From enwl.bellona at gmail.com Mon Dec 2 01:01:47 2019 From: enwl.bellona at gmail.com (ENWL) Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2019 02:01:47 +0400 Subject: *[Enwl-eng] newsletter 1 December 2019 Message-ID: <74C53D893D154834A70EF2F0A64643AE@evol.sp.ru> # 53 Sunday, 1 December 2019- edited by Ilaria Saltarelli, Laura Harth and Angelica Russomando The European Parliament declares climate emergency The European Parliament on Thursday approved a resolution declaring a climate and environmental emergency in Europe and globally. They also want the Commission to ensure that all relevant legislative and budgetary proposals are fully aligned with the objective of limiting global warming to under 1.5 ?C. In a separate resolution, Parliament urges the EU to submit its strategy to reach climate neutrality as soon as possible, and by 2050 at the latest, to the UN Convention on Climate Change. MEPs also call on the new European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen to include a 55% reduction target of greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 in the European Green Deal. Read more International migrants: money sent home In its latest global report , IOM estimates that the number of international migrants in 2019 is 270 million and that the main destination remains the USA with 51 million migrants: a global figure that has increased by 0.1% compared to its previous Report, which means that the majority of the world's population - 96.5% - lives in their own country. Most of them come from India (17.5 million people), followed by Mexico (11.8 million people) and China (10.7 million people). International remittances also increased to $689 billion in 2018 and the top beneficiaries are India ($78.6 billion), China ($67.4 billion), Mexico ($35.7 billion) and the Philippines ($34 billion). The United States remained the top remittance-issuer, at $68 billion, followed by the United Arab Emirates ($44.4 billion) and Saudi Arabia ($36.1 billion). Read more Even if countries meet commitments made under the 2015 Paris Agreement, the world is heading for a 3.2 degrees Celsius global temperature rise over pre-industrial levels, leading to even wider-ranging and more destructive climate impacts, warns a report from the UN Environment Programme, released on Tuesday. The annual Emissions Gap Report which compares where greenhouse gas emissions are heading, versus where they need to be, shows that emissions need to fall by 7.6 per cent each year over the next decade, if the world is to get back on track towards the goal of limiting temperature rises to close to 1.5 degrees Celsius. Read more FOURTH PLENUM CCP ? EXPORTING CHINA'S TOTALITARION POLITICAL SYSTEM At the end of October, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) summoned 300 of its Central Committee members to hold the Fourth Plenum of the 19th Communist Party Congress - a significant event that provided important details about the CCP's strategic goals and specific steps to realize them, as well as metrics for measuring progress. The document expounds 13 ostensible superiorities of the Chinese socialist system, which the CCP believes can be used to replace the inferior Western liberal democracy system. In fact, the fifth modernization is not about closing the gaps or catching up to the West, as were the previous four, but instead is a path to global governance - in other words, to use China's socialist system to end capitalism. Read more The lack of shared responsibility for Europe in the reception centers of the Greek islands UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi urged Greece to implement urgent measures to tackle the severe overcrowding in the Greek Aegean islands, stressing the need for European accountability after a three-day visit to the island of Lesbos and to Athens. His requests were: the tackling of overcrowding on the islands; ensuring an efficient and fair asylum process; and ensuring the protection of 5,000 unaccompanied children now in the country, most of them living in precarious conditions. On Lesvos, Grandi said he witnessed ?extremely disturbing? conditions at the Moria reception centre which now hosts 16,100 asylum seekers ? seven times over capacity. Through the European Commission-funded ESTIA programme UNHCR and the Greek government are supporting some of the most vulnerable asylum seekers ? many of whom go on to be recognized as refugees ? with 25,500 places in apartments across Greece, in partnership with mayors and NGOs. Some 80,000 asylum seekers and refugees receive monthly cash assistance through the same programme. Read more BYTEDANCE AND HUAWEI WORK CLOSELY WITH CPP IN XINJIANG Beijing - Chinese tech giants including ByteDance, TikTok's parent company, and Huawei are working closely with the Communist Party to censor and surveil Uighur Muslims in China's western region of Xinjiang, according to a report published Thursday. Read more JOIN US Messaggio inviato con MailUp? From: Radical Party Sent: Monday, December 02, 2019 12:18 AM Subject: newsletter 1 December 2019 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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But good laws can change whole societies -- and with our help, this particular law could be a game-changer for women?s survival. ACT NOW Every week in Europe, 50 women are killed through domestic violence - killed at the hands of their supposed loved ones. [1] That's one woman murdered every three hours. There is an international agreement that could be a game-changer for women?s survival. It?s called the Istanbul Convention. But some EU countries have been blocking its ratification for two years. [2] And we have not been standing by in silence, and the new president of the European Commission has said she?ll fight for the EU to ratify this Convention. [3] Now it?s the Council (the institution that brings EU countries together and has the power to influence) that has to be convinced. In under a month, the Council?s Presidency will be taken over by Croatia, which will be in charge of the agendas for meetings between EU countries and will have the power to influence negotiations. This is the perfect moment to remind them that for every week that they don?t push for the final ratification of the Istanbul Convention, 50 more women will die. Sign and join thousands of Europeans to end violence against women! Your demands will be heard. This Friday our partners, the European Women's Lobby, will deliver our petition to a representative of the Croatian government. We want Ms Irena Andrassy to hear in a face to face meeting that hundreds of thousands of Europeans call on Croatia to take advantage of its privileged position, hosting the Presidency of the Council over the next semester, to ensure the ratification of the Istanbul Convention is a priority. She will know we are serious about our demands if she receives a petition with a resounding number of signatures - that?s why we are asking you to sign and then share the petition with as many people as you can. Let?s hit the 200,000 mark! Sign to end violence against women! Violence against women goes beyond the daily killing of women: there?s also psychological violence, sexual violence and rape, female genital mutilation, sexual exploitation and trafficking, harassment and stalking. It?s unacceptable that this is the everyday reality of many women across Europe - and not just of the disempowered or most vulnerable. Yes, 1 out of every 3 women in the EU has experienced physical and/or sexual violence since the age of 15. Ultimately, violence against women affects over 250 million women and girls. Thanks to the hard work and struggle of those before us, the Istanbul Convention was signed 2 years ago by the EU and its countries. It?s the best possible existing tool to end violence against women, but unless ratified by all EU member states, it cannot be implemented. This Convention would give governments the power to provide legal support, attention, and funding to efforts to prevent and punish violence against women. Good laws can change whole societies. Raise your voice loud and clear: sign the petition to be delivered on Friday, and share it with everyone you know! Yes, I?ll sign to have my voice heard on Friday With feminist energy, David, Virginia (Madrid), and the entire WeMove Europe team References: [1] https://www.womenlobby.org/IMG/pdf/european_coalition_factsheet_final_all_logos_8_march.pdf [2] http://www.europarl.europa.eu/legislative-train/theme-area-of-justice-and-fundamental-rights/file-eu-accession-to-the-istanbul-convention [3] https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/speech_19_4230 WeMove.EU is a citizens? movement, campaigning for a better Europe; for a European Union committed to social and economic justice, environmental sustainability and citizen-led democracy. We are people from all walks of life, who call Europe our home whether we were born in Europe or elsewhere. WeMove.EU is funded by donations from our community across Europe. Can you chip in with a few euros a month and help make sure we can move fast to win the campaigns that matter to all of us? Donate Follow on Twitter | Like on Facebook | Subscribe on Youtube WeMove Europe SCE mbH | Planufer 91 Berlin | www.wemove.eu | Privacy policy From: David - WeMove Europe Sent: Monday, December 02, 2019 10:47 AM Subject: She didn?t die, she was killed -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From enwl.bellona at gmail.com Mon Dec 2 16:22:40 2019 From: enwl.bellona at gmail.com (ENWL) Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2019 17:22:40 +0400 Subject: *[Enwl-eng] =?utf-8?q?=5Bcan-eecca=5D_International_conference_i?= =?utf-8?q?n_Tbilisi_-_=22Nationally_Determined_Contribution_=28NDC?= =?utf-8?q?=29_=E2=80=93_Opportunities_for_Georgia=22?= Message-ID: <9E848F696720494482ADB1E9381867C6@evol.sp.ru> On November 27, 2019, at the Radisson Blu Iveria Hotel in Tbilisi, the Green Movement of Georgia / Friends of the Earth organized an international conference "Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) ? Opportunities for Georgia" within the framework of the project "Strengthening Civil Society in the implementation of national climate policy?. The aim of the conference was to discuss Georgia's ambitious, Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) - a document currently being drafted by the state. The vision of civil society on the NDC document developed by the Greens Movement of Georgia in cooperation with the Civil Society Platform on National Climate Policy was presented and discussed at the conference. Georgia's commitments under the Paris Agreement and possible measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by sectors and relevant financial mechanisms were also discussed. The Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) reflects countries' commitments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Therefore, each country is developing an action plan that should reflect its own ambition to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, taking into account the country's domestic circumstances and capabilities. The Paris Agreement was adopted in 2015 at the 21st Conference of Climate Change Parties (COP-21) in Paris. The agreement was signed by 195 countries at the time. Georgia joined the Paris Agreement in 2017 and it entered into force on 7 June of that year. The Paris Agreement requires each Party to prepare, communicate and maintain successive Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) that it intends to achieve. Parties shall pursue domestic mitigation measures, with the aim of achieving the objectives of such contributions. Already in 2015, Georgia submitted to the Secretariat of the Convention on Climate Change an ?Intended Nationally Determined Contribution? (INDC), before the 21st Conference of the Parties (which means before the adoption of the Paris Agreement). According to the Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDC) Georgia has made a commitment to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 15% till 2030. The document also says that if the country receives financial assistance or technologies to tackle climate change, it will reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 25% instead of 15%. At this stage, Georgia is preparing an updated version of the ?Nationally Determined Contributions? document to be submitted to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change in the first half of 2020. Representatives of non-governmental and governmental organizations, diplomatic corps and international foundations, foreign and Georgian experts participated in the conference. The conference was held in the framework of the project "Strengthening Civil Society in the implementation of national climate policy? implemented by the Greens Movement of Georgia/Friends of the Earth in cooperation with Bund f?r Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland e.V. (BUND) and supported by the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety. From: Eto Jincharadze Sent: Monday, December 02, 2019 4:41 PM Subject: [can-eecca] International conference in Tbilisi - "Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) ? Opportunities for Georgia" -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From enwl.bellona at gmail.com Wed Dec 4 02:01:03 2019 From: enwl.bellona at gmail.com (ENWL) Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2019 03:01:03 +0400 Subject: *[Enwl-eng] =?utf-8?q?Nestl=C3=A9?= Message-ID: <4CE33537C98649CEB260864425768BD1@lewpostnew> In just a few days Florida officials will meet to debate the fate of Ginnie Springs. Can you flood officials? inboxes with messages demanding they vote NO on Nestl??s plan to suck up nearly half a billion gallons of the spring each year? Write a message Thank you for signing the petition to stop Nestl? from plundering Florida?s drinking water for pocket change. Your support gives locals a much better chance of stopping Nestl??s plan to drain 1.2 million gallons of water a day from Ginnie Springs. And that is why we need you to speak out once again. Florida officials are meeting on December 10th to debate letting Nestl? threaten a small town?s water supply. We need you to submit a comment right now to help drown out Nestl??s slick lobbyists and make sure Florida officials are flooded with the truth before the meeting. Send a message to protect Ginnie Springs now. Ginnie Springs? waters feed the Santa Fe River, which helps supply drinking water to millions of people. But the Santa Fe?s flow has already dropped by up to 40 percent. Experts say it can?t handle any extra water extraction. The local townspeople are counting on you to help make sure that Nestl? won?t get away with its latest water grab. Yes! I?ll submit a public comment to stop Nestl? from leaving Ginnie Springs high and dry. SumOfUs and our local partners will be at the December 10th meeting to hand-deliver over 300,000 signatures, including yours. Later we?re taking to the river on kayak to protest near Nestl??s bottling plant. Sending in a comment to the Florida officials right now will make a big difference at the December 10th meeting ? and it only takes a minute. Write a message Thanks for all that you do, Allison, Lacey and the team at SumOfUs More information: Nestle needs water to expand, but critics aren?t backing down, The Gainesville Sun, 29 November 2019 Bottled Water Is Sucking Florida Dry, The New York Times, 15 September 2019 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SumOfUs is a community of people from around the world committed to curbing the growing power of corporations. We want to buy from, work for and invest in companies that respect the environment, treat their workers well and respect democracy. And we?re not afraid to stand up to them when they don?t. Please help keep SumOfUs strong by chipping in $3 Chip in $3 This email was sent to vflew at lew.spb.org. | Unsubscribe From: Allison Guy, SumOfUs Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2019 8:10 PM Subject: Fwd: Nestl? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From enwl.bellona at gmail.com Wed Dec 4 18:30:56 2019 From: enwl.bellona at gmail.com (ENWL) Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2019 19:30:56 +0400 Subject: *[Enwl-eng] =?utf-8?q?Act_like_it=E2=80=99s_an_emergency!?= Message-ID: With an ambitious proposal for a real Green Deal next week, we could start to halt the climate emergency. Help us to put pressure the European Commission! TAKE ACTION Hi, This is HUGE. After years of pressure, the European Parliament has just declared a climate emergency. Even the newly elected President of the Commission has promised to make climate a priority in European politics! This is the FIRST week of a five-year mandate for the European Commission, for its President - Ursula von der Leyen - and for its Vice-President - Frans Timmermans. Remember him? He?s the one who told us a few days ago: ?Follow us with criticism, push us to go further and I will do everything I can to make this happen.? [1] Both have made big climate promises to get those top jobs in the European Union. They?ve got a deadline of one week to turn their promises into a proposal that can become official policy. Let?s keep up the pressure to make it a good one. Politicians have a stronger incentive to set high-reaching goals when they feel pressure from citizens. If, in their first week at work, Timmermans and von der Leyen realise thousands of Europeans are watching, they?ll know they have to deliver on their promises next week. Would you join the petition and, after sharing it, send a direct message to Timmermans and von der Leyen? Yes, I want to take action This year has been a tipping point for action on climate change. Led by the youth, climate strikes spread over the globe. They were joined by many of us on the streets. Voters responded by coming out in record numbers for the European Parliament election this summer, with climate as a top priority. [2] Following protests inside the EU Parliament, a climate emergency has been officially declared. If next week, politicians in charge of one of the most powerful institutions in Europe, those sitting at the top of the Commission, draft an ambitious proposal, we can start to halt the climate emergency by bringing the weight of the whole EU against it. But they must hear the uproar of people united, from all corners of Europe. Will you join the petition and, after sharing it, send a direct message to Timmermans and von der Leyen? Yes, I want to take action to halt the climate emergency Thank you for adding to the pressure, David, Virginia (Madrid), and the entire WeMove Europe team PS. Don?t forget to send a direct message either via email or Twitter after signing the petition. Showing our strength in numbers is very important, but gently reminding them of our demands is crucial to make Timmermans and von der Leyen feel the pressure. Please, join the petition and, after sharing it, send a message to the Commission! References: [1] https://twitter.com/TimmermansEU/status/1197086110452789249 [2] https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20191029IPR65301/final-turnout-data-for-2019-european-elections-announced [3] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-eu-commission-climate-factbox/factbox-what-is-von-der-leyens-european-green-deal-idUSKBN1Y01OE https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/speech_19_4230 [4] https://www.caceonline.org/what-is-the-climate-emergency.html https://www.greenpeace.org/international/story/23369/united-climate-emergency/ WeMove.EU is a citizens? movement, campaigning for a better Europe; for a European Union committed to social and economic justice, environmental sustainability and citizen-led democracy. We are people from all walks of life, who call Europe our home whether we were born in Europe or elsewhere. WeMove.EU is funded by donations from our community across Europe. Can you chip in with a few euros a month and help make sure we can move fast to win the campaigns that matter to all of us? Donate Follow on Twitter | Like on Facebook | Subscribe on Youtube WeMove Europe SCE mbH | Planufer 91 Berlin | www.wemove.eu | Privacy policy From: David - WeMove Europe Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2019 5:38 PM Subject: Act like it?s an emergency! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From enwl.bellona at gmail.com Wed Dec 4 19:17:29 2019 From: enwl.bellona at gmail.com (ENWL) Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2019 20:17:29 +0400 Subject: *[Enwl-eng] =?utf-8?b?W2Nhbi1lZWNjYV0g0KHQoNCe0KfQndCeISBUd2l0?= =?utf-8?q?ter_Storm=3A_ECO_UNDER_THREAT_-_please_amplify!?= Message-ID: <17EBA97C31D64895AB704F2C961638D7@lewpostnew> ?????????? ??????????????! ???? ????????? CAN ????????? ???? ???????????? ?????? ?? ????? ??????????? ???! ??? ??????? ??????? ?? ??????? ???????????, ? ??????? ? ??????? ??? ?????? ????????? ?????????! ??? ??????????????! ???? ????? ? ????. ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Mickey Eva (Contracted) Date: Wed, Dec 4, 2019, 10:57 AM Subject: [CAN-talk] Twitter Storm: ECO UNDER THREAT - please amplify! KICKED OUT: #ECO already banned for the first time inside #COP25 and now security REMOVES NGO activists outside the venue, civil society voice #shutdown Not fun to be #outinthecold! ? Beyond #TimeforAction we also need #SpaceforAction RT if you agree! Social media card: https://trello.com/c/Y4bBU7Ub Retweet: https://twitter.com/CANIntl/status/1202162071082803200 --- LOOK: Security banning NGO observers from #COP25 venue in distributing the #ECO newsletter, civil society participation shut down What security threat does ECO pose?? Our voice will not be silenced, we'll come back stronger! ? Beyond #TimeforAction we also need #SpaceforAction RT if you agree! Social media card: https://trello.com/c/nOesLIEl Retweet: https://twitter.com/CANIntl/status/1202164418223718400 --- CIVIL SOCIETY VOICE UNDER THREAT: Security searches bag of activist distributing #ECO OUTSIDE the #COP25 Venue #feelingharassed ? Not just #TimeforAction but also #SpaceforAction RT if you agree! Social media card: https://trello.com/c/Bde2Fmxz -- Mickey Eva Communications Officer - Digital and Social Media Climate Action Network ? International (CAN) email: meva at climatenetwork.org mobile: +44 (0) 7 383 610 479 skype: upmickeyeva www.climatenetwork.org www.facebook.com/CANInternational Twitter: @CANIntl Subscribe to the ECO newsletter: http://climatenetwork.org/eco-newsletters -- CAN-talk Listserv | CAN-talk at listi.jpberlin.de | https://listi.jpberlin.de/mailman/listinfo/can-talk | Emails received through CAN-talk are confidential and should not be circulated beyond CAN members unless otherwise stated. -- Subscribe to CAN's ECO Newsletter @ http://climatenetwork.org/eco-newsletters -- From: Tatiana Shauro Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2019 3:16 PM Subject: [can-eecca] ??????! Twitter Storm: ECO UNDER THREAT - please amplify! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Donate $1 now Our grassroots coalition of bee defenders needs your help! Together, we?re gathering one million signatures in a last-ditch effort to save bees, farmers, and ordinary people from the toxic consequences of our sick farming system. To convince the EU to ban all synthetic pesticides and support farmers in the transition to healthy, organic agriculture. But we?re still far short of the support we need in Russia. You can help turn this into a win. Just $1 towards targeted ads could gain us valuable signatures, putting us that much closer to a pesticide-free, bee-friendly Europe. Will you chip in now? Yes, I?ll chip in $1 to save bees and farmers. This European Citizens? Initiative (ECI) is supported by SumOfUs along with beekeepers, farmers, scientists, politicians and environmental organisations fed up with deadly pesticides choking out our bees and tainting our food. We?ve realised that our generation is the last one that could bring our natural world back from the edge of destruction -- and that to do so, we need a radical transformation of our entire farming system. We?re not alone. In the one week since we launched, 94,759 people have signed on. But in order for the EU to hear us out, we need more -- including in Russia. We know millions of Europe?s citizens want to save the bees. All we have to do is reach out to them. But we can?t do that without you. Please, can you chip in $1 to save bees and farmers? If we collect over a million signatures, the EU has to put our pesticide ban on its agenda. It may seem like a tall order -- but you?ve done it before. This was how 3 million of us managed to help derail the disastrous TTIP trade deal in 2017, and how 1.6 million of us may soon force the EU to end industrial farms? cruel practice of caging animals. Now, we?re doing it again on behalf of nature lovers in Russia and across the continent -- just in time to protect our disappearing bees and fragile ecosystems from total collapse. Will you help spread the message and give our bee-saving plan a chance to succeed? Yes, I?ll chip in $1 to convince Russia to save bees and farmers. Thanks for all that you do, David and the team at SumOfUs -------------------------------------------------------------------- More information: Insects facing 'unnoticed apocalypse' due to routine use of pesticides, report warns Newsweek. 13 November 2019. ?Insect apocalypse? poses risk to all life on Earth, conservationists warn The Guardian. 13 November 2019. SumOfUs is a worldwide movement of people like you, working together to hold corporations accountable for their actions and forge a new, sustainable path for our global economy. 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The tree planting campaign, initiated by First Vice President Mehriban Aliyeva and timed to the 650th anniversary of the brilliant poet Imadeddin Nasimi, will cover all regions of the republic: his memory, popularization of the literary and cultural heritage of Azerbaijan, will be attended by public figures, representatives of the diplomatic corps and international organizations, employees of state s and private sector. " According to her, planting 650 thousand trees in one day will expand landscaping zones, reduce the impact of climate change, which is a global problem for all mankind, and prevent soil salinization: ?We believe that this action will lay the foundation for a noble tradition aimed at bringing people together around like initiatives. " From: Gulshan Akhundova Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2019 6:23 PM Subject: [can-eecca] Tomorrow in Azerbaijan will plant 650 thousand trees during 1 day -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From enwl.bellona at gmail.com Fri Dec 6 20:11:39 2019 From: enwl.bellona at gmail.com (ENWL) Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2019 21:11:39 +0400 Subject: *[Enwl-eng] =?utf-8?b?W2Nhbi1lZWNjYV0g0JHRgNC40YTQuNC90LMg0L4g?= =?utf-8?b?0YLQvtC8LCDRh9GC0L4g0L/RgNC+0LjRgdGF0L7QtNC40YIg0L3QsCA=?= =?utf-8?b?0KHQntCgMjUgc28gZmFy?= Message-ID: <5EB0C891DDB04A6C8FE9E570125C593B@evol.sp.ru> ? ??????? ????? ???? ?? ???????? ?? ?????? ????? ?? Climate and development advise, ????????. ??? ??????? ????????? ?????? ?? ??? ??????????? ????? ???????. ? ??????????? ?? ???????????? ????? ??????? ??????? ????????? ??? ?? ???? ?? ???????, ?? ?? ??? ?????? ????????? ??????????? ?????? ????: https://we.tl/t-RdtzS6V8yl -- Best regards, Tatiana Shauro Whom to contact from CAN - I for more information during COP25 a.. Political Coordination Group at COP: Marianne Jacobsen Toftgaard (mtoftgaard at climatenetwork.org) b.. CAN Daily and UNFCCC Secretariat liaison: Andreas Sieber (asieber at climatenetwork.org) c.. 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Network Development and Outreach Department EECCA Regional Officer (Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia) Climate Action Network-International (CAN) WhatsApp: +79296458435 https://www.facebook.com/tatiana.shauro.3 www.climatenetwork.org www.facebook.com/CANInternational Twitter: @CANIntl Subscribe to the ECO newsletter: http://climatenetwork.org/eco-newsletters From: Tatiana Shauro Sent: Friday, December 06, 2019 4:42 PM Subject: [can-eecca] ??????? ? ???, ??? ?????????? ?? ???25 so far -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From enwl.bellona at gmail.com Fri Dec 6 20:32:19 2019 From: enwl.bellona at gmail.com (ENWL) Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2019 21:32:19 +0400 Subject: *[Enwl-eng] =?utf-8?q?WE_WON_re=3A_Nestl=C3=A9_v=2E_Michigan?= Message-ID: <06B160605CC24B2DBC74E0272D84FA4D@evol.sp.ru> We just dealt a massive blow to Nestl??s water sucking ways in Michigan -- and we literally couldn?t have done it without SumOfUs members like you. On Tuesday, a court overturned a decision that would have forced the Michigan township of Osceola to issue a permit to Nestl? to build a massive water pumping station. This is a huge win for Michiganders who are against Nestl??s attempt to suck the state dry, all to bottle water for profits. This legal decision couldn?t have happened without SumOfUs members like you, who banded together to chip in over $50,000 to pay for the legal and administrative fees for the legal challenge. Not only that, you saved a township from bankruptcy. Osceola Township, with a population of 2,000, was running out of options to pay to fight back against Nestl??s water sucking ways. Until you came in. For over three years, generous SumOfUs members from around the world have chipped in to the fight against Nestl??s attempt to increase its water intake in Michigan. Over 375,000 SumOfUs members around the world, and tens of thousands of Michiganders, have time and time again taken action against Nestle's water sucking ways in Michigan. You've also fought back against water giants taking water in France, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand -- and won. We keep winning against billion-dollar corporations like Nestl? because generous SumOfUs members like you show us their continued support so we can do the work we do. Will you consider joining the team of our amazing monthly donors to keep our battles against Nestl? alive? Tuesday night, right after we heard about this victory against Nestl?, we got this note from the Martin, the Treasurer of Osceola Township: "Today, we celebrate with each and every one of SumOfUs members with the Michigan Court of Appeals judgment in favor of Osceola Township vs Nestl? Waters North America Inc. We thank you for your past support against corporate giants like Nestl?. This is the third year in a row that SumOfUs members have stepped in to help the Osceola Township fight back against Nestle Waters North America Inc. Combined, you have chipped in more than $50,000 to help in the legal fight ? helping the township stay afloat when we were facing bankruptcy. This year, you have chipped in tens of thousands of dollars more. This court victory couldn?t have happened without SumOfUs and its members." Getting thank you notes like this that I can pass along to SumOfUs members like you is my favourite part of the job. We can only achieve these massive victories thanks to your generosity. Over and over again, SumOfUs has dealt massive blows to Nestl? around the world -- pushing for water legislation in British Columbia, Canada, winning against its French brand Vittel, and stopping Nestl? in its tracks in Cascade Locks, Oregon. And it?s not just Nestl?. We won huge against massive beverage maker Asahi-Schweppes' attempts to suck Stanley, Australia dry. And we helped stop a creepy unknown water corporation from taking water from drought-stricken Canterbury Plains in New Zealand. We were able to continuously fight back against billion-dollar corporations like Nestl? around the world because of our generous monthly donors. To make sure we keep Nestl? and other water giants in check, can you chip in a special monthly donation to keep our critical work going? Thanks for all that you do, Angus, Amelia, Leyla, and the team at SumOfUs -------------------------------------------------------------------- More information: Nestl? cannot claim bottled water is 'essential public service', court rules, Guardian, 5 December 2019 SumOfUs is a worldwide movement of people like you, working together to hold corporations accountable for their actions and forge a new, sustainable path for our global economy. From: Angus Wong, SumOfUs Sent: Friday, December 06, 2019 6:50 PM Subject: WE WON re: Nestl? v. Michigan -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From enwl.bellona at gmail.com Fri Dec 6 20:38:31 2019 From: enwl.bellona at gmail.com (ENWL) Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2019 21:38:31 +0400 Subject: *[Enwl-eng] Speaker Pelosi: Meet with Extinction Rebellion Hunger Strikers Message-ID: RootsAction: Connect. Act. Grow. Speaker Pelosi: Meet with Extinction Rebellion Hunger Strikers ** Campaign created by Eric Tien and Stephen Leas, 13-Day Hunger Strikers ** This is wrong. We shouldn?t have to starve ourselves just to meet with you. Our generation will live with the decisions you make. Please sit down for one hour with youth climate hunger strikers to discuss the greatest crisis the world has ever faced. CLICK HERE TO SIGN THE PETITION TO HOUSE SPEAKER NANCY PELOSI. Two weeks ago, fifteen activists with Extinction Rebellion, some as young as 17, went on a hunger strike in Nancy Pelosi?s office in Washington, DC. All we asked for was a one-hour recorded meeting to discuss climate action. We are all terrified for our futures and willing to risk our own health to prevent catastrophic warming. Each day our condition grew worse. Some would get dizzy when trying to stand. Many suffered hunger pangs that kept them from sleeping. But she wouldn?t even speak to us. After a few days, most of the hunger strikers could not continue. But two pushed on: Eric, 27, and Stephen, 28. On the sixth day, Eric?s mom called him crying and begged him to eat again, saying she couldn?t sleep anymore. The two hunger strikers stayed hungry while Speaker Pelosi flew back to California. They skipped holiday dinners while she enjoyed Thanksgiving with her family. Their loved ones pleaded with them to eat. Multiple doctors advised them to eat. But they knew that everyone?s future was on the line, so they continued to sacrifice their bodies. By day thirteen, Eric had lost 16 pounds and Stephen had lost 23. Finally on December 1st, under immense pressure from friends, family, and doctors, they agreed to eat. They hadn?t received so much as a word from Pelosi. Eric and Stephen are in recovery now. We believe that Pelosi has a moral responsibility to meet with the young people whose future she is deciding. Please ask her to honor their sacrifice and sit down with them for one hour: it?s the least she can do. Thank you. After signing the petition, please use the tools on the next webpage to share it with your friends. This work is only possible with your financial support. Please chip in $3 now. -- The RootsAction.org Team P.S. RootsAction is an independent online force endorsed by Jim Hightower, Barbara Ehrenreich, Cornel West, Daniel Ellsberg, Glenn Greenwald, Naomi Klein, Bill Fletcher Jr., Laura Flanders, former U.S. Senator James Abourezk, Frances Fox Piven, Lila Garrett, Phil Donahue, Sonali Kolhatkar, and many others. Background: > Eric Tien, The Guardian: "My Hunger Strike Could Be Deadly, But I Am Willing to Risk That for Climate Action" > The Real News: "Extinction Rebellion Hunger Strike in its 10th Day" www.RootsAction.org From: RootsAction DIY Sent: Friday, December 06, 2019 7:05 PM Subject: Speaker Pelosi: Meet with Extinction Rebellion Hunger Strikers -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From enwl.bellona at gmail.com Fri Dec 6 20:44:50 2019 From: enwl.bellona at gmail.com (ENWL) Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2019 21:44:50 +0400 Subject: *[Enwl-eng] COP25 Media Monitoring - Day 5 - Friday Message-ID: COP25 Media Monitoring - Day 5 - Friday Media coverage begins to deepen on issues around science and impacts. We are seeing more stories on the risks to vulnerable countries, the implications of not scaling action, and the launch of a platform that will boost science-based ocean solutions. As discussions deepen over urgency, so do moral calls for action. In his message to COP25 leaders, Pope Francis asked for more political will to safeguard a healthy planet. Despite economists promoting carbon markets as ?a powerful tool in the fight against climate change?, environmental organisations are not convinced - many criticise the mechanism as a form of greenwashing. Science / Impacts Latest UN Emissions Gap Report finds world must ramp up climate ambitions at least threefold to meet Paris goals (Mongabay) ?Inger Andersen, UNEP?s Executive Director, said that it is still possible to meet the Paris Climate Agreement?s targets, but that solutions must be deployed at a much faster rate and at a much larger scale. ?Our collective failure to act early and hard on climate change means we now must deliver deep cuts to emissions ? over 7 per cent each year, if we break it down evenly over the next decade,? Andersen said in a statement. ?This shows that countries simply cannot wait until the end of 2020, when new climate commitments are due, to step up action. They ? and every city, region, business and individual ? need to act now.?? Climate risks increase worldwide, even for rich countries: report (Xinhuanet) ?"The Climate Risk Index shows that climate change has disastrous impacts especially for poor countries, but also causes increasingly severe damages in industrialized countries like Japan or Germany," said David Eckstein of Germanwatch, who also called for more financial support for poor countries that suffer extreme weather events.? Chile Launches Platform for Science-based Ocean Solutions at COP 25 (IISD) ?The Platform will encourage and guide implementation of policies, programmes and projects to support evidence on climate change and its impact on the ocean, and will support the creation of a community of practice to share lessons learned, offer inspiration to support the transfer and uptake of solutions in other contexts and advance ocean-climate action. The Platform also seeks to engage a large number of actors in ocean-climate action, including the public and private sectors, civil society and academia.? As Climate Change Worsens, A Cascade of Tipping Points Looms (Yale.360) ?The researchers once considered these tipping points to be largely independent of each other. Now they warn that the world faces a ?cascade? of abrupt shifts in the planet?s climate system, as global warming takes hold. ?We might already have crossed the threshold for a cascade of inter-related tipping points,? they wrote in Nature. This ?could trigger a shift in the state of the Earth system as a whole,? one of the authors, Will Steffen of the Australian National University in Canberra, told Yale Environment 360.? Climate models have accurately predicted global heating, study finds (The Guardian) ??We found that climate models ? even those published back in the 1970s ? did remarkably well, with 14 out of the 17 model projections indistinguishable from what actually occurred,? said Zeke Hausfather, of the University of California, Berkeley, and lead author of the paper, published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.? Even 50-year-old climate models correctly predicted global warming (Carbon Brief) COP25 set to open as study reports hottest decade (Church Times) Delayed Indian monsoon, Cyclone Fani ?high impact? events of 2019 (Mongabay) Island States Highlight Nature-based Solutions to Combat Climate Change (IISD) UN climate talks kick off in Madrid with focus on ocean solutions (The Economist Group) Climate change hits health, yet funds lacking: WHO (Reuters) Vulnerable Countries Puerto Rico Is the Most Vulnerable Country to Climate Change, Says Report (Latin Post) ?Compared to the CRI 2019, which considered the period from 1998 to 2017, there have been a few changes in the CRI ranking: while Puerto Rico remains at the top of the list, Myanmar and Haiti each move up one place to become one of the three most affected countries over the past two decades. [...] ?According to the study, poor and developing countries are most vulnerable to climate risks and are often hit the hardest, seeing higher rates of deaths and hardships. Despite this, researchers also found that high-income countries are also feeling climate impacts more than ever before.? India is fifth most vulnerable of 181 countries to climate change fallouts: Report (First Post) ?Overall, India?s economic losses due to climate change were the second highest in the world with a loss of Rs 2.7 lakh crore ($37 billion) ? nearly as much as its defence budget in 2018 ? the report said. This translates to losing about 0.36 percent per unit of gross domestic product.? Urgency and ambition / Loss and Damage Let?s assess failure of developed countries in acting on climate, says India (The Indian Express) ?Amidst growing urgency over the need for enhanced actions on climate change, India, China, Brazil and some other developing countries have sought an assessment of the failures of developed countries to fulfil their climate obligations in the pre-2020 period. At the Madrid climate change meeting, these countries argued on Thursday that the main reason why the world seemed headed towards a climate disaster was that the developed countries never met their obligations under the Kyoto Protocol, the 1997 climate agreement that expires next year and is set to be replaced by the Paris Agreement. India and the other countries said that the developed countries must be given another two years, until 2022, to fulfil their earlier commitments.? Cop25 Bulletin: A rare press conference (Climate Home) ?In a rare press conference hosted by the government of China, a panel of experts (which didn?t include any government officials) dodged questions about whether Beijing would enhance its climate plan next year. China?s current plan to peak emissions by 2030 and before if possible ?was already made with great ambition,? they said. ?He Jiankun, a professor from Tsinghua University and the deputy director of the national expert committee on climate change, said China was ?shifting from an economy developing at high speed to an economy developing at high quality.?? Climate Emergency CoP 25: Its market versus market in Madrid (Down to Earth) ?The ghost of pre-2020 carbon market mechanism has started to haunt the Madrid negotiations over a new climate market mechanism proposed for the post-2020 Paris regime. The negotiations for the new carbon market regime, which falls under Article 6 of the Paris agreement, will take centre stage along with the other outstanding issue of ?Loss and Damage? before the agreement gets rolling on ground. ?According to sources, some developing countries, in private discussions, have already raised the demand that the Kyoto Protocol phase II should be pushed back for couple of years to ensure that the developed countries complete their commitments under the protocol. Developing countries are pointing out that the Doha Amendment to the Kyoto Protocol, which officialises the second commitment period from 2013 to 2020, is yet to be ratified by requisite number of developed countries and hence did not get started on ground, though its scheduled closure has almost reached.? Rich countries refuse to pay for green projects in poor nations (India Climate Dialogue) ??How can they describe as worthless all the work done by developing countries for 15 years?? an angry senior Indian government negotiator riposted. ?Who is polluting ? these CERs, or the rich countries? Why don?t they look at the reports on which countries are meeting their Paris commitments as of today? There?s not a single developed country there.? India is one of the few large economies meeting the Paris agreement goal to do its share to keep average temperature rise within two degrees Celsius from preindustrial times.? The missed opportunity of COP25 (Global Americans) COP25: Diving into the first Blue COP (GreenBiz) COP25 Convenes in Madrid to Finalize Rules on the Paris Agreement (Fortune) Carbon markets Trading carbon credits from nature sparks fiery debate at UN talks (Reuters) ??When it comes to taking action in the climate space, the world has been very long on say and very short on do,? said Duncan van Bergen, vice president for nature-based solutions with Shell New Energies. ?We believe that nature has a role to play - not instead of, but in addition to, a lot of hard work that needs to happen to decarbonise energy, transportation, agriculture and other sectors of the economy,? he added.? Environmental organizations denounce carbon markets, green washing in Cop (EFE) ?Carbon markets "represent a threat to people, politics and the planet", and are a "green washing" strategy, Tom Goldtooth, director of the Indigenous Environmental Network, said.? Climate Justice Groups Protest Use of Carbon Markets for Meeting Paris Goals (Inside Climate News) ?"Over and over again, carbon markets have proven that they are not effective in reducing emissions," said Tere Almaguer, environmental justice organizer for PODER in San Francisco. Her group focuses on organizing Latino communities?including those who live near California refineries and feel that they bear the brunt of poor air quality from fossil fuel emissions.? UN Climate Talks Aim to Pave Way for Global Carbon Market (VOA) ?Economists say that carbon markets like the one Otterpohl uses can become a powerful tool in the fight against climate change, by giving emitters a financial incentive to reduce greenhouse gases. But despite making progress in other areas, governments have for years been unable to agree on the rules that would allow truly global trade in carbon permits to flourish.? Youth / Mobilization Jeremy Clarkson lashes out at ?dangerous? Greta Thunberg once more (news.com.au) ?During the interview, Clarkson spoke about how filming in Southeast Asia changed his views on the impact of climate change. ?I don?t think I have ever actually seen the effect of global warming. When you see those houses on stilts in the show ? and the water is miles away, that is a remarkable thing,? he said. ?And I know there will be a load of kids go, ?Ha, you see. There you are?. Fine. Now go to school, learn science and do something about it.?? COP25: Parents plead for planet to be saved for their children (The National) ?In an open declaration signed by 222 associations from 27 countries, the concerned parents wrote: ?Our children are being handed a broken world on the verge of climate chaos and ecological breakdown. ?As parents, seeing this is agonising.?? All About UN Climate Change COP25 Conference and Why Greta Thunberg is There Now (One Green Planet) Vision 2020: Bermuda Climate Action Network (Bernews) Protesters Cry ?Won?t Somebody Think of the Children? at COP25 Climate Summit (Breitbart) Indigenous youth take global stage in Madrid to voice climate change worries (PRI) Moral Calls for Action At Madrid climate talks, Catholics work to provide 'moral perspective' (Earth Beat) ?In a statement, the Vatican-based Caritas Internationalis said it was taking a "call for unity, solidarity and justice" to COP25, at a time when the Paris commitment to keep global warming below 1.5 degrees was not being observed, and "robust rules" were needed to "ensure transparent and fair counting of carbon emissions reductions" and better protection of indigenous peoples.? Climate crisis is 'challenge of civilisation', says pope (The Guardian) ??We must seriously ask ourselves if there is the political will to allocate with honesty, responsibility and courage, more human, financial and technological resources [to the climate crisis],? he said, in the pontifical message, which was welcomed by activists.? Other articles Renewable Energy Groups Push NY to Put a Price on Carbon (US News) Climate policy needs negative carbon-dioxide emissions (The Economist) 25 billion reasons: Why Saudi is listing its crown jewel (CNA) How satellites will help solve the climate crisis (Deutsche Welle) Five questions with? Yukon Regional Chief and COP25 participant Kluane Adamek (Open Canada) On the train to COP25: a public transport journey (The Brussels Times) Iberdrola seals EUR-690m loan with EIB at COP25 (Renewables Now) Waste management vital to keep COP25 waste and emissions free (Xinhuanet) Norwegian Air Becomes First Airline to Sign UN Climate Action Initiative (Aviation Pros) What we know so far about countries' 2020 climate commitments (GreenBiz) UNEP at COP25 (UN) The Climate Group at COP25 (The Climate Group) COP25 climate change conference: What are you giving up for environment? (BBC) This media brief is compiled from major international English-language news sources. It's designed to provide a snapshot of the major themes in coverage of the COP25, and is not comprehensive. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Croissant Conspiracy" group. 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URL: From enwl.bellona at gmail.com Mon Dec 9 01:07:34 2019 From: enwl.bellona at gmail.com (ENWL) Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2019 02:07:34 +0400 Subject: *[Enwl-eng] newsletter 8 December 2019 Message-ID: <4029FC07C06B4771B1C1CB502A9F2822@evol.sp.ru> # 54 Sunday, 8 December 2019- edited by Ilaria Saltarelli, Laura Harth and Angelica Russomando 40 million people victims of modern slavery On the occasion of International Day for the Abolition of Slavery on December 2, the International Labor Organization announced that around the world, 40.3 million people were victims of "modern slavery", which implies situations of exploitation that a person cannot refuse or leave due to threats, violence and abuse of power. 24.9 million were victims of forced labor and 15.4 million forced marriages. Out of the 24.9 million people trapped in forced labour, 16 million people are exploited in the private sector such as domestic work, construction or agriculture; 4.8 million persons in forced sexual exploitation, and 4 million persons in forced labour imposed by state authorities. In addition, 150 million children are subjected to forced labor. Women and girls represent 99% of the sex industry and 58% in other sectors.One of the Sustainable Development Goals aims to eradicate slavery in all its forms by 2030. Read more China and EU: ?Strategic Partners? No More Axel Berkofsky for Institute for Security and Development Policy, December 2019- China has since March 2019, been labelled as the EU?s ?systemic rival? as stipulated in the ?EU-China- A Strategic Outlook?, a document which outlines some of achievements and many of the shortcomings of EU-China relations and cooperation. Gone are the days, or so it seems, when Brussels? policymakers boasted about their ?strategic partnership? with Bejing, their ?mutual understanding?, ?common interests? and ?sectoral dialogues? all of which created the instrumental basis to adopt joint policies and resolve problems through strong bilateral trade and an investment agenda. Read more Global Humanitarian Overview 2020 A record 168 million people worldwide will need help and protection in crises spanning more than 50 countries in 2020, the UN?s emergency relief chief has said, in an appeal for nearly $ 29 billion in humanitarian aid from donors. Climatic shocks, large infectious disease outbreaks and intensifying, protracted conflicts, have resulted in global needs increasing by some 22 million people in the past year, Mark Lowcock told journalists in Geneva, at the launch of the UN humanitarian affairs coordination office?s (OCHA) Global Humanitarian Interview :?In 2020, nearly 168 million people worldwide will need humanitarian assistance and protection,? he said. ?That represents about one person in 45 on the planet. It is the highest figure in decades.? Read more World Bank adopts $ 1 billion-plus annual China leading plan over US objections CNBC, 5 December 2019-US Treasury Secretary Mnuchin stated China is too wealthy for such international aid when it is lending hundreds of billions of dollars of its own to poor countries through its Belt and Road infrastructure drive. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Charles Grassley added that ?The World Bank, using American tax dollars, should not be lending to wealthy countries that violate the human rights of their citizens and attempt to dominate weaker countries either militarily or economically?. Read more In the UN, China users threats and cajolery to promote its worldview Some countries are pushing back Gady Epstein for The Economist, 7 December 2019- Despite its veto-wielding power in the United Nations, China has long been reluctant to stick its neck out. It has been 20 years since it last stood alone in exercising that right. But in the UN?s backrooms, the country?s diplomats are showing greater willingness to flex muscle, and their Western counterparts to fight back. Not since the cold war has the organization become such a battleground for competing visions of the international order. Read more JOIN US Messaggio inviato con MailUp? 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Name: trans.gif Type: image/gif Size: 43 bytes Desc: not available URL: From enwl.bellona at gmail.com Tue Dec 10 14:57:48 2019 From: enwl.bellona at gmail.com (ENWL) Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2019 15:57:48 +0400 Subject: *[Enwl-eng] Three sides of farming Message-ID: Hi, Picture a farmer looking over a few cows, roaming freely and grazing on the green grass. Clucking chickens and a few sheep make their way into the picture. (Maybe you even hear ?Old MacDonald had a farm?). When we think about the fresh, healthy food we want to end up on our plates, we want to think about farming in this way. But actually, those cows aren?t just a few, there are hundreds of them. More likely than not, they?re lined up one next to the other, in tight, indoor spaces. [1] Farming has now more often than not become an industrialised conveyor belt of livestock and food, contributing significantly to the climate crisis. This type of farming receives a lot of EU funding -- the biggest chunk of the budget actually. So there is no incentive to change to the type of farming we?d like to imagine. [2] But the months ahead offer us a huge opportunity for change. Europe?s agriculture policy is being reformed and together with partners we?ve been developing following plan; a.. identifying the MEP?s who can influence the reform most and making sure they hear our demands b.. Enabling people from all over Europe to meet their MEP?s in Brussels c.. Closer to the vote, having our citizens lobbyist show up to the MEP?s local offices so they know we are not only in Brussels, but right where they were elected How big our plans are and what we dare to do will depend on how many people support us. Donate now for an agricultural U-turn in Europe. I?ll donate ?8 I?ll donate ?15 I?ll donate ?23 Farming policy is hotly contested because there is so much money involved. It is the largest item in the EU budget and accounts for almost 40 percent of annual EU expenditure (which equals almost ?60 billion). [3] Unfortunately, most of that money is given to the farmers who own the most land - simply because they own it, not because they are doing something for the environment or for healthy and sustainable food. The new European Parliament has to vote on what the old European Commission proposed for the coming five years. The proposal provides far too much money for commercialising our countrysides and far too little for organic farming. Having so many new MEP?s is our chance to change it. It?s crucial to speak to our representatives personally. We recently experienced it when we staged a die-in for the climate in the European Parliament and MEP?s had to step over dozens of laying bodies. [4] Being face to face doesn?t allow them to hide and gives us the chance to report uncensored on their reaction. We know what to do, but we also know that we have to spend approximately 20,000 Euros to succeed. Money that can only come from our base: hundreds of thousands of people who are fighting with us for organic farming, healthy food and an intact environment - in short, a better Europe. Please donate to help us achieve it. I?ll donate ?8 I?ll donate ?15 I?ll donate ?23 For every food item we buy, we support a certain way of farming. Buying local and organic food is one way to change farming. Unfortunately it?s not powerful enough to get rid of industrial farming as fast enough as we need to. Only better regulation and changes in subsidies guarantee a way of farming good enough to feed us all, protect the environment and enhance fair income for farmers. Let?s make the change! David, Olga (Bologna), Alex (Marseilles), J?rg (L?beck) and the whole WeMove Europe team References [1] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/feb/28/free-range-milk-asda-dairy-farming-cows-in-fields-pasture-promise [2][3] https://ec.europa.eu/agriculture/sites/agriculture/files/direct-support/direct-payments/docs/direct-payments-schemes_en.pdf [4] https://www.brusselstimes.com/belgium/79487/youth-activists-stage-die-in-at-european-commission/ WeMove.EU is a citizens? movement, campaigning for a better Europe; for a European Union committed to social and economic justice, environmental sustainability and citizen-led democracy. We are people from all walks of life, who call Europe our home whether we were born in Europe or elsewhere. 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Our official announcement can be found here, including the call for nominations in several languages, and all of the relevant nomination information can be found here. Given your work on climate and sustainable development issues, we thought you might be well positioned to nominate eligible groups or get this message into the hands of interested organizations. The Equator Prize 2020 will be awarded to outstanding community and indigenous initiatives that are advancing nature-based solutions for local sustainable development. The winners will join a prestigious network of 245 leading community-based organizations from 81 countries that have been awarded the Equator Prize since 2002. Each Equator Prize winner will receive USD 10,000 and will be supported to participate in a series of policy dialogues and special events during the IUCN World Conservation Congress in Marseille, France, in June 2020. We hope to appeal for your support in two key areas: 1. Nominate communities that are innovating and advancing creative solutions related to natural resource management, climate change and sustainable development 2. Circulate this announcement amongst your partners and contacts, encouraging them to submit nominations and share the call for nominations with their networks, including through social media by sharing the Equator Initiative posts on Twitter (@equatorinit), Facebook (@equatorinitiative) or Instagram (@equatorinitiative) For further information, please visit www.equatorinitiative.org. You will find all the relevant information on eligibility requirements, selection criteria and how to nominate. Nominations can be submitted in eight different languages in our new online nomination system at https://prize.equatorinitiative.org/. The nomination deadline is 9 January 2020. -- ?? ???????? ??? ?????????, ????????? ????????? ?? ?????? "seu-international". 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URL: From enwl.bellona at gmail.com Wed Dec 11 13:17:29 2019 From: enwl.bellona at gmail.com (ENWL) Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2019 14:17:29 +0400 Subject: *[Enwl-eng] FW: CALL FOR PARTICIPATION TO CSOs: UN consultations on civic space Message-ID: <6B2CEFCF445D42BDB454203F9DEBA040@lewpostnew> ??????? ??????! 13-24 ?????? 2020 ??? ???????? ?????????? ?? ???????? ???? ???????????? ???????? ? ???. ?? ???????? - ????????? ?? ??????? ? ?????????? ??????. ?????????? ??????? ??????? ????? ???????????. ???? ??????? ??? ? ?????. ????? ???????, ?????? ---------- Forwarded message --------- ??: Njeri Kariuki Date: ??, 10 ???. 2019 ?. ? 05:40 Subject: FW: CALL FOR PARTICIPATION TO CSOs: UN consultations on civic space Dear Major Groups Focal Points, Please see communication from the Office of the High Commission for Human Rights on strengthening the Organization?s engagement with civil society organizations. The UN will hold an online consultation on the subject from 13-24 January 2020. Best Regards, Njeri From: Thierno Souleymane Adenhof Sent: Monday, 09 December, 2019 5:16 PM Subject: CALL FOR PARTICIPATION TO CSOs: UN consultations on civic space Importance: High Dear colleagues, Since November 2018, OHCHR and UN-Women have been working to better understand and to strengthen the UN?s engagement with civil society organizations. Between April-May 2019 OHCHR and UN Women conducted a UN-wide online survey. In total, 100 responses were received: 32 HQ and 68 field entities (57 UN Country Teams and 11 Peace Missions). The UN will be organizing online consultations with civil society organizations on the issue of civic space from 13 to 24 January 2020 on the Global Dev Hub platform. Please find enclosed more information in English, French, Chinese, Russian and Spanish. We would be grateful if you could distribute this call for participation as widely as possible within your CSO network. With kind regards, Thierno Souleymane Adenhof (Mr.) Associate Human Rights Officer Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) Intergovernmental Affairs, Outreach & Program Support Section (IOPS) United Nations (S-31), New York, NY 10017, USA Email: thierno.adenhof at un.org Web: www.ohchr.org/newyork Tel: +1 917 367 4619 Fax: +1 212 963 4097 -- Best regards, Andrey Laletin. Global Forest Coalition, Regional Resource Person and Membership Coordinator. Tel. mob. +7-9131870062 Fax +7-391-2498404 E-mail: laletin3 at gmail.com -- ?? ???????? ??? ?????????, ????????? ????????? ?? ?????? "seu-international". From: Andrey Laletin Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2019 7:57 AM Subject: Fwd: FW: CALL FOR PARTICIPATION TO CSOs: UN consultations on civic space -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Can you rush a $1 donation today to protect this critical ban? Donating just takes a moment -- use Paypal or your card. Donate $1 now Austria was about to become the first country in Europe to ban toxic glyphosate. That was before Bayer got its claws into the interim Austrian chancellor. With just three weeks before the ban was to come into effect, the chancellor is suddenly trying to block it on a technicality. Bayer, and the multi-billion dollar pesticide lobby, is likely behind this change of heart -- and now we have just three weeks to change the chancellor?s mind. Luckily, we have a plan -- there?s a newspaper in Austria that every politician is afraid of looking bad in: the massively influential Kronen Zeitung. With your help Vladimir, we can get a front-page ad that every single politician in the country will see, exposing the chancellor for giving into the pesticide lobby -- instead of protecting her people?s health. But we have to act now or this historic ban could die. Will you protect this ban? Donating just takes a moment -- use Paypal or your card. Yes! I can chip in $1 to protect Austria?s historic glyphosate ban. Three weeks ago, everyone in Austria felt sure that the glyphosate ban would happen. It would be a worldwide boost to other countries trying to ban glyphosate. This week?s announcement is a shock to millions of people who were counting on the chancellor Brigitte Bierlein to do the right thing. With your help, we?ll make it clear how wildly unpopular axing the the glyphosate ban would be. Over two million people read this newspaper every day. A front-page spotlight on how she?s going to continue to allow toxic glyphosate to be sprayed in Austria will force her to pay attention to her people?s demands -- not Bayer?s crafty lies. Donating just takes a moment -- use Paypal or your card. Can you chip in $1 to protect Austria?s historic glyphosate ban? SumOfUs members like you have been fighting to push this ban through, banding together by the tens of thousands to tell the EU Commission to uphold the ban. We know we will never have the might of billion-dollar pesticide corporations like Bayer, but together we have made history by winning bans on pesticides across the world. And together, I know we can protect Austria?s groundbreaking glyphosate ban. Donating just takes a moment -- use Paypal or your card. Will you chip in $1 today to protect Austria?s glyphosate ban? Thanks for all that you do, Clemens, Amelia, and the team at SumOfUs -------------------------------------------------------------------- More information: Austrian leader blocks ban on weedkiller glyphosate, citing technicality. Reuters. 9 December 2019. Austria?s ban on weedkiller glyphosate hits roadblock. Associated Press. 9 December 2019. SumOfUs is a worldwide movement of people like you, working together to hold corporations accountable for their actions and forge a new, sustainable path for our global economy. From: Clemens Sampl, SumOfUs Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2019 11:52 PM Subject: URGENT: Bayer -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From enwl.bellona at gmail.com Thu Dec 12 13:49:45 2019 From: enwl.bellona at gmail.com (ENWL) Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2019 14:49:45 +0400 Subject: *[Enwl-eng] Flood his inbox, not our world Message-ID: <9F96A552AAB4417B8DDE41DAD0882ABF@lewpostnew> If you couldn?t make it to the mass demonstration last Friday, there?s still a way for you to tell the President of the European Council that you expect him to stand up as a strong leader for climate justice in today?s Summit of EU countries! Take action for more funding to be committed to real climate action. Yes, I will. Hi, Greta has made it again across the Atlantic back to Europe! And she has joined an international crowd demonstrating again to show we want action, beyond words, to get our climate house in order. If you couldn?t make it to that demonstration with Greta, there?s a way for you to speak to the heads of state of European countries (who are meeting today): send them a direct message they can't ignore! Yes, I'll send an email that will only take a second! Yes, I'll send a Tweet that will only take a second! This year has been a tipping point for action on climate. People protest and demonstrate every week. So often that the European Parliament has just declared a climate emergency and the newly nominated President of the Commission has promised to make it a priority. When we speak together, politicians feel they need to respond. But there?s one missing piece in the puzzle. Our governments! Today Charles Michel, President of the European Council, will meet heads of EU countries in an important summit, and how to finance climate action is on the table. Many EU countries already support ambitious funding, but not all countries do. If Charles Michel plays a firm leading role in these negotiations, he could be voicing our demands, the demands for more funding to be committed to real climate action, in a room full of politicians who rarely get to have a chat with people like you and me. A flow of messages in his office?s inbox and Twitter wall will make it clear to Michel we are in the thousands, that Europeans are serious in our call for action. Yes, I'll send an email that will only take a second! Yes, I'll send a Tweet that will only take a second! We can avert a flooded world, by flooding his inbox and Twitter wall! Michel cares about his international reputation, but he especially cares about what we think of him as Europeans: he has just taken on the job of President of the European Council. We can win this one, David, Virginia (Madrid), J?rg (L?beck), and the entire WeMove Europe team P.S. Everyone can see public messages sent via Twitter, and Michel?s staff will certainly notice an inbox full of messages from us. Even if his office pretends to ignore us, they can?t afford to, as his political reputation will be affected. Your action will make a difference. Send a message to Michel now! WeMove.EU is a citizens? movement, campaigning for a better Europe; for a European Union committed to social and economic justice, environmental sustainability and citizen-led democracy. We are people from all walks of life, who call Europe our home whether we were born in Europe or elsewhere. WeMove.EU is funded by donations from our community across Europe. Can you chip in with a few euros a month and help make sure we can move fast to win the campaigns that matter to all of us? Donate Follow on Twitter | Like on Facebook | Subscribe on Youtube WeMove Europe SCE mbH | Planufer 91 Berlin | www.wemove.eu | Privacy policy From: David - WeMove Europe Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2019 2:07 PM Subject: Flood his inbox, not our world -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From enwl.bellona at gmail.com Mon Dec 16 01:17:05 2019 From: enwl.bellona at gmail.com (ENWL) Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2019 02:17:05 +0400 Subject: *[Enwl-eng] newsletter 15 December 2019 Message-ID: <32FC5BB6B9E04B4C9DA4784778A2DA3A@evol.sp.ru> # 55 Sunday, 15 December 2019- edited by Ilaria Saltarelli, Laura Harth and Angelica Russomando With EBA Status on the Line, Hun Sen Says Cambodia Will Ignore EU?s Recommendations Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Sen on Wednesday reiterated his stance that the country would not give in to the European Union?s recommendations on human rights and governance simply to preserve the country?s status under the trade bloc?s Everything But Arms (EBA) program. The EU is currently considering withdrawing Cambodia from the EBA?which gives developing nations tariff-free access to the European markets for all products except arms. Read more Human Development Report 2019 Despite unprecedented progress against poverty, hunger and disease, many societies are not working as they should. The connecting thread, argues a new report from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), is inequality. A new generation of inequalities is opening up, around education, and around technology and climate change - - two seismic shifts that, unchecked, could trigger a ?new great divergence? in society of the kind not seen since the Industrial Revolution, according to the report. ?This Human Development Report sets out how systemic inequalities are deeply damaging our society and why,? said Achim Steiner, the UNDP Administrator. Read more Famine risk in South Sudan According to the World Food Program, up 5.5 million South Sudanese are projected to be going hungry in early 2020. Despite in 2019 WFP has reinforced assistance to reach 4.6 million people, after the floods that hit the country during in October, it is estimated that 270 million dollars are needed to cover the first half of 2020: of this, 100 million dollars are essential for January 2020. The risk of famine was reported by the Executive Director of the UN Specialized Agency, David Beasley, who on the basis of the estimate made launches an appeal for strong financial support. Read more Strong appeal from the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights to the Iranian Government In light of information that begin to filter on the recent protests in Iran on November 15th, the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, expresses concern about the continuing lack of transparency about the victims and physical treatments, the violations of a fair trial of the hundreds of detainees as well as the arrests taking place. At least 7.000 people have been arrested in 28 of Iran?s 31 provinces. The UN Human Rights Office has information suggesting that at least 208 people were killed, including 13 women and 12 children. The same concern for intimidation against journalists who report the situation both inside and outside the country. The High Commissioner urges the authorities for an immediate release from detention all protestors who have been arbitrarily deprived of their liberty, and to ensure their rights to due process; urges the Iranian Government, in the event of further protests, to respect Iranians' rights to exercise freedom of expression, peaceful association and to investigate violations that have occurred. Read more The Afghanistan Papers show the corrosive consequences of letting corruption go unchecked A toxic mix of U.S. government policies, under the administrations of George W. Bush and Barack Obama, directly contributed to Afghanistan?s descent into one of the world?s most corrupt countries. U.S. leaders said publicly that they had no tolerance for corruption in Afghanistan, but that was one of several topics related to the war effort on which they systematically misled the public, according to a trove of confidential government interviews obtained by The Washington Post. Read more JOIN US Messaggio inviato con MailUp? From: Radical Party Sent: Monday, December 16, 2019 12:44 AM Subject: newsletter 15 December 2019 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: c?q=8%3dJWXdLb%260%3dV%267%3daRZ%268%3dYRYQU%266%3d6t5yVOWVaSdT-aM61-YOWz-7KZV-7RVUWuV47u61%26DB%3dZTZ%26w%3dGINE7P.IxN%26H%3dVPdUVObTa Type: application/octet-stream Size: 158 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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A protester at the Madrid march holds up an eye to say ?we are watching.? Photo: Hoda Baraka More than 500,000 people marched for climate action in Madrid and Santiago on December 6. And throughout the two-week summit, young activists from all over the world showed incredible leadership and moral clarity. Greta Thunberg summed it up well in her speech: ?I?m telling you there?s hope. I have seen it. But it does not come from governments or corporations. It comes from the people.? Indigenous leaders from Minga Ind?gena deliver a letter demanding official recognition at COP on December 10. Photo: Hugo Duchesne Indigenous voices: Indigenous leaders from across Latin America made themselves heard at COP25, despite the last-minute change of location to Europe. In a beautiful ceremony, they delivered a climate letter demanding that Indigenous consultation become an official part of the negotiations. It also warned against carbon markets ? a big point of debate in the negotiations ? as a false solution. Meet some of the leaders and learn about their journey to COP. Activists call out Japan for their coal financing with a papier-m?ch? mask of Prime Minister Abe. Photo: Hanae Takahashi, Friends of the Earth Bankrolling coal: New research unveiled at COP shows investors have spent $745 billion on new coal development since the 2015 Paris Agreement. More than 1,000 new coal plants are planned worldwide ? even though the UN Secretary General himself has called for no new coal by the end of next year. 37,000 people from around the world signed on to a petition to end fossil fuel finance, which was delivered at COP. Expect bank headquarters and fossil funders to be big campaign targets in 2020. The December 6 march in Santiago was coordinated with the nighttime march in Madrid. Photo: Fina Chile: Communities gathered throughout the two weeks for performances, workshops, and actions at the People?s Climate Summit and the Social Summit for Climate Action. With input from groups across Latin America, they launched the Manifesto for the Climate, with policy demands to solve the social and climate crises. Read about all the amazing COP25 action in Chile. Supporters at the "Cities for Climate Change" Mayors' forum. Photo: 350 EECCA Local change: Fuelled by activism, cities are stepping in to stop the climate crisis where global UN processes are failing. 24 cities in Turkey ? including three of the top five most populated ? made an official pledge to fulfill their Paris Agreement responsibility to keep warming under 1.5?C by 2030. And two more communities in Ukraine have declared new plans for 100% renewable energy: Trostyanets and Baranivska. One to Watch Make no mistake: This COP was a failure because many politicians and delegates protected the interests of the fossil fuel industry. Never has the disconnect from the scientific imperative been so wide. But the scale of people power was also unmatched. Watch these beautiful scenes from the summit ? and let them inspire you to take action in the weeks ahead. Share on Facebook That?s it for now ? we?ll be back soon with the last Fossil Free edition of 2019! View this email online If you have feedback, write us at ffdigest at 350.org. Fossil Free is a global campaign led by local groups demanding our local communities and institutions commit to: a.. A fast + just transition to 100% renewable energy for all b.. No new fossil fuel projects anywhere. c.. Not a penny more for dirty energy For more updates, follow us on: Facebook and Twitter, and Instagram. You're receiving this email because you signed up to receive updates about the Fossil Free campaign from 350.org. From: Nicole Leonard - Fossil Free News Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2019 4:56 AM Subject: Polluters in, people out?! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From enwl.bellona at gmail.com Wed Dec 18 02:33:16 2019 From: enwl.bellona at gmail.com (ENWL) Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2019 03:33:16 +0400 Subject: *[Enwl-eng] I'm worried Message-ID: <2B8FAEC725F0466EBF9477CF2167D0B5@lewpostnew> I want to share something that really worries me. Millions of people like you take action with SumOfUs to hold nasty corporations accountable, like signing petitions, tweeting at CEOs or turning up to protests. But only 1.3% of SumOfUs members donate regularly to keep it all going. That?s not enough if we want to take on the world?s biggest corporate bullies. In 2020, we?re facing some huge challenges: we need to protect our bees from pesticide giants, push big companies to stop using dirty palm oil, and much, much more. For all our 2020 plans to come together, we need to bring on 2,000 new monthly donors contributing a few coins each by 31 December. So I am asking you: if you think the work we do together is important and you can afford it, please set up a monthly gift before the year is out. Donate $1 monthly now Donate $3 monthly now Donate $5 monthly now Donate another amount No thanks, I will make a one-time donation We're so grateful for every single coin that our members chip in -- but 1.3% is low. And a lot lower than what we?d hoped for. With your help, we?ve racked up countless wins against some of the world?s biggest corporations this year. And right now, I?m worried we?ll have to scale it all back in 2020, if we don?t bump up that figure. It?s not easy to ask for this, but the truth is: we need money to keep this fight alive. If every SumOfUs member was to start donating each month -- even if it?s just a few coins -- we?ll be set up to keep fighting for the things that matter most to you and me. We have fewer than 40 staff and we?re 100% independent. We take no money from governments or corporations, and there are no billionaires bankrolling us. We're lean and efficient: we use cutting-edge tech and nimble, people-powered tactics to get results. But none of it would be possible without donations from people like you. If you set up a regular donation today, we can keep these fights going: we can stop plastic pollution, we can help communities fight fracking in their backyard, and we can stop planet-wrecking trade deals. With your help we'll have the resources we need to fight back right away. Before the year is over, will you take a few minutes and make a monthly gift to keep SumOfUs going? Donate $1 monthly now Donate $3 monthly now Donate $5 monthly now Donate another amount No thanks, I will make a one-time donation Thanks for all that you do, Anna and the team at SumOfUs SumOfUs is a worldwide movement of people like you, working together to hold corporations accountable for their actions and forge a new, sustainable path for our global economy. From: Anna Liberadzki, SumOfUs Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2019 5:10 PM Subject: I'm worried -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2019 2:02 PM Subject: ?????? ?????????????, ??? ?????????? ??????? ????????? ??????? ?????, ??? ?? ?????? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From enwl.bellona at gmail.com Thu Dec 19 15:48:41 2019 From: enwl.bellona at gmail.com (ENWL) Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2019 16:48:41 +0400 Subject: *[Enwl-eng] [can-eecca] How is the Belt and Road Initiative impacting women and forests? Message-ID: ????? ?????? ??????? ??? ?????? ???????. ???????? ?? ??????? ????? ??? https://globalforestcoalition.org/forest-cover-60-ru/ With case studies on Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia and an alternative model of development in Georgia. ---------- Forwarded message --------- ??: Coraina de la Plaza Date: ??, 18 ???. 2019 ?. ? 17:40 Subject: [DCJActivists] Fwd: Forest Cover 60: How is the Belt and Road Initiative impacting women and forests? To: Apologies for cross-posting ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Global Forest Coalition Date: Wed, Dec 18, 2019 at 11:21 AM Infrastructure developments and the trade they facilitate harm forests and have gender-differentiated impacts. Forest Cover 60 | December 2019 | ??????? View this email in your browser Post to Facebook Tweet this! Forward to friend This edition of Forest Cover [????? ???????? ?? ??????? ?????] focuses on the Belt Road Initiative (BRI). BRI is the Chinese government?s global development strategy to revitalise the old Silk Road, linking China with Asia and Europe by land, and a new Maritime Silk Road, connecting China?s coastal regions to Europe via Asia and Africa by sea. It is expected to involve over US$1 trillion in investments, largely in infrastructure development for ports, roads, railways and airports, as well as power plants and telecommunications networks. Direct investments in infrastructure can cause harm to forests and the Indigenous Peoples, local communities and women that depend on them, and the trade expansion that infrastructure developments facilitate also brings significant impacts. This is especially true where the commodities being traded are drivers of deforestation, most notably palm oil, beef, soy and wood. Infrastructure developments and the expansion of commodity trade also have gender-differentiated impacts, where women experience the consequences of them more acutely, especially when they are members of already-marginalised and vulnerable communities. In the articles that follow, Global Forest Coalition members analyse the impacts of BRI investments on biodiversity and communities in their own countries, with case studies on Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia and Sri Lanka, and an alternative model of development in Georgia. You can download the print version or read the articles individually below. To subscribe to the newsletter, please write to gfc at globalforestcoalition.org. Download the print version in English (web quality 7.5MB | low resolution 0.8MB) and Russian (web quality 7.5MB | low resolution 0.8MB) Editorial: Environmental fuses are needed to protect communities from the Belt and Road Initiative By Anna Kirilenko, BIOM and GFC board member, Kyrgyzstan The Belt and Road Initiative in Kazakhstan: forests and women?s livelihoods under threat? By Kaisha Atakhanova, Social EcoFund, Kazakhstan The "Green" Belt and Road Initiative: business as usual for women and biodiversity By Simone Lovera, GFC, Paraguay How is Colombo Port City of China impacting fishing communities in Sri Lanka? By Hemantha Withanage, Centre for Environmental Justice, Sri Lanka Did you miss the last Forest Cover on the impacts of bioenergy in West Africa? Catch up here! Towards gender equality in Georgia: women?s empowerment and appropriate, gender-responsive infrastructure developments By Gizo Urushadze Jr., Dzelkova, Georgia Forests and communities feel the impacts of BRI investments in the Russian Far East and Siberia By Anatoly Lebedev, BROC, Russia Copyright ? 2019 Global Forest Coalition, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you opted in on our website, or via a link to this list's sign-up form, or because you gave us consent to add you at a GFC event. 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Network Development and Outreach Department EECCA Regional Officer (Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia) Climate Action Network-International (CAN) WhatsApp: +79296458435 https://www.facebook.com/tatiana.shauro.3 www.climatenetwork.org www.facebook.com/CANInternational Twitter: @CANIntl Subscribe to the ECO newsletter: http://climatenetwork.org/eco-newsletters From: Tatiana Shauro Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2019 4:37 PM Subject: [can-eecca] How is the Belt and Road Initiative impacting women and forests? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From enwl.bellona at gmail.com Thu Dec 19 15:51:06 2019 From: enwl.bellona at gmail.com (ENWL) Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2019 16:51:06 +0400 Subject: *[Enwl-eng] Bees Message-ID: Canada?s proposed ban on bee-killing pesticides is under threat. Global pressure right now could help protect this critical ban -- and save the bees. Sign the petition I have some alarming news about our fight to save the bees. I just got off the phone with Canadian government officials: they are postponing the final decision on the ban on bee-killing neonic pesticides that you worked so hard to achieve. The reason: apparently there?s ?new scientific evidence? that must be considered. But we know the science is clear -- neonics are killing bees. We need to make sure that pesticide giant Bayer is not feeding corporate studies to the government to kill the proposed ban -- before it?s too late for the bees. The Canadian government needs to know that the world is watching -- and that we won?t let them put Bayer?s profits before the critical health of our bees. Tell the Canadian government to protect the proposed ban on neonic pesticides. The bees are in trouble in Canada. Just this past summer, one study showed deadly levels of neonics in soil in Southern Ontario killing bees. And another study showed that wild bees, just as important for pollination as honey bees, are at risk of extinction. The good news is -- it?s not too late. There?s still time to save the bees. But Canada needs to act quickly to ban the neonic pesticides that are killing the bees -- not pander to pesticide giants like Bayer. Save the bees -- tell the Canadian government to uphold the proposed ban on neonics. Again and again SumOfUs has been at the forefront of the fight for the bees. Just this past week, you won another victory against new neonic pesticides in France. Pesticide giants like Bayer and Dow will stop at nothing to keep their bee-killing products on the market. But when we act together, we can, and have, stopped these Agri-giants from putting profit over our planet. Sign the petition Thanks for all that you do, Amelia, Angus and the team at SumOfUs More information: Final neonic decision delayed until early 2020, Real Agriculture, 27 November 2019 Pollinating bees in southern Ontario may be exposed to lethal levels of neonics in soil, study says, The Star, 26 August 2019 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SumOfUs is a community of people from around the world committed to curbing the growing power of corporations. We want to buy from, work for and invest in companies that respect the environment, treat their workers well and respect democracy. And we?re not afraid to stand up to them when they don?t. Please help keep SumOfUs strong by chipping in $3 Chip in $3 From: Amelia Meister, SumOfUs Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2019 4:19 PM Subject: Bees -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From enwl.bellona at gmail.com Fri Dec 20 01:01:24 2019 From: enwl.bellona at gmail.com (ENWL) Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2019 02:01:24 +0400 Subject: *[Enwl-eng] Are we louder than climate deniers? Message-ID: <3037036395D34F7DA36E0EB5D074F0CB@lewpostnew> Hi, In November, pseudo-scientist climate deniers were invited to an official press conference by some MEPs to promote the following message: ?there is no climate emergency.? [1] In the same week, after intensive fundraising and planning, we managed to *crash* the European Parliament together with youth activists, staging a dramatic die-in just to make sure our leaders would hear our message: ?do something about the climate emergency - NOW?. [2] What?s wrong with this picture? Pseudo-scientist climate deniers are being invited to spread false messages while those of us fighting for our future need to show up uninvited and resort to last-minute protests just to get a seat at the table. We know it?s not always easy to make sure we?re heard, especially when well-funded multinational industry lobbies are fighting to do the same. But we also know that the European Parliament elected last May is made up of mostly new MEPs (61% of the 751 MEPs are new). [3] They are just now starting to determine who they will listen to over the next five years of their mandate, which is why we are constantly building new ways to reach our elected representatives. Will you donate just a few cents per MEP each month ? to supercharge the ways our community can reach our representatives in this crucial phase? Donate 2? per MEP monthly Donate 3? per MEP monthly Donate 4? per MEP monthly Donate another amount monthly If everyone in our community donates just a few cents for every MEP each month, we?d have the resources our community needs to reach MEPs with the messages that matter most, and make sure that citizens? voices are heard over industries?. Together our community has already worked tirelessly to reach our MEPs. We?ve developed the online tools we need to bring our messages directly to our representatives, and we?ve used these tools in the most important moments for European democracy. And by doing so we?ve made big waves in the European Parliament! Just in the last year: a.. MEPs voted to ban some single-use plastics and make plastic polluters pay following actions and advocacy from a wide coalition of civil society partners. Our community alone sent almost 100,000 emails to our MEPs! [4] b.. MEPs voted to overhaul the rules on transparency for potentially toxic pesticides, additives, and other food products after the successful European Citizens? Initiative (ECI) our community coordinated. [5] When some MEPs threatened to water-down the legislation, our community sent thousands of tweets and over half-a-million emails to MEPs. The lead MEP for the new law even resigned when she couldn?t get MEPs to support her negative changes! [6] c.. MEPs even voted to increase transparency of their own offices as a result of a campaign run by civil society, progressive MEPs, and our WeMove Europe, during which our community sent thousands of tweets directly to key MEPs involved! [7] The work we have done together to connect people with their MEPs via email and social media has been made possible by the generosity of this community. But now, this new European Parliament will be around for 5 years and along the way we need to keep working on new ways to reach them ? from phone calls to on-the-ground actions and community delegations to MEP offices. Will you donate just a few cents per MEP ? every month ? to supercharge the ways our community can reach our representatives in this crucial phase? Donate 2? per MEP monthly Donate 3? per MEP monthly Donate 4? per MEP monthly Donate another amount monthly Now is the time to scale up, not down. We need to keep up the pressure on MEPs to secure a Real Green Deal, to fix our broken asylum system, and change European society for the better. Please donate just a few cents for every MEP, and help power our work to make sure our representatives represent us -- not multinational corporations. Thank you, David and the entire team at WeMove Europe References [1] The declaration came from Professor Guus Berkhout, whose organisation is leading a campaign against political commitments to net zero carbon emissions being made to law. Academics and industry figures with ties to climate change denial groups and oil and gas companies all form part of this campaign. https://www.thegwpf.com/european-parliament-told-there-is-no-climate-emergency/ https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change-science-deniers-boris-johnson-environment-leak-a9094631.html [2] https://www.brusselstimes.com/belgium/79487/youth-activists-stage-die-in-at-european-commission/ [3] https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20190627IPR55404/constitution-of-the-9th-legislature-of-the-european-parliament [4] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/mar/27/the-last-straw-european-parliament-votes-to-ban-single-use-plastics [5] https://www.euractiv.com/section/agriculture-food/news/choir-of-approval-over-new-eu-food-safety-transparency-rules/ [6] https://www.euractiv.com/section/agriculture-food/news/food-safety-midnight-deal-for-revised-general-food-law/ [7] https://act.wemove.eu/campaigns/MEPs-expenses WeMove.EU is a citizens? movement, campaigning for a better Europe; for a European Union committed to social and economic justice, environmental sustainability and citizen-led democracy. We are people from all walks of life, who call Europe our home whether we were born in Europe or elsewhere. WeMove Europe SCE mbH | Planufer 91 Berlin | www.wemove.eu | Privacy policy From: David - WeMove Europe Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2019 9:19 PM Subject: Are we louder than climate deniers? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From enwl.bellona at gmail.com Sat Dec 21 15:52:21 2019 From: enwl.bellona at gmail.com (ENWL) Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2019 16:52:21 +0400 Subject: *[Enwl-eng] Hello - will you help close the gap? Message-ID: <249E6673496B48E4963158D55CD6AFD0@evol.sp.ru> My name?s John Curry. I mostly work in the back office managing the budget at SumOfUs, so I don?t usually send you emails. Before leaving the office to celebrate the holidays with my family, I always do a final check of our budget. I just finished going through the numbers for 2019 -- and to fully fund all the important fights we face next year, we need to raise $151,476 by December 31. will you help close the gap? Donating just takes a moment -- use Paypal or your card. Yes, I'll chip in $1 so we can keep fighting corporate greed in 2020. 2019?s been tough. The rise of the right wing, political chaos in many countries, the devastating fires in the Amazon. It's been a lot to take in, day after day this year. But I?m lucky because working for SumOfUs, every day I see people like you signing petitions, sharing actions, contributing ideas and chipping into to fund the fight back. You never give up. That?s what keeps me going. You?re not afraid to take on even the biggest corporate bullies like Bayer, Google, and Nestle. When they try to silence us, you don't respond with fear, but with courage. And you know what really inspires me? These winning campaigns are funded almost entirely by small donations from members like you. This is true people power. In 2019, 137,602 people just like you chipped in 327,356 single donations to pay for essential legal support, targeted advertisements, surveys to prove to politicians that people care, viral videos to send corporate PR bosses into a panic, and much more. But I?ve crunched the numbers and if we can?t pull together $151,476 more before December 31, we?ll have to scale back our campaigns in 2020. I believe you don?t want that to happen. Can you be one of the core team of supporters that keep us going? Donating just takes a moment -- use Paypal or your card. Yes, I?ll give a gift of $1 to help close the funding gap and keep SumOfUs fighting hard. Thanks for always showing up. I trust we can count on members like you to keep us strong. Thanks for all that you do, John and the team at SumOfUs SumOfUs is a worldwide movement of people like you, working together to hold corporations accountable for their actions and forge a new, sustainable path for our global economy. From: John Curry, SumOfUs Sent: Saturday, December 21, 2019 1:19 PM Subject: Hello -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From enwl.bellona at gmail.com Mon Dec 23 16:08:13 2019 From: enwl.bellona at gmail.com (ENWL) Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2019 17:08:13 +0400 Subject: *[Enwl-eng] The bitter truth about Nutella Message-ID: <55C5A1C5342249B39E0ECF965448FDF9@evol.sp.ru> The truth is out: Results from our investigation published today in the Guardian, reveal that hazelnuts in Ferrero-Rocher, Kinder Bueno and Nutella contain hazelnuts that may have been picked by children. Now it?s time to tell the billionaire Giovanni Ferrero and his company to eliminate child labour in their supply chain. Stop Child Labour Hi, Nutella?s slogan says that it?s made with love, but we?ve revealed that the chocolate spread contains hazelnuts that may have been picked by children, exploited in Turkey?s hazelnut industry. Working with Turkish partners who traveled to more than 10 cities in the Black Sea Region, we obtained video footage that shows children as young as 11 forced to work long hours, without contracts or adequate health and safety equipment. An 11-year-old girl in the video says: ??We walk to the field at 6.30AM and [...] we work until 6PM. We have two breaks. This is the second time I have come to work here.?? [1] When we saw images of workers, most of them minors, piled up in a dilapidated room, we teamed up with journalists at the Guardian. Together, we connected the dots and found that Ferrero?s products contain hazelnuts that may have been picked by children. Ferrero is a family-owned company led by the billionaire Giovanni Ferrero. [2] Hazelnuts in Nutella, Kinder Bueno, and Ferrero-Rocher make him richer every day while ??Hazelnuts mean work for me,?? says a 14-year-old child in the footage. [3] Together, let?s tell Ferrero to eliminate child labour in their supply chain now! We?ll start with a petition today, but are already planning a big action where we will deliver your signatures to Giovanni Ferrero. [4] No more Nutella that may contain hazelnuts picked by children Ferrero claims to have a ?Zero tolerance approach? towards child labour and says it is committed to protecting children?s rights all along its supply chain. [5] But our Turkish partners confirmed that there are not enough effective safeguards preventing child labour in Ferrero?s supply chain. One farmer in the video says: ?Ferrero is just searching for a fresh hazelnut.? The general manager of Ferrero Hazelnut Company in Turkey in September 2019 told the BBC: "If we determine a product which is produced with unethical practices, we would not touch it.? [6] The truth is that Ferrero is aware of unethical practices. In another interview with the Italian magazine Internazionale, the CEO of Ferrero Hazelnut Company acknowledged: ?child labour exists [in Turkish hazelnut farms], that is undeniable.? Ferrero buys many of its hazelnuts directly from merchants and cannot trace where all of its hazelnuts come from. [7] The company admits that as of 2018, it had only achieved 39 percent traceability on its hazelnuts. [8] The Guardian was able to trace the hazelnuts harvested from one of the farms that hires children to the merchant that buys them. That merchant then confirmed in writing to the Guardian that they sell hazelnuts to Ferrero. If hazelnuts picked by children end up with Ferrero, they must take action to stop this. It?s time for zero tolerance from us as consumers. Billionaire Giovanni Ferrero: put children over profits and stop child labour When we crowdfunded this investigation back in June 2019, we weren?t certain that we could make a case this strong that Ferrero?s products contain hazelnuts that may have been picked by children. Today, because so many of you support WeMove Europe, the story is in the Guardian and soon will likely be published in other media outlets around the world. Let?s band together and pressure Ferrero to stop child labor. With proof and determination, David, Giulio (Rome), J?rg (L?beck), and the rest of the WeMove Europe team References: [1] https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2019/dec/20/are-ferrero-rocher-chocolates-tainted-by-child-labour [2] https://www.ferrero.com/the-ferrero-group/a-family-story; https://www.ferrero.com/the-ferrero-group/business/key-figures [3] https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2019/dec/20/are-ferrero-rocher-chocolates-tainted-by-child-labour [4] http://www.ansa.it/english/news/business/2019/03/05/giovanni-ferrero-richest-man-in-italy_b1d24d05-1d6d-4d12-b669-8fbc46fc7bd5.html; https://www.forbes.com/profile/giovanni-ferrero/ [5] https://www.ferrerocsr.com/fc-3952?newsRVP=67 [6] https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-49741675 [7] https://www.internazionale.it/reportage/stefano-liberti/2019/06/21/nutella-gusto-amaro-nocciole-ferrero [8] https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/ferrero-static/globalcms/documenti/3722.pdf WeMove.EU is a citizens? movement, campaigning for a better Europe; for a European Union committed to social and economic justice, environmental sustainability and citizen-led democracy. We are people from all walks of life, who call Europe our home whether we were born in Europe or elsewhere. WeMove.EU is funded by donations from our community across Europe. Can you chip in with a few euros a month and help make sure we can move fast to win the campaigns that matter to all of us? Donate Follow on Twitter | Like on Facebook | Subscribe on Youtube WeMove Europe SCE mbH | Planufer 91 Berlin | www.wemove.eu | Privacy policy From: David - WeMove Europe Sent: Monday, December 23, 2019 3:24 PM Subject: The bitter truth about Nutella -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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To empower them, Evercity and its ecosystem members brought new ideas and products to the world's most important climate gathering. Alexey Shadrin Evercity founder and CEO "Dear friends and partners, Industry 4.0 revolution is ready to deliver new generation tools to evaluate and distribute the Earth?s resources more efficiently with unprecedented transparency, building trust and putting down walls between globally distributed actors. These technologies enable us to create and test new socio-economic models and blended finance instruments with the UNFCCC and Climate Chain Coalition. We wish you great holidays and are sure that together we will raise ambition and lead the way to a smarter and more sustainable 2020." Our key COP25 outcomes During 2 weeks in Madrid Evercity team members had a chance to present and personally discuss cooperation with the global community, high-level partners and potential clients. We are happy to share the most important milestones: New global initiative announced Evercity young technology leader Anita Mujumdar announced a new initiative ?Pubic Blockchain for Open Sensors Network? aimed at educating climate NGOs on digital technologies at the side event ?How Digital Technologies Can Accelerate Climate Action? by UNFCCC and CCC. Full story Anita?s speech Full video Evercity platform demo showcased On Dec 12, Alexey Shadrin made demo of Evercity Platform for impact measurement, management and investment at the Climate Chain Coalition morning meeting with bankers, COP parties and private actors. Read more Digital Impact monitoring solutions presented On Dec 9, we participated in Climate Chain Coalition press-conference presenting recent solutions and use cases: blockchain-based carbon market simulation game in Nazarbayev University and digital passports of farms produce in New-Zealand. Learn more -------------------------------------------------------- Learn more on impact monitoring technologies and their use-cases Download -------------------------------------------------------- Evercity team wants to give special credits for constant support and making this happen to: a.. Massamba Thioye, Manager of Regulatory Development Unit, UNFCCC, Co-Chair, Climate Chain Coalition (CCC) b.. Tom Baumann, Co-Chair, Climate Chain Coalition (CCC) c.. Miroslav Polzer, founder and CEO of International Association for the Advancement of Innovative Approaches to Global Challenges (IAAI GloCha) d.. Joseph Pallant, Founder and CEO of Blockchain For Climate Foundation e.. Klaus Milke, Chair of Foundations 20 f.. All members of Evercity Ecosystem info at evercity.io evercity.io -- Best regards, Tatiana Shauro ???????????? ???????? ???????? ?? ????????? ??????? Network Development and Outreach Department EECCA Regional Officer (Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia) Climate Action Network-International (CAN) WhatsApp: +79296458435 https://www.facebook.com/tatiana.shauro.3 www.climatenetwork.org www.facebook.com/CANInternational Twitter: @CANIntl Subscribe to the ECO newsletter: http://climatenetwork.org/eco-newsletters From: Tatiana Shauro Sent: Monday, December 23, 2019 10:30 PM Subject: [can-eecca] Fwd: Evercity COP25 outcomes -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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From: Olha Boiko Sent: Friday, December 20, 2019 3:23 AM Subject: [can-eecca] ??????: ??? ?????????? ?? ???? ? ?????????? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From enwl.bellona at gmail.com Wed Dec 25 15:16:08 2019 From: enwl.bellona at gmail.com (ENWL) Date: Wed, 25 Dec 2019 16:16:08 +0400 Subject: *[Enwl-eng] =?utf-8?b?W2Nhbi1lZWNjYV0g4oCcQ2xpbWF0ZSBUYWxr4oCd?= =?utf-8?q?_for_journalists_-_a_meeting_held_in_Misaktsieli=2C_Geor?= =?utf-8?q?gia?= Message-ID: <3B2D68D439DE4542B0A1A5E2CB5AA539@lewpostnew> The Greens Movement of Georgia / Friends of the Earth held a meeting called ?Climate Talk? on December 21 at the office of Rural Development Agency in Misaktsieli. The aim of the event was to offer journalists the opportunity to exchange ideas with experts on climate change. During the meeting, experts of the Greens Movement of Georgia and journalists discussed the general aspects of climate change: its manifestation in the world and in Georgia, mitigation and adaptation technologies at global and local levels, human impacts on climate change and vice versa - climate change impacts on people; To what extent the public is aware of the risks associated with climate change, how individuals react to these risks and how the public reacts to the authorities - special attention was paid to the important role of the media in raising public awareness. The participants also discussed the challenges they face personally when working on environmental issues. They also expressed interest in receiving more information on climate change and related issues, and noted that such meetings would enable them to gain further information on current climate change processes around the world. They emphasized the importance of the participation of many journalists from Georgia at COPs and similar international events as well the correct understanding and presentation of the climate problem; Meeting attendees came up with the initiative to set up a "Climate Talking Fireplace" meeting cycle. Journalists were introduced to renewable technologies such as solar water heaters, biomass plants, PV modules on the RCDA site, the current situation, prospects and opportunities for their dissemination in Georgia. The meeting was held within the framework of project ?Increasing Energy Efficiency through Solar Energy Technologies and Thermal Insulation? supported by the German Federal Environment Foundation and the project "Strengthening Civil Society in the implementation of national climate policy? implemented by the Greens Movement of Georgia/friends of the Earth in cooperation with Bund f?r Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland e.V. (BUND) and supported by the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety. From: Eto Jincharadze Sent: Wednesday, December 25, 2019 4:06 PM Subject: [can-eecca] ?Climate Talk? for journalists - a meeting held in Misaktsieli, Georgia -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From enwl.bellona at gmail.com Thu Dec 26 13:26:44 2019 From: enwl.bellona at gmail.com (ENWL) Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2019 14:26:44 +0400 Subject: *[Enwl-eng] This one is for YOU Message-ID: <433E54DC44BA463DB74EB492733897A6@lewpostnew> You are truly amazing -- I am incredibly grateful for everything you do all year long to hold corporations accountable. From the bottom of my heart: thank you. Just look at all the things you?ve achieved this year: you got some of the most dangerous bee-killers and pesticides banned in Europe, you?ve made great strides to save orangutans and clean up the dirty palm oil industry, you?re lifting cocoa farmers and their families out of poverty, and you?re forcing tech corporations to combat hate on their platforms. You and the millions of other SumOfUs members around the world make victories like these possible. Your work makes me feel so hopeful about what we can achieve together. From all of us at SumOfUs, this one?s for you: I wish you all the best wishes for the holidays and a wonderful start to the new year. Thanks for all that you do, Leila and the team at SumOfUs -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SumOfUs is a community of people from around the world committed to curbing the growing power of corporations. We want to buy from, work for and invest in companies that respect the environment, treat their workers well and respect democracy. And we?re not afraid to stand up to them when they don?t. Please help keep SumOfUs strong by chipping in $3 Chip in $3 From: Leila Deen, SumOfUs Sent: Wednesday, December 25, 2019 5:13 PM Subject: This one is for YOU Vladimir -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From enwl.bellona at gmail.com Fri Dec 27 02:05:11 2019 From: enwl.bellona at gmail.com (ENWL) Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2019 03:05:11 +0400 Subject: *[Enwl-eng] End of a decade Message-ID: <95A209E4ACB04A6E80D06DBA2C851A99@lewpostnew> Top 10 people powered moments of 2019 and more The September 27, 2019, Climate Strike in Edmonton, Canada. Photo: @abdulymalik To close out 2019, we wanted to do something special. It?s not just the end of the year ? it?s the end of an incredible decade of climate activism and a transition to the next. The challenge ahead is enormous, but if this year has taught us anything, it?s that more of us than ever before are ready to rise. So enjoy the top 10 people-powered moments of 2019 from around the world. And for highlights from the last ten years, be sure to checkout the 350.org 10-year timeline. We?ll be back in 2020 with more Fossil Free News updates from around the world. From everyone at 350.org, we wish you a healthy, happy new decade ? with climate justice for all. ? Nicole Top 10 People-Powered Moments of 2019 1. Brazilian states ban fracking In a historic victory after years of campaigning, the state of Paran? in Brazil passed a law in July to permanently ban fracking ? and Santa Catarina state followed weeks later. It means Latin America?s largest shale reserves will go untapped, with 18 million people safe from the direct impacts of fracking. The wins energized a national debate to ban fracking across the whole country; municipal bans have already passed in hundreds of cities and towns across Brazil. Read more. 2. Divestment milestone In September, the amount investors committed to divest from oil, coal, and gas companies reached more than $11 trillion USD, blowing past the goal set last year of $10 trillion divested by the end of 2020. And since September, we?ve already hit $12 trillion! Follow the cities, companies, and institutions divesting with our divestment commitment tracker. 3. Promise to protect Indigenous leaders and allies held a March-May training tour for 1,160 people in nine U.S. cities. They were answering the call to stop the Keystone XL pipeline and protect water and ancestral lands. Construction continues to be debated and delayed ? but people across the United States are prepared for creative resistance in case it resumes. Watch the wrap-up video from the tour. Save Lamu activists celebrate a victory against a coal plant in Kenya. Photo: DeCOALonize 4. Lamu, saved After years of resistance, in June a Kenya tribunal cancelled a developer?s license to build a new coal plant at Lamu, a stunning coastal UNESCO world heritage site. It was a huge victory, made even sweeter by the fact that the court recognized the lack of public participation and risks to people and the environment. See the celebration. 5. Williams pipeline moratorium Activists pushed New York?s Governor to halt the Williams Northeast Supply Enhancement pipeline, which would bring fracked gas to New York City. The company has re-applied for construction permits, but people are demanding a permanent ban and a Green New Deal to make sure it never gets built. Watch the recap. 6. Afrika Vuka launch A new platform to unite grassroots campaigns across Africa is bringing together learnings and resources from groups working to halt fossil fuel infrastructure and promote a transition to renewable energy. Thanks to local campaigning, in April South Africa?s Nedbank became the first African bank to stop project financing for coal, after they decided not to fund Thabametsi and Khanyisa coal plants. People from across Europe sit in at the EIB in Luxembourg in June. Photo: 350 Europe 7. Fossil Free EIB The European Investment Bank (EIB) is the world?s biggest international public bank and the ?555 billion lending arm of the European Union. Thousands of people pressured the bank to axe fossil fuels from its lending policy, and last month it permanently ended support for most fossil fuel projects! Read more. 8. Asian banks dump coal The world?s fifth largest bank, Japan?s MUFG, tightened its lending policy in May, when it announced an end to new project finance for coal power. Campaigners continue to target the Asian banks financing coal, especially in Japan. And we?re chipping away: Singapore?s big three banks also announced ending financing to new coal plants earlier this year. 9. Europe?s gas does not pass Three iconic fights against gas won big victories in Europe this year. The MidCat pipeline between Spain and France, and Gothenburg terminal in Sweden were both cancelled, while fracking was banned in the UK. Read more. September 20 Climate Strike in Bogot?, Colombia. Photo: Laura Imery 10. Millions strike for the climate September?s climate strikes were groundbreaking, with 7.6 million people in 185 countries taking part. Together, we snatched front pages of news outlets around the globe and put the fossil fuel industry on notice, setting the tone for what?s to come. Read more. A decade of climate action Back in 2009, at the end of the last decade, the climate movement was small and scrappy. Together, we?ve grown into a diverse, powerful movement ready to take on the fossil fuel industry into the 2020s: a mission-critical decade for averting the worst of climate crisis. Photo: Members of Cairo Cycling Club on 350.org?s first global day of action, October 24, 2009. Take a look at 350.org?s path through the past decade and the people-powered wins we?ve celebrated along the way. Visit the Timeline That?s all for now. See you in the new year! View this email online If you have feedback, write us at ffdigest at 350.org. Fossil Free is a global campaign led by local groups demanding our local communities and institutions commit to: a.. A fast + just transition to 100% renewable energy for all b.. No new fossil fuel projects anywhere. c.. Not a penny more for dirty energy For more updates, follow us on: Facebook and Twitter, and Instagram. You're receiving this email because you signed up to receive updates about the Fossil Free campaign from 350.org. From: Nicole Leonard - Fossil Free News Sent: Thursday, December 26, 2019 6:16 PM Subject: End of a decade -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From enwl.bellona at gmail.com Fri Dec 27 13:48:46 2019 From: enwl.bellona at gmail.com (ENWL) Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2019 14:48:46 +0400 Subject: *[Enwl-eng] =?utf-8?q?What=E2=80=99s_wrong_with_this_picture=3F?= Message-ID: <35AC58E16A70480BA255DD411D2B8810@lewpostnew> Climate deniers get an invitation to spread lies at the European Parliament, while we have to stage protests to get our message heard. Will you donate 1 cent per MEP ? to ensure the voices of citizens are stronger than those of oil and gas lobbyists? DONATE 1? per MEP Hi, In November, pseudo-scientist climate deniers were invited to an official press conference by some MEPs to promote the following message: ?there is no climate emergency.? [1] In the same week, after intensive fundraising and planning, we managed to *crash* the European Parliament together with youth activists, staging a dramatic die-in just to make sure our leaders would hear our message: ?do something about the climate emergency - NOW?. [2] What?s wrong with this picture? Pseudo-scientist climate deniers are being invited to spread false messages while those of us fighting for our future need to show up uninvited and resort to last-minute protests just to get a seat at the table. We know it?s not always easy to make sure we?re heard, especially when well-funded multinational industry lobbies are fighting to do the same. But we also know that the European Parliament elected last May is made up of mostly new MEPs (61% of the 751 MEPs are new). [3] They are just now starting to determine who they will listen to over the next five years of their mandate, which is why we are constantly building new ways to reach our elected representatives. Will you donate ?7.51 ? just 1 cent per MEP ? each month to supercharge the ways our community can reach our representatives in this crucial phase? Donate 1? per MEP monthly Donate 2? per MEP monthly Donate 3? per MEP monthly Donate another amount monthly If everyone in our community donates just 1 cent for every MEP each month, we?d have the resources our community needs to reach MEPs with the messages that matter most and make sure that citizens? voices are heard over industries?. Together our community has already worked tirelessly to reach our MEPs. We?ve developed the online tools we need to bring our messages directly to our representatives, and we?ve used these tools in the most important moments for European democracy. And by doing so we?ve made big waves in the European Parliament! Just in the last year: a.. MEPs voted to ban some single-use plastics and make plastic polluters pay following actions and advocacy from a wide coalition of civil society partners. Our community alone sent almost 100,000 emails to our MEPs! [4] b.. MEPs voted to overhaul the rules on transparency for potentially toxic pesticides, additives, and other food products after the successful European Citizens? Initiative (ECI) our community coordinated. [5] When some MEPs threatened to water-down the legislation, our community sent thousands of tweets and over half-a-million emails to MEPs. The lead MEP for the new law even resigned when she couldn?t get MEPs to support her negative changes! [6] c.. MEPs even voted to increase transparency of their own offices as a result of a campaign run by civil society, progressive MEPs, and our WeMove Europe, during which our community sent thousands of tweets directly to key MEPs involved! [7] The work we have done together to connect people with their MEPs via email and social media has been made possible by the generosity of this community. But now, this new European Parliament will be around for 5 years and along the way we need to keep working on new ways to reach them ? from phone calls to on-the-ground actions and community delegations to MEP offices. Will you donate ?7.51 ? just 1 cent per MEP ? every month ? to supercharge the ways our community can reach our representatives in this crucial phase? Donate 1? per MEP monthly Donate 2? per MEP monthly Donate 3? per MEP monthly Donate another amount monthly Now is the time to scale up, not down. We need to keep up the pressure on MEPs to secure a Real Green Deal, to fix our broken asylum system, and change European society for the better. Please donate just 1 cent for every MEP, and help power our work to make sure our representatives represent us -- not multinational corporations. Thank you, David and the entire team at WeMove Europe References [1] The declaration came from Professor Guus Berkhout, whose organisation is leading a campaign against political commitments to net zero carbon emissions being made to law. Academics and industry figures with ties to climate change denial groups and oil and gas companies all form part of this campaign. https://www.thegwpf.com/european-parliament-told-there-is-no-climate-emergency/ https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change-science-deniers-boris-johnson-environment-leak-a9094631.html [2] https://www.brusselstimes.com/belgium/79487/youth-activists-stage-die-in-at-european-commission/ [3] https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20190627IPR55404/constitution-of-the-9th-legislature-of-the-european-parliament [4] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/mar/27/the-last-straw-european-parliament-votes-to-ban-single-use-plastics [5] https://www.euractiv.com/section/agriculture-food/news/choir-of-approval-over-new-eu-food-safety-transparency-rules/ [6] https://www.euractiv.com/section/agriculture-food/news/food-safety-midnight-deal-for-revised-general-food-law/ [7] https://act.wemove.eu/campaigns/MEPs-expenses WeMove.EU is a citizens? movement, campaigning for a better Europe; for a European Union committed to social and economic justice, environmental sustainability and citizen-led democracy. 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OPINION At Christmas, as the White House and the world reject refugees, here?s how to help | Trudy Rubin Updated: December 26, 2019 - 5:30 AM It was a grim Christmas prelude last week when China and Russia vetoed cross-border aid deliveries to millions of desperate Syrian civilians, but what was overlooked was that the U.S. played a role in displacing many of those refugees, writes columnist Trudy Rubin. She also points to a few ways people who want to help refugees can lend a hand. Trudy Rubin | @trudyrubin | trubin at inquirer.com MANU BRABO / AP From: Arn specter Sent: Friday, December 27, 2019 7:42 PM Subject: White House and the world reject refugees, HOW TO HELP -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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We act on behalf of life. ~ Extinction Rebellion From: Victor Postnikov Sent: Sunday, December 29, 2019 12:15 AM Subject: ?????????????? ????? ????????? ?????? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From enwl.bellona at gmail.com Sat Dec 28 23:37:41 2019 From: enwl.bellona at gmail.com (ENWL) Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2019 00:37:41 +0400 Subject: *[Enwl-eng] (Bump) Hello... Message-ID: <58B00ED2276C45C7ABD68CB88702641C@evol.sp.ru> You?ve done so much for people and the planet in 2019. And that?s why I?ve got high hopes I can count on your help today. We still need to raise $87,720 before December 31st to sustain our work fighting unchecked corporate power. If we don?t cover this gap, we?ll have to scale back the campaigns we win together. Please can you chip in to put people and planet before profit in 2020? Donating just takes a moment -- use Paypal or your card. Yes, I'll chip in $1 to put people and planet before profit in 2020. It should only take 2 minutes, and it really would mean the world to me. From the bottom of my heart, thank you for everything you?ve done this year. And I sincerely wish you all the best for the New Year. John Here's my original email: -------------------------------------------------------------------- My name?s John Curry. I mostly work in the back office managing the budget at SumOfUs, so I don?t usually send you emails. Before leaving the office to celebrate the holidays with my family, I always do a final check of our budget. I just finished going through the numbers for 2019 -- and to fully fund all the important fights we face next year, we need to raise $151,476 by December 31. will you help close the gap? Donating just takes a moment -- use Paypal or your card. Yes, I'll chip in $1 so we can keep fighting corporate greed in 2020. 2019?s been tough. The rise of the right wing, political chaos in many countries, the devastating fires in the Amazon. It's been a lot to take in, day after day this year. But I?m lucky because working for SumOfUs, every day I see people like you, Vladimir, signing petitions, sharing actions, contributing ideas and chipping into to fund the fight back. You never give up. That?s what keeps me going. You?re not afraid to take on even the biggest corporate bullies like Bayer, Google, and Nestle. When they try to silence us, you don't respond with fear, but with courage. And you know what really inspires me? These winning campaigns are funded almost entirely by small donations from members like you. This is true people power. In 2019, 137,602 people just like you chipped in 327,356 single donations to pay for essential legal support, targeted advertisements, surveys to prove to politicians that people care, viral videos to send corporate PR bosses into a panic, and much more. But I?ve crunched the numbers and if we can?t pull together $151,476 more before December 31, we?ll have to scale back our campaigns in 2020. I believe you don?t want that to happen. Can you be one of the core team of supporters that keep us going? Donating just takes a moment -- use Paypal or your card. Yes, I?ll give a gift of $1 to help close the funding gap and keep SumOfUs fighting hard. Thanks for always showing up... I trust we can count on members like you to keep us strong. Thanks for all that you do, John and the team at SumOfUs SumOfUs is a worldwide movement of people like you, working together to hold corporations accountable for their actions and forge a new, sustainable path for our global economy. From: John Curry, SumOfUs Sent: Friday, December 27, 2019 4:01 PM Subject: (Bump) Hello Vladimir -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The stakes could not be higher for our country, our environment, and our health and safety next year. We can and must stop them, and we can?t wait for the 2020 elections to do it. Nuclear corporations and their government backers want to get it all done now?while they think the public is only paying attention to impeachment and the presidential campaigns. We need you to take two actions now: 1.. ACT: Tell Congress to wake up: Stop wasting time and money on nuclear power--we need real climate solutions now! NIRS is kicking off a new campaign to stop the Nuclear Relapse in 2020. The solutions to nuclear power and global warming both start with moving as fast as possible to safe, clean, 100% renewable energy. We need to inform our members of Congress?and make sure they act! The best way to do that is for each of us to contact our Representative and Senators. Repeatedly. NIRS will send out regular action alerts, each with a new message, so you can educate your members of Congress step-by-step. We can't afford nuclear power or climate change, and we definitely can't afford them together. 2.. SUPPORT: Help NIRS build this campaign by making a donation. NIRS needs your support to Stop the Nuclear Relapse and build our momentum in 2020. In fact, we need our community to up the ante and contribute more. Next year, people will be donating more than ever to political campaigns. And rightly so! But we have to make sure NIRS stays strong, too, and that we are able to keep up the fight. Time is of the essence. We are now facing two simultaneous global environmental crises: climate change and radioactive waste. And we don?t have the luxury to deal with one and not the other. The world can?t afford nuclear power or climate change, and we definitely can?t afford them together. If the industry succeeds in pushing its agenda before the election, the damage could be irreparable afterward. And whatever the outcomes at the polls next November, we need to get to work now to make sure the next Congress ? the next presidency ? the next state legislatures and governorships ? have the backing and the confidence?and, yes, the pressure, too?to say no to nuclear power and radioactive waste. ACT: Tell Congress to wake up. "Stop wasting time and money on nuclear power--we need real climate solutions now!" With your support and the courageous work of grassroots activists around the country, we have had key victories in 2019. 40 years after the meltdown of the Three Mile Island unit 2 reactor in Pennsylvania, the unit 1 reactor shut down in September. And Massachusetts went nuclear-free in May when the Pilgrim reactor shut down after 47 years. There are only 96 reactors operating in the US, and more reactors will close in 2020 and in the years to come. But only if we can Stop the Nuclear Relapse. That is why we need your support now. SUPPORT: Please make a donation to help us build our campaign in 2020. If you already took action, please do so again. Thanks for all you do! Tim Judson Connect with Us: Email Preferences: Contact Us: Nuclear Information and Resource Service 6930 Carroll Ave, Ste. 340 Takoma Park, MD 20912 (301) 270-6477 www.NIRS.org From: Nuclear Information and Resource Service Sent: Monday, December 30, 2019 4:27 AM Subject: Stop Nuclear Power in 2020: Take Two Steps Now -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From enwl.bellona at gmail.com Mon Dec 30 15:51:42 2019 From: enwl.bellona at gmail.com (ENWL) Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2019 16:51:42 +0400 Subject: *[Enwl-eng] Look at what we made happen Message-ID: <914C15734A1B4743863612B371D3FA5C@lewpostnew> In just a few days we say goodbye to 2019. But before we do, we wanted to share a few of the incredible campaigns this community was part of this year. Some we won, some we lost, and some will simply need more of our energy in 2020. Either way, not one of them would have been possible without the work we?ve done together. Take a look at what we helped make happen in 2019. It won?t take more than a minute: So before we say goodbye 2019, we want to say thank you. For all you?ve done by our side. Onwards and upwards, David, Olga (Bologna), Laura (Brussels) and the WeMove Europe team PS: Of all the exciting things that we made possible this year, one of the top ones was the very first climate ?die-in? (a protest in which participants pretend to be dead to show the potential effects of inaction on climate change) in the European Parliament, staged by WeMove Europe together with Belgian youth climate activists. Photo Credits Greta @ EC ? European Union, 2019 EP WeMove.EU is a citizens? movement, campaigning for a better Europe; for a European Union committed to social and economic justice, environmental sustainability and citizen-led democracy. We are people from all walks of life, who call Europe our home whether we were born in Europe or elsewhere. WeMove Europe SCE mbH | Planufer 91 Berlin | www.wemove.eu | Privacy policy From: David - WeMove Europe Sent: Monday, December 30, 2019 3:11 PM Subject: Look at what we made happen -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From enwl.bellona at gmail.com Mon Dec 30 16:05:32 2019 From: enwl.bellona at gmail.com (ENWL) Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2019 17:05:32 +0400 Subject: *[Enwl-eng] The Decade of Climate Action Message-ID: <8FBA68E8DADE4281B1CC39DFEC19DF7F@lewpostnew> 2020: The Decade of Climate Action 2019 was a landmark moment for the global climate movement, and as the year comes to a close, we mark the beginning of the climate action decade. The next 12 months represent a pivotal, make-or-break moment for the climate movement, and for humanity. The science is clear: we must peak emissions by the end of 2020 to avoid the worst impacts of the climate crisis. The good news, however, is that cities are already leading some of the most ambitious efforts to meet this goal. 30 major cities around the world have already reached peak greenhouse gas emissions, and many more have committed to enacting policies that will reduce emissions by tackling food waste, committing to net-zero buildings, and pledging to support zero-emission public transportation. But we need to do so much more. That?s where the Global Green New Deal comes in. Earlier this year, our new Chair and Mayor of Los Angeles Eric Garcetti announced his support for a Global Green New Deal alongside a growing coalition of mayors, global leaders, youth activists, and labour and business representatives. To truly address climate breakdown, we must drive an urgent, fundamental and irreversible transfer of global resources away from fossil fuels and into action that averts the climate emergency. Crucially, this includes putting equitable and inclusive climate action at the center of all urban decision-making, and securing a just transition for those working in high-carbon industries and correct long-running environmental injustices for those disproportionately impacted by the climate crisis. This is the ambition of a Global Green New Deal. The climate crisis demands that we forge new kinds of partnerships and bring new ideas to the table ? this coalition is the first step toward ensuring that all voices are represented in this movement. The 2020s will be the decade we create an equitable, sustainable future that works for everyone, everywhere. From all of us at C40, we wish you a happy and healthy new year. Let?s work together to make 2020 the year we changed everything. Share Forward Copyright ? c40, All rights reserved c40newsletter ? 120 Park Ave ? New York, NY 10017 ? 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And if you can?t donate this time, we understand. We are a strong community of millions -- everyone does their part and donating money is just one of the ways you help win campaigns every day. We are deeply grateful for the support you give, whatever form it takes. Thank you and all the best wishes for you and your dear ones. Happy New Year, Leila Deen Programme Director SumOfUs is a worldwide movement of people like you, working together to hold corporations accountable for their actions and forge a new, sustainable path for our global economy. From: Leila Deen, SumOfUs Sent: Tuesday, December 31, 2019 1:11 PM Subject: Checking in -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From enwl.bellona at gmail.com Tue Dec 31 13:25:23 2019 From: enwl.bellona at gmail.com (ENWL) Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2019 14:25:23 +0400 Subject: *[Enwl-eng] The top highlights of the year Message-ID: The top highlights of the year Best of 2019 View the full recap of year here or see a select few highlights of the year below. Launch of Emissions Gap Report The science is clear: we are on the brink of missing the opportunity to limit global warming to 1.5?C. For the first time in 10 years of analysis, it looks at how large annual cuts would need to be from 2020 to 2030 to stay on track to meeting the Paris goals. UN General Assembly declares 2021 - 2030 UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration Our planet?s ecosystems are declining rapidly, jeopardizing our own survival ? we urgently need to rebuild what has been lost. Report reveals one million species threatened with extinction Nature is declining globally at rates unprecedented in human history ? and the rate of species extinctions is accelerating, with grave impacts on people around the world now likely, according to a landmark report by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES). Welcoming Inger Andersen The Danish economist and environmentalist took up her new role our Executive Director in June, promising to prioritize greater action on climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution during her four-year tenure. UN Climate Summit, Champions of the Earth Awards and Young Champions Programme As leaders gathered to boost climate action, UNEP launched a number of initiatives, including announcing that the world?s largest investors signed on to decarbonize economies. UNEP honoured environmental advocates, innovators and young people with bold ideas for shaping a sustainable future. The Run Wild Challenge UN Environment Programme?s Vanishing Treasures programme and Wild for Life campaign, adidas Runtastic, and the Snow Leopard Trust teamed up to activate almost half a millions of runners worldwide to act for one of the world?s most elusive threatened species. 2020 is being hailed as a ?super year? for the environment. Stay tuned to follow the latest scientific developments and hear UNEP?s work to galvanize communities around the globe to build a healthier, more sustainable planet for all. UN Environment Programme, 2019 www.unenvironment.org Our mailing address is: unenvironment-info at un.org UN Environment Programme does NOT share your information with third parties, UN Environment Programme does NOT share your email addresses with sponsors or any third parties, and UN Environment Programme does NOT run exclusive ?sponsored? emails on behalf of third parties. 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