Published October 28, 2009
by iris_author
When: Wednesday, November 4th, 2009 305
Time: 10:00am to 11:00am
Where: 305 York Lanes
York University, in partnership with the ECOAR Institute for Citizenship in Brazil, has received observer status for the upcoming UN climate change conference (COP15) in Copenhagen. Together we will be holding a 2 hour side-event, aimed at international delegates from the North and South, entitled “Global Forum on Climate Justice for the Disenfranchised” on December 15th, 2009. Check out the YFile story about the side event.
The event will feature a panel of climate justice experts from Brazil, the Canadian Arctic, South Africa and India who will speak about climate change issues and adaptive initiatives undertaken in their respective countries. We will hear about the activities already underway, such as an international course on climate change in Brazil and several pilot intervention/demonstration projects throughout our representatives' countries. Multimedia exhibits including videos, poster, photos and art will be used to show just how far we’ve already come!
Please check out the poster!
Purpose of the Information Session?
Please come learn more about the side event, and how you can become involved in this project.
- Are you interested in climate justice?
- Are you attending COP 15, or know someone who is?
- Can you contribute to our side-event? i.e. posters, ideas, connections
- Do you have extra funds available to support the side event?
We look forward to seeing you there! Please pass this along to those in your network.
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Thanks for being an integral part of the solution!
I was one of the organizers of Toronto’s GEO350 Event on the International Day of Climate Action – amongst the 5000+ events across 180+ nations when people from across the globe simultaneously called for a fair & binding climate treaty with a tangible objective: 350ppm or less – and I have first hand experience in seeing how differently people continue to act once they learn & understand the priority of this matter.
On that big day, we launched a very exciting campaign called Vote Earth350 PPM the People Powered Movement helps facilitate & gather the votes of individuals who wish to support WWF’s Vote Earth (Earthhour.org), 350.org & the Global Campaign for Climate Action (tcktcktck.org) simultaneously with one single action – the virtual campaign was brought to physical presence with replica voting booths & ballots!
Supporters showed their vote by wearing an eco-friendly Green Ribbon.
Virtually the campaign has presence on Facebook (pages & groups), Linked-in (groups & polls), Twitter (@votePPM & support with #votePPM) as well as an interactive & ultra-user-friendly website coming soon!
We are eager to continue to be a part of the solution with this excellent initiative at York University as well. Please let me know how we can best collaborate in advancing this cause.
Nima K
S.E.E. Responsibility Activist & Sustainability Entrepreneur
The people of the world, including Canadians, are facing a loss of their sovereignty, freedoms and rights based on a FALSE interpretation of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report which was co-authored by York alumnus Roger Pulwarty (B.Sc. ’86 in Earth and Atmospheric Science). Pulwarty shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore…
Lord Christopher Monckton, former science adviser to British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, had this to say last month at Bethel University in St. Paul, Minnesota:
At Copenhagen, this December, weeks away, a treaty will be signed. Your president will sign it. Most of the third world countries will sign it, because they think they’re going to get money out of it. Most of the left-wing regime from the European Union will rubber stamp it. Virtually nobody won’t sign it. I read that treaty. And what it says is this, that a world government is going to be created. The word “government” actually appears as the first of three purposes of the new entity. The second purpose is the transfer of wealth from the countries of the West to third world countries, in satisfication of what is called, coyly, “climate debt” – because we’ve been burning CO2 and they haven’t. We’ve been screwing up the climate and they haven’t. And the third purpose of this new entity, this government, is enforcement. How many of you think that the word “election” or “democracy” or “vote” or “ballot” occurs anywhere in the 200 pages of that treaty? Quite right, it doesn’t appear once. So, at last, the communists who piled out of the Berlin Wall and into the environmental movement, who took over Greenpeace so that my friends who funded it left within a year, because [the communists] captured it – Now the apotheosis as at hand. They are about to impose a communist world government on the world. You have a president who has very strong sympathies with that point of view. He’s going to sign it. He’ll sign anything. He’s a Nobel Peace Prize [winner]; of course he’ll sign it.
York University/Canada should not have observer status for the upcoming UN climate change conference (COP15) in Copenhagen but as a knowledgeable and responsible full participant and leader so that the world learns the truth before it is too late!
York University has a solid reputation as a leading institution for atmospheric research and social justice and truth. For example, York’s Chemistry of the Atmosphere Prof. Harold Schiff saved the world by convincing the U.S. President to cancel the American SST program that would have destroyed the Ozone Layer allowing UV to reach the surface of the Earth. This would have destroyed crops and created global famines as well as greatly increasing the number of people going blind and those contracting skin cancer.
York can save the world again! Are we up to the challenge or are we more interested in a free trip to Europe?
Good question