[Vision2020] Doha Deal will Result in "Unprecedented Ecological and Social Collapse"

[Ted Moffett]

Institute for Public Accuracy

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          Friday, December 7, 2012

          Doha Deal will Result in "Unprecedented Ecological and Social
Collapse"

MEGAN VAN BUSKIRK via John Foran, foran at soc.ucsb.edu,
@m_cvb<https://twitter.com/m_cvb>

    Buskirk is with the Canadian Youth
Delegation<http://canadianyouthdelegation.wordpress.com/>.
She said today: "The fossil fuel industry has a plan to burn over five
times the amount of carbon our atmosphere has room for, and with projects
like the tar sands, the Bakken oil shale and other extreme extraction
technologies, they want to go beyond that. Simply put, the failure in Doha
underlies a simple point: we can either have a healthy planet, or a
profitable fossil fuel empire -- not both."


MICHAEL K. DORSEY [in Doha, Qatar (GMT+3) until late Dec. 8],
011-974-666-47581, starting Sunday morning at U.S. mobile: (734) 945-6424,
mkdorsey at professordorsey.com, @GreenHejira <https://twitter.com/GreenHejira>

    Dorsey is an assistant professor of Environmental Studies at Dartmouth
College, concentrating on issues of international equity, politics of
biodiversity and environmental justice with a focus on Amazonia. He said
today: “After two weeks of negotiations, the final texts emerging from the
climate talks here in Doha, Qatar will put the planet on a doomsday course.
... The proposed cuts of 20 percent by 2020 are meaningless when the
European Union has already reduced emissions by 18 percent. African
countries demanding cuts of 40 to 50 percent to have a chance of limiting
climate change to 2 degrees -- will see unprecedented ecological and social
collapse because of the Doha Deal. …



    “Rich countries have failed to make any collective financial
commitments to enable developing countries to adapt to climate change and
make the transition to a low emissions future. The Doha Deal continues to
prop up collapsing carbon markets and promotes welfare for fossil fuel
polluters. We desperately need a plan to shutter these toxic markets. The
people of the planet need more urgent action on cutting climate pollution.
We must have a plan on the books, at the multilateral level, to defund the
fossil fuel sector.”


SIMONE LOVERA, simone.lovera at globalforestcoalition.org, ANNE PETERMANN
globalecology at gmavt.net

    Based in Paraguay, Lovera is the executive director of the Global
Forest Coalition <http://globalforestcoalition.org/>. Petermann is
executive director of the Global Justice Ecology
Project<http://globaljusticeecology.org/>.
They put out a news release yesterday "Forest Groups Denounce False
Solutions to Forest Loss at UN Climate
Summit<http://globaljusticeecology.org/pressroom.php?ID=629>,"
which states: "As negotiations failed to finalize an agreement on a
controversial forest policy called REDD+ during the ongoing UN Framework
Convention on Climate Change talks in Doha, forest groups published a
letter challenging claims that the drivers of forest change are being
addressed by countries within the REDD+ negotiations. Negotiations on REDD+
turned sour in Doha as developing countries realized they can expect very
little funding for this highly controversial forest scheme over the coming
years."


TOM GOLDTOOTH, ien at igc.org, via John Foran, foran at soc.ucsb.edu

    Goldtooth is the executive director of the Indigenous Environmental
Network <http://www.ienearth.org/>. He said today: "Hurricane Sandy;
Typhoon Bopha; the continued melting of the ice in the Arctic directly
impacting the livelihood of its Arctic Indigenous peoples; to drought
conditions throughout the world. Mother Earth is speaking. Nature is
speaking, but the government parties here at COP 18 are not listening."
Goldtooth appeared on Democracy
Now!<http://www.democracynow.org/2012/12/7/the_most_obdurate_bully_in_the>
this
morning. Foran is professor of sociology at the University of California,
Santa Barbara.


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