Grassroots Global Justice Alliance

MEDIA ADVISORY  

13 December 2011

For Immediate Release

Indigenous Peoples Condemn Climate Talks Fiasco and Demand Moratoria on REDD+

Contact: Tom Goldtooth

Tel (USA): (218) 760 - 0442

COP17 succumbs to Climate Apartheid

Antidote is Cochabamba Peoples’ Agreement

Durban, S. Africa, 11 December, 2011 – Decisions resulting from the UN COP17 climate summit in Durban constitute a crime against humanity, according to Climate Justice Now! a broad coalition of social movements and civil society. Here in South Africa, where the world was inspired by the liberation struggle of the country’s black majority, the richest nations have cynically created a new regime of climate apartheid.

We the Rural Women's Assembly of Southern Africa, meeting in Durban on the event of the 17th Conference of Parties of the UNFCCC in Durban from 30 November to 5 December 2011 demand that governments take the following immediate steps to address the clear and present danger posed to rural communities by the climate crisis.

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The 17th Conference of Parties (COP17) in Durban opened on Monday to the same old tune: false promises, false optimism, false solutions.  The primary issues on the table include how to finance adaptation to climate disruption, technological solutions to climate problems, and the further development of carbon-trading schemes to commodify soil, oceans, and forests.