Hey glorious planeteers!!
How are you going? Overwhelmed, tired and a little bit angsty? Don't forget to rest, have fun and get involved with some of the most amazing peeps ever - the UNSW Enviro Collective and other cool enviro types. Email with info for this newsletter on This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ! :D
1. Enviro meetings - Mondays at 12pm
2. Working groups – Mondays at 1pm
3. Getting in contact – details
4. An invitation to a critical conversation about the upcoming international climate meeting in Copenhagen - Thurs May 21st, 6-8pm!
1. Meeting: Environment Collective!
When? 12pm Mondays
Where? Quad Lawn
What? Meeting interested enviro types, planning events, talking about environmental issues and more
2. Working Groups
For those who can't make the meeting there are two working groups:
1. UNSW Climate Change working group
2. UNSW Campus Sustainability working group
Both of these working groups meet at 1pm Monday on the Quad Lawn after collective.
3. Getting in contact
Check out our facebook group ‘UNSW Environment Collective’ and website - http://unsw.envirocollective.com for more information.
4. An invitation to a critical conversation about the upcoming international climate meeting in Copenhagen
Is no deal better than a bad deal? How can and should anti-capitalists be organising around the Copenhagen meeting?
Please come along: 6pm – 8pm, Thursday May 21st
Amnesty International Office, Level 1, 79 Myrtle St, Chippendale (just off Abercrombie St).
In December 2009, the heads of governments – with thousands of polluting industry lobbyists and NGO officials in tow – will meet for the annual international climate talks in Copenhagen. We keep hearing this meeting is the world’s last chance to strike a global deal to save the climate – but few of us have any idea what will happen there.
Last year, the Climate Justice Now!, a worldwide alliance of more than 160 organisations, said in their statement from the Poznan climate talks, “[P]rojects [under Kyoto have] failed to reduce carbon emissions, they accelerate the privatisation and corporate take-over of the natural world, at the expense of local communities and Indigenous Peoples… Market ideology has totally infiltrated the climate talks, and the UNFCCC negotiations are now like trade fairs hawking investment opportunities.”
We’ll have a few people making short presentations and discussions around:
- A sketch of the international climate negotiations since 1997, including peoples’ resistances to the meetings;
- A look at what’s on the table at Copenhagen, and what will this mean for climate justice;
- Climate financing at the Conferences of Parties: a global deal for the World Bank, not the worlds’ peoples or the climate; and
- Action at Copenhagen: How do anti-capitalists want to organise together here? What opportunities exist for solidarity actions with affected peoples?
Please come along: 6pm – 8pm, Thursday May 21st
Amnesty International Office, Level 1, 79 Myrtle St, Chippendale (just off Abercrombie St).
If you need more information, you can contact Holly on 0417 682 541 / This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
You can check out some ideas online about the Copenhagen talks and climate justice:
- A comprehensive article looking at what’s on the table at Copenhagen from New Internationalist: http://www.newint.org/features/2009/01/01/climate-justice-countdown1/
- Magazine from the recent UK Climate Camp with a history of the climate meetings, a look at what’s in store for Copenhagen, and some ideas for the climate change movement: http://www.very.org.uk/dealornodeal/dond.pdf
- A great article: ‘Are We Anywhere? Carbon, Capital and COP-15’ from the Shift Magazine at http://shiftmag.co.uk/?p=270
- Another fantastic article: ‘The Movement is dead, long live the movement’ from Turbulence Magazine at http://turbulence.org.uk/turbulence-4/the-movement-is-dead-long-live-the-movement/
More about Climate Justice Sydney:
This gathering is a loose network of climate justice activists who believe our best chance lies in supporting the struggles of oppressed people, workers and participatory movements from below. We meet monthly for discussions, learning and considering some equitable ways forward.
We are guided by the hallmarks of Peoples' Global Action and the Poznan Climate Justice Now! Statement.
We are seeking have critical discussions on international climate negotiations, emissions trading schemes, 'green capitalism', technofixes and other centralised and undemocractic approaches to climate change. We want to explore solutions to the climate crisis that are community-based, democratically controlled, and assert the sovereignty of Indigenous peoples.
We are seeking to be part of creating a globally-linked, anti-capitalist, climate justice movement.
If you're interested in reading more about these ideas, check out our links: http://delicious.com/ClimateJusticeSydney
For climate justice now!
For our earth!
