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Sat, 06 Oct 2007 20:57:00 GMT

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Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights

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Sat, 06 Oct 2007 20:53:00 GMT

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Sat, 06 Oct 2007 20:51:00 GMT

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60th Annual DPI/NGO Conference Declaration: Climate Change Threats - An NGO Framework for Action

Wed, 19 Sep 2007 15:59:00 GMT

United Nations Headquarters, New York, NY. Friday 6 September, 2007

Climate Change Threats - An NGO Framework for Action^/1

We, over 1726 participants representing over 500 Non-Governmental Organisations from more than 62 countries,

recognising that we share one planet and its environment, as well as a responsibility to protect future generations,
recognising the special vulnerabilities of the indigenous, poor, coastal and rural populations,
having met at the 60th Annual DPI/NGO Conference at UN Headquarters from 5-7 September, 2007, with representatives of Member States, UN agencies and programs, the scientific community, the private sector, media and civil society, and
having reviewed the latest scientific evidence from a wide variety of experts as well as hearing about the experiences of indigenous peoples to better understand climate change, its threats and how NGOs can broaden the base for knowledge and action to reduce those threats; make the following declaration:

We affirm that climate change is mainly anthropogenic and is one of the most serious threats humanity and our environment have ever faced which if not addressed will cause:

catastrophic effects to Earth's ecosystems, biodiversity and infrastructure;
significantly reduced availability of food, water, energy and transport;
massive migration of populations and the possible destruction of entire cultures and small island nations,
significant damage to our economic, political, cultural, social and spiritual structures,
increased local, national and international violence,
significant psychological and emotional distress to individuals and communities
irreversible harm to the lifestyles of indigenous peoples,
increased spread of vector-borne diseases such as malaria and dengue fever, and
negative impacts on human health and life expectancy.

We commit ourselves over the next 12 months to a Framework for Action that will propose NGO solutions to these threats before they become irreversible:

unify behind a common vision of collaboration - even if we disagree on tactics - to develop and implement plans for adaptation and mitigation1 taking into account the full range of consequences;
act as vocal, active partners for change with the UN, governments at all levels, NGOs and other members of our global community;
develop, implement and publicize individual and collaborative action plans for personal, economic and political change.

We commend Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's leadership in highlighting climate change as a major priority. We urge government, industry, and UN leaders, in partnership with the NGO community to emphasise proactive climate change priorities for the greater good in preparation for the UN Climate Change Conference in Bali, December, 2007, and subsequent negotiations.
We strongly recommend, for the sake of future generations, that government and industry leaders, the UN, other international organizations and the whole of civil society partner behind and implement concrete solutions, taking into account recommendations that emerge from the Framework for Action.
We also strongly recommend that:

all governments and civil society foster an ethical, moral foundation for ongoing sustainable development in our interdependent world making the well-being of all of humankind our priority.
all educational institutions and media organizations more effectively educate about the issue of climate change with special emphasis on youth,
governmental authorities consider penalties for excessive consumption and pollution as a method of financing climate change improvements, as well as financial incentives to foster climate-friendly technologies so that fossil fuel and nuclear based technologies can be phased out.
governments recognize that war is damaging to the climate.
all governments ratify UN conventions on climate change, the Kyoto protocol and other relevant climate conventions

Finally, in order to implement the Framework for Action - recognizing that our views on challenges and opportunities will evolve as this process continues - we request that:

the NGO/DPI Executive Committee and the Conference of NGOs in Consultative Relationship with the United Nations (CONGO) foster a plan as soon as possible to implement the Framework as a tool for the NGO community to participate in an open, practical and transparent collaborative approach based on networking;
the Framework discussion culminate in an internet-based progress report to be submitted to the Secretary-General in one year and that a long-term dialogue for future action be fostered thereafter;
the Framework process should network NGOs that might not otherwise typically collaborate by bridging the spectrum of NGO concerns interconnected by climate change, such as sustainable development, agriculture, forestry, issues affecting indigenous peoples, biodiversity, livestock and animal welfare, nuclear proliferation, the end of war, justice, ethnic groups, multigenerational issues, youth, gender equality, education, poverty, food and water security, culture of peace, interfaith cooperation, national global security and economic justice, as well as mental, spiritual and physical health.

1/ Adaptation implies making lifestyle adjustments. Mitigation implies alleviating the problem.

Declaration Process

Sydney APEC Leaders' Declaration on Climate Change, Energy Security and Clean Development

Sat, 15 Sep 2007 14:57:00 GMT

Sydney, Australia, 9 September 2007 - Official pdf version

We, the APEC Economic Leaders, agree that economic growth, energy security and climate change are fundamental and interlinked challenges for the APEC region.

The dynamism of APEC, underpinned by open trade and investment, has reduced poverty, improved living standards and delivered economic and social development.

Our success has relied in part on secure supplies of energy, the use of which has also contributed to air quality problems and greenhouse gas emissions.

A great challenge for APEC, given the aspirations of 41 per cent of the world's population in our region, is to chart new pathways for clean and sustainable development.

We are committed, through wide-ranging and ambitious actions, to ensuring the energy needs of the economies of the region while addressing the issue of environmental quality and contributing to the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions.

Future international action

We reaffirm our commitment to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Based on UNFCCC principles, we believe the following must underpin an equitable and effective post-2012 international climate change arrangement:

Comprehensiveness

We need concerted international action with all economies contributing to shared global goals in ways that are equitable, and environmentally and economically effective.

Respect for different domestic circumstances and capacities

The future international climate change arrangement needs to reflect differences in economic and social conditions among economies and be consistent with our common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities.

Flexibility

To ensure a comprehensive global effort, we support a flexible arrangement that recognises diverse approaches, and supports practical actions and international cooperation across a broad range of areas relevant to climate change. We support domestic actions which make measurable contributions to a shared global goal, and underline the importance of the effective operation of market mechanisms.

The important role for low and zero emissions energy sources and technologies

Fossil fuels will continue to play a major role in our regional and global energy needs. Co-operation, including joint research, development, deployment and transfer of low and zero emission technologies for their cleaner use, particularly coal, will be essential. It is also important to enhance energy efficiency and diversify energy sources and supplies, including renewable energy. For those economies which choose to do so, the use of nuclear energy, in a manner ensuring nuclear safety, security and non-proliferation in particular its safeguards, can also contribute.

The importance of forests and land use

Sustainable forest management and land use practices play a key role in the carbon cycle and need to be addressed in the post-2012 international climate change arrangement.

Promoting open trade and investment

The pursuit of climate change and energy security policies must avoid introducing barriers to trade and investment. Open trade, investment and environmental policies are crucial to disseminating low emissions products, technologies and best practices.

Support for effective adaptation strategies

Adapting to climate change impacts is a priority for domestic development strategies which should be supported by the international community, including through appropriate policy exchanges, financing, capacity building and technology transfer.

Support for a post-2012 international climate change arrangement

We are committed to the global objective of stabilising greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous human interference with the climate system. The world needs to slow, stop and then reverse the growth of global greenhouse gas emissions.

We, therefore, call for a post-2012 international climate change arrangement, building on the above, that strengthens, broadens and deepens the current arrangements and leads to reduced global emissions of greenhouse gases.

APEC economies that are Parties to the UNFCCC agree to work actively and constructively toward a comprehensive post-2012 arrangement at this year's UNFCCC Conference of the Parties. We pledge our strong support for Indonesia in its role as President of the Conference in Bali in December.

We agree to work to achieve a common understanding on a long-term aspirational global emissions reduction goal to pave the way for an effective post-2012 international arrangement. We appreciate the efforts of Japan and Canada in proposing a long-term global goal.

We welcome the initiative by the United States to convene a group of major economies to seek agreement on a detailed contribution to a post-2012 global arrangement under the UNFCCC.

We pledge our support for the initiative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations in convening a High-Level Event on Climate Change.

We agree to work through bilateral, regional and global partnerships to promote clean development, recognising that the UN climate process is the appropriate multilateral forum for international negotiations on climate change.

APEC Action Agenda

We announce a forward program of practical, co-operative actions and initiatives in APEC which complement those actions being undertaken by APEC economies in other fora. These initiatives are designed to support economic growth and development and to further contribute to the reduction of global greenhouse gas emissions in line with the objectives and principles of the UNFCCC. The Action Agenda is attached. In summary, and without prejudice to commitments in other fora, we have decided to:
highlight the importance of improving energy efficiency by working towards achieving an APEC-wide regional aspirational goal of a reduction in energy intensity of at least 25 per cent by 2030 (with 2005 as the base year);
work to achieve an APEC-wide aspirational goal of increasing forest cover in the region by at least 20 million hectares of all types of forests by 2020 - a goal which if achieved would store approximately 1.4 billion tonnes of carbon, equivalent to around 11 per cent of annual global emissions (in 2004);
establish an Asia-Pacific Network for Energy Technology (APNet) to strengthen collaboration on energy research in our region particularly in areas such as clean fossil energy and renewable energy sources;
establish an Asia-Pacific Network for Sustainable Forest Management and Rehabilitation to enhance capacity building and strengthen information sharing in the forestry sector; and
further measures in trade in environmental goods and services, aviation transport, alternative and low carbon energy uses, energy security, the protection of marine biological resources, policy analysis capabilities and a co-benefit approach.

Conclusion

The APEC region has a major stake in global responses to the challenges of climate change, energy security and clean development. Economic growth and technology development are indispensable elements of our future agreed approach. The scale of these challenges demands new and innovative forms of international co-operation.

We, the APEC Leaders, reaffirm our commitment to work with all members of the international community for an enduring global solution to climate change.

Annex: Action Agenda

Declaration on Climate Change and Gender Equality

Fri, 14 Sep 2007 21:49:00 GMT

Women's Environment and Development Organization (WEDO)
Council of Women World Leaders (CWWL)
Heinrich Böll Foundation
The following recommendations in the area of climate change and gender equality were developed on the occasion of the UN Secretary General's High-Level Climate Change Event and the High-Level Roundtable "How a Changing Climate Impacts Women" organized by the partners above.^/1
September 2007

The UN Secretary-General and governments should send a strong message to this year's UNFCCC COP-13 in Bali that gender equality is to be integrated as a crosscutting issue in the negotiations and debates and that women's equal participation must be ensured. Governments should draw on the innumerable global agreements that relate directly or indirectly to gender equality and climate change^/2, as well as gender expertise within the UN system and at the national level.
Given that women's knowledge and participation has been critical to the survival of entire communities in disaster situations, governments should take advantage of women's specialized skills in various aspects of their livelihood and natural resource management strategies that lend themselves to mitigation and adaptation.
Since climate change disproportionately affects poor women, governments should analyze and identify gender-specific impacts and protection measures related to floods, droughts, heat waves, diseases, and other environmental changes and disasters. The global community should prioritize reducing the high levels of female mortality rates resulting from climate-induced disasters and livelihood changes.
Given the vulnerability of the poor, and particularly women, to climate change, adequate funds must be allocated by Annex I countries to help these groups adapt to the impacts.
Practical tools should be developed that allow governments and institutions to incorporate gender equality in climate change initiatives.
Governments at national and local levels should develop strategies to enhance women's access to and control over natural resources, in order to reduce poverty, protect environmental resources, and ensure that women and poor communities can better cope with climate change.
Governments and institutions should enhance opportunities for education and training in climate change mitigation and adaptation. Capacity building and technology transfer measures should draw on priorities put forward by women and poor communities.
Women's participation in climate change related debates and planning must be enhanced by tools and procedures that augment their capacity and sensitize decision- makers to the advantages of equal participation.
The UNFCCC should develop a gender strategy, invest in gender-specific climate change research, and establish a system for the use of gender-sensitive indicators and criteria for governments to use in national reporting to the UNFCCC Secretariat, adaptation planning, or projects under the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM).
Market-based approaches to curbing climate change, such as the Clean Development Mechanism, should be made accessible to both women and men and ensure equitable benefits, considering that women and men do not have equal access to natural resources such as water and energy, land titles, credit, or information. In particular, the CDM should fund projects that make renewable energy technologies more available to women and meet their household needs.
The gendered impacts of biofuels and nuclear energy as a solution to reducing greenhouse gas emissions should be assessed, in cooperation with gender experts and women's organizations.
Since the UNFCCC emerged from UNCED, which outlines nine major groups that are essential to sustainable development, women and all major groups should be included as official focal points in the UNFCCC.

1/ These recommendations also draw on policy recommendations developed by the UNFCCC women's caucus and the CSD Women's Major Group.

2/ Chapter 24 of Agenda 21 (UNCED 1992); Johannesburg Plan of Action (WSSD 2002); Paragraph K of the Beijing Platform for Action (4th World Conference on Women 1995); World Conference on Human Rights (1993); International Conference on Population and Development (1994); World Summit for Social Development (1995); Millennium Declaration (2000); Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (1979); Convention on Biodiversity (1992); Convention to Combat Desertification (1994); Ministerial Declaration of the 3rd World Water Forum (2003); Children's World Summit (1990); Second United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (1996); World Summit on Food (1996); Hyogo Framework for Action (UN World Conference on Disaster Reduction 2005)

For more information, contact: Rebecca Pearl, WEDO - rebecca@wedo.org or 212-973-0325 More information: www.wedo.org (sustainable development section)

iframe template

Fri, 14 Sep 2007 21:04:00 GMT

To create an <iframe> tiddler that displays the contents of an external web page, copy the highlighted area into a new tiddler, and then insert the corresponding *url* - in two places - and *title*. If you wish, you can change the width or height of the tiddler, the background colour, border, etc around the displayed site.

@@font-size:90%;''Note'': This is a "framed" page from the '' "' web site. You can view this page in a separate browser tab or window at @@
<iframe
	style="
		background-color:#ffffff; 
		border-color:#ffffff;
		border:none;"
	width = "100%"
	height = "1000"
	frameborder = "0"
	scrolling = "yes"
	src = " *url* "
	title = " *title* ">
</iframe> </html>

Sustainable Development

Fri, 14 Sep 2007 21:02:00 GMT

"Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. It contains within it two key concepts:
the concept of 'needs', in particular the essential needs of the world's poor, to which overriding priority should be given; and
the idea of limitations imposed by the state of technology and social organization on the environment's ability to meet present and future needs."
From Our Common Future: Chapter 2: Towards Sustainable Development

It was Our Common Future - formally known as the Report of the World Commission on Environment & Development, and also known as the Brundtland Report after the Chair of the Commission, Gro Harlem Brundtland - that put the concept of sustainable development on the global agenda and called for a global transition to a sustainable path for economic and social development. Our Common Future broke new ground in several key areas:

it brought into focus the extent of the interrelationships between economic development and the natural environment and the need to adopt a holistic perspective;
it emphasized the critical importance of the participation of all major groups in society into deliberations on policies and the implementation of sustainable development;
it articulated the critical need for a global transition to a new model of economic development and the transition to a sustainable development path.

"The Interlocking Crises
Until recently, the planet was a large world in which human activities and their effects were neatly compartmentalized within nations, within sectors (energy, agriculture, trade), and within broad areas of concern (environment, economics, social). These compartments have begun to dissolve. This applies in particular to the various global 'crises' that have seized public concern, particularly over the past decade. These are not separate crises: an environmental crisis, a development crisis, an energy crisis. They are all one."
From Our Common Future, From One Earth to One World

Our Common Future served as a key foundation for the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development - also known as the Earth Summit - that was held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in June 1992, and that led to the adoption of the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development, Agenda 21, the Convention on Biological Diversity, the Statement of Forest Principles as well as the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. Since the Earth Summit, the concept and vision of sustainable development has come to play a central role in both international negotiations and in the development and implementation of national and local policies and practices relating to economic and social development and to the environment.

Convention on Biological Diversity

Fri, 14 Sep 2007 21:01:00 GMT

Note: This is a "framed" page from the UN Documents Cooperation Circles"' web site. You can view this page in a separate browser tab or window at http://www.un-documents.net/cbd.htm

Information and Communications Sub-Committee

Fri, 14 Sep 2007 20:36:00 GMT

The principal focus of the Information and Communications Sub-Committee of the NGO Committee on Education has been the development and implementation of a Creative Commons, Free and Open Source collaborative learning framework designed to mobilize the powers and freedoms of an evolving knowledge-based universe

Membership

Chair

Robert Pollard, Information Habitat: Where Information Lives

Members

Daphne Cohen, International Humanist and Ethical Union
Joe Friendly, Truth for a Change
Avy Gonzales, Tutor.com
Judith Lantigua, Information Habitat: Where Information Lives
Kathleen Quain, Foundation for Health and the Environment
Charles Vasquez, Pace University

Ex-officio Members

Faye Feller, National Association of Women for the Arts
Diane Paravazian, World Association of Girl Guides & Girl Scouts

Strategic Partners

Dolly Nielsen, Metro City Media
Marc Wishengrad, Healing World Foundation

Senior Advisors

Barbara Ann O'Leary, Authenticity
Anthony Judge, Union of International Associations (retired)

Web sites

NGO Committee on Education - www.ngo-education.net/

Education, Youth & Technology for Sustainable Development - www.ngo-education.net/workshop/

UN Documents Cooperation Circles: Gathering a Body of Global Agreements - www.un-documents.net/

Our Common Future - www.un-documents.net/wced-ocf.htm

Climate Change 2.0 - www.climate-change-two.net/

The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom - www.climate-change-two.net/wealth-of-networks/
Economics of Climate Change: The Stern Review - www.climate-change-two.net/stern-review/
Rescuing a Planet Under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble: Plan B 2.1 (beta) - www.climate-change-two.net/plan-b/
Climate Change Summer - www.climate-change-summer.net/
Peace Caucus: The Wild Cards in Climate Change - www.peacecaucus.net/

TiddlyWikiPerfect: An emerging hybrid information species - www.tiddlywikiperfect.net/
Gandhi-King Season for Nonviolence - www.gandhi-king-season.net/
Seasons of Peace Cooperation Circles - www.seasons-of-peace.net/
Twin Light & Colour Cubes - www.peace-cubes.net/

Conference Of NGOs

Fri, 14 Sep 2007 20:34:00 GMT

CONGO - the Conference Of Non-Governmental Organizations in Consultative Relationship with the United Nations - is an independent, international, not-for-profit membership association of nongovernmental organizations that facilitates the participation of NGOs in United Nations debates and decisions. CONGO is most active in the major UN centers of New York, Geneva, and Vienna, but extends its work to all regions of the world. In 2002. CONGO became accredited in its own right as an NGO in General Consultative Status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council.

www.ngocongo.org/

View ColorPalette

Fri, 14 Sep 2007 20:28:00 GMT

The View ColorPalette tiddler uses the combination of a "template" - TemplateShowColor with the built-in TiddlerSlice feature that allows it to extract information and display the RGB values and the display colour of the various elements of the ColorPalette. This tiddler uses the expression:
<<tiddler [[TemplateShowColor]] with:{{store.getTiddlerSlice('ColorPalette','Background')}} Background>>
for each of the colors that are defined and editable in the ColorPalette

The TemplateShowColor tiddler consists of the following expression:

@@font-family:courier new, monospace; ''$1'' @@@@padding-bottom: 5em;width: 25em;background-color: $1;&nbsp;@@ [[$2|ColorPalette]]

however, it is displayed as follows, using the syntax > <<tiddler TemplateShowColor>>: Note the preceding > indents the line that follows. For more information on why it displays that way, and to find out more about how to format the content of tiddlers, visit Formatting Tiddlers.

Templates for Light & Colour Cubes

Fri, 14 Sep 2007 20:25:00 GMT