Un voyage A travers l’Europe, le Moyen-Orient et l'Afrique sur le theme du changement climatique

I sometimes wonder where politicians, the judicial system and the common people stand in term of fairness. Aren’t the politicians supposed to be the Voice of the common people? If so isn’t the Judiciary supposed to be more sensitive to needs of the common people? By common people I mean those who care for survival more than money or cars. Where exactly do we common people stand in this world?

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The Bhopal Gas tragedy (1984) is the classic example for understanding the term “fairness” or “justice” since they’ve been denied it for years. Though rather blatant were we about the money swindled (if there was any) from the victims, I believe there are still second-generation victims who continue to suffer while Mr. Anderson (Former CEO of Union Carbide) who though absconding lives a luxurious life in New York. Mr. Warren Andersen faces charges of culpable homicide for deaths of 20000 and more people since.

Justice is yet to come, and so is the compensation. Those 1,20,000 survivors of Bhopal could hardly survive on the court orders that the High Court put up. Back then it was a jublious moment of course, The Courts had ordered compensation. As of today to many it is just a fleeting memory of unkept promises.

With the latest High court orders from the Madhya Pradesh Government to send 350 tonnes of the toxic waste (which till date is in Bhopal) to Gujarat, it seems like a perfect end to this horror of a situation. Though god forbid the US has any say in it, let the US authorities be safe and feel as less obligated as they can while we burn and have ages of biological and mental repercussions faced by people who care nothing more than their own survival.

While various NGOs in India continue to oppose the decision of the High Court citing:

1. Backlog of 7000 tonnes of our own waste to be incinerated in the Gujarat Ankaleshwar site, the High court in complete disregard for the people, NGOs and justice give out arbitrary orders.
2. Dangerous working conditions as found by GTZ GmBH, international cooperation enterprise for sustainable development with worldwide operations. It was also found that the incineration sites mentioned by the High Court of India are ill equipped to handle the highly toxic waste.

We still believe the state of Gujarat should find a solution to the waste forgotten by the traitorous company to clean up.

The question is what is stopping the US from:

1. Keeping upon its extradition policy and handing over Andersen to the Indian Government. We seem to coming harsh on terrorism these days.
2. Handing back the toxic waste, which has been left since to Union Carbide or Dow chemicals.

Isn’t that Fair? This brings me back to where I started… what is fair? What is justice?

First edition : 25/11. 14h
Last update / Dernière mise à jour : 09/12 - 20h54

La 14ème conférence des parties de la Convention-Cadre des Nations Unies sur les changements climatiques (UNFCCC en anglais) aura lieu à Poznan, en Pologne, du 1er au 12 décembre 2008.
L'UNFCC est en charge d'animer le protocole de Kyoto. Cette conférence des parties est la plus importante réunion de l'UNFCC car elle prend les décisions.

Je rassemble ici les liens pour suivre cet évènement. Les sites disponible en plusieurs langues sont inscrit une seule fois en Français. Si vous connaissez d'autres adresses, laissez un commentaire.

All photos and videos

• Photo tagged with "poznan" on FlickR
• Videos tagged with "poznan" on Dailymotion
• Videos tagged with "COP14" on YouTube

Français

Actualités

• Recherche "poznan" sur Google Actualité, classement pas date.
• Recherche "poznan" sur Yahoo! Actualité, classement pas date.

Associations

• Réseau Action Climat - France, http://www.rac-f.org/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=370. Document "Vers un accord équitable sur le climat pour l’après 2012" : http://www.rac-f.org/article.php3?id_article=1448
• Equiterre, Quebec. blog video : http://www.equiterre.info/site/poznan/
• Groupe de recherche et d'échanges technologiques : http://www.gret.org/actu/poznan2008.htm

Officiels

• Visio-conférences avec les jeunes francophones de Mediaterre : http://www.mogulus.com/mediaterre
• Blog des jeunes francophones de Mediaterre durant la COP14 : http://generationclimat.blogspot.com/
• Coalition canadienne des jeunes pour le climat : http://www.ourclimate.ca
• Délégation de la Jeunesse Canadienne : http://www.cydpoznan.org/fr/

Facebook et twitter

• Mon Twitter : http://twitter.com/benkamorvan
• Facebook, évènement : http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=36302308185 et groupe http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=36081378339

English

News

• REUTERS blog environnement : http://blogs.reuters.com/environment/
• BBC environment correspondent Richard Black : http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/richardblack/
• Guardian, Poznan climate change conference http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/poznan
• Nature newsblog, In the Field http://blogs.nature.com/news/blog/conference_reports/poznan_climatechange_conference/

Facebook et twitter

• My Twitter : http://twitter.com/benkamorvan
• COP14 on twitter search : http://search.twitter.com/search?q=cop14+OR+Poznan
• Facebook : Event http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=20072328927 and group http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=35313930806

United Nations

• UN blog : http://www.un.org/climatechange/blog/2008/
• COP14 on UNFCC website. All official info for participants are here : http://unfccc.int/meetings/cop_14/items/4481.php
• UN gateway on climate change : http://www.un.org/climatechange/

Poznan

• Official website for COP14 event : http://www.cop14.gov.pl/index.php?lang=EN
• Information of city of Poznan for COP14 participant : http://www.poznan.pl/mim/public/cop14/pages.html?o=list&ch=12908&instance=1017&id=9666&lang=en
• Poznan Local Government Climate Sessions http://www.iclei.org/index.php?id=8883

Activist and NGOs

• Le blog du Groupe Energies Renouvelables, Environnement et Solidarités, l'ONG avec qui je suis à Poznan : http://www.alternatives-economiques.fr/blogs/poznan
• Eon, a sympatic coal power plant company, has to face a google-bombing. How Eon will react ?

The big's big

• Friend of the Earth International blog : http://www.foe.org/
• Oxfam Blog : http://blogs.oxfam.org/en/climate-change
• Greenpeace : Climate Rescue Station http://www.greenpeace.org/international/campaigns/climate-change/our_work/negotiations/un-climate-conference, http://weblog.greenpeace.org/solargeneration/, http://weblog.greenpeace.org/climate/
• Sierra Club, Climate Crisis Countdown to Copenhagen : http://www.sierraclub.ca/climatecrisis/
• WWF in poznan : http://www.panda.org/about_wwf/what_we_do/climate_change/solutions/policy_solutions/climate_timeline/climate_change_poznan/index.cfm

Climate Action Network

• Fossil of the day, the nicest price for COP participant : http://www.fossil-of-the-day.org/
• Daily NGO Newsletters produced at the COP : http://www.climatenetwork.org/eco/index.html
• Climate Action Network USA, COP14 Briefing Book : http://www.usclimatenetwork.org/cop14-briefing-book

Others NGOs

• AVAAAZ petition, Europe: Lead or Sink : http://www.avaaz.org/en/europe_climate_crunch_time/ (voir mon billet du 14/08/10 : c'est quoi AVAAZ ?)
• REDD-Monitor (Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation) http://www.redd-monitor.org
• OneClimate : Welcome to Virtual Poznan http://www.oneclimate.net/poznan
• World Development Movement http://poznanclimate.blogspot.com/
• The Skywriter, 1Sky's Blog : http://www.1sky.org/blog
• Tom Sharman, ActionAid Policy Officer, reports from the UN Climate Change talks : http://www.actionaid.org.uk/100621/blog.html
• The Wilderness Society delegation, Poznan Daily Updates : http://www.wilderness.org.au/articles/postcards-poznan-daily/
• Polish Climate Coalition http://www.koalicjaklimatyczna.org/index.php?id=aktualnosci&lang=en
• unEARTHED is a forum for the voices and stories of the people behind our work : http://unearthed.earthjustice.org/

Youth

• Dispatches from the International Youth Delegates in Poznan, Poland : http://youthclimate.org/
• Indian Youth Climate Network will be in Poznan : http://iycn.in/ and the blog http://www.whatswiththeclimate.org/
• African Youth Initiative on Climate Change : http://www.ayicc.org/
• SustainUS, Youth of US : http://sustainus.org/ and the blog : http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/
• Youth from nepal http://nyca.com.np/
• UK youth delegation : http://www.ukyd.org/category/blogs/
• Austalian Youth : http://www.aycc.org.au

Other

• Jake Schmidt, Poland Climate Negotiations: What to expect ? http://www.globalwarmingisreal.com/blog/2008/12/03/poland-climate-negotiations-what-to-expect/
• Poznan Climate Conference Info Corner : http://poznan2008.blogspot.com/
• Blog of Adam MacIsaac, CYD, : http://adammacisaac.ca/
• Blog of jennie mcdowell, CYD, http://www.jenniemcdowell.blogspot.com/
• China Dialogue : http://www.chinadialogue.net/tag/Climate_change
• Hugh Bartling blog : http://hughbartling.com/blog/
• Global Dashboard, notes from the future : http://www.globaldashboard.org/category/climate-change/
• Che GueBadger http://www.badgerspotting.blogspot.com/, daily upadted

Business ?

• Econcern, event for business : http://www.cop14poznan.com/
• The GreenPrices blog that brings you all COP14 insights : http://www.greenprices.com/eu/weblog.asp
• Aimee Barnes blog for ClimateBiz : http://www.climatebiz.com/users/Aimee-Barnes
• Enviromedia : http://www.enviromedia.com/enviroblog/?tag=poznan

Demonstration

Paris le 29/11/09

• Manifestation et débats à Paris le 29/11/08 : http://climatjustice.org/
• Campagne des ONG, l'Europe doit montrer l'exemple : http://www.timetolead.eu/, sur Facebook http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=47108879184, Youtube http://fr.youtube.com/user/TimetoleadFrance et aussi http://www.youtube.com/user/TimeToLead, Netvibes http://www.netvibes.com/timetoleadfrance#General et twitter : http://twitter.com/timetoleadfr
• ATTAC, climat, énergie, justice sociale et environnementale http://www.france.attac.org/spip.php?rubrique1093
• "Ni nucléaire, ni effet de serre" avec le Réseau Sortir du Nucléaire : http://ninucleaire-nieffetdeserre.org/spip.php?rubrique25

Poznan, 6th december 2008

The demonstration is beginning 6 December about 12.00 on the Square of the Freedom. There will be a march up to main entry of the conference. The script will depend on the amount of participants and their creativity Want more ? cop14poznanATgmail.com & http://cop14.org.pl/

• Bike for Climate : http://www.koalicjaklimatyczna.org/index.php?id=klimat&lang=en
• Climate Now! March http://www.eng.poznan2008.org/component/content/article/1-climate-now-march/1--climate-now-march.html

• NGO's party. Tuba club. 7pm. http://www.tubaclub.pl/

Monde le 06/12/08

• Campaign against climate change : http://www.campaigncc.org/
• International day of action : http://www.globalclimatecampaign.org/

2009, COP15, Copenhague

• Call to action http://climateaction09.org/
• A network of climate activists from Denmark : http://klimax2009.org/
• Indymedia Climate http://www.climateimc.org

Yvo de Boer est le secrétaire générale de la Convention cadre des Nation Unies sur le changement climatique. C'est le personnage clés qui orientera les débats de la 14° conférence des parties à Poznan, Pologne, du 1er au 12 décembre. Un an avant les négociations du post-Kyoto, qu'elles sont ces priorités ?

Voici la video du nouveau slide show d'Al Gore, et sa traduction en français.

Interview part 1. with Daniel RODIK, Society for sustainable development design., from Zagreb, Croatia.
You can visit mojaenergija.hr, in croatian only, a website for information on renewable energy.
Vidéo : benoit. realisation : purvi.