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Climate First!
Urges the Global Leaders: Sign the Petition
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We demands:
- Establishing a realistic fund for Bangladesh and other least developed and developing countries for their climate change requirements.
- The financing to the climate victim nations should not be loans, and the scale of finance should be revised with changes in the adaptation needs.
- The international community to reject all myopic, self-centred discords, reject the culture of excess and waste, to embrace one another%u2019s responsibility, burden, prosperity, and live in harmony within the planet%u2019s capacity.
- The climate change adaptation financing must be additional to and distinct from ODA targets of 0.7% of Gross National Income meant for the developing countries and 0.2% for LDCs by 2010, as reaffirmed in the Brussels Program of Action.
- Besides, out of this fund, every year a substantial amount should be kept aside for adaptation needs of developing countries with maximum share going to low lying coastal countries, LDCs and the small-island developing countries.
- Though Bangladesh established a US$ 45 million Climate Change Fund with own resources, and there is also a Multi-Donor Trust Fund of US$ 150 million with support of the United Kingdom, the amounts are meagre in comparison to the needs.
- Adopting a new legal regime under the UNFCCC Protocol ensuring social, cultural and economic rehabilitation of climate refugees from COP 15 in Copenhagen.
- The outcome in the Copenhagen meet must uphold the core principle of common but differentiated share of responsibility; assured, adequate, and easily accessible funding for adaptation; access to scientific information to climate change in sectors like risk reduction, water resources, agriculture, energy, urban planning and health disorders.
- The Copenhagen meet must also ensure affordable, eco-friendly technology transfer to developing countries, particularly to LDCs; make maximum possible specific commitments for deeper cuts in greenhouse gas emissions for atmospheric stabilisation.
- The post 2012 agreement must, however, incorporate predictable and legally binding commitments for addressing adaptation needs of low lying, coastal, and small-island developing states, and LDCs.
- Establishing an international adaptation centre under UNFCCC.
- Setting up a Himalayan Council in the model of the Artic Council to assist similarly affected countries in facing the challenges of glacial melting in the Himalayas.
Call your ministers and policy makers to realise these demands at Copenhagen. Sign the Petition
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Urge President Obama to Step Up on Climate
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One year ago today, newly-elected President Obama promised change. Although Obama demonstrates more leadership on climate than any other President the United States has ever seen, the opposition is fighting him at every step. Obama needs to stay strong, because we need a real climate bill calling for real change!
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