Getting ready for Getting ready for CopenhagenCopenhagen

CopenhagenCopenhagen Chance to get an emissions

reductions treaty that actually works Estimates for the total

disappearance of the summer Arctic Ocean ice tumbled to 20, 10 or even 5 years.

CO2 now at 387 ppm and need to be below 350, maybe below 325 or even 300 (pre-industrial levels were around 280).

DisparityDisparityA group of eighty of the least

developed countries, among which are many small island states, have called for reductions of at least 45 percent of CO2 below 1990 levels by 2020

Industrialised worldIndustrialised worldThe industrialised nations – other

than the U.S. – responsible for most greenhouse gas emissions causing climate change, proposed reduction by 16 to 24 percent by 2020 relative to 1990 levels.

U.S. did not commit itself even to this.

Cost?Cost?Global Legislators Organisation

for a Balanced Environment (GLOBE) estimates that some 90 to 140 billion dollars a year might be needed to pay for climate change mitigation technologies and adaptation.

Peanuts in light of banking crisis

ImpactImpact80% of 1.3 billion people in the

world living under the poverty line are women.

In 2008 the level of global malnutrition grew by 800,000 to reach more than 1 billion people.

Diseases such as cholera which had previously been eliminated are now re-occurring as part of this crisis of civilisation.

Our eventOur eventInternationalist – Sweden, GB,

CanadaPluralist – Green Left, Climate

Camp, Harcan Clearskies, PRThemes – global justice,

economy, gender, market alternatives, global south, green jobs, cities

Our projectOur projectSecond such event, 4th book,

coverage in journal.Stronger relationship with Green

Left, contacts with other activists.CACCTUBuilding for Copenhagen

MismatchMismatchThe G20 protests and the Climate

Camp are proof that radicalising young people understand the issues more clearly than New Labour.

Movement still weak when measured against scope of problem

Coming monthsComing monthsEnrich our own analysisPre-election period.Bring ecosocialist demands into

electoral programmes.Take part in opportunities to

build mass movement.