ende September 2015 – trotz einer ernsten Regierungskrise –
einen Klimaschutzplan vorgelegt. Dieser reicht zwar nicht aus, um das Klima zu
retten, aber er beinhaltet einige Schritte in die richtige Richtung (Tandon 2015</span><span lang="DE" style="mso-ansi-language: DE;">). Diese Fortschritte wären ohne den
Zeitdruck, den der Pariser Gipfel erzeugt, wahrscheinlich nicht möglich gewesen;
eine Entscheidung wäre aber sicher vertagt worden. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="DE" style="mso-ansi-language: DE;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Globale Gipfel
können außerdem Motor für wichtige bilaterale Abkommen sein.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Die Nationen mit den höchsten absoluten
Emissionen - die USA und China - haben sich bereits zweimal, 2014 und im
September 2015, gemeinsam auf mehr Klimaschutz geeinigt. Klimaverhandlungen
bringen auch zusätzliche öffentliche Aufmerksamkeit: Umweltorganisationen etwa werden
während der beiden Wochen der Klimaverhandlungen weltweit jedes Jahr mehr in
den Medien zitiert als im Rest des Jahres. Klimaverhandlungen bieten also gerade
Umweltorganisationen die Chance, die öffentliche Debatte voranzutreiben und auf
mehr Einsatz für den Klimaschutz zu drängen.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="DE" style="mso-ansi-language: DE;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Der Klimagipfel
von Paris der gerade zu Ende gegangen ist, war aufgrund der damit verbundenen
Medienaufmerksamkeit die perfekte Plattform, um die öffentliche
Auseinandersetzung darüber zuführen, dass das globale Ende des fossilen
Zeitalters bis Mitte dieses Jahrhunderts erreicht werden muss. Es ist gut, dass
in Paris über “Dekarbonisierung” geredet wird. Aber im nächsten Schritt müssen
wir zeigen, dass die schrittweise “Dekarbonisierung” bis 2100 (Forderung der G7
und von Bundeskanzerlin Merkel) oder auch bis 2070 (WBGU) nicht ausreichen. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span lang="DE" style="color: #231f20; mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Auch wenn ich die Rolle der <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">UNFCCC</i> also pragmatisch sehe, stimme ich
Brunnengräber, Bauriedl und Unmüßig zu, dass der WBGU die Kritiker(innen) des
UNFCCC-Prozesses nicht zu Wort kommen lässt und diese nicht als Teil seiner
“Weltbürgerbewegung” zu sehen scheint. Bauriedl übertreibt aber, wenn sie
behauptet, die Hundertausende, die 2014 in New York für Klimaschutz auf die
Straße gingen, seien alle “die Kritiker(innen) der etablierten Klimapolitik” (Bauriedl
2014, S. 15) gewesen. Die New Yorker Demonstration war so groß und so erfolgreich,
eben weil sie alle zusammenbrachte - vom Generalsekretär der UN, Ban Ki-moon,
bis hin zur<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Occupy-Wall-Street-Aktivistin.
</span><span style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Wie
Naomi Klein es formulierte: “To change everything, we need everyone”. </span><span lang="DE" style="color: #231f20; mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span lang="DE" style="color: #231f20; mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Insbesondere Bauriedl zeichnet außerdem die
globale Klimapolitik zu stark und zu klassisch als Auseinandersetzung zwischen
“dem Norden” und “dem Süden”. Es ist richtig, darauf hinzuweisen, dass nicht
“die Menschen” den Klimawandel verursachen, wie es der WBGU an einigen Stellen formuliert.
</span><span lang="DE" style="mso-ansi-language: DE;">Es ist auch richtig, dass
Industrieländer wie Deutschland eine besondere historische Verantwortung tragen,
da sie einen unfair großen Anteil an den klimaschädlichen Gasen verursacht
haben, die sich heute in unserer Atmosphäre befinden. Gleichzeitig wächst täglich
die Anzahl derjenigen, die <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">nicht</i> im
„Norden“ (den alten Industrieländern) leben, die aber durch ihren
konsumintensiven Lebensstil den Klimawandel massiv vorantreiben. Es ist zwar
wichtig zu wissen, dass ein großer Teil der Emissionen Chinas in Wirklichkeit
für den Export, und damit unseren Konsum, bestimmt sind (eine Studie des
britischen Tyndall Centres sprach von etwa einem Viertel, Wang et al. 2007).
Trotzdem steht hinter der Tatsache, dass zum Beispiel die Pro-Kopf-Emissionen
Chinas heute mit denen vieler europäischer Länder vergleichbar sind, auch eine
wachsende globale Mittelklasse und der extreme Konsum der Oberen 1 % weltweit. Die
oberen 10% verursachen etwa die Hälfte der globalen Emissionen (Oxfam, 2015)! Neben
der Umverteilung von Nord nach Süd (die gerade für ärmere und kleinere Entwicklungsländer
nach wie vor essenziell ist), tritt die Frage der Umverteilung <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">innerhalb </i>von Ländern immer mehr in den
Vordergrund. Weltweit müssen die, die viel haben vor allem „weniger
nehmen statt mehr zu geben“, wie es Wolfgang Sachs </span><span lang="DE" style="mso-ansi-language: DE;">formuliert (Sachs, 2002). Die Klimadebatte
ist deshalb weltweit zunehmend auch eine Debatte über <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ungleichheit</i>, sie ist zunehmend auch eine <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Klassenfrage </i>(Mittler 2014). Es geht darum, wie wir das noch zu
Verfügung stehende Budget an klimaschädlichen Emissionen gerecht verteilen. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span lang="DE" style="mso-ansi-language: DE;">Diese gerechte
Verteilung von Emissionen und Ressourcen wird es „</span><span lang="DE" style="background: white; mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">nicht ohne Konflikte geben”,<span style="color: #444444;"> wie</span></span><span lang="DE" style="mso-ansi-language: DE;"> Barbara Unmüßig (2015, S. 161) richtig formuliert. Mehr noch: Aufgabe der
Zivilgesellschaft muss es insbesondere sein, diese Konflikte aufzuzeigen und,
wo nötig, sogar zu erzwingen. Dies gilt auch in einer Welt, in der dies die
Zivilgesellschaft gefährden und vielerorts zu einem Backlash gegen ihre Rechte führen
kann. Greenpeace Indien wird zum Beispiel auch und gerade wegen seiner
erfolgreichen Arbeit gegen neue Kohleminen von der indischen Regierung unter
Druck gesetzt und in seiner Existenz bedroht (Subramanian 2015). <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Das ist fast ein Kompliment. Denn in den wenigen
Jahren, die uns zur Verfügung stehen, um die katastrophalsten Folgen des
Klimawandels zu verhindern, muss die Zivilgesellschaft vor allem ein klares
Nein sagen zu den entscheidenden neuen fossilen Projekten weltweit – und dieses
Nein auch wagen. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="DE" style="mso-ansi-language: DE;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Wenn unser Klima
nicht vollends außer Kontrolle geraten soll, dürfen über zwei Drittel der
fossilen Ressourcen, die wir heute schon kennen, nicht verbrannt werden. Sie
müssen im Boden bleiben. Deswegen haben nicht nur die lokal Betroffenen sondern
wir alle das Recht, uns zum Beispiel gegen neue Kohlehäfen am australischen
Great Barrier Reef stellen. Deswegen gilt es, Ölbohrungen in der Arktis
komplett zu unterbinden und die Region als <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">commons</i>
für die Menschheit zu bewahren. Die potenziellen zusätzlichen Emissionen aus
solchen Projekten sind schlicht nicht hinnehmbar (Greenpeace International
2013). Sie gehen uns deshalb alle an. Wie auch der Kampf meiner indischen
Kollegen gegen neue Kohleminen – und für ihr Recht auf Protest.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" style="mso-comment-date: 20151207T1003; mso-comment-reference: DM_9;"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" style="mso-comment-date: 20151106T1416; mso-comment-reference: M_8;"><span style="mso-comment-continuation: 9;"><span lang="DE" style="mso-ansi-language: DE;">Wir </span></span></a><span lang="DE" style="mso-ansi-language: DE;">sind in der Tat „Weltklimabürger“ und
müssen uns aus globaler Verantwortung heraus vernetzen. Wir müssen unsere
gemeinsame Kraft auf die für das Klima – und damit unser Überleben –
entscheidenden Auseinandersetzungen konzentrieren. Wir selber müssen uns in
einer Art privaten Form des „modularen Multilateralismus“ nicht nur um unsere Probleme
vor Ort – sondern auch und gerade um die zentralen globalen
Auseinandersetzungen kümmern. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="DE" style="mso-ansi-language: DE;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Für einen
erfolgreichen Klimaschutz müssen wir die positiven Impulse, die es auf allen
Ebenen und in allen Bereichen - inklusive der Wirtschaft - gibt, aufnehmen und stärken.
Wie ich am Anfang dieses Beitrags beschrieben habe: Es ist viel in Bewegung
beim Klimaschutz. Die Weltbürgerbewegung des WBGU existiert zum Teil heute schon
- und das ist auch gut so.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="DE" style="mso-ansi-language: DE;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Gleichzeitig
reichen die positiven Bewegungen bei weitem nicht aus. Als global denkende
Bürger(innen) müssen wir deswegen weiter Bewegung <i>machen </i>und klimapolitische Fortschritte auch gegen massive
Widerstände <i>erzwingen</i>. Wir brauchen
Bürger(innen), die politisches Subjekt sein wollen – und dafür auch Konflikte aushalten,
gerade mit den Mächtigen. In diesem Sinne brauchen wir eine Weltbürgerbewegung.
Dringend. Im Vergleich zum Konzept des WBGU bedeutet das allerdings etwas
weniger Bürgerlichkeit - und dafür mehr Bewegung!</span></span></div>
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<span lang="DE" style="color: #343434; mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Leggewie, C., D. Messner, S. Schlacke. 2015. Und doch: </span><a href="http://www.oekom.de/fileadmin/zeitschriften/gaia_leseproben/GAIA1_2015_10_12_Leggewie.pdf"><span lang="DE" style="color: #343434; text-decoration: none;">Klimaschutz als Weltbürgerbewegung</span></a><span lang="DE" style="color: #343434; mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">.
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Lipton, C. 2014. <a href="http://energyblog.nationalgeographic.com/2014/11/05/one-year-after-typhoon-yolanda-a-philippines-city-rebuilds-with-sustainble-transport-in-mind/"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">One year
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<span lang="DE" style="mso-ansi-language: DE;">Unmüßig, B. 2015.
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<span lang="DE" style="color: #343434; mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">WBGU (Wissenschaftlicher Beirat der Bundesregierung
Globale Umweltveränderungen). 2014<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">. Klimaschutz
als Weltbürgerbewegung. </i>Sondergutachten. Berlin: WBGU.</span><span lang="DE">
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<span style="font-size: 1.0625rem;">The tide is turning on Arctic protection. Actors that you may not have expected to play a role, are now stepping up to protect the Arctic; to embrace it as global commons, rather than exploit it. Some of the world’s largest seafood and fishing companies like McDonald’s,Tesco, Iglo, Young’s Seafood, Icelandic Seachill, Russian Karat Group, Fiskebåt — representing the entire Norwegian oceangoing fishing fleet, and Europe’s largest processor of frozen fish, Espersen — have now</span><a data-beacon="{"p":{"mnid":"entry_text","lnid":"citation","mpid":0}}" href="http://www.greenpeace.org/international/Global/sweden/Arktis/Industry%20Group%20Statement%2025th%20May%202016.pdf" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #2e7061; font-size: 1.0625rem;" target="_hplink">committed to stop their search for cod</a><span style="font-size: 1.0625rem;"> in the “Galapagos of the Arctic”, a huge area in the northern Barents Sea and all the way up to the North Pole. This is big news which must drive governments to speed up the legal protection for the Arctic.</span></div>
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Let´s face it, in recent years, the Arctic has been in the midst of a real-world Game of Thrones. Arctic countries have rushed to stake claims of this fragile place for themselves. Corporations have exploited the tragedy of climate change — which results in more ice-free waters in the Arctic — to recklessly hunt for oil and fish. Non-Arctic countries have tried to get in on the game, too, not least by <a data-beacon="{"p":{"mnid":"entry_text","lnid":"citation","mpid":2}}" href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/apr/20/china-northwest-passage-trade-route-shipping-guide" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #2e7061;" target="_hplink">fixing their eyes on the “Northwest Passage”</a> and dreaming of magical shortcuts for their commercial shipping fleets.<br />
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But, in recent years, this Game of Thrones plot has been disrupted by millions of people all over the world coming together to #SaveTheArctic as a common treasure of humanity. And now, finally, the plot twists. After many episodes in which things kept getting worse, we now see protection becoming a reality. Shell has left the Alaskan and Norwegian Arctic.</div>
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Now, worthy of a new season, for the first time ever, the seafood industry has voluntarily imposed limitations to industrial fishing in the Arctic. This means that any fishing companies expanding into unindustrialized Arctic waters will not be able to sell their cod to major seafood brands and retailers. This is not just a big step forward for the protection of the Barents Sea, this is a landmark move from a significant chunk of companies in the fishing industry, who have heard the calls of the millions of people to safeguard the ocean on top of our planet.</div>
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These voluntary measures are needed, because the Arctic Ocean, for all its beauty, lacks any significant legal agreements to protect it. Therefore, every piece of sea ice coverage lost is another piece of ocean open to reckless exploitation. Luckily, politically, too, there is change in the air.<br />
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Under the Unites Nations, for example, governments, have just started developing a new UN Ocean Agreement that could help <a data-beacon="{"p":{"mnid":"entry_text","lnid":"citation","mpid":3}}" href="http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/news/Blogs/makingwaves/OSPAR-UN-ocean-sanctuary-2016-marine-life/blog/56002/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #2e7061;" target="_hplink">protect two thirds</a> of the world’s oceans and set up rules to create and manage <a data-beacon="{"p":{"mnid":"entry_text","lnid":"citation","mpid":4}}" href="http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/campaigns/oceans/marine-reserves/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #2e7061;" target="_hplink">ocean sanctuaries</a>, including in the<a data-beacon="{"p":{"mnid":"entry_text","lnid":"citation","mpid":5}}" href="http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/news/Blogs/makingwaves/OSPAR-UN-ocean-sanctuary-Arctic-protection/blog/56091/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #2e7061;" target="_hplink">central Arcti</a>c.</div>
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The Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the North-East Atlantic (OSPAR), meanwhile, is <a data-beacon="{"p":{"mnid":"entry_text","lnid":"citation","mpid":6}}" href="http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/press/releases/2016/Massive-step-to-protect-a-vital-part-of-the-Arctic-high-seas-taken-today-in-Gothenburg/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #2e7061;" target="_hplink">deliberating the creation of a Marine Protected Area </a>roughly the size of the UK in the Arctic high seas. The upcoming <a data-beacon="{"p":{"mnid":"entry_text","lnid":"citation","mpid":7}}" href="http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/news/Blogs/makingwaves/arctic-protection-ospar/blog/56403/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #2e7061;" target="_hplink">OSPAR meeting, 20-24 June</a>, will be critical in delivering this vital first step to an Ocean Sanctuary. Governments who have spoken up in favor of Arctic protection, such as Germany, France, Spain, Netherlands, Sweden and Finland, need to show leadership and lead the way for the first marine protected area in the Arctic high seas.<br />
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National moves have also made headway. The United States has facilitated a<a data-beacon="{"p":{"mnid":"entry_text","lnid":"citation","mpid":8}}" href="http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/high-stakes-for-the-high-seas-fishing-nations-discuss-the-future-of-the-arctic/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #2e7061;" target="_hplink">moratorium on unregulated fishing</a> in the Central Arctic Ocean among the Arctic coastal states. They are now working to bring in other nations, too. More recently the <a data-beacon="{"p":{"mnid":"entry_text","lnid":"citation","mpid":9}}" href="http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/3-things-to-know-about-todays-u-s-canada-climate-agreement/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #2e7061;" target="_hplink">US and Canada </a>agreed that commercial activities like shipping, fishing, and oil and gas exploitation, should be based on scientific evidence and be in line with global climate and environmental goals, as well as Indigenous rights. Of course, full Arctic protection requires action by other Arctic nations, like Russia, Denmark and Norway, who are still a bit of a stone in the shoe when it comes to Arctic protection.</div>
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It’s clear that “Winter did not come” [s1] to the Arctic this year as Arctic sea ice just hit <a data-beacon="{"p":{"mnid":"entry_text","lnid":"citation","mpid":11}}" href="https://nsidc.org/news/newsroom/arctic-sets-yet-another-record-low-maximum-extent" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #2e7061;" target="_hplink">a record low maximum in winter.</a> With the extreme loss of sea ice, large areas of water are left open for longer periods and the need for legal protection to replace the protective ice-shield is urgent.</div>
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Science tells us that all Arctic oil should stay in the ground if we are to live up the goals of the<a data-beacon="{"p":{"mnid":"entry_text","lnid":"citation","mpid":12}}" href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jan/07/much-worlds-fossil-fuel-reserve-must-stay-buried-prevent-climate-change-study-says" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #2e7061;" target="_hplink"> Paris Agreement on climate change.</a> As for fishing, there is plenty of evidence that shows that trawling the Arctic <a data-beacon="{"p":{"mnid":"entry_text","lnid":"citation","mpid":13}}" href="http://www.greenpeace.org/international/Global/international/publications/climate/2016/This-Far-No-Further.pdf" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #2e7061;" target="_hplink">spells disaster for the sensitive seabed of the high North</a>.</div>
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Coming back to the Barents Sea; Norway must now react to the momentum created by industries agreeing to end the exploitation of significant ocean areas. Voluntary action can only be the beginning. Norway needs to legally protect it’s own most sensitive Arctic waters in the Northern Barents Sea, including Svalbard. These areas are home to a wide range of whales, as well as cold water corals and tiny creatures like the mystical sea butterfly. Doing so could make Norway deserve its own episode in “Protect the Arctic” (Anti)-Game of Thrones. Especially, if Norway delivered on their their international<a data-beacon="{"p":{"mnid":"entry_text","lnid":"citation","mpid":14}}" href="https://www.cbd.int/information/parties.shtml#tab=2" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #2e7061;" target="_hplink"> commitment to protect 10% of their oceans</a>. Shamefully, right now Norway is moving in the opposite direction, <a data-beacon="{"p":{"mnid":"entry_text","lnid":"citation","mpid":15}}" href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/may/18/licence-to-drill-centrica-awarded-rights-to-explore-barents-sea" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #2e7061;" target="_hplink">allowing yet more oil to be drilled in the Arctic</a>, and is still not on track to achieve its 10% commitment to marine protection by 2020, neither in the Arctic nor elsewhere.</div>
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Which is just another sign that, ultimately, we need a global agreement on an<a data-beacon="{"p":{"mnid":"entry_text","lnid":"citation","mpid":16}}" href="http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/publications/Campaign-reports/Oceans-Reports/arctic-sanctuary/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #2e7061;" target="_hplink">Arctic Sanctuary.</a></div>
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When we started to call for such a Sanctuary a few years ago, many called us unrealistic. But the tide is turning. As Bob Hunter, one of the founders of Greenpeace, observed: big change looks impossible when you start, and inevitable when you finish. In a few years, I trust, a day will arrive when the Arctic is safeguarded and we will no longer be thinking of a Game of Thrones, when we think about the Arctic.<br />
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This blog appeared first on <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/daniel-mittler-/flipping-the-coin-for-the_b_10124450.html">The Huffington Post</a></div>
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Daniel Mittlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03354823008712270397noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7558460735484185087.post-11446731578514151272016-07-07T15:19:00.001+02:002016-07-07T15:20:37.351+02:00Zivilgesellschaft in Zeiten der corporate capture<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 120%; margin-bottom: 6.0pt;">
<span lang="DE" style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%;">Dies ist mein Beitrag zu der <a href="https://www.globalpolicy.org/images/pdfs/Wirtschaft_Macht_Politik_online.pdf">Broschüre "Wirtschaft Macht Politik"</a>, die an Fallbeispielen den privatwirtschaftlichen Einfluss auf internationale Politikprozesses analysiert. Ich empfehle die Lektüre der <a href="https://www.globalpolicy.org/images/pdfs/Wirtschaft_Macht_Politik_online.pdf">gesamten Broschüre</a>!</span></div>
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<span lang="DE" style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%;">Das Verhältnis
von Wirtschaft, Macht und Politik ist vielschichtig und lässt sich weder
schablonenhaft analysieren noch beeinflussen. Es ist ein wichtiger Beitrag der
hier präsentierten Fallstudien dies aufzuzeigen, den Blick auf „Mischakteure“
wie philanthropische Stiftungen zu wenden – und doch, bei aller
Vielschichtigkeit, auch klar zu machen, dass der wachsende Einfluss von
Unternehmen auf globale Politik ein unbestreitbarer Trend ist, dem wir uns
stellen müssen. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="DE" style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%;">Einige
entscheidenden Aspekte benötigen noch der zusätzlichen Analyse – z.B. die
besondere Rolle von staatlich kontrollierten Unternehmen. Diese spielen
insbesondere in Ländern wie China, Brasilien, Russland oder Südafrika und in
Sektoren wie der Energiepolitik eine so bedeutende Rolle, dass eine nachhaltige
Entwicklung global nicht denkbar ist, ohne diese Akteure zu beeinflussen.
Staatlich kontrollierte Unternehmen machen aber die Unterscheidung zwischen <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">corporate power</i> und „staatlicher Macht“
(noch) schwieriger. Wenn die russische Regierung Politik im Interesse von
Gazprom macht, ist das ein Fall von <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">corporate
capture</i> – also illegitimem unternehmerischem Einfluss auf staatliches
Handeln? Oder muss man diesen Tatbestand – aufgrund der faktischen
Deckungsgleichheit der Akteure - anders beschreiben? Im Gegenzug: sind
Investitionen von Gazprom wirtschaftlich zu bewerten oder immer auch als
Ausdruck russischen geopolitischen Handelns?</span></div>
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<span lang="DE" style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%;">Gerade da die
Grenzen zwischen Politik, Staat und Wirtschaft fließend sind, müssen wir uns
mit „Elitemilieus“ beschäftigen. Leider sind die dominanten Ideen der globalen
Elite(n) weit entfernt von einer fairen und nachhaltigen Entwicklung (auch wenn
der Klimawandel als Gefahr heute weithin akzeptiert ist …). So kann man
beispielsweise in vielen Ländern beobachten, wie die dortige Elite auf
gigantische Infrastrukturprojekte fixiert ist - und dies unabhängig von der
politischen Ausrichtung. Ecuador, Venezuela oder Brasilien setzen genauso auf
Pipelines oder Megastaudämme wie Modis Indien. Die Auswirkungen sind für Indigene
Völker, Menschenrechte und die Umwelt gleichermaßen katastrophal. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="DE" style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%;">Es gilt deshalb
das Narrativ der globalen Elite weg von der Gigantomanie hin zu einer am
Menschen orientierten Entwicklung zu bewegen. Das wird nicht einfach – aber
dass es doch möglich ist, zeigt die Geschichte des Klimawandels. Die
zivilgesellschaftlichen Warnungen von vor einigen Jahrzehnten sind heute in der
breiten Gesellschaft hegemonial verankert. Trotz der Proteste einiger
US-Republikaner und des Agierens mancher Klimaskeptiker ist die Notwendigkeit,
das Klima zu schützen, heute Teil des Narrativ der globalen Elite. Das war auch
der Grund, warum eine Einigung auf ein neues Klimaabkommen in Paris im Dezember
2015 möglich war. Einige Gigantomanien, wie Großstaudämme, werden sogar bewusst
von ihren Befürwortern als klimafreundlich beschrieben, da sie wissen, dass
dies die Akzeptanz – auch bei den Geldgebern – erhöht. Trotz solcher
Perversionen macht mir das Beispiel Mut. Die Zivilgesellschaft hat durchaus die
Kraft das globale Narrativ zu verändern. Diese Macht sollten wir aktiv zu
nutzen versuchen, statt uns (nur) an Einzelthemen abzuarbeiten. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="DE" style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%;">Das ist aber
nicht einfach, in einer Welt in der wir uns - aus guten Gründen - oft in
Widersprüche verwickeln. In einer Welt, in der mehrere Dutzend private
Unternehmen reicher sind als viele Staaten, wird es für die Zivilgesellschaft
immer attraktiver, ihre Ziele durch direkte Einflussnahme auf einzelne Konzerne
durchzusetzen. Wenn Greenpeace in den USA in den letzten Jahren stärker darauf
setzte, Supermärkte oder Konzernriesen wie Kimberly-Clark zu beeinflussen,
statt den US-Kongress, überrascht das kaum jemanden, der den US-Kongress kennt.
Aber der Trend ist global. Und logisch: Wenn Konzerne mehr Macht haben, kann
man durch das Verändern von Konzernhandeln auch die Welt <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">mehr </i>verändern. In einer Welt, in der z.B. wenige Konzerne große
Teile unserer Nahrungskette kontrollieren, kann man die Zukunft unseres Essens
scheinbar am leichtesten beeinflussen, indem man sich genau auf diese Akteure
konzentriert. Wenn die Zivilgesellschaft aber deshalb zunehmend Konzerne statt
Staaten als Akteure und Gegenüber in den Mittelpunkt stellt, stärkt genau dies
indirekt (und oft unbeabsichtigt) die Dominanz der Konzerne weiter. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="DE" style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%;">All dies
geschieht in einem Kontext, in dem die Zivilgesellschaft und die Wirtschaft oft
nicht eindeutig voneinander zu trennen sind, da Konzerne wie Unilever aktiv
Lobbyarbeit bei Klimagipfeln betreiben, anerkannte Wirtschaftsbosse wie Bill
Gates oder Mark Zuckerberg sich selbst als Philanthropen und Weltverbesserer
inszenieren und viele Nichtregierungsorganisationen direkt von Konzernen
finanziert werden. Schaffen es in einem solchen Kontext wenigstens kritische
zivilgesellschaftliche Organisationen, sich themenübergreifend zusammen zu tun
und z.B. die Arbeit einer Gates Foundation kritisch unter die Lupe zu nehmen?
Ich würde es mir wünschen.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 120%; margin-bottom: 6.0pt;">
<span lang="DE" style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%;">Mut macht das
breite Bündnis gegen TTIP, das von kleinen und mittleren Unternehmen über
Gewerkschaften bis hin zu radikalen Umweltschützern reicht. Vor allem macht es
Mut, weil die TTIP-Bewegung zwar aus der Sorge um Einzelthemen entstanden ist,
gleichzeitig es aber – zumindest in Deutschland - gelungen ist, die Diskussion
um TTIP zu einer Diskussion über die undemokratische Grundordnung des
internationalen Handelsregimes werden zu lassen. Handelsabkommen, die
intransparent erarbeitet werden, sind genauso wenig neu wie demokratisch höchst
fragwürde Schiedsgerichte, die Sozial- und Umweltstandards bedrohen. Aber TTIP
hat diese Fehlentwicklungen und Gefahren aus den Fachpapieren der Handels-NGOs
erst in die Massenmedien und dann auf die Straße gebracht. Das ist gut und
wichtig, da die Verhinderung weiterer Handelsverträge wie TTIP, CETA und Co.
zentral ist, wenn wir überhaupt eine Chance haben wollen, den Einfluss privater
Interessen auf staatliches Handeln demokratisch zu begrenzen. Kurzfristig ist
eine Fokussierung auf „Abwehrkämpfe“ á la „STOP TTIP“ essentiell. Denn wenn
diese Kämpfe verloren gehen, wird noch mehr Macht für privatwirtschaftliche
statt gemeinwohlorientierte Interessen strukturell so verankert, dass eine
Re-Demokratisierung von Entscheidungen sehr, sehr schwer werden wird. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="DE" style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%;">Aufbauend auf dem
Erfolg der TTIP-Kritik hätte ich mir auch eine gemeinsame, politische Antwort
der Zivilgesellschaft auf den VW-Skandal der letzten Monate gewünscht. Dazu bot
sich der Skandal an, da er nicht nur ein klassischer Fall ist, bei dem
Profitinteressen über die Interessen der Gemeinschaft gestellt wurden. Er ist
auch ein mustergültiges Beispiel dafür, wie die Politik sich vor den Karren
dieser Profitinteressen spannen lässt (und auch hier gibt es natürlich eine
Verquickung von Staat und Konzern). So war es nicht nur ein bekannter Skandal,
dass die EU-Abgasnormen nicht auf den tatsächlichen Emissionen im alltäglichen
Verbrauch von Fahrzeugen basieren. Die Antwort der Bundesregierung auf den
Skandal war noch dazu, in Brüssel <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">noch
schwächere</i> Abgasnormen zu fordern. Frei nach dem Motto: Wenn das Kind den
Test nicht schafft, dann ändern wir eben den Test. Leider schaffte es die
Zivilgesellschaft nicht, den VW-Skandal gemeinsam zu nutzen und zum <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">poster child </i>einer von Konzerninteressen
geleiteten Politik zu machen. Einige, am Geldhahn von VW hängend, fassten den
Konzern stattdessen mit Samthandschuhen an; andere arbeiteten zum Thema gar
nicht, da sie es „nur“ als technisches Autoemissionsthema ansahen. Und auch
Greenpeace stellte nicht die strukturellen Machtfragen in den Vordergrund,
sondern die – in der Tat skandalösen – gesundheitlichen Folgen der
verschleierten zusätzlichen Emissionen. Eine vertane Chance, denn VW, das
zeigen nicht zuletzt die Satiren in der <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">heute
show</i> und anderswo, ist so zentral in der medialen Öffentlichkeit in
Deutschland, dass man darüber viele Menschen hätte wachrütteln können. Oder ist
es dafür vielleicht doch noch nicht zu spät?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="DE" style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 120%;">Aufbauend auf den
Fallbeispielen, die in dieser Publikation zusammen getragen wurden, sollten wir
als Zivilgesellschaft weiter gemeinsam und selbstkritisch diskutieren, wie wir
eine Gegenmacht zur <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">corporate capture</i>
aufbauen können. Das ist keine einfache Aufgabe, denn es gibt – Adorno möge mir
verzeihen - kein wahres NGO-Leben im von Konzernen dominierten Falschen. Aber
wir müssen diese Diskussion führen, wenn wir der Wirtschaft nicht kampflos alle
politische Macht überlassen wollen.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Daniel Mittlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03354823008712270397noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7558460735484185087.post-90190155875493641592015-12-21T23:26:00.000+01:002015-12-21T23:31:26.707+01:00The Paris Paradox<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We face a paradox post COP21: On the one hand, we now have </span><a href="http://unfccc.int/resource/docs/2015/cop21/eng/l09r01.pdf" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">a global agreement </span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">to fight climate change. It is good news that the world has come together to say: climate change must be tackled. Parts of the Paris Agreement are also real progress: a safer target of only </span><a href="http://climateanalytics.org/hot-topics/1-5c-key-facts" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1,5 degrees above pre-industrial levels</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is now the yardstick by which climate action will be judged. If achieved, such a target would keep many threatened countries safe. We congratulate the most climate vulnerable countries for the leadership they have shown in Paris, starting with an impressive </span><a href="http://www.thecvf.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/ADOPTED_FOR_DISTRIB-Manila-Paris-Declaration1.pdf" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">resolution from the Climate Vulnerable Forum</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> calling for 1,5 degrees and 100% renewable energy by 2050 on the very first day of the COP. While governments chose ridiculous convoluted language, they did, in the end, recognize the 1,5 limit and translate it into a </span><a href="http://www.climate-energy-college.net/facts4cop21-paris-agreement-includes-ambitious-long-term-goal#sthash.z3YDe2oo.gbpl&st_refDomain=www.facebook.com&st_refQuery=/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“long term goal” </span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">that leaves no doubt about the direction we are going in. After Paris, we know that it is only a question of time until the age of fossil fuels is over. </span></div>
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The fundamental economic rules of our planet are still hard-wired against sustainability and drive us to limitless growth without </span><a href="http://www.stockholmresilience.org/21/research/research-programmes/planetary-boundaries/planetary-boundaries/about-the-research/the-nine-planetary-boundaries.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">respect for planetary boundaries</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #0e0f0e; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Today, the </span><a href="https://www.wto.org/english/thewto_e/minist_e/mc10_e/mc10_e.htm" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">World Trade Organization Ministerial</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #0e0f0e; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> ends in Nairobi. That event will not get the media attention COP21 did, because they will have nothing historic and new to announce. But every day, existing WTO rules work to undermine sustainable development. And every day </span><a href="http://www.civicus.org/index.php/en/expert-perspectives/2017-transform-global-governance-to-deliver-sustainability-and-climate-justice" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">they are more powerful than the environmental agreements</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #0e0f0e; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> we negotiate at great length and pain. With free trade agreements such as the </span><a href="http://corporateeurope.org/international-trade/2015/12/polluters-paradise" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Trans Atlantic Investment Partnership</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #0e0f0e; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> or the </span><a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/12/02/new-report-details-tpps-panoply-threats-climate" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Trans Pacific Parternership</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #0e0f0e; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, this bad situation risks getting even worse. One of the tasks of the climate movement after Paris is therefore to stop these free trade threats! We must not allow corporate-dominated investment courts in particular to undermine the positive steps forward that Paris </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #0e0f0e; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">did</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #0e0f0e; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> bring. </span></div>
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Out there in the real world, coal demand is in </span><a href="http://www.greenpeace.org/international/Global/international/briefings/climate/COP21/Coals-decline-report-PRESS-new.pdf" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #467f0d; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">terminal decline worldwide</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #0e0f0e; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and after a dramatic </span><a href="http://energydesk.greenpeace.org/2015/11/23/whats-happening-china-coal/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #467f0d; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">change of energy policy in China</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #0e0f0e; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> we may have recached the global peak of emissions already. People power has also brought real trouble for the oil polluters: </span><a href="http://energydesk.greenpeace.org/2015/09/29/comment-shells-retreat-from-the-arctic-what-tipped-the-scales/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #467f0d; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Shell</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #0e0f0e; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and </span><a href="http://www.statoil.com/en/NewsAndMedia/News/2015/Pages/17Nov_Alaska.aspx" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #467f0d; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Statoil</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #0e0f0e; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> have had to retreat from the Alaskan Arctic, President Obama </span><a href="http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/keystone-xl-rejected-the-day-the-people-won/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #467f0d; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">rejected the Keystone XL pipeline</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #0e0f0e; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. And while fossil fuels are in trouble, renewables are booming. ;ore </span><a href="http://www.go100re.net/global-100-cities-regions-network/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #467f0d; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">cities</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #0e0f0e; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and </span><a href="http://there100.org/companies" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #467f0d; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">companies</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #0e0f0e; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> than ever before have signed up for a 100% renewable future in Paris - a true sign of hope, and of change.</span></div>
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Daniel Mittlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03354823008712270397noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7558460735484185087.post-44449748621420127792015-12-21T23:22:00.000+01:002015-12-21T23:30:28.893+01:00COP21: Governments send signal to end fossil fuels - civil society must hold them to it <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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The climate movement´s new focus since 2010 on winning national battles had already resulted in key steps forward: Coal demand is now in </span><a href="http://www.greenpeace.org/international/Global/international/briefings/climate/COP21/Coals-decline-report-PRESS-new.pdf" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">terminal decline worldwide</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, after a dramatic - </span><a href="http://energydesk.greenpeace.org/2015/11/11/chinas-coal-bubble-155-new-overcapacity/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">if not complete</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> - </span><a href="http://energydesk.greenpeace.org/2015/11/23/whats-happening-china-coal/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">change of course in China</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. This year alone </span><a href="http://energydesk.greenpeace.org/2015/09/29/comment-shells-retreat-from-the-arctic-what-tipped-the-scales/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Shell</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> had to retreat from the Alaskan Arctic, President Obama </span><a href="http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/keystone-xl-rejected-the-day-the-people-won/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">rejected the Keystone XL pipeline</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and Alberta put a cap on</span><a href="http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/news/Blogs/makingwaves/historic-day-battle-to-stop-tarsands/blog/54847/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> tar sands oil</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Combine this bad news for fossil fuels with new players - from </span><a href="http://www.go100re.net/global-100-cities-regions-network/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">cities</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> to </span><a href="http://there100.org/companies" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">companies</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> - coming on board with the vision of a 100% renewable future and the ground shifts. It has worked to change - from the grassroots up - the global conversation around climate change. </span></div>
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P.S. This post was originally published on the <a href="https://disrupt-and-innovate.org/cop21-governments-send-signal-to-end-fossil-fuels-civil-society-must-hold-them-to-it/">Disrupt and Innovate Blog </a>Daniel Mittlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03354823008712270397noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7558460735484185087.post-92208403283296906072015-12-21T23:18:00.000+01:002015-12-21T23:28:51.870+01:00The end of fossil fuels is near - but where is justice?<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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Daniel Mittlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03354823008712270397noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7558460735484185087.post-465695183943827992015-12-07T14:04:00.001+01:002015-12-07T14:04:17.256+01:00In 3 steps, here is what Paris can do - and what we need to do afterwards<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Victories which</span><a href="http://www.vox.com/2015/11/8/9690654/keystone-climate-activism" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> pundits told us for years were “impossible”</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> have been coming at a breathtaking pace. Coal demand is in </span><a href="http://www.greenpeace.org/international/Global/international/briefings/climate/COP21/Coals-decline-report-PRESS-new.pdf" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">terminal decline worldwide</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, after a dramatic - </span><a href="http://energydesk.greenpeace.org/2015/11/11/chinas-coal-bubble-155-new-overcapacity/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">if not complete</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> - </span><a href="http://energydesk.greenpeace.org/2015/11/23/whats-happening-china-coal/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">change of course in China</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Oil is also in trouble, with </span><a href="http://energydesk.greenpeace.org/2015/09/29/comment-shells-retreat-from-the-arctic-what-tipped-the-scales/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Shell</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and </span><a href="http://www.statoil.com/en/NewsAndMedia/News/2015/Pages/17Nov_Alaska.aspx" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Statoil</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> retreating from the Alaskan Arctic, President Obama </span><a href="http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/keystone-xl-rejected-the-day-the-people-won/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">rejecting the Keystone XL pipeline</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and Alberta putting a cap on</span><a href="http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/news/Blogs/makingwaves/historic-day-battle-to-stop-tarsands/blog/54847/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> tar sands oil</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Meanwhile, more and more key players are signing up for a 100% renewable future - from </span><a href="http://www.go100re.net/global-100-cities-regions-network/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">cities</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> to </span><a href="http://there100.org/companies" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">companies</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Many communities hit by extreme weather </span><a href="https://youtu.be/VD2gbmpU19w" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">are rebuilding sustainably</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and hundreds of thousands worldwide are building</span><a href="http://www.climatemarch.org/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> people power</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> to push forward with climate action now - and in the future.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1. Does the Paris climate agreement send a signal that the age of fossil fuels is over?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The </span><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/daniel-mittler-/germany-wont-save-greece-but-renewable-energy-can_b_8106756.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">world of energy is changing fast</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Governments in Paris must solidify the direction </span><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/adnan-z-amin/whatever-happens-in-paris_b_8523098.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">towards renewables that the world is already on</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, and state clearly that fossil fuels must be completely phased out by 2050. We need a </span><a href="http://www.greenpeace.org/international/Global/international/briefings/climate/COP21/The%20solution%20to%20the%20climate%20crisis.pdf" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">just transition to a world run on 100% renewable energy</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> for all; a world where workers, our health and our children win. This signal must be clear. It must not be stymied by delays. Therefore, we will ask:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We already know that the pledges governments are coming to Paris with</span><a href="http://bigstory.ap.org/article/7ee13950484943e997235dc896df876e/un-climate-chief-global-emissions-pledges-not-enough-yet" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> are not good enough </span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">and will still lead to a very dangerous and destructive world (between </span><a href="http://climateactiontracker.org/news/224/INDCs-lower-projected-warming-to-2.7C-significant-progress-but-still-above-2C-.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2.7</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and 3.7 degrees warmer than in preindustrial times - </span><a href="http://www.wri.org/blog/2015/11/insider-why-are-indc-studies-reaching-different-temperature-estimates" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">the estimates vary</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">). Governments and companies need to increase their ambition immediately after Paris. We simply cannot afford to be stuck with insufficient targets for the next 10-15 decisive years. The targets must be ramped up before the Paris agreement enters into force in 2020. And governments need to review and enhance their actions every five years after the Paris agreement comes into force in 2020. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Some impacts of climate change are with us already and we need sufficient and reliable funding and support for those affected. Greenpeace, for example, supports anchoring the</span><a href="http://energydesk.greenpeace.org/2015/11/09/the-issues/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> “loss and damage mechanism”</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> under the Paris Agreement, to help support the vulnerable. We expect governments to meet the </span><a href="https://www.oxfam.org/en/pressroom/pressreleases/2015-11-25/delays-cutting-emissions-set-cost-developing-countries-hundreds" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">growing adaptation needs</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. We will also continue to hold polluters accountable, as we are doing </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">with our call on the Commission on Human Rights of the Philippines (CHR). We need </span><a href="http://www.interaksyon.com/article/117859/first-in-the-world--greenpeace-files-climate-change-human-rights-case-before-chr" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">the culpability of big fossil fuel companies for fuelling catastrophic climate change</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> to be addressed.</span></div>
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P.S. This blog appeared on the <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/daniel-mittler-/heres-what-cop21-can-do-for-the-climate-in-3-steps_b_8674898.html">Huffington Post</a> and on <a href="http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/news/Blogs/makingwaves/in-3-steps-COP21/blog/54904/">greenpeace.org </a>.</div>
Daniel Mittlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03354823008712270397noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7558460735484185087.post-45158158319816431842015-12-07T13:55:00.003+01:002015-12-07T13:55:57.926+01:00Klimaverhandlungen: frustrierend, aber wichtig<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span lang="DE" style="mso-ansi-language: DE;">2015 gilt als das
“Gipfeljahr”. Der britische Telegraph nennt es "</span><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/environment/11322438/2015-the-most-crucial-year-for-decades-in-the-climate-battle.html"><span lang="DE" style="mso-ansi-language: DE;">das wichtigste Jahr seit Jahrzehnten für
die Klima Schlacht</span></a><span lang="DE" style="mso-ansi-language: DE;">"
und auch Naomi Klein ist überzeugt, dass dieses Jahr ein </span><a href="https://collectively.org/en/article/naomi-klein-2015-climate-change"><span lang="DE" style="mso-ansi-language: DE;">einmaliger Moment für die Klimabewegung</span></a><span lang="DE" style="mso-ansi-language: DE;"> ist. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="DE" style="mso-ansi-language: DE;">Gerade hat die
UN-Vollversammlung in New York neue Nachhaltigkeitsziele verabschiedet. Fast
alle Nichtregierungsorganisationen feierten sie als Schritt in die richtige
Richtung. Auch </span><a href="http://www.greenpeace.org/international/Global/international/briefings/climate/2015/SDG-Briefing.pdf"><span lang="DE" style="mso-ansi-language: DE;">Greenpeace äußerte sich positiv</span></a><span lang="DE" style="mso-ansi-language: DE;">. Allerdings halten wir es für falsch,
dass die Agenda weiter auf genau das weltweite Freihandelsregime setzt, das in
Deutschland momentan unter den Stichwörtern TTIP und CETA Millionen mobilisiert
und – zu Recht - </span><a href="http://ttip-demo.de/home/"><span lang="DE" style="mso-ansi-language: DE;">Tausende auf die Straße bringt.</span></a><span lang="DE" style="mso-ansi-language: DE;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="DE" style="mso-ansi-language: DE;">Nun richten sich
die Blicke auf Paris, wo die UN im Dezember einen weiteren Versuch unternehmen
wird, ein universales – also wirklich globales - Klimaabkommen zu verabschieden.
Welche Bedeutung hat Paris für die Klimabewegung? Darüber lässt sich trefflich
streiten. Jürgen Maier behauptet, es “</span><a href="http://www.klimaretter.info/standpunkte/19648-qes-gibt-gar-keine-klimapolitikq"><span lang="DE" style="mso-ansi-language: DE;">gibt<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>keine Klimapolitik</span></a><span lang="DE" style="mso-ansi-language: DE;">” und wirft NGOs, die auf einen globalen Klimavertrag setzen, vor, in einer
Parallelwelt zu leben. Andere, </span><a href="http://avaaz-email-aggregator2.blogspot.com/2015/02/10-months-to-save-world.html"><span lang="DE" style="mso-ansi-language: DE;">wie Avaaz</span></a><span lang="DE" style="mso-ansi-language: DE;">, sprechen von Paris immer noch als den Moment, an
dem die Welt zu retten ist. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="DE" style="mso-ansi-language: DE;">Für Greenpeace
liegen die entscheidenden Argumente genau zwischen diesen Positionen … <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="DE" style="mso-ansi-language: DE;">Niemand sollte
ernsthaft erwarten, dass eine einmalige Versammlung von Staatschefs die
“Rettung” von oben bringen kann. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Die
zentralen Auseinandersetzungen, die darüber entscheiden, ob unser Planet
lebenswert bleibt, laufen ständig in der Energie- , Wald- Verkehrs- und
Landwirtschaftspolitik. Fossile Energien müssen jetzt und überall vor Ort
bekämpft werden – und der Durchbruch für Erneuerbare Energien überall
erstritten werden. (Selbst mitten in den kanadischen Ölsanden, wie es </span><a href="http://www.greenpeace.org/canada/en/blog/Blogentry/building-a-solar-dream-in-a-tar-sands-nightma/blog/54190/"><span lang="DE" style="mso-ansi-language: DE;">Little Buffalo vormacht</span></a><span lang="DE" style="mso-ansi-language: DE;">).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="DE" style="mso-ansi-language: DE;">Aber Ereignisse
wie der Pariser Klimagipfel können trotzdem helfen. Gipfel setzen Fristen. Regierungen
werden so gezwungen, Zeit zu finden um Gesetze zu verabschieden. Verfeindete Ministerien
müssen sich zu einigen. Brasilien hat z.B. gerade – trotz einer tiefen Regierungskrise
– einen </span><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/brazils-rousseff-pledges-37-cut-greenhouse-gas-emissions-142149868.html"><span lang="DE" style="mso-ansi-language: DE;">Klimaschutzplan vorgelegt</span></a><span lang="DE" style="mso-ansi-language: DE;">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" style="mso-comment-date: 20151001T1348; mso-comment-reference: MH_1;">Dieser reicht
nicht aus</a></span><span lang="DE" style="mso-ansi-language: DE;">, aber er beinhaltet einige Schritte in
die richtige Richtung, die ohne den Zeitdruck durch Paris sehr wahrscheinlich vertagt
worden wären. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="DE" style="mso-ansi-language: DE;">Globale Gipfel sind
auch Motor wichtiger bilateraler Abkommen. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Die beiden Nationen mit den höchsten absoluten
Emissionen - die USA und China - haben sich nun schon zweimal - <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2014 und im September 2015 – gemeinsam auf
mehr Klimaschutz geeinigt. Es ist klar, dass sie an einem gemeinsamen Plan für
Paris arbeiten. Und gerade in den USA ist es politisch eine Notwendigkeit für
alle, die das Klima schützen wollen, zu zeigen, dass auch China handelt. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" style="mso-comment-date: 20151002T1310; mso-comment-reference: MH_2;"><span lang="DE" style="mso-ansi-language: DE;">Klimaverhandlungen bringen auch jedes Jahr
zusätzliche öffentliche Aufmerksamkeit (ein Indikator: Umweltorganisationen
werden während der beiden Wochen der Klimaverhandlungen global jedes Jahr deutlich
mehr in den Medien zitiert als den Rest des Jahres). </span></a><span lang="DE" style="mso-ansi-language: DE;">Das bietet besonders Umweltorganisationen
die Chance, die <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>öffentliche Debatte
voran zu treiben und auf mehr Einsatz für den Klimaschutz zu drängen.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="DE" style="mso-ansi-language: DE;">Und Gipfeltreffen
sind Orte, an denen die Regierungen Signale an Märkte senden. Wer denkt, dass
es nicht von Bedeutung ist, dass z.B. die G7 sich zu einer kompletten
Dekarbonisierung der Weltwirtschaft bekannt haben, der hat noch nie mit Investoren
gesprochen. Klar, auch dieser Beschluss reicht bei weitem nicht aus – und in
Deutschland bleibt die zentrale Auseinandersetzung der Ausstieg aus der
Kohleindustrie. Aber das heisst nicht, dass der G7 Beschluss unbedeutend ist.
Er befeuert die Debatte vor allem in Kanada und Japan. Durch ihn lässt sich - </span><a href="http://www.economist.com/news/international/21653964-why-g7-talking-about-decarbonisation-sort"><span lang="DE" style="mso-ansi-language: DE;">wie der Economist schrieb</span></a><span lang="DE" style="mso-ansi-language: DE;"> – die Vorstellung einer Welt ohne fossile
Energien nicht mehr als spinnige Idee der Umweltbewegung abtun. Ein Ende von
Kohle, Öl und Gas sind nun ein akzeptiertes politisches Ziel.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="DE" style="mso-ansi-language: DE;">Deswegen fordert
Greenpeace, dass der Pariser Klimagipfel im Dezember den nächsten Schritt macht
und sich zu </span><a href="http://www.greenpeace.de/themen/energiewende/ein-fahrplan-fur-die-zukunft"><span lang="DE" style="mso-ansi-language: DE;">einer 100% erneuerbaren Welt bis 2050
bekennt</span></a><span lang="DE" style="mso-ansi-language: DE;">. Nachhaltige, erneuerbare
Energien für alle sind verfügbar<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" style="mso-comment-date: 20151001T1348; mso-comment-reference: MH_3;">. Nur diejenigen, die an dem zerstörerischen
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perfekte Plattform, um die öffentliche Auseinandersetzung darüber zu suchen,
dass wir um den Klimawandel aufzuhalten mehr machen müssen als die schrittweise
“Dekarbonisierung” bis 2100 á la Merkel und G7. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Schon jetzt ist es gelungen, die öffentliche
Debatte zu verändern. Aus Anlass des Treffens des Weltklimarates 2014 in Berlin
hat </span><a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-27008352"><span lang="DE" style="mso-ansi-language: DE;">z.B. der BBC</span></a><span lang="DE" style="mso-ansi-language: DE;"> zum ersten Mal nicht mehr von der Reduzierung von
Emissionen gesprochen, sondern vom kompletten Ende der klimaschädlichen
Emissionen. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="DE" style="mso-ansi-language: DE;">Der Pariser
Klimazirkus ist also nicht irrelevant. Er treibt nationale Gesetze und bilaterale
Abkommen voran und bringt öffentliche Aufmerksamkeit, die Bewegungen nützen
können und sollten. Die Arbeit zu den Klimaverhandlungen in Paris sollte nicht als
Gegenteil des Kampfes gegen weitere Straßen, Kohleminen oder für bessere Fahrradwege
verstanden werden. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Statt dessen sollten
wir die globale Diskussion als Sprungbrett für “grassroots”-Fortschritte
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<span lang="DE" style="mso-ansi-language: DE;">auch die globalen
Verhandlungsergebnissen besser werden. Nur weil es z.B. gelungen ist, den
Kohleverbrauch in China 2014 zum ersten Mal nicht mehr ansteigen zu lassen, hat
sich China im Abkommen mit den USA verpflichtet, bald weniger Kohle zu
verbrauchen. Der Kampf gegen den Smog in chinesischen Städten – vor allem
natürlich getrieben von Gesundheitssorgen – senkt den Kohleverbrauch. Und dies
macht - als erfreulicher Nebeneffekt – es auch deutlich wahrscheinlicher, dass
China ein noch ehrgeizigeres Klimaversprechen in Paris macht …<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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fossile Projekte sein. Denn wenn unser Klima nicht vollends außer Kontrolle geraten
soll, dann dürfen über zwei Drittel der fossilen Ressourcen, über die wir jetzt
schon Bescheid wissen, nicht verbrannt werden. Sie müssen im Boden bleiben.
Deswegen können sich nicht nur die lokal Betroffenen sondern wir uns alle– zu
Recht – gegen neue Kohlehäfen am australischen Great Barrier Reef stellen.
Deswegen gilt es, Ölbohrungen in der Arktis komplett zu unterbinden und die
Arktis als “Commons” für die Menschheit zu bewahren. Die potentiellen
zusätzlichen Emissionen dieser Projekte </span><a href="http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/publications/Campaign-reports/Climate-Reports/Point-of-No-Return/"><span lang="DE" style="mso-ansi-language: DE;">sind schlicht nicht hinnehmbar</span></a><span lang="DE" style="mso-ansi-language: DE;">. Sie gehen uns alle an.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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innerhalb der Bewegung über die Bedeutung von Paris und die Klimaverhandlungen
zu streiten, sollten wir all unsere Kraft gemeinsam gegen diejenigen einsetzen,
die durch das Verbrennen fossiler Energien, die Entwaldung oder andere Klimazerstörungen
weiterhin Milliarden verdienen. Gerade die Lobbymacht der rückwärts gewandten Kräfte
sollten wir in den nächsten Wochen gemeinsam skandalisieren und überwinden. Der
gegenwärtige VW-Skandal ist auch in dieser </span><a href="http://energydesk.greenpeace.org/2015/09/25/power-of-brussels-car-lobby-revealed/"><span lang="DE" style="mso-ansi-language: DE;">Hinsicht nur die Spitze des Eisbergs</span></a><span lang="DE" style="mso-ansi-language: DE;">. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Klimabewegung. Lasst uns dies nutzen und das Heft der Transformation gemeinsam in
die Hand nehmen. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Denn was auch immer in
Paris beschlossen wird, schon jetzt ist klar, dass auch danach Druck für
schnellere und grundlegende Veränderungen notwendig sein wird. Die Welt wird
nicht ein für alle Mal in Paris gerettet werden (sorry Avaaz). Aber lasst uns
die Aufmerksamkeit, die Paris bringt, nutzen, um den notwendigen Wandel unsere
Wirtschaft und unseres Konsummodells in den nächsten Wochen zu beschleunigen.</span></div>
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Daniel Mittlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03354823008712270397noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7558460735484185087.post-44570963457692237682015-12-07T13:47:00.000+01:002015-12-07T13:47:19.810+01:00What´s at stake in Paris at #COP21?Watch this lecture on what to expect from the climate negotiations in Paris. The lecture is part of the Mass Online Course on climate justice from the Fern Universität Hagen. You can still watch all the lectures of the course until summer 2016 <a href="https://mooc.umweltwissenschaften.de/">here</a>.<br />
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<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/aK-NqP3EqIw" width="560"></iframe>Daniel Mittlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03354823008712270397noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7558460735484185087.post-76783120243163613242015-12-07T13:41:00.002+01:002015-12-07T13:41:24.686+01:00The great transformationWatch this lecture on The Great Transformation - which is part of the Mass Online Course on climate justice from the Fern Universität Hagen. You can still watch all the lectures of the course until summer 2016 <a href="https://mooc.umweltwissenschaften.de/">here</a>.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There is now </span><a href="http://www.ren21.net/Portals/0/documents/Resources/GSR/2014/GSR2014_KeyFindings_low%20res.pdf" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">15 times more solar power</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and three times more wind power in the world than in 2007. On a global level, more clean power capacity is being installed than coal, oil, and gas put together. Solar power is growing faster</span><a href="http://www.mc-group.com/the-renewable-energy-revolution/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">than even we at Greenpeace predicted</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, and renewables are now the</span><a href="http://www.irena.org/rethinking/Rethinking_FullReport_web.pdf#page=33" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">cheapest way to provide additional electricity in an ever-growing number of countries</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. In other words:</span><a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-04-14/fossil-fuels-just-lost-the-race-against-renewables" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">renewable energy is winning the race against fossil fuels</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></h3>
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This is equivalent to the </span><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/jul/13/greece-bailout-agreement-key-points-grexit" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">cuts in pensions</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> that were recently forced through by Greece’s creditors. These oil imports are also unnecessary. Solar could power Greek islands very well. Indeed, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Greece's short-lived “Photovoltaic Spring” of 2009-2013 provided a</span><a href="http://energydesk.greenpeace.org/2015/07/03/grexit-what-the-financial-crisis-and-years-of-austerity-did-to-greeces-energy/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">glimpse of the country's solar potential</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Within five years, installed solar capacity jumped from 47 to over 2,500 megawatts. A total of €4.5 billion was invested in modernizing the energy sector and created around 50,000 jobs. In all, around </span><a href="http://www.pv-magazine.com/news/details/beitrag/greek-pv-warns-against-job-losses_100012642/#axzz3ekF7W6MR" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">100,000 Greek families</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> benefitted. The</span><a href="https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/solarization-of-greece#/story" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Solarize Greece”</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> campaign by Greenpeace Greece aims to build on this success, which was undermined by austerity. We the people of the world must unite and once again</span><a href="https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/solarization-of-greece#/story" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">kickstart solar power as a driver of the Greek economy</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></div>
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Daniel Mittlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03354823008712270397noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7558460735484185087.post-69181438780107302962015-08-20T10:46:00.000+02:002015-08-20T10:46:04.321+02:00A year to save the world? How crucial is 2015?<div style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; margin-top: 12px; outline-style: none; padding: 0px 0px 6px;">
2015 has barely begun, but it has already been called <a class="zoom" href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/environment/11322438/2015-the-most-crucial-year-for-decades-in-the-climate-battle.html" style="background: url(http://www.greenpeace.org/international/Templates/Planet3/Styles/images/bg-zoom.gif) 100% 2px no-repeat; color: #467f0d; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; outline-style: none; padding: 0px 15px 0px 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">"the most crucial year in decades for the climate battle"</a> and a <a class="zoom" href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jan/19/guardian-view-sustainable-development-davos-set-tone" style="background: url(http://www.greenpeace.org/international/Templates/Planet3/Styles/images/bg-zoom.gif) 100% 2px no-repeat; color: #467f0d; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; outline-style: none; padding: 0px 15px 0px 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">"watershed"</a> year for sustainable development worldwide. Naomi Klein is convinced that 2015 is <a href="https://collectively.org/en/article/naomi-klein-2015-climate-change" style="color: #467f0d; margin: 0px; outline-style: none; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">a once-in-a-generation moment</a> for the climate battle and Avaaz has just told their supporters that we have ten months left to <a href="https://secure.avaaz.org/en/100_clean_final/?slideshow" style="color: #467f0d; margin: 0px; outline-style: none; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">save the world.</a></div>
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World leaders will meet in September to agree upon new goals for all of humanity: the <a href="https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/topics/sustainabledevelopmentgoals" style="color: #467f0d; margin: 0px; outline-style: none; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Sustainable Development Goals.</a> And, in December in Paris, another attempt will be made to deliver a global climate agreement. Both summits will be huge, and will get a lot of media attention. Some of our allies have called them <a class="zoom" href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2015/jan/14/action-2015-poverty-climate-change-united-nations-summits" style="background: url(http://www.greenpeace.org/international/Templates/Planet3/Styles/images/bg-zoom.gif) 100% 2px no-repeat; color: #467f0d; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; outline-style: none; padding: 0px 15px 0px 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">"opportunities of a lifetime"</a> and many, including Pharrell Williams, are starting to organize <a class="zoom" href="http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/pharrell-al-gore-live-earth-2015-20150121" style="background: url(http://www.greenpeace.org/international/Templates/Planet3/Styles/images/bg-zoom.gif) 100% 2px no-repeat; color: #467f0d; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; outline-style: none; padding: 0px 15px 0px 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">events to mobilize public support for a greener future.</a></div>
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There is no question about the urgency to act. Scientists have just told us that, out of nine vital planetary support systems we need to survive, <a class="zoom" href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jan/15/rate-of-environmental-degradation-puts-life-on-earth-at-risk-say-scientists" style="background: url(http://www.greenpeace.org/international/Templates/Planet3/Styles/images/bg-zoom.gif) 100% 2px no-repeat; color: #467f0d; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; outline-style: none; padding: 0px 15px 0px 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">four have exceeded "safe" levels already.</a> Signs of climate change are starting to appear all around us. Plummeting oil prices, meanwhile, are making risky investments, such as Arctic oil, look even more insane.</div>
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It's true that global rules for people and planet are needed now more than ever. However, there is no need to wait for any more summits. Summits can help, because they can act as deadlines. They can force governments to find time to pass legislation or get squabbling ministries to agree on a plan. They can provide additional public attention to an issue, which can be an essential agreement to break a political deadlock. We would probably never have achieved <a href="http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/news/Blogs/makingwaves/support-ocean-sanctuaries/blog/51956/" style="color: #467f0d; margin: 0px; outline-style: none; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">this month's step forward for the protection of the High Seas</a> – almost half of our planet – if we hadn't used the <a href="http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/news/Blogs/makingwaves/beyond-rio20-lets-mobilize-for-a-better-world/blog/41095/" style="color: #467f0d; margin: 0px; outline-style: none; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Rio+20 Summit</a>in 2012 to give this issue <a href="http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/news/Blogs/makingwaves/rio20-not-the-oceans-summit-but-high-seas-pro/blog/41156/" style="color: #467f0d; margin: 0px; outline-style: none; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">additional political prominence</a> (and a deadline, which was narrowly met).</div>
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And summits can also be places where governments send long-term signals to markets. For example, the Paris climate summit in December could agree to bring global carbon pollution down to zero by 2050. That is, at the moment, <a class="zoom" href="http://www.stakeholderforum.org/sf/outreach/index.php/component/content/article/225-cop20-wrap-up/11884-cop20-wu-despite-lima-2014-new-momentum-climate-change" style="background: url(http://www.greenpeace.org/international/Templates/Planet3/Styles/images/bg-zoom.gif) 100% 2px no-repeat; color: #467f0d; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; outline-style: none; padding: 0px 15px 0px 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">one option governments are considering.</a> If they adopt it we could see the end of the fossil fuel era. It would certainly make investors in fossil fuels lose some sleep.</div>
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We will work for that. And use the two summits this year as opportunities to call for a future without carbon. A future in which <em style="outline-style: none;">all</em> people have electricity – <a href="http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/news/Blogs/makingwaves/the-answer-to-alarming-climate-science/blog/51165/" style="color: #467f0d; margin: 0px; outline-style: none; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">and it's <em style="outline-style: none;">100% renewable</em>.</a></div>
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The real "opportunities of a lifetime", however, are actual changes catalyzed on the ground. This is what we all must strive for in 2015. And if we do, the good news is that those real changes on the ground increase the likelihood of better global agreements!</div>
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The energy revolution, for example, has started already all over the world. <a class="pdf" href="http://www.greenpeace.org/international/Global/international/briefings/climate/2014/The-End-of-Chinas-Coal-Boom.pdf" style="background: url(http://www.greenpeace.org/international/Templates/Planet3/Styles/images/pdf-icon.gif) 100% 2px no-repeat; color: #467f0d; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; outline-style: none; padding: 0px 15px 0px 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">2014 saw China use<em style="outline-style: none;">less</em> coal for the first time this century</a> and install as much solar capacity in one year as the US has <em style="outline-style: none;">ever</em> done. These domestic changes have made it possible for China to pledge that they will stop their relentless rise in climate pollution by 2030 at the latest. <a href="http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/en/media-center/news-releases/Greenpeace-reaction-to-US-China-climate-announcement---/" style="color: #467f0d; margin: 0px; outline-style: none; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">That's not good enough – yet – for a safe future.</a> But, if we manage to seriously shift away from coal in China this year – and <a class="zoom" href="http://energydesk.greenpeace.org/2015/02/04/air-pollution-increases-risk-premature-death-chinese-cities/" style="background: url(http://www.greenpeace.org/international/Templates/Planet3/Styles/images/bg-zoom.gif) 100% 2px no-repeat; color: #467f0d; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; outline-style: none; padding: 0px 15px 0px 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">end the airmagaddon in China's cities</a> – it will not just end unlivable smog for millions of Chinese people. A continued decline in China's coal use would <em style="outline-style: none;">also</em> make it more likely for China to make an even more ambitious pledge internationally...</div>
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To make 2015 matter, we need to attack the <a href="http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/publications/reports/Whos-holding-us-back/" style="color: #467f0d; margin: 0px; outline-style: none; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">fossil fuel industry interests who are holding back better</a> and faster climate action head on.</div>
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Therefore, this year, we will be fighting <a href="http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/publications/Campaign-reports/Climate-Reports/Point-of-No-Return/" style="color: #467f0d; margin: 0px; outline-style: none; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">the carbon projects that simply must not go ahead</a> if our children are to avoid climate chaos. That's why we will continue to stop oil drilling in the Arctic.</div>
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Join our call on President Obama to take a stand on the Arctic <a href="https://www.savethearctic.org/en/obama/?gpi_blog" style="color: #467f0d; margin: 0px; outline-style: none; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">here.</a></div>
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And that's why we will be taking on coal <em style="outline-style: none;">and supporting renewables</em> all over the world – from India and China to Germany and the United States. Right now, we are focusing on driving back Australia's coal expansion.</div>
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If you think financial institutions should not be risking the beautiful Great Barrier Reef for the short-term pursuit of coal join us <a href="https://www.greenpeace.org.au/action/?cid=76&utm_campaign=Save%20the%20Reef&utm_source=GPI%20blog&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=gpi-blog-cta" style="color: #467f0d; margin: 0px; outline-style: none; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">here.</a></div>
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We <em style="outline-style: none;">must make</em> 2015 a watershed year together. We can make this year count by building movements that force real change, from the Arctic to Australia. We have, as we have headlined in previous campaigns, "No Time to Waste".</div>
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But, whatever happens at the big summits this year, we will need all of you to continue pushing for faster and more fundamental changes in 2016. The world will not be saved once and for all in Paris in 10 months. But we can make real progress this year in stopping those who are destroying our planet. We need you to accelerate an energy revolution that delivers for all. We can use the summits as platforms to make that change.</div>
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<strong style="outline-style: none;">But only if you <a href="https://www.savethearctic.org/?force_country=IE%3futm_source=greenpeace.org&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=fatfooter" style="color: #467f0d; margin: 0px; outline-style: none; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">join in!</a></strong></div>
Daniel Mittlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03354823008712270397noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7558460735484185087.post-6560332713684333122015-01-15T11:17:00.001+01:002015-01-15T11:17:22.834+01:00Wie weiter mit der Klimapolitik?2015 ist da - und viele reden über dieses Jahr als ein "Entscheidungsjahr" für die globale Klima- und Entwicklungspolitik. Ich bin skeptisch, dass die formalen Verhandlungen wirklich so wichtig und entscheidend werden dieses Jahr, <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/environment/11322438/2015-the-most-crucial-year-for-decades-in-the-climate-battle.html">wie einige schreiben</a>. Aber die globale Aufmerksamkeit ist wichtig (die <a href="http://www.dailyclimate.org/tdc-newsroom/2015/01/climate-change-coverage-2014">Klimaberichterstattung nimmt zum Beispiel endlich wieder zu</a>). Und gemeinsam müssen wir den globalen Klimaschutz in die Hand nehmen. Und erzwingen. Das argumentieren zumindest <a href="https://twitter.com/martinkaisergp">Martin Kaiser</a> und ich in diesem in der <a href="http://www.politische-oekologie.de/">Politischen Ökologie</a> erschienenen Essay:<br />
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<span lang="DE" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Die
verstärkte Verbrennung von Kohle zur Energiegewinnung ist einer der
Hauptgründe, warum zwischen den Jahren 2000 <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>und 2010 die globalen Emissionen von
Treibhausgasen schneller gewachsen sind als jemals zuvor. Die erste Dekade des
21. Jahrhundert war die schlimmste für das Klima und liess die Konzentration von
CO2, Methan und Lachgas in der Atmosphäre heute auf ein Niveau ansteigen, das
es in den letzten 800.000 Jahren nicht mehr gegeben hat. Wir Menschen sind daran
Schuld! <a href="http://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment-report/ar5/syr/SYR_AR5_LONGERREPORT.pdf">Der
fünfte Sachstandsbericht des Weltklimarats IPCC</a> fasst den Stand der
wissenschaftlichen Erkenntnisse bis 2010 zusammen. Und ist mehr als
besorgniserregend. So haben seit den 70er Jahren allein die Ozeane mehr als 90%
der Energie, </span><span lang="DE" style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">die dem Klimasystem zusätzlich zugeführt wurde</span><span lang="DE" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">, gespeichert. Das verstärkt
aufgenommene CO2 führt in den Ozeanen zur Versauerung, die Korallen angreift
und auf Dauer wichtige Nahrungsnetze zerstört. Eine Versauerung der Meere wie
heute gab es <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">seit 300 Millionen Jahren</i>
nicht mehr.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="DE" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Unsere
bedeutendsten Ökosysteme wie die Arktis oder die Antarktis schmelzen. Vor allem
das Meereis der Arktis ist in der letzten Dekade schneller geschmolzen als
jemals zuvor. Das hat gewaltige Auswirkungen auf die Meeresspiegel. Schon jetzt
gibt es kleine Inselstaaten, die ihre Existenz und die ihrer Einwohner befürchten
müssen. Erst im September 2014 war deshalb der President der Republik Kiribati
in der Arktis, um sich eine der Ursachen für den existenzbedrohenden
Meeresspiegelanstieg anzusehen. </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Er sagte “</span><i><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/president-anote-tong/a-leader-a-polar-bear-and_b_5909750.html">My
visit to the Arctic is to witness first-hand the source of what is affecting my
country and to understand the connection between the melting of these massive
sheets of ice and the rise in sea level in our part of the world</a>.” </span></i><span lang="DE" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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weiteres Ansteigen der Emissionen von Treibhausgasen und der damit verbundenen
Erwärmung wird zu massiven und nicht wieder umkehrbaren Veränderungen für Menschen
und Natur führen. Denn wenn wir so weiter machen wie bisher, wird bereits
innerhalb von vier Generationen die Erderwärmung auf 5 Grad ansteigen. Keine
angenehme Aussicht, denn bereits mit knapp einem Grad Erwärmung messen die
WissenschaftlerInnen massive Veränderungen.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Ölverbrennung‘ ist ein Harakiri-Ansatz<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="DE" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Die
Warnungen der Wissenschaft waren noch nie so deutlich. Laut der World
Meteorological Society gab es bereits zwischen 2001 und 2010 mehr und extremere
Wetterereignisse als je zuvor seit Beginn ihrer Messungen. </span><span lang="DE" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">Und
der Trend geht weiter. </span><span lang="DE" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Extreme Stürme wie Sandy (New York) und Hajan (Philippinen), Hitze- aber
auch Kältewellen wie zuletzt in den USA - all diese Ereignisse machen den
Klimawandel greifbar. Das verändert - zum Glück - auch die Rahmenbedingungen
für Klimapolitik weltweit. Das extreme Wetter in den USA hat schon jetzt z.B.
dazu geführt, dass dort wieder eine klare Mehrheit an den Klimawandel glaubt. Durch
Stürme wie Sandy wird nicht nur medial sichtbar, wie dramatisch die
Auswirkungen von immer intensiveren Stürmen sein werden. Sandy machte selbst
den Reichen klar, dass der Klimawandel auch vor ihnen nicht halt macht. Auch ihre
„Gated Communities“ sind nicht vor den zerstörerischen Kräften des Klimawandels
sicher. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="DE" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Gleichzeitig
werden die vorhergesagten Auswirkungen auf elementarste Ressourcen wie Wasser
oder Land immer offensichtlicher. Wenn es z.B. im Amazonas so trocken ist, dass
die Armee Wassertransporte schützen muss, bekommen nicht nur Umweltschützer ein
mulmiges Gefühl. Schon jetzt leben 1.2 Milliarden Menschen in Ländern mit absoluter
Wasserknappheit. Ironischer Weise braucht aber gerade die Kohle – die
klimaschädlichste aller Energieformen – extrem viel Wasser. Der Wasserverbrauch
der Energiewirtschaft soll sich bis 2035 mehr als verdoppeln – und <a href="http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/news/Blogs/makingwaves/world-water-week/blog/50447/">Kohleprojekte
machen 50% dieses Wachstums aus</a>. Die Auswirkungen sind lokal oft
verheerend. In </span><span lang="DE" style="color: #333333; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Mpumalanga in Südafrika, z.B., muss die lokale Bevölkerung
Wasser kaufen <a href="http://www.greenpeace.org/africa/quitcoal/">während
Eskom, der staatliche Kohlekonzern, das örtliche Wasser vergeudet und
verschmutzt.</a> </span><span lang="DE" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Tatsache, dass immer offensichtlicher wird, dass elementare Ressourcen akut begrenzt
sind, hat auch Positives. Sie führt z.B. dazu, dass Wirtschaftsakteure, die
bisher nie über den Klimawandel nachgedacht haben, plötzlich seine Auswirkungen
ernst nehmen und über Alternativen nachdenken. <a href="http://www.greenpeace.org/india/en/Blog/Campaign_blogs/why-the-worlds-biggest-coal-company-has-backe/blog/48844/">In
China änderte z.B. selbst der größte Kohlehändler der Welt, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Shenhua</i>, seinen Kurs</a>, als öffentlich
wurde, wie der Wasserverbrauch der Kohle die Lebensgrundlage der örtlichen
Bevölkerung zerstört. Erneuerbare Energien verbrauchen extrem viel weniger
Wasser und werden somit in einer immer stärker von Wassermangel geprägten Welt,
auch aus anderen Gründen als dem Klimaschutz immer attraktiver. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="DE" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Eine
weitere wichtige Veränderung des Kontextes in dem internationale Klimapolitik gemacht
wird, ist, dass man die internationale Klimapolitik nicht mehr nur als Facette
der geopolitischen Auseinandersetzung zwischen „reichen Industrieländern“ und
„armen Entwicklungsländern“ verstehen kann. Industrieländer wie Deutschland
stehen in einer besonderen historischen Verantwortung und haben einen unfair
großen Anteil an den klimaschädlichen Gasen, die sich heute in unserer Atmosphäre
befinden. Gleichzeitig wächst <a href="http://www.ethicsandinternationalaffairs.org/2014/the-changing-ethics-of-climate-change/">täglich
die Anzahl derjenigen die <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">nicht</b> im
„Norden“ (den alten Industrieländern) leben, die aber durch ihren
konsumintensiven Lebensstil, den Klimawandel massiv vorantreiben</a>. Es ist
zwar wichtig zu wissen, dass viele der Emissionen Chinas in Wirklichkeit für
den Export, und damit unseren Konsum, bestimmt sind (<a href="http://www.tyndall.ac.uk/content/who-owns-chinas-carbon-emissions">eine
Studie des britischen Tyndall Centres sprach von etwa einem Viertel</a>).
Trotzdem steht hinter der Tatsache, dass z.B. die pro Kopf Emissionen Chinas
heute mit denen vieler europäischer Länder vergleichbar sind, auch eine
wachsenden globale Mittelklasse und der extreme Konsum der Oberen 1% weltweit.
Neben der Umverteilung von Nord nach Süd (die gerade für ärmere und kleinere
Entwicklungsländer nach wie vor absolut essentiell ist), tritt die Frage der
Umverteilung <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">innerhalb von Ländern</i>
immer mehr in den Vordergrund. Weltweit müssen die, die viel haben vor allem <a href="http://www.goethe.de/ges/umw/prj/kuk/the/kul/de5621267.htm">„weniger
nehmen statt mehr zu geben“, wie es Wolfgang Sachs formuliert</a>. Die
Klimadebatte ist deshalb weltweit zunehmend auch eine Debatte über <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ungleichheit</i> – sie ist zunehmend auch eine
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Klassenfrage</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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geht darum wie wir das noch zu Verfügung stehende Budget an klimaschädlichen
Emissionen gerecht verteilen. <a href="http://archive.greenpeace.org/climate/arctic99/index.html">Die Idee eines
„carbon budgets“ hatte Greenpeace schon in den 90er Jahren angeregt.</a> Es
beschreibt die fossilen Ressourcen, die wir noch verbrauchen dürfen, bevor
absolut katastrophale Klimafolgen zu erwarten sind. Heute akzeptieren Institutionen
wie der Weltklimarat, die internationale Energieagentur und die Weltbank alle
gleichermaßen, dass es dieses Budget gibt - und dass es fast verbraucht ist. Der
letzte IPCC Bericht sagt <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">deshalb, </i>wie
wir gesehen haben<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">,</i> <a href="http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/newsdesk/energy/analysis/what-exactly-ipcc-saying-emissions-phase-out">dass
wir Emissionen nicht nur senken, sondern <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">ganz
beseitigen</i> müssen</a>. Und auch die konservative Internationale
Energieagentur ist der Meinung, das zwei Drittel der heute schon bekannten
fossilen Ressourcen nicht mehr verbrannt werden dürfen, wenn wir das Schlimmste
verhindern wollen. Das trotzdem weiter mit großem Elan nach fossilen Ressourcen
gesucht wird - und auch besondere Ökosysteme wie die Arktis nicht vor
Ölbohrungen sicher sind <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>- ist mehr als
irrational. Es ist Harikiri. Jedes Kohle- und Ölunternehmen, das weiter auf
dieses Geschäftsmodell setzt, verantwortet das Leid und Elend derjenigen
Menschen, die zukünftig verstärkt von Trockenheit, Meeresspiegelanstieg,
Fluten, regenreichen Stürmen und ausbleibenden Ernten betroffen sein werden. <a href="http://opinion.inquirer.net/79960/making-the-polluters-pay">Es muss auch
mit juristischen Folgen rechnen</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Europa müssen den Kohleausstieg organisieren, versagen dabei bisher<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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vor der abschließenden Sitzung des IPCC haben die europäischen Staats- und
Regierungschefs über eine Klima- und Energiepaket für die Zeit nach 2020
beschlossen. Die fossile Energiewirtschaft sowie die Industrielobby haben massiv
auf den bereits schwachen Entscheidungsentwurf der Europäischen Kommission
eingewirkt. Die beschlossenen Ziele – mindestens 40% CO2 Reduktion, mindestens
27% Erneuerbare Energien in der EU und eine Verbesserung der Energieeffizienz
von mindestens 27% - alles bis 2030, zeigen leider, dass die Politik die
dreckigen Jobs von heute den zukünftigen wirtschaftlichen Chancen einer grünen
Transformation vorgezogen hat. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="DE" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Die
beschlossenen Ziele reichen bei weitem nicht aus um Europa dahin zu bringen, wo
die EU offiziell seit 2008 hin will: zu einer Reduktion seiner Emissionen um
80-95 Prozent bis 2050. Gerade 95% sind aber nur erreichbar, wenn heute ein
klarer Ausstiegsfahrplan für die bestehenden Kohlekraftwerke angegangen wird
und neue verhindert werden. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Das
bisherige Hauptklimaschutzinstrument der EU, der Emissionshandel, ist in den
vergangenen Jahren wegen eine Schwemme von kostenfreien oder günstigen
Zertifikaten zu einer Farce geworden. Der Kohlenstoffpreis in der EU ist heute
so gering, dass er einer der Gründe ist, warum mehr, nicht weniger,
(Braun-)Kohle verbrannt wird.</span></div>
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<span lang="DE" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Und
auch in Zukunft soll die klimaschädliche Industrie massive Ausnahmen beim
Emissionshandel erhalten. Damit ist der Zertifikathandel als Klimaschutzinstrument
praktisch tot, und die bisherige EU Klimapolitik von Merkel, Gabriel und Co am
Ende.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="DE" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Die
Unsicherheit für Investitionen in Kohle und Öl steigen aber trotzdem. Schon
jetzt macht sich überall Widerstand gegen den Bau neuer Kohlekraftwerke oder
die Versuche mit Fracking breit. Tausende Menschen in Brandenburg wehren sich
juristisch und mit Protesten gegen die Auslöschung ihrer Heimatorte durch neue
Braunkohletagebaue. Allein im August 2014 sind fast 8.000 Menschen aus über 20
Ländern zu einer Menschenkette zwischen Deutschland und Polen zusammengekommen,
um gegen den Klimawahnsinn zu protestieren. Dabei ist klar, dass auch die
ArbeiterInnen in der Kohlewirtschaft einen langfristigen Plan verdient haben,
wie die Transformation von der Kohleverbrennung zur Energiegewinnung mit
Erneuerbaren Energien gerecht zu gestalten ist. Deshalb fordert auch Greenpeace
in Deutschland den Kohleausstieg nicht über Nacht, sondern bis (spätestens) 2040.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Dezember 2015 soll ein globaler Klimaschutzvertrag dann auch mit den größten
Atmosphärenverschmutzerstaaten China und USA unterzeichnet werden. Europa und
Frankreich sind Gastgeber und spätestens dann wird ihnen der Scherbenhaufen der
jetzt getroffenen Entscheidungen auf die Füße fallen. Denn die vom Klimawandel
betroffenen StaatsbürgerInnen in jedem ihrer Länder genau hinsehen, was ihre
Regierung zum globalen Klimaschutz zusätzlich beitragen. Und den Druck – auch
von der Straße – erhöhen. Deutschland hat bisher wenig Neues zu bieten und
riskiert ohne die Verabschiedung eines nationalen Ausstiegsgesetzes für seinen
Kohlekraftwerkspark sein eigenes Klimaschutzziel von minus 40% bis 2020 zu verfehlen.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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bis zur Klimakonferenz in Lima im Dezember 2014 müssen Deutschland und Europa
Farbe bekennen. Nachdem China und die USA am 12. November ebenfalls Ziele für
2030 bekannt gegeben haben – und China zum ersten Mal versprochen hat sein
Emissionswachstum zu beenden<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>– ist eine
Wende in der globalen Klimapolitik greifbar nah. Die Ziele auch von USA und
China sind aber unzureichend und müssen nachgebessert werden. In Lima, muss die
EU deshalb vorschlagen, dass Ziele für 2025 vereinbart werden. Um damit
glaubhaft zu sein, muss die EU selber bis März 2015 <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">verbesserte</i> Ziele für 2025 vorlegen. Nur so können Deutschland und
die EU mithelfen, dass der Druck wächst, dass China z.B. seine Treibhausgasemissionen
bereits um 2025 erstmalig absenkt (statt wie bisher versprochen „irgendwann um
2030“).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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globale Klimawandel einzudämmen ist?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="DE" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Trotz
der peinlichen 2030 Ziele der EU und einem mangelnden Kohleausstieggesetzes in
Deutschland gibt es viel Grund für Optimismus. Die Tatsache, dass die USA und
China nun gemeinsam neue Impulse in der Klimapolitik setzen ist einer. Vor
allem aber schreiten nicht nur die Klimafolgen schneller und dramatischer voran
als vorhergesagt: auch die Lösungen setzen sich schneller und nachhaltiger
durch als gedacht. Die erneuerbare Energien sind heute schon verbreiteter – und
vor allem auch billiger – als selbst Greenpeace es noch vor Jahren vorhergesagt
hatte. </span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span lang="DE" style="color: #559f0c; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span lang="DE" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Es
gibt 2014 15 Mal mehr Solarenergie und dreimal mehr Windenergie als noch 2007.<span style="color: #559f0c;"> </span></span></span><span lang="DE" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Die Internationale Agentur für Erneuerbare Energien
hat errechnet, dass <a href="http://www.irena.org/rethinking/Rethinking_FullReport_web.pdf#page=33">Erneuerbare
schon heute in den meisten Ländern die <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">ökonomisch
sinnvollste</i> neu zu bauende Energieform sind</a>. In so verschiedenen
Ländern wie <a href="http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/news/Blogs/makingwaves/10-facts-about-renewable-energy/blog/51143/">Australien,
Brasilien, Mexiko, der Türkei oder den USA sind Windkraftanlagen an Land jetzt
schon nicht mehr teurer – und oft sogar billiger – als fossile Energien</a>. </span></div>
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<span lang="DE" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Es
ist deshalb absurdes Theater, wenn bei den Klimaverhandlungen, aktiver
Klimaschutz von vielen Ländern weiterhin als „burden“ – also etwas Unangenehmes
– behandelt wird. Klimaschutz lohnt sich (selbst wenn man von den vermiedenen Folgekosten
der Klimaschäden absieht). Die Diskussion über die gerechte Verteilung des
verbleibenden „carbon budgets“ ist deshalb auch eine Diskussion über <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Chancen</i>. </span><span lang="DE" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="DE" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Gleichzeitig
wächst gerade durch die Knappheit wichtiger Ressourcen der Druck zu handeln
(wie oben beschrieben). Wirtschaftsbosse genauso wie Städte machen sich
zunehmend Sorgen, wie sie ihre Produkte in einer Welt des Klimawandels sicher
produzieren können bzw. ihre BürgerInnen schützen können. Der andauernde
Smogalarm in Peking hat z.B. direkt mit erwirkt, dass <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/oct/22/chinas-coal-use-falls-for-first-time-this-century-analysis-suggests">der
Kohlekonsum in China im letzten Jahr – zum ersten Mal im 21. Jahrhundert –
wieder gesunken ist</a>. Und Teile der Wirtschaft beginnen zu handeln. Konzerne
wie </span><span lang="DE" style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">H&M, Ikea, Mars, Nestle, oder Philips haben sich alle <a href="http://there100.org/">zu 100% Erneuerbaren Zielen verpflichtet</a>. Nicht
alles ist Gold was bei diesen freiwilligen Ankündigungen glänzt. Trotzdem sind
sie ein Zeichen, dass es heute bereits von großen Teilen des Mainstream
akzeptiert wird, dass eine 100% Erneuerbare Welt nicht nur technisch machbar, sondern
auch politisch wünschenswert ist. </span><span lang="DE" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Klimaschutz wird nicht mehr als Wettbewerbsnachteil
verstanden, sondern das zögerliche Handeln der Politik.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="DE" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Es finden
sich immer mehr Menschen weltweit zusammen, um die notwendige Beendigung des
fossilen Zeitalters dort, wo sie Einfluss haben, voran zu treiben. Und das oft
mit Erfolg. In Tacloban, der philippinischen Stadt, die durch den stärksten je
gemessenen Typhoon Hajan fast komplett zerstört wurde, wird z.B. <a href="http://energyblog.nationalgeographic.com/2014/11/05/one-year-after-typhoon-yolanda-a-philippines-city-rebuilds-with-sustainble-transport-in-mind/">das
neue öffentliche Verkehrssystem gleich auf Elektrobusse, die mit erneuerbaren
Energien betrieben werden, umgestellt</a>. Sydney in Australien will bis 2030 Strom,
Heizung und Kühlsysteme alle auf erneuerbare Energien umstellen. </span><span lang="DE" style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Oslo,
Stockholm und Kopenhagen haben sich ebenfalls das Ziel gesetzt 100% Erneuerbare
Städte zu werden. </span><span lang="DE" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Zukunft hat also schon begonnen. Aber sie wird sich nur gegen die starken Kräfte
derjenigen, die nach wie vor an den fossilen Energien, der Entwaldung und
anderen Klimazerstörungen verdienen durchsetzen, wenn der öffentliche Druck,
lokal, national, aber auch global, weiter wächst.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Klimabewegung wächst, wird globaler und wird für eine Vision von 100%
Erneuerbaren Energien bis Mitte des Jahrhunderts mit Energiezugang für alle
kämpfen<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="DE" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Und
das tut er. Über eine halbe Millionen Menschen waren am 21. September in
Hauptstäten der Erde auf den Straßen, um für eine langfristige Vision einer zu
100% auf erneuerbaren Energien basierenden Energieversorgung und dem
langfristigen Ausstieg aus Kohle, Öl und Gasverbrennung einzutreten. Von
Gewerkschaften, Schulen, Universitäten, Feuerwehr und Ärzte waren weit mehr
zivilgesellschaftliche Gruppen beim größten Demonstrationszug allein in New
York auf den Straßen als zu Beginn der Klimabewegung. Längst ist der Protest
gegen eine völlig aus den Fugen geratene Klimapolitik weltweit auf ein ganz
anderen Niveau gestiegen. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Menschen nehmen die Transformation der Gesellschaft selber in die Hand. Die
religiösen Gruppen haben in New York mit einer gemeinsamen Klima-Erklärung
überrascht: Christen – katholische, evangelische und orthodoxe - , Muslims,
Buddhisten, Hindi, und andere Religionen <a href="http://interfaithclimate.org/the-statement">rufen zum kompletten Ausstieg
aus fossilen Energieträgern bis Mitte des Jahrhunderts auf</a> sowie für den
Zugang zu erneuerbaren Energien für alle Menschen. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="DE" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Das
Momentum ist auf der Seite der Klimabewegung. Es wird eng werden für diejenigen
Unternehmen der Kohle-, Öl- und Gasindustrie, die den sofortigen Einstieg in
eine langfristige Transformation verhindern. Noch ist es Zeit für die Politik
eine Evolution der Wirtschaft hin zu einer zukunftsfähigen einzuleiten.
Ansonsten werden die Menschen weltweit zukünftig mehr und mehr das Heft der
Transformation in die Hand nehmen. Es ist nicht zu spät, wenn wir
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<br />Daniel Mittlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03354823008712270397noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7558460735484185087.post-26314739187834517602015-01-14T16:44:00.000+01:002015-01-14T16:44:02.117+01:00Despite Lima: 2014 was a good year for climate action<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">This blog was first published in<a href="http://www.stakeholderforum.org/sf/outreach/index.php/component/content/category/225-cop20-wrap-up"> OUTREACH </a>as part of an issue looking back at COP 20 in Lima.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">There is no question: COP 20 utterly failed
to translate the positive changes happening in the real world into the
negotiated outcome. After China and the US had, for the first time ever </span><a href="http://thischangeseverything.org/some-very-initial-thoughts-on-the-us-china-deal/"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">together,</span></i><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> agreed to reduce carbon pollution and to drastically increase the
use of clean energy</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">, there was hope that the global climate
conversation could change at Lima. Though more action is needed from both,
there was at least hope that we could move from a “you go first, you know this
issue is important ” mentality to an attitude of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“I can act, if you can act.” This did not
happen. Given that governments had already agreed in Warsaw last year that they
would only put forward their pledges for Paris <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">after</i> Lima, may be it was unrealistic to expect that mental shift
to already show up in the formal negotiations. But it </span><a href="http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/news/Blogs/makingwaves/lima-a-positive-end-to-a-breakthrough-year-fo/blog/51513/"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">would have been so nice</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> … especially
as Typhoon Hagupit, right during the negotiations, once again </span><a href="http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/news/Blogs/makingwaves/nature-does-not-negotiate-Typhoon-Hagupit/blog/51613/"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">illustrated the urgency to act</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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emphasised the need to be “realistic” and “nationally determined” with future
emission cuts, and disgracefully resisted stronger action on finance and
adaptation,</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> in particular to the most vulnerable countries. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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oil-producing states in an effort to protect themselves from taking on tougher
and more binding emissions cuts in future. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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time frame at all for future pollution cuts.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">The Lima decision</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> does require countries to submit
basic information about the</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">climate actions they plan to include
in the Paris agreement. But instead of a proper process to assess whether these
actions will be<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> sufficient </i>and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">fairly distributed</i>, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">all we
will see is a technical paper compiled by the UNFCCC Secretariat to assess
these inputs. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">The outcome in Lima also establishes no clear requirement for rich
countries to include climate finance in their reported actions before Paris,
and does not establish a clear road-map for scaling up finance towards the 100
billion dollars a year promised by 2020.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">This is all appalling. True. But Lima must
also not be allowed to distract from the fact that 2014 has been a positive
year in climate politics over all. And that a meaningful result could still be
agreed in Paris. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">2014 saw the rebirth of the global climate
movement. People all over the world turned </span><a href="http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/news/Blogs/makingwaves/IPCC/blog/48719/"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">the latest, frightening warnings from climate science</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> into a message of hope. Following over </span><a href="http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/news/Blogs/makingwaves/beating-climate-change-either-lead-or-get-out/blog/50711/"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">400,000 people marching in New York</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> to call for fast and just climate action in September, December
10<sup>th</sup> saw the </span><a href="http://youtu.be/i2Wd3pupSoQ?list=UUvPAs-I8NIWTFcTRAVd71Vw"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">largest ever climate march in Latin America</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> in Lima. The march further showed the global reach and momentum
of the climate movement.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">And though the Chinese government failed to
change their negotiation stance at COP 20, the </span><a href="http://www.greenpeace.org/international/Global/international/briefings/climate/2014/The-End-of-Chinas-Coal-Boom.pdf"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">end of China´s coal boom</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> is still
excellent news. After all, it was that very boom that made the first ten years
of the 21<sup>st</sup> century the worst ever for our global climate. Also, the
current decline in coal use does still create the possibility of China changing
their stance by the time governments meet in Paris ... <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">2014 was the year when it became more and
more obvious that acting on climate change </span><a href="http://www.greenpeace.org/energyrevolution"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">delivers
jobs, livelihoods and opportunities.</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">The days when acting on climate
change could be considered </span><a href="http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/news/Blogs/makingwaves/dear-fossil-fuel-industry-its-over/blog/48908/"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">above all a burden are over</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">(except, it seems, in the UNFCCC negotiations
bubble). </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Renewables simply are <span style="mso-field-code: " HYPERLINK \0022http\:\/\/costing\.irena\.org\/technology-costs\/power-generation\.aspx\0022 \\t \0022_blank\0022 ";"><span class="MsoHyperlink">the most <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">economical</i>
solution</span></span> for new power capacity in an ever increasing number of
countries. China, this year, is installing as much solar as the US has ever (!)
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Therefore, as the warnings are getting louder
and louder – </span><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/oct/20/2014-on-track-to-be-hottest-year-on-record-says-us-science-agency"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">this year will, it is predicted, be the warmest on record</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> - the </span><a href="http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/newsdesk/energy/analysis/comment-below-headlines-%E2%80%93-nuts-and-bolts-new-global-climate-deal"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">bricks are quietly being laid in national policies around the
world</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">, that could deliver much more decisive
climate action. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Indeed, even governments in Lima – despite their lowest common
denominator approach to the negotiations - were not <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">entirely</i> tone deaf to the growing demands of the people and the changing
economics of climate action. For the first time ever, the official negotiation
text now includes a carbon free future as a possible goal: T</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">he working paper outlining options for the new global
climate treaty contains a proposal for the world to go zero carbon by 2050. Of
course, this is just an option. But it is proof that a carbon free future is no
longer just a green vision. It is a real possibility, even in the eyes of
government bureaucrats. </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Retaining
a 2050 carbon free commitment in the document - and strengthening it further,
with</span><a href="http://www.greenpeace.org/international/Global/international/briefings/climate/COP20/A-just-transition-to-100-renewable-energy.pdf"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> proposals that accelerate
a transition to 100% renewable energy for all</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> - could be game-changing. Paris could
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">I am not denying that governments in Lima did
their best to make us all wonder whether there has been any real progress on
climate politics this year … The influence of the fossil fuel lobby on
governments North and South was </span><a href="http://www.boell.de/en/2014/12/16/lima-languishing"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">once again as obvious as it was odious</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> (and hence </span><a href="http://act.350.org/sign/hagupit/"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">the call by 350.org</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> to end that
influence extremely timely). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">And yet, the urgency of the climate science,
the increasingly attractive economics of renewables, and the rising global
climate movement, means that progress on climate action is now inevitable. </span><span style="background: white; color: #292f33; font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Governments in Lima dithered. But the momentum
is still on the side of climate action as we end 2014. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
Daniel Mittlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03354823008712270397noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7558460735484185087.post-41288688727199677562015-01-14T16:36:00.003+01:002015-01-14T16:36:56.903+01:00Lima: A positive end to a breakthrough year for the climate movement?<div style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; margin-top: 12px; outline-style: none; padding: 0px 0px 6px;">
There is no question: 2014 has been a key year for the politics of climate change already, even before the latest round of climate talks get under way in Lima, Peru, next week. <br style="outline-style: none;" /><br style="outline-style: none;" />This is the year that you, and people like you, turned <a href="http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/news/Blogs/makingwaves/IPCC/blog/48719/" style="color: #467f0d; margin: 0px; outline-style: none; text-decoration: none;">the latest, frightening warnings from climate science</a> into a message of hope and defiance. More than <a href="http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/news/Blogs/makingwaves/beating-climate-change-either-lead-or-get-out/blog/50711/" style="color: #467f0d; margin: 0px; outline-style: none; text-decoration: none;">400,000 people marching in New York</a> to call for fast and just climate action were the powerful symbol of a climate movement reawakening all over the world.</div>
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<img alt="People's Climate March in New York City. 09/21/2014 © Greenpeace / Michael Nagle" src="http://www.greenpeace.org/international/community_images/84/2284/108080_175544.jpg" style="border: 0px; outline-style: none;" title="People's Climate March in New York City. 09/21/2014 © Greenpeace / Michael Nagle" width="600" /></div>
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As historic as the march in New York was, the <a class="pdf" href="http://www.greenpeace.org/international/Global/international/briefings/climate/2014/The-End-of-Chinas-Coal-Boom.pdf" style="background: url(http://www.greenpeace.org/international/Templates/Planet3/Styles/images/pdf-icon.gif) 100% 2px no-repeat; color: #467f0d; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; outline-style: none; padding: 0px 15px 0px 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">end of China´s coal boom</a>, the very boom that made the first ten years of the 21<sup style="outline-style: none;">st</sup> century the worst ever for our global climate was also important. The latest data shows <a href="http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/newsdesk/energy/data/decline-china%E2%80%99s-coal-consumption-steepens-%E2%80%93-how-do-we-know-and-what-does-it-mean" style="color: #467f0d; margin: 0px; outline-style: none; text-decoration: none;">coal use falling faster than thought in China.</a> If this turn into a long term trend, China´s emissions can stop their relentless rise soon.</div>
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China and the US have together, for the first time, <a class="zoom" href="http://thischangeseverything.org/some-very-initial-thoughts-on-the-us-china-deal/" style="background: url(http://www.greenpeace.org/international/Templates/Planet3/Styles/images/bg-zoom.gif) 100% 2px no-repeat; color: #467f0d; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; outline-style: none; padding: 0px 15px 0px 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">agreed to reduce carbon pollution and to drastically increase the use of clean energy</a>. Their agreement - just like the new goals that the European Union has set for itself - are painfully inadequate in the face of the urgency we face. But they change the dynamic of the global climate conversation. <br style="outline-style: none;" /><br style="outline-style: none;" />For years, global climate meetings were the place where countries would say to each other: “you go first, you know this issue is important ”. Now we are moving to a different world. Now countries say: “I can act, if you can act.” This is a major mental shift. This thinking makes collective action a possibility.</div>
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To deliver actions that can actually prevent climate chaos, though, we need to go further. We need more countries to say, “I want to act faster than you, because that will be better for me (and you).” This is not a pipe dream because acting on climate change <a href="http://www.greenpeace.org/energyrevolution" style="color: #467f0d; margin: 0px; outline-style: none; text-decoration: none;">delivers jobs, livelihoods and opportunities.</a> The days when acting against climate change could be considered <a href="http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/news/Blogs/makingwaves/dear-fossil-fuel-industry-its-over/blog/48908/" style="color: #467f0d; margin: 0px; outline-style: none; text-decoration: none;">a burden are over</a>. Clean, renewable energy is getting bigger, better and cheaper every day and can provide the solutions the world needs. Renewables are the most economical solution for new power capacity in an ever-increasing number of countries. <br style="outline-style: none;" /><br style="outline-style: none;" />100% of new power capacity added in the United States in August was renewable and countries such as Denmark and Germany are producing new ´clean electricity´ records almost every month. China is installing as much solar this year as the US has ever (!) done.</div>
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As the warnings are getting louder and louder – <a class="zoom" href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/oct/20/2014-on-track-to-be-hottest-year-on-record-says-us-science-agency" style="background: url(http://www.greenpeace.org/international/Templates/Planet3/Styles/images/bg-zoom.gif) 100% 2px no-repeat; color: #467f0d; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; outline-style: none; padding: 0px 15px 0px 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">this year will, it is predicted, be the warmest on record</a> - the <a href="http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/newsdesk/energy/analysis/comment-below-headlines-%E2%80%93-nuts-and-bolts-new-global-climate-deal" style="color: #467f0d; margin: 0px; outline-style: none; text-decoration: none;">bricks are quietly being laid in national policies around the world</a>, that could deliver much more decisive climate action – and a meaningful agreement in Paris next year.</div>
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For that to happen, governments in <a class="pdf" href="http://www.greenpeace.org/international/Global/international/briefings/climate/COP20/Lima-COP-20-Our-Expectations.pdf" style="background: url(http://www.greenpeace.org/international/Templates/Planet3/Styles/images/pdf-icon.gif) 100% 2px no-repeat; color: #467f0d; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; outline-style: none; padding: 0px 15px 0px 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Lima must agree a few key issues</a>:</div>
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<li style="border: none !important; float: none !important; outline-style: none; padding: 0.5em 0px 0px !important; width: 569px;">They must get the direction right and call for 100% renewables for all and a phase out of fossil fuels by 2050. There is already a sentence in the draft negotiation text setting out a “long-term goal of reaching zero carbon emissions by 2050”. That needs to stay. In addition, governments need to spell out that they are committed to <a href="http://www.greenpeace.org/international/Global/international/briefings/climate/COP20/A-just-transition-to-100-renewable-energy.pdf" style="color: #467f0d; margin: 0px; outline-style: none; text-decoration: none;">the just transition to renewables for all that the goal implies</a>.</li>
<li style="border: none !important; float: none !important; outline-style: none; padding: 0.5em 0px 0px !important; width: 569px;">Lima must agree that governments can´t delay action. That means that all governments must tell us what they plan to commit to in Paris before March 2015. It also means agreeing<a href="http://www.greenpeace.org/international/Global/international/briefings/climate/COP20/5-Year-commitment-period.pdf" style="color: #467f0d; margin: 0px; outline-style: none; text-decoration: none;">that targets are set for 5 years at a time – and be reviewed after 5 years regularly</a>. All countries must say at Paris what they will do between 2020 and 2025. Targets must not be locked in for 2030, which could delay actions (after all, politicians in many countries will no longer be in power in 2030).</li>
<li style="border: none !important; float: none !important; outline-style: none; padding: 0.5em 0px 0px !important; width: 569px;">Lima must also agree that the fairness and adequacy of what countries are putting forward in the next months (we expect by March 2015) is reviewed <em style="outline-style: none;">before</em> governments meet again in Paris in December 2015. The world deserves to know in Paris <a href="http://www.greenpeace.org/international/Global/international/briefings/climate/COP20/Country-By-Country-Briefing.pdf" style="color: #467f0d; margin: 0px; outline-style: none; text-decoration: none;"><em style="outline-style: none;">who</em> is doing their fair share and who is to blame</a> if there is still a <a href="http://www.unep.org/publications/ebooks/emissionsgapreport/" style="color: #467f0d; margin: 0px; outline-style: none; text-decoration: none;">big gap between what governments put forward and what a safe climate for our children needs</a></li>
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Of course, there is no guarantee that Lima will deliver these key demands (<a class="pdf" href="http://www.greenpeace.org/international/Global/international/briefings/climate/COP20/Lima-COP-20-Our-Expectations.pdf" style="background: url(http://www.greenpeace.org/international/Templates/Planet3/Styles/images/pdf-icon.gif) 100% 2px no-repeat; color: #467f0d; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; outline-style: none; padding: 0px 15px 0px 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">and the many other things the conference could make progress on</a>). Over the next two weeks, governments will often make me despair and remind me of the <a href="http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/news/Blogs/makingwaves/absurdity-urgency-and-the-battle-for-our-futu/blog/43309/" style="color: #467f0d; margin: 0px; outline-style: none; text-decoration: none;">absurd theatre that the climate negotiations often are</a>. Sometimes, I may even wonder if there really has been progress made at all this year … especially when listening to the governments of Canada and Australia, whom I expect to speak on behalf of the oil and coal industries, not their people. And who will have many - too many - supporters, as with too many countries, the <a href="http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/news/Blogs/makingwaves/un-climate-summit/blog/50724/" style="color: #467f0d; margin: 0px; outline-style: none; text-decoration: none;">polluters of the past dominate domestic politics</a>.</div>
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But, as Kumi Naidoo said at a recent <a class="zoom" href="http://youtu.be/tLFfRY3QBjo" style="background: url(http://www.greenpeace.org/international/Templates/Planet3/Styles/images/bg-zoom.gif) 100% 2px no-repeat; color: #467f0d; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; outline-style: none; padding: 0px 15px 0px 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">TEDxAmsterdam talk</a>: <br style="outline-style: none;" /><br style="outline-style: none;" />"When people in large numbers start believing that change is possible, only then does change become possible.” <br style="outline-style: none;" /><br style="outline-style: none;" />We are getting there on climate change. The urgency of the climate science, the increasingly attractive economics of renewables, and the rising global climate movement, means that progress on climate action is now inevitable. Leaders in Lima can do their job on behalf of their people speed up the transition to a world run on renewables for all. But even if they dither, they will not be able to change the fact, that the momentum is on our side as we end 2014. <a class="zoom" href="http://act.greenpeace.org/ea-action/action?ea.client.id=1844&ea.campaign.id=33046" style="background: url(http://www.greenpeace.org/international/Templates/Planet3/Styles/images/bg-zoom.gif) 100% 2px no-repeat; color: #467f0d; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; outline-style: none; padding: 0px 15px 0px 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Join us</a> – so that we can keep the momentum going!</div>
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