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.

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