CLIMATE JUSTICE: UN FCCC 10th Session
of the Conference of the Parties (COP 10)
UNFCCC COP10
Coverage of United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change,
Tenth Session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 10)
Buenos Aires, Argentina     6 - 17 December 2004

The Earth's temperature is rising. 
Polar ice caps are melting. 
Global Climatic change is occurring.
Something needs to be done and done fast.

Does this sound feasible to you ?

On October 22, 2004 Russia ratified the Kyoto Protocol, the international agreement created to begin addressing the problem of global warming.  Russia's ratification of the Kyoto Protocol now gives the agreement a high enough level of participation by the countries most responsible for the world's carbon emissions for the agreement to go into effect, even without the United States' 25% of worldwide annual global carbon emissions.

Within days of Russia's announcement, carbon trading in Europe tripled.  The carbon market is expected to be the world's largest ever, projected to reach US$60 billion by 2008. The carbon market is included as part of the Kyoto Protocol.  It was created to enable corporations to buy the right to continue emitting carbon dioxide while purporting to address global warming-a valuable commodity indeed.  The carbon credits are purchased from countries or corporations that have in some way reduced carbon emissions-by, for example, converting a coal burning plant to natural gas, or by planting trees to soak up carbon emissions.

Or does A Call For Peoples' Action Against Climate Change seem more feasible?

www.globaljusticeecology.org/index.php?set_table=content&articleID=279&page=getrees#articletop

COP 10 will mark the 10th anniversary of the entry into force of the Framework Convention on Climate Change, which will serve as a central theme for the meeting. Discussions at COP 10 will highlight a range of climate-related issues including, the impacts of climate change and adaptation measures, mitigation policies and their impacts, and technology.  Participants will also take stock of the entry into force of the Kyoto Protocol.

Industry's Push for Genetically Engineered Trees in Industrial Forestry Plantations

At the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change at COP 9 in Milan, Italy last December it was agreed that Genetically Engineered (GE) Trees could be used in carbon offset forestry plantations. Shortly thereafter, Global Justice Ecology Project came together with other forest protection advocates around the world to launch a campaign to demand the UN not only reverse that ill-informed decision, but go one step further and ban GE trees outright.

More on GE Trees:

• The United Nations, the World Bank, GE Trees and Global Warming
  www.globaljusticeecology.org/index.php?set_table=content&articleID=262&page=getrees#articletop
• GE Trees and Global Warming: The Myth of Carbon Offset Forestry www.globaljusticeecology.org/index.php?set_table=content&articleID=158&page=getrees#articletop
• SIGN ON TO UN CAMPAIGN AGAINST GE TREES
  www.globaljusticeecology.org/index.php?set_table=content&articleID=159&page=getrees#articletop
• About Global Justiice Ecology Project's Genetically Engineered Trees Program www.globaljusticeecology.org/index.php?set_table=content&articleID=101&page=getrees#articletop
• Stop GE Trees Campaign www.stopgetrees.org/
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  CONFERENCIA DE PRENSA, Viernes, 10 de dic. de 2004, UNFCCC COP 10
  Salón Algarrobo, Centro de Conferencias La Rural
  

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  Statement by Tom Goldtooth, Director, Indigenous Environmental Network
  PRESS CONFERENCE: Dec. 10, 2004, U. N. Framework Convention on Climate Change-10th Session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 10). Salon Algarrobo, Centro de Conferencias La Rural, Buenos Aires, Argentina

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• Climate Justice "Blog" for people attending and people wanting updates in the UNFCCC COP10 in Buenos Aires. http://climatejustice.blogspot.com/
  en espanol--
  ¡Justicia Climática Ya! http://justiciaclimatica.blogspot.com/
  
• Representatives from organizations and peoples’ movements from around the globe came together in Durban, South Africa October 4-7, 2004 to discuss realistic avenues for addressing climate change. The group emerged from the meeting with a call for a global grassroots movement against climate change. Read the call to action and sign the Durban Declaration on Carbon Trading. Declaration en Francaise, Portuguese, Espagnol
  
• Stop Plantar Carbon credits from industrial tree plantations? That's neither climate protection nor sustainable development.
  
• IEN is part of Sinks Watch, as well as another global sister group, Carbon Trade Watch. http://www.sinkswatch.org/
  
• for more information: Special Buenos Aires COP 10 Coverage on the role of Genetically Engineered Trees and Global Warming. 10 - 17 Dec. 2004 from Global Justice Ecology Project  http://www.globaljusticeecology.org/