A New Rendezvous for the Climate: The United Nations Climate Change Conference in Poznan from 1 to 12 December 2008.

After the Bali Conference at the end of 2007, the international community is meeting again at the 14th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Climate Change and the 4th Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol. This is a key meeting to assess implementation of these two agreements and prepare the ground for the future agreement on the climate regime beyond 2012, which must be reached in Copenhagen in December 2009.

GRET will attend the conference as an observer of the negotiations, and will publish a newsletter, “Echoes from Poznan”, on the content of the discussions.

For more informations :
> "Echoes from Poznan" - n°4 (2008.12.12) | Only 352 Days Until Copenhagen (pdf - 150ko)
> "Echoes from Poznan" - n°3 (2008.12.10) | Looking for Significant Progress (pdf - 150ko)
> "Echoes from Poznan" - n°2 (2008.12.05) | Converging or Diverging? (pdf - 150ko)
> "Echoes from Poznan" - n°1 (2008.12.01) | The Dance Has Begun! (pdf - 100ko)

> Download GRET’s documents on the Poznan conference

Useful Links:
> The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change website
> Climate Action Network's website

In the context of its follow-up program of the French EU presidency "Get Europe to make sense: fair & responsible" , Coordination SUD is pleased to invite you to its seminar:

Fight against climate change: what multilateral system beyond 2012? Seminar translated into english Thursday 25 September 2008 from 9.00 am to 5.45 pm Parc départemental de la Bergère Chemin latéral de l'avenue Paul Vaillant-Couturier - Cité administrative 2 - 93000 Bobigny
See the draft agenda and the preparatory document

The United Nations Conference on climate change will take place in Poznan, Poland, in December 2008. Prior to this, Coordination SUD is organising, in partnership with GRET (Research and Technological Exchange Group) and CAN-F (Climate Action Network - France), a dialogue gathering governmental leaders, NGOs, international organisations and academics from the North and the South, on what's at stake with the future negotiations.
With the support of the European Commission, the Fondation de France and the General Secretariat of the French EU Presidency.
Please register with
Claire Hernandez : hernandez@coordinationsud.org - Tel. +33(0)1 44 72 84 55
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Coordination SUD – (“SUD” for “Solidarité Urgence Développement” or “Solidarity, Relief, Development”) is the national platform of French international solidarity NGOs. Founded in 1994, it brings together six NGO coalitions (CLONG-Volontariat, CNAJEP, Coordination d’Agen, CRID, FORIM, Groupe Initiatives) and more than 130 French international solidarity NGOs. Together with their partners from countries of the South, these NGOs carry out humanitarian relief, development assistance, environmental protection and promotion of human rights of vulnerable and marginalised people, as well as international solidarity education and advocacy.

While the current food crisis sharply reveals the need for solidarity between rich and poor countries, France, which is preparing to assume presidency of the European Union, is one of the European countries whose ODA fell the most in 2007. French international solidarity organisations are mobilising to push France to fulfil its commitments and demand:

• the adoption of an ODA increase schedule that will allow France to attain the European target of 0.7% of gross national income in 2015; and
• the adoption of a medium-term strategy clarifying France’s development cooperation objectives and returning the reduction of poverty and inequalities to its rightful place.

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Agriculture and the WTO in Africa: Understand to Act
Coordinated by Marie-Christine Lebret and Arlène Alpha

The World Trade Organisation (WTO) defines rules on the international trade in goods and services, and these rules have consequences for national policies. The choices made at the WTO are of major importance for development, in particular in the field of agriculture, an essential socioeconomic sector in Africa. The purpose of this book is to provide guidance in understanding how the WTO institutions and agreements operate and to provide tools to better understand the stakes behind, and means for, participation in world trade.
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