Dear colleagues:
The following Climate Justice web log ("blog") is
being launched at the 10th Conference of the Parties
to the Kyoto Protocol now underway in Buenos Aires to
help frame a much-needed critique of carbon trading.
While it is encouraging that the Kyoto Protocol will
come into force in February 2005, despite the
withdrawal of the US, there remain profound concerns
among NGOs
and communities on the ground that agreeing to the
terms of the Protocol may encourage a global "climate
apartheid," with the poorest in the global South
paying for the carbon profligacy of those in the North
via carbon trading.
The blog is meant to track the conversations, press,
NGO inputs, and responses to this critique. It also
includes photos and inside commentary from those NGOs
now in Buenos Aires at the climate negotiations.
Please
forward widely, and encourage active interaction with
those who post to the blog. We would like to start the
conversation with all of you.
To visit the blog, go to:
http://climatejustice.blogspot.com/
