Since last November with the ambition of creating much larger numbers of people participating in Ireland in demonstrations coinciding with crucial UN negotiations taking place this December in Bali, CAIP (Climate Action Ireland Platform) has been meeting in Dublin on the second Saturday of every month.

The next meeting of CAIP is on Saturday August 11th at 11 a.m. in the Lecture Room, ENFO, Suffolk St. Dublin.

The agenda is to continue planning already under way since late last year to build momentum for large numbers of people to show up on the streets of Ireland on Saturday 8th December 2007 demanding international and national action on climate change, and for policymakers' to focus their minds ahead of resuming UN negotiations in Bali.
 

To prepare and plan substantial and significant Irish participation in the next

GLOBAL DAY OF ACTION AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE on

Saturday DECEMBER 8th. 2007

Next December's UN climate conference in Bali will be a critical and decisive meeting for the sake of the world's climate.

Targets for emissions reductions under the first round of the Kyoto Protocol only extend until the end of 2012.  There has always been a fundamental ambition embedded in the UN climate agreement that member states will agree second and successive target periods for the Protocol with increasingly stringent emissions reductions, until such time as a reasonable degree of climate safety can be secured for the world's people, ecosystems and life-support mechanisms.

However, opposition from fossil fuel lobbies, climate sceptics and foot-dragging governments has meant that negotiations on targets for the next round of the Protocol have been much delayed.

It will take at least 2 years to negotiate a new distribution of the complex mix of Kyoto mechanisms that already exist, nevermind the new ones currently being proposed. Re-ratification of the treaty with a new set of targets will likely take a further two years.  So time is already running out if the world hopes to have a new round in place before the end of 2012.

NGO's within in the Climate Action Network (CAN), climate scientists and allied civil society organisations have been arguing for an agreed UN mandate for active negotiations on targets for the next round of Kyoto Protocol since early 2005.  Mobilisation created by this pressure resulted in huge demonstrations in towns and cities right around the world coinciding with the last two major UN climate conferences held in Montreal in 2006 and in Nairobi in 2007.

This year the need for large-scale mobilisation is even greater.  The stakes are higher and the time is shorter.

This is particularly the case in Ireland, which is one of the world's richest countries, yet has one of the world's poorest records on action against climate change.

Please come and help mobilise substantial numbers of Irish people ahead of the Day of Action against Climate Change on next December 8th !

For further details please see:

http://www.globalclimatecampaign.org/

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