#18: UN Climate Talks – Poznan

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The UN Climate Talks are at crisis point. Nothing on the table matches the scale of the challenge and corporate interests are rife. As the talks in Poznan come to an end, we take stock with three key protaganists: Kevin Smith (CarbonTradeWatch), Oliver Tickell (Kyoto2) and Tom Athanasiou (Greenhouse Development Rights).

Developments include:

• UNFCCC tenders a report on alternative frameworks
• 350 ppm CO2 target endorsed by Al Gore, AOSIS & the LDC country blocks
• Potsdam Institute shows how we can achieve the 350 ppm target
• Climate Justice Now! coalition grows in size from 20 to 160 organisations
• Carbon trading advances despite a crisis of credibility
• 142 organisations sign a statement against the World Bank’s involvement with climate funds
• The China+G77 block support climate funds being managed by UN
• Rich nations still failing to fulfill their commitments 16 years on
• Plans develop for a mass mobilisation in Copenhagen December 2009
• Could extending the scope of the Montreal Protocol and controling black soot be two effective ways forward outside the UNFCCC process?

• Friends of the Earth International – final assessment
• Earth Negotiations Bulletin Summary
• Economist Debate on Carbon Trading
• Climate Justice Now! Poznan Statement
• Climate Justice Now! Email List
• Climate Justice Now! Conference Report
• World Bank Unfit to Manage Climate Funds (FoEE + 142 organisations)
• Draft REDD Conclusions
• EU Fails the World on Climate (Christian Aid)
• TWN report on UN “shared vision” workshop
• Al Gore Speech (video)
• Jonathan Porritt calls for an emergency review of climate change science
• Soot reduction ‘could help stop global warming’