date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 09:05:05 +0100 from: David Viner subject: Fwd: DEADLINE**Funding for climate campaigners to: cru.all@uea.ac.uk From: cks@eyfa.org To: cks@eyfa.org Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1999 00:07:09 +0200 X-Distribution: Moderate MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: DEADLINE**Funding for climate campaigners X-Confirm-Reading-To: cks@eyfa.org X-pmrqc: 1 Priority: normal Status: Funding for climate campaigners. A call for proposals. from climate-l@eyfa.org Deadline: 30th September 1999 **please distribute to others who may be interested** We would like to invite proposals from activists working on climate campaigning. Following an activist and NGO meeting in March this year, attended by climate activists from Europe, Asia, USA, Australia and Latin America, funding was obtained to support two people to work on a project connected to the sixth United Nations Climate Convention, otherwise known as the Conference of the Parties (COP6), which will happen in Autumn/Winter 2000/2001. The United Nations is currently considering only one possible location for the meeting - den Haag, The Netherlands. The International working group formed after the activist and NGO meeting are looking for two people who would be able to create something innovative and effective with this funding. They will be based in a Climate research group in Portugal, 'Euronatura'. The campaign will be supported by the International working group which has experience of United Nations negotiations, direct action, campaigning, economics and climate science. Groups supporting this campaign include : eyfa, Aseed, Carbusters Magazine, Korean Ecological Youth, Free The Planet USA, EuroNatura, Climate Action Network Latin America, Climate Action Network Central and Eastern Europe and Oilwatch Europe. The thing that joins these people together is the desire to work together to radicalise the agenda of the climate negotiations. The current direction of the negotiations cannot hope to define targets nor build mechanisms of implementation and compliance which will stop the currently dangerous emissions levels of Greenhouse Gases. Ideally, the collaboration between the two funded volunteers, Euronatura and the International working group, will touch on all aspects of climate change and the related campaigns of oil, forest, marine and transport. Equally, the collaboration will be aware of all strategies to counter the weakness of the United Nations and the dominance of certain lobbying groups (notably the oil and nuclear industry). The strategies discussed by the International working group revolve around direct action, research and negotiation. Project ideas which have been discussed are a counter/alternative meeting at the same time and place as the UN meeting and/or a symbolic event such as The Climate Train to Kyoto. Please bring YOUR ideas to us! What do you think would be the most effective way to radicalise the UN agenda and protect the climate from our current economic and political systems? There are plans for a team to work in USA on a parallel campaign. The project should begin by the end of the 1999. Are you a person who has the energy, skills and commitment to coordinate the European component of an international campaign? (unfortunately, the funding is only for people *under 26 years of age *from Iceland, Norway, Algeria, Cyprus, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Malta, Morocco, Palestine, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey or any EU country) Please make your proposal for the campaign which you would like to be part of... Deadline 30th September 1999. Send to: Climate Campaigns, Postbox 94115 1090 GC Amsterdam Netherlands fax: +31 20 692 8757 email: climate-l@eyfa.org eyfa postbus 94115 gc 1090 amsterdam netherlands tel. +31 20 6657743 fax. +31 20 6928757 email. eyfa@eyfa.org #-------------------------------------------- # Dr. David Viner # Climate Impacts LINK Project # Climatic Research Unit # University of East Anglia # Norwich NR4 7TJ # UK # mailto://d.viner@uea.ac.uk # WWW: http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/link # WWW: http://ipcc-ddc.cru.uea.ac.uk # Tel: +44 (0)1603 592089 # Fax: +44 (0)1603 507784 #---------------------------------------------