TOPIC : COPENHAGEN SUMMIT

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• Copenhagen climate council
• Copenhagen council profile
• Purpose
• Membership
• Copenhagen climate conference -2009
• Learning from the past mistakes
• Role of India

• Food for thought

• Results
 Copenhagen Climate Council
• The Copenhagen Climate Council is a global
collaboration between international business
and science founded by the leading
independent think tank in Scandinavia, based in
Copenhagen. The councilors have come together
to create global awareness of the importance of
the UN Climate Summit (COP15) in Copenhagen,
December 2009, and to ensure technical and
public support and assistance to global decision
makers when agreeing on a new climate treaty
to replace the Kyoto Protocol from 1997.
 Copenhagen Climate Council
Formation 2007
Type Global Climate Collaboration
Legal status Foundation
Headquarters Copenhagen, Denmark
Region served Worldwide
Chairman Tim Flannery
 PURPOSE

• create global awareness on the importance of the

UN Climate Summit (COP15) in Copenhagen,
December 2009. The Council will seek to promote
constructive dialogue between government and
business, so that when the world's political leaders
and negotiators meet. The strategy is built upon the
following principles:
• Creating international awareness on the
importance of the Copenhagen UN Climate Summit.
• Promoting constructive dialogue between
government, business, and science.
• Inspiring global business leaders by demonstrating
that tackling climate change also has the potential
to create huge opportunities for innovation and
economic growth.
 MEMBERSHIP
• Copenhagen Climate Council comprises 30 global
climate leaders representing business, science, and
public policy from all parts of the world.
• Business leader represent global companies and
innovative entrepreneurs, who, through their actions,
reveal climate-responsible business which is both
necessary and profitable.
• Scientists are gathered to ensure that the work of the
Council is underpinned by rigorous analysis.
• Policy makers with experience in public policy are
included in the Council to ensure that the work is
informed by knowledge of what is required to assist
high-level, complex policy negotiations.
 Copenhagen Climate Conference2009
• In 2012 the Kyoto Protocol worked to prevent
climate changes and global warming. The Climate
Conference in Copenhagen is essential for the
worlds climate and the Danish government and
UNFCCC is putting hard effort in making the meeting
in Copenhagen a success ending up with a
Copenhagen Protocol to prevent global warming
and climate change.
• Governmental representatives from 170 countries
were in Copenhagen accompanied by other
governmental representatives, NGO's, journalists
and others.
• The Danish Government has decided that
conference should be focused on the climate.
Learning from the past mistakes.
 1. The need for common goals

Diversity is crucial and inherent to successful

movements. In the US climate scientist James
Hansen gained public attraction by posing one
alternative to cap-and-trade.
Their lack of unity as a climate movement meant the
polluters gained the upper hand. This highlights the
importance of developing a common set of concrete
goals for the climate movement and a positive,
united agenda. This platform cannot simply be set in
the abstract, or necessarily a long period in advance,
but must be developed dynamically in the “real
world” with consideration to the evolving nature,
politics and capabilities of the various forces in the
movement.
 2. TRANSITIONAL THINKING
•

The idea of transition is increasingly popular, but

transformations will not happen just because we wish for
them. A transition will need to be built and often this will
involve small and painful steps.

That does not mean we should lose sight of our end aim, but
that successful movements are built through mobilizing
support for specific actions that intersect with the existing
political terrain and exploit its contradictions and
weaknesses.
•
3. Climate change is the issue
Across the country, thousands of people are engaged in local
sustainability projects. Thousands more are mobilized and
supportive of other conservation issues such as opposing
whaling or campaigning for new national parks.

Local habitats are rapidly spreading towards the poles and up

mountains, stranding many species. This is the underpinning
of what may be the mass destruction of ecologies.

Given this reality, is it time to be making the case that climate

change is the issue and that those who do not place it at the
top of their list have their priorities wrong?
 4. Harming the poor?
• There is a strange dichotomy in the climate debate. On the one
hand, international aid agencies have engaged with the danger of
sea level rises for the delta regions of the world and the threat to
water security from melting glaciers.
The welfare lobby that claims to seen climate change as a threat
to those in poverty. Rather, it views climate change mitigation as
the danger, judging from where its resources and advocacy have
been directed.
For the welfare lobby, carbon taxes, clean energy pricing and
renewable energy targets mean increased prices, and increased
prices must be opposed at all cost.
The welfare sector has been blind to what the realities of climate
change will mean for its constituencies. The ravages of super-
droughts and heat waves, bush fires and floods, sea level rises and
other weather and economic dislocation will fall mainly on
Australia’s poor.
 5. International rabbit hole
The Copenhagen conference has finally
confirmed once and for all the
bankruptcy of a strategy built around
outcomes from international
negotiations.
The Australian climate movement has
sought to leap-frog community
mobilization by appealing to
international responsibility.
International negotiations can and
should be used by the movement to
speak with one voice globally.

We will never get a worthwhile

international agreement until we
deepen support for action within the
nations that are party to an agreement.
• 6. Living with denial
We will never get rid of climate deniers, at least not before it is too late,
and psychological denial deepens as the moment of truth nears. In one
sense, deniers and “climate-gate” have failed: more than 160 leaders —
even the Saudis accepted that global warming is a real problem.

This is not just about a rational, fact-based debate. We can’t win with
“the facts” alone. The deniers will twist and turn and throw bombs, and
then go on to something else.

Our response needs to be based on emotion and values too, and on

their credibility.
We need to tag the deniers for what they are: deniers, not skeptics.
Deniers come in many forms, including serial contrarians, blogging
conspiracy theorists, delusional crackpots, amateurs and grumpy old
men, particularly from geology and meteorology, who cannot deal with
the fact that the body of professional knowledge that constituted their
identity and their fading careers has been overturned by new
understandings.
 8. Are they listening?

There is now a vast array of communications, messages and stories being

told about climate change.
We need some simple messages that correspond with our goals.
As a movement, we are yet to agree on a common language that can win
over the public. So let’s start a conversation about how to have the climate
conversation.
One of our biggest communication and strategic failures as a movement
has been to allow climate change to be seen as an environment issue. This
has been reinforced by messages about saving beautiful places like the
Great Barrier Reef. We need to change our communication strategy. The
key is to talk about real, concrete impacts on people in Australia, like the
Black Saturday bushfires.

Sea level rises, floods and the drought are all key areas to explore because
of their social and economic impacts and their tangible effects now and in
the near future.
 Brass from pockets

•The most concrete part of the Copenhagen Accord is an agreement

that richer countries should raise funds to help poorer nations adapt
to climate impacts and "green" their economies.
•Lord Stern is a member of the group set up by UN Secretary-General
Ban Ki-moon to advise on how to raise $100bn (£66bn) per year by
2020 using various "innovative mechanisms" that could include
taxes on international aviation and banking transactions.
•But the immediate objective, was to enact the short-term promise
of providing $30bn over the period 2010-12 from the public purses
of western nations.
•If that money did not start to move fairly quickly, that would further
erode trust among developing countries.
•"The developing world needs to see clear signals to have something
in their hands at Cancun”.
•The Mexican coastal city will host this year's UNFCCC summit.
•How and where these funds are to be disbursed has yet to be
decided.
 India to play crucial role in
Copenhagen summit
• The Copenhagen summit on climate change
scheduled next month, will see India playing a
crucial role towards promoting development
of environment-friendly production
techniques and control of carbon emissions.
The US also expects to collaborate with India in
producing energy-efficient products.
SAVE EARTH
Failure of Copenhagen would result into?

• Temperature rise
• Sea level rise
• Oxygen depletion
• Acidification
ACT NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!