If you're in Montreal for the UN climate negotiations from Nov 27th to Dec 8th, you'll be able to hear the voices of those directly affected by climate change, the oil and coal industry and carbon trading.
The Montreal Climate Justice Convergence Centre is a space where the voices of those
struggling against oil and coal extraction, refineries, pollution 'offset'
projects, a destabilised climate, oil wars and all the other effects of fossil
fuel dependence can be heard. Photo-exhibitions, films, speakers and workshops
will examine issues ranging from energy use to tree plantations to the World
Bank, the G8, carbon trading, nuclear power and genetic engineering.
web: www.carbontradewatch.org/durban
blog: climatejustice.blogspot.com
2070 Rue Clark (near Sherbrooke and St.Laurent)
4 Blocks Northwest of the Palais de Congres
Organisers: The Durban Group for Climate Justice, Sierra Youth, Energy Action,
Indigenous Environment Network, Environmental Justice Climate Change Initiative,
FERN, Transnational Institute, Global Justice Ecology Project, The Corner House,
Sustainable Energy & Economy Network/ Institute for Policy Studies, Chesapeake
Climate Action Network
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"The carbon market doesn't care about sustainable development. All it cares about is the carbon price. . . the carbon market is not going to be able to put sustainable development and everything else into one price."
-- Jack Cogen, President of Natsource, a carbon asset manager and the biggest private sector buyer of carbon credits in the market, speaking Monday 5 December 2005 in Montreal at an International Emissions Trading Association/World Bank side event at the international climate negotiations.
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'The Kyoto Protocol has put its faith in markets. How can we as indigenous people put our faith in these approaches when it is the market's unquenchable thirst for consuming resources that has caused the problem in the first place.'
Clayton Muller-Thomas of the Indigenous Environment Network (ENI - www.ienearth.org)
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