Creation Care or Global Warming or Climate Change is back on the agenda. The next Intergovernmental Global Conference on Climate Change takes place in Cancun, Mexico at the end of November. You can find details here but its clear already that Governments, including our own, are playing down any prospects of an agreement. This is hardly a surprise but it feels depressing.
We will be writing letters shortly to do whatever we can to keep up the pressure on this issue. Last year was such a disappointment and with a weakened US President and an even deeper economic crisis, we look likely to lose another valuable year before some joined up thinking emerges.
Can I encourage you to do whatever you can to put pressure on your MP by writing, emailing or calling. These things matter – every voice is one more reason why Governments will listen. By the way, Write to Them makes writing to your MP so easy. Another brilliant website is theyworkforyou.com and if you put in your postcode you can find your MP and see how they have voted on climate change issues so far.
In the meantime, you can at least rest assured that some of the clearest minds in the world are working on the problem. Or can you? If you listen carefully you can almost hear Groucho Marx reciting the following text on the UN Climate Change site referenced above:
“United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
The United Nations Climate Change Conference to be held in Cancun, Mexico, from 29 November to 10 December 2010, encompasses the sixteenth Conference of the Parties (COP) and the sixth Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (CMP), as well as the thirty-third sessions of both the Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI) and the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA), and the fifteenth session of the AWG-KP and thirteenth session of the AWG-LCA.
To discuss future commitments for industrialized countries under the Kyoto Protocol, the Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (CMP) established a working group in December 2005 called the Ad Hoc Working Group on Further Commitments for Annex I Parties under the Kyoto Protocol (AWG-KP). In Copenhagen, at its fifth session, the CMP requested the AWG-KP to deliver the results of its work for adoption by CMP 6 in Cancun.
There’s more like this ... but let’s just pray that out of the maze comes some good news – soon!
David Kerrigan
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