10:10 was launched in the UK in september to unite every sector of society behind one simple idea: Cutting 10% of emissions in 2010 is possible and necessary. See 1010uk.org. Global Migrants for Climate Action has launched 10:10 Norge in Norway - join here! |
Rich nations failing to meet climate pledges: Rich countries have accepted their moral responsibility for global warming, and are legally obliged by the Kyoto protocol to provide finance to poor countries to tackle climate change. They have promised small sums and paid even less. More
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A massive redirection of investment away from speculation and into job-creating programmes can restore the natural systems underpinning the world economy. See "Green Economy Initiative" spearheaded by the UN's Environment Programme. The trade union movement has a critical role to play, says UNEPs Executive Director. |
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Cut down emissions - Africas Horn is drying out! Youth action in Oslo: We gathered refuse while distributing leaflets: "Unecessary consumtion gives huges profits for few and garbage, drought and floods for many" See pictures |
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Holmlia Festivalen in Oslo is visited by over 20 000 people. GMCA showed several films about climate, met with huge interest. |
"Climate crisis, foodprice- crisis, water crisis - we demand climate justice". |
26 april 2008: "Africa and Global Warming" - GMCAs climate meeting was introduced by Ewah Etu Eleri,
directør of the International Centre for Energy, Environment & Development i Abuja, Nigeria. (On this picture: Nasibu Mwanukuzi, artist) |
av Iliyasu Kasimu and other films from the NUFF-Global festival of youth videoes on climate. |
Global Migrants for Climate Action organized Norway first climate demonstration . «Cut down emissions, NOW" «Climate Justice - no more growing divide between rich and poor" |
Climate Meeting in Oslo: Colin Challen, leader of All Party Parliamentary Climate Change Group,came from Great Britain for GMCAs climate meeting. See pictures from the meeting.
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"The most difficult aspect of climate change is that it is about sharing wealth." Sunita Narain, India
The price tag for adapting to climate change will be calculated in nine pilot countries: Costa Rica, Egypt, Ghana, Indonesia, Lebanon, Mali, Nigeria, Pakistan and the Philippines. More
Desmond Tutu: "We do not need climate change apartheid in adaptation" more
Food security particularly threatened in sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia and parts of the Middle East, says a report by UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), entitled "Climate Change: Implications for Agriculture in the Near East" more
Indonesia plans drastic emissions cuts by 2025. A potentially bold move... more
Policies on climate change have so far ignored its likely human rights impacts, according to the report Climate Change and Human Rights: A Rough Guide.
Bangladesh to plant 100 million trees to create a "natural fence" against floods and cyclones. In 2007 the country was hit by two major floods while a cyclone killed at least 5,000 people, leaving tens of millions homeless. More
A nation in fear of drowning
“What is happening to us is not because of Allah, but because of people who are causing these gases for the sake of their own bellies without thinking of what they're doing.'' more
"... I believe we have reached the stage where it is time for civil disobedience to prevent the construction of new coal plants that do not have carbon capture and sequestration," Nobel Peace Prize Winner Al Gore told the Clinton Global Initiative gathering to loud applause. more
BENIN: Coastal erosion and sea-level rise threatening to wipe out parts of Cotonou more

"It's a scandal. The amount the developed countries have provided is peanuts. It is poisoning the UN negotiations. What [the rich countries] offer to the poorest is derisory, the equivalent of one banker's bonus. It's an insult to people who are already experiencing increasing extreme events". Bernarditas Muller, chief negotiator for the G77 and China group of developing countries.
A 'Green New Deal' can save the world's economy, says UN. 
Global Migrants demonstration, 1. may in Oslo.
26 april 2008: "Africa and Global Warming" - GMCAs climate meeting was introduced by Ewah Etu Eleri,
directør of the International Centre for Energy, Environment & Development i Abuja, Nigeria. (On this picture: Nasibu Mwanukuzi, artist)
Mela-festival: GMCA rigged up a small film tent, showing
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