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Evaluating Copenhagen: What it means for Ecology, Economy, and Equity

Tuesday, February 16, 7pm-9pm

Jewish Community Center Theatre
1529 16th Street Northwest
Washington, DC 20036

Co-sponsored by:
International Forum on Globalization,
Institute for Policy Studies,
Action Aid USA,
Oil Change International,
Friends of the Earth,
and Movement Generation

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• Martin Khor, director of developing countries’ think tank, the South Centre

• Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, Director of the Tebtebba Foundation and Chair of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues

• Maude Barlow, Chair of the Council of Canadians and Senior Advisor on Water to the President of the UN’s General Assembly

• Gopal Dayaneni, Movement Generation, head of delegation to Copenhagen for US grassroots leaders from urban, racial, economic and environmental justice groups

• Victor Menotti, Executive Director, International Forum on Globalization

This FREE event aims to provide US audiences with alternative perspectives on the outcomes of the December 2009 UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen.

Given the continuing confusion within the climate policy community, the media, and even among governments themselves, there is an urgent need to set the record straight on the actual results of the Copenhagen summit, to reinforce the reasons why a UN climate process is so critical, and to point to some possible ways forward to a successful conclusion at Cancun in December 2010.

Contrary to news reports of a victorious American initiative, much of the world does not view President Obama’s forging the Copenhagen Accord as the “rescue of a collapsing UN process” but rather as a move jeopardizing two years of good faith negotiations. In fact, many multilateralists view it as defying the UN’s established principles of equity in a way that shifts new obligations onto developing countries at a time when the US has yet to deliver on its own legal commitments assumed almost two decades ago.

Copenhagen saw China blamed for lack of “transparency” and poor countries’ for “blackmailing” industrialized nations. This trend has serious implications for the prospects of creating effective constituencies in the US for global climate justice, a precondition to getting a truly effective domestic as well as global deal for limiting emissions.


Read IFG's Copenhagen analysis


Visit the COP15 site to watch the video

Visit the complete IFG Copenhagen blog

 

• Obama’s “Copenhagen Accord” – UNFCCC turns to WTO?

• Personal Perspectives: Returning from
Copenhagen

• California has keen interest in Copenhagen"

• US Technology Innovators’ 'Call to Action' for Cooperation in Copenhagen

• Martin Khor, IFG board member, discussed what Copenhagen needed to deliver from a climate justice perspective

• IFG Press Conference at COP 15 with Victor Menotti and Claire Greensfelder

• Tech Transfer Stymied by Lack of Climate Funding from Rich



IFG and the Post-Carbon Institute
Launch Important New Report:


Searching for a Miracle

The International Forum on Globalization is pleased to announce the release of an alarming new study jointly prepared with the Post-Carbon Institute. Searching for A Miracle - Net Energy Limits and the Fate of Industrial Society concludes that unrelenting energy limits, even among alternative energy systems, will make it impossible for the industrial system to continue operating at its present scale, beyond the next few decades. The report finds that the current race by industries and governments to develop new sustainable energy technologies that can replace ecologically harmful and rapidly depleting fossil fuel and nuclear technologies, will not prove sufficient, and that this will require substantial adjustments in many operating assumptions of modern society. This report is #4 in IFG's False Solutions Publication Series

Download the complete report (2.6MB pdf)

Order a hard copy through the IFG Store

IFG Press Release announcing the publication of
Searching for a Miracle





RECENT NEWS FROM IFG BOARD MEMBERS
(more board news)

"Development: The G8, Obama, and food insecurity in Africa Global Trends with Martin Khor, Monday July 13, 2009" US President Barak Obama visited Ghana last week, after the G8 Summit pledged funds to boost Africa's food security. But Africans will continue to be food dependent unless the West changes its own policies towards African agriculture. Read more (Download 105K pdf)

"Climate talks facing crisis" - by Martin Khor, The STAR, Malaysia, June 15, 2009

"A Cautionary Video About America's 'Stuff'" - Annie Leonard on the New York Times front page, May 11, 2009.

"Capitalism's crisis and our response" - by Walden Bello, April 27, 2009

Maude Barlow Addresses the UN on Water and Human Rights, April 22, 2009

"Europe falling short on global water vision" - by Maude Barlow, April 6, 2009



IFG ANNOUNCES OUR NEW AFRICAN SCHOLAR IN RESIDENCE

Mr. Oronto Douglas, 42, is a leading human rights attorney in Nigeria, and served
as one of the lawyers on the defense team for the Ogoni leader Ken Saro
Wiwa, who was executed by Nigeria's military rulers in 1995. Read Full Bio.



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Story of Cap and Trade
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Daphne Wysham blogs at The Huffington Post, "Cap and Trade Should Go The Way of the DoDo Before We Do"


TEN YEARS: FROM SEATTLE TO COPENHAGEN
 TEN YEARS: FROM SEATTLE TO COPENHAGEN
The WTO Shutdownand what it means for a UN Climate Deal in Copenhagen
Monday, November 23rd 2009

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IFG Fall Update from Executive Director Victor Menotti
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Global Movement Mourns the Death of Edward Goldsmith and Celebrates His Life
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San Francisco Bay Area Joins International Day Of Climate Action on October 24th, 2009
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IFG's Victor Menotti authors article in the daily ECO from UNFCCC in Bonn on what needs to happen in the technology transfer talks.
download the article (pdf)

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CLIMATE CHANGE AND CHINA:
Technology, Market and Beyond, a report by IFG China Scholar, Dale Wen.
download the article (pdf)

1999 Joint Statement by IFG, IPS, TWN and FOE on Global Financial Reform
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IFG's "Greensumption" Video and Jerry Mander Interview Featured on New York Times blog Dot Earth
November 14th, 2007:

Jerry Mander Interview on Dot Earth - NY Times' Climate BLOG
(edited version)

Full Text of Jerry Mander Interview
with New York Times Reporter Andrew Revkin (pdf)

Check out IFG's YouTube video
"GREENSUMPTION"
greensumption video


IFG
Recommended Reading:

book Voices From Africa
African farmers and environmentalists speak out against a new green revolution in Africa. Written by The Oakland Institute
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Field Guide to the Global Economy Field Guide to the Global Economy, by John Cavanagh, IFG President, with Sarah Anderson and Thea Lee.
This updated edition of Field Guide to the Global Economy presents the latest facts to help make sense of the rapidly changing international economy. A great resource!

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Green Alternatives to GlobalisationGreen Alternatives to Globalisation, by Michael Woodin and IFG Associate Caroline Lucas. The authors, both UK Green Party members, show how economic localization can help solve many current international crises.
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