SUMMARY
There are solutions to the climate crisis. What people and the planet need is a just and sustainable
transition of our societies to a form that will ensure the rights of life and dignity of all peoples and deliver
a more fertile planet and more fulfilling lives to future generations.
We, participating peoples, communities and all organizations at the Klimaforum09 in Copenhagen, call
upon every person, organization, government and institutions, including the United Nations (UN), to
contribute to this necessary transition. It will be a challenging task. The crisis of today has economic,
social, environmental, geopolitical, and ideological aspects interacting with and enforcing each other as
well as the climate crisis. For this reason, we call for urgent climate action:
• A complete abandoning of fossil fuels within the next 30 years, which must include specific
milestones for every 5-year period. We demand an immediate cut in GHG of industrialized
countries of at least 40% compared to 1990 levels by 2020.
• Recognition, payment and compensation of climate debt for the overconsumption of
atmospheric space and adverse effects of climate change on all affected groups and people.
• Rejection to purely market-oriented and technology-centred false and dangerous solutions
such as nuclear energy, agro-fuels, carbon capture and storage, Clean Development Mechanisms,
biochar, genetically “climate-readied” crops, geo-engineering and reducing emissions from
deforestation and forest degradation (REDD), which deepens social and environmental conflicts.
• Real solutions to climate crisis based on safe, clean, renewable and sustainable use of natural
resources, as well as transitions to food, energy, land and water sovereignty.
Therefore, we demand of COP15 to reach an agreement that will initiate the restoration of the
environmental, social and economic balance of planet Earth by means that are environmentally, socially
and economically sustainable and equitable, and finally come up with a legally binding treaty.
The adverse impacts of human-induced climate change cause gross violations of human rights. The
nations have an obligation to cooperate internationally to ensure respect for human rights everywhere in
the world according to the Charter of the United Nations. Any specific agreement on climate change must
be seen in the broader context of achieving a sustainable transition of our societies.
We, participating people and organisations at Klimaforum09, commit to continue our full and active
engagement in promoting such a transition, which will require a fundamental change in social, political
and economic structures and a rectification of gender, class, race, generation, ethnic inequalities and
injustices.
This requires restoration of democratic sovereignty of our local communities as a basic social, political and
economic unit. Local and democratic ownership and control over and access to natural resources will be
the basis for meaningful and sustainable development of communities, and simultaneously reduce
greenhouse gas emissions. There is also the need for stronger regional and international cooperative
arrangements to manage common and shared resources, and a stronger and democratic UN.
We call upon every concerned person, social movement, cultural, political or economic organisation to
join us in building a strong global movement of movements, which can bring forward peoples’ visions and
demands on every level of society. Together, we can make global transitions to sustainable futures.
SUMMARY
There are solutions to the climate crisis. What people and the planet need is a just and sustainable transition of our societies to a form that will ensure the rights of life and dignity of all peoples and deliver a more fertile planet and more fulfilling lives to future generations.
We, participating peoples, communities and all organizations at the Klimaforum09 in Copenhagen, call upon every person, organization, government and institutions, including the United Nations (UN), to contribute to this necessary transition. It will be a challenging task. The crisis of today has economic,
social, environmental, geopolitical, and ideological aspects interacting with and enforcing each other as well as the climate crisis. For this reason, we call for urgent climate action:
• A complete abandoning of fossil fuels within the next 30 years, which must include specific milestones for every 5-year period. We demand an immediate cut in GHG of industrialized countries of at least 40% compared to 1990 levels by 2020.
• Recognition, payment and compensation of climate debt for the overconsumption of atmospheric space and adverse effects of climate change on all affected groups and people.
• Rejection to purely market-oriented and technology-centred false and dangerous solutions such as nuclear energy, agro-fuels, carbon capture and storage, Clean Development Mechanisms, biochar, genetically “climate-readied” crops, geo-engineering and reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD), which deepens social and environmental conflicts.
• Real solutions to climate crisis based on safe, clean, renewable and sustainable use of natural resources, as well as transitions to food, energy, land and water sovereignty.
Therefore, we demand of COP15 to reach an agreement that will initiate the restoration of the environmental, social and economic balance of planet Earth by means that are environmentally, socially and economically sustainable and equitable, and finally come up with a legally binding treaty.
The adverse impacts of human-induced climate change cause gross violations of human rights. The nations have an obligation to cooperate internationally to ensure respect for human rights everywhere in the world according to the Charter of the United Nations. Any specific agreement on climate change must
be seen in the broader context of achieving a sustainable transition of our societies.
We, participating people and organisations at Klimaforum09, commit to continue our full and active engagement in promoting such a transition, which will require a fundamental change in social, political and economic structures and a rectification of gender, class, race, generation, ethnic inequalities and injustices.
This requires restoration of democratic sovereignty of our local communities as a basic social, political and economic unit. Local and democratic ownership and control over and access to natural resources will be the basis for meaningful and sustainable development of communities, and simultaneously reduce greenhouse gas emissions. There is also the need for stronger regional and international cooperative arrangements to manage common and shared resources, and a stronger and democratic UN.
We call upon every concerned person, social movement, cultural, political or economic organisation to join us in building a strong global movement of movements, which can bring forward peoples’ visions and demands on every level of society. Together, we can make global transitions to sustainable futures.
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