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<div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font>_______________________________________________________</font></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font><br></font></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font> Friday, December 7, 2012</font></div>
<div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font><br></font></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font> Doha Deal will Result in "Unprecedented Ecological and Social Collapse" </font></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">
<br></div><p style><font><font color="#222222">MEGAN VAN BUSKIRK via John Foran, <a href="mailto:foran@soc.ucsb.edu" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">foran@soc.ucsb.edu</a>, </font><a href="https://twitter.com/m_cvb" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">@m_cvb</a></font></p>
<div><p style><font color="#222222"> Buskirk is with the <a href="http://canadianyouthdelegation.wordpress.com/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">Canadian Youth Delegation</a>.
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."</font></p></div><p style><font style="font-size:small" color="#222222"><br></font></p><p style><font style="font-size:small" color="#222222">MICHAEL K. DORSEY [in Doha, Qatar (GMT+3) until late Dec. 8], <a style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">011-974-666-47581</a>, starting Sunday morning at U.S. mobile: <a style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">(734) 945-6424</a>, </font><a href="mailto:mkdorsey@professordorsey.com" style="font-size:small;color:rgb(17,85,204)">mkdorsey@professordorsey.com</a><span style="font-size:small">, </span><font style="font-size:small" color="#222222"><a href="https://twitter.com/GreenHejira" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">@GreenHejira</a></font></p>
<p style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font color="#222222">
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. …</font></p><p style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font color="#222222"> </font></p><p style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font color="#222222">
“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.”</font></p><p style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font color="#222222"><br></font></p><p style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font><font color="#222222">SIMONE LOVERA, <a href="mailto:simone.lovera@globalforestcoalition.org" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">simone.lovera@globalforestcoalition.org</a>, </font>ANNE PETERMANN <a href="mailto:globalecology@gmavt.net" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">globalecology@gmavt.net</a> </font></p>
<p style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font><font color="#222222"> Based in </font>Paraguay, <font color="#222222">Lovera is the executive director of the <a href="http://globalforestcoalition.org/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">Global Forest Coalition</a>. Petermann is executive director of the <a href="http://globaljusticeecology.org/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">Global Justice Ecology Project</a>. They put out a news release yesterday </font><font color="#222222">"</font><a href="http://globaljusticeecology.org/pressroom.php?ID=629" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">Forest Groups Denounce False Solutions to Forest Loss at UN Climate Summit</a>," which states: <font color="#222222">"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."</font></font></p><p style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><br></p><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><p style><font>TOM GOLDTOOTH, <a href="mailto:ien@igc.org" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">ien@igc.org</a>, via John Foran, <a href="mailto:foran@soc.ucsb.edu" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">foran@soc.ucsb.edu</a></font></p>
</div><p style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font color="#222222"> Goldtooth is the executive director of the <a href="http://www.ienearth.org/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">Indigenous Environmental Network</a>.
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 <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2012/12/7/the_most_obdurate_bully_in_the" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">Democracy Now!</a> this morning. Foran is professor of sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. </font></p>
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