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WatchSky News montage of Fossil Award
Fossil of the Day--and Year!
Third place goes to the UNITED STATES and JAPAN The USA and Japan win the third-place fossil nod (or, rather, disapproving head-shake) for their insistence—right through the night of the 13th—on keeping the range of 2020 emissions cuts for developed countries out of the Bali road map. It appears the US and Japan want a road map to nowhere. Coal for them! Second place goes to THE UNITED...
Full-page Avaaz ad in Canadian papers today
Read more here: http://www.avaaz.org/en/another_canadian_climate_crime/
Joint NGO petition delivery banner - 1:30pm BICC...
…actually, the current total count is 2.6 million. But these things take time to print.
Full-page Avaaz ad in Jakarta Post, Dec 14
Read more here: http://www.avaaz.org/en/bali_emergency/
Fossil Awards for Thursday, Dec 13
Third prize: CANADA Canada takes third for walking out of a high-level negotiation meeting long before the end of a crucial discussion. Yesterday, a “Friends of the Chair” meeting brought together 40 key ministers to work through tough issues that officials had not been able to resolve. In the midst of this, Canadian Environment Minister John Baird abruptly got up and left. Where was...
Fossil Awards for Wednesday, Dec 12
Third prize: UNITED STATES OF AMERICA The US wins third for its last-minute efforts to block consensus on REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation) in SBSTA—first by calling for deletion of the paragraph linking REDD to the Bali Road Map, and second by insisting on last minute wording, with unclear intentions, to link deforestation and degradation to broader land use...
Fossil Awards for Tuesday, Dec 11
Third place goes to CANADA, JAPAN, UNITED STATES, and AUSTRALIA Third place is an unprecedented four-way split between Canada, Japan, the United States, and Australia for slapping the developing world in the face by repeatedly implying in the Dialogue that finance and technology transfer are second-tier priorities, rather than pillars of equal importance to adaptation and mitigation. Second place...
Fossil Awards for Monday, Dec 10th
Third prize goes to CANADA and JAPAN Canada and Japan win third for insisting on retaining the phrases “nature of commitments” and “commitment period and the base year” for Article 9 review. This is a step towards the worst kinds of changes: changing commitments from binding targets to pledge-and-review goals, extending the commitment periods, and shifting the base year...
Track the action at the Oxfam International Bali... →
“Observers are acting as a sort of truth squad, revealing back-corridor maneuvers...”
– Andrew Revkin, New York Times science blog
Fossil Awards for Saturday, Dec 8
In view of Canada’s leaked instructions to its negotiators, today’s Fossil of the Day Awards recognize three stunning anti-contributions to progress at Bali contained within the Harper position paper. THIRD PLACE: CANADA Canada takes third for proposing no short- or mid-term targets, mentioning only a 2050 target date for emissin reductions from an undisclosed baseline. Mr. Harper will be 91...
WINNERS FOR FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7
THIRD PRIZE: USA and CANADA Canada and the US are awarded the third prize for refusing to accept the G77 draft proposal for technology transfer as the basis for discussion at the SBI contact group. When the US and Canada are asked about their own plans for emissions reductions, they sing about the wonders of technology—but then when developing nations ask for their assistance in implementing...
“Saudi Arabia was given a dressing down yesterday by green groups which labelled...”
– Lynne Roberts, AFP
WINNERS FOR THURSDAY, DECEMBER 6
THIRD PRIZE: UNITED STATES OF AMERICA The USA takes home the coal today for announcing that they no longer agree with Australia on the Kyoto protocol. US Under Secretary of State Nicholas Burns said yesterday that, quote, “we do not see eye to eye with Australia and other countries on the wisdom of signing the Kyoto regime, that’s obvious.” We agree that it is obvious… obviously deserving of a...
Avaaz Members tell Japan to sort it out!
Despite cleaning up with 1st, 2nd and 3rd spots at the Dec. 5th Fossil of the Day Awards, Japan narrowly missed out on the 1st spot again on the 6th! At the day’s sessions, Japan had pushed for two dubious inclusions in the Clean Development Mechanism: CCS and Nuclear power. This very nearly got them top-spot at the CAN daily voting session, they were piped to the post by 2 votes more in favour of...
WINNERS FOR WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 5
THIRD PRIZE: EU The European Union wins the third prize for explicitly endorsing the existing Global Environmental Facility modalities in the Contact Group on the Adaptation Fund, despite serious concerns by developing countries that the governance of the Fund reinforces global inequality. Indeed, the Africa Group has clearly stated that existing GEF and World Bank procedures are not acceptable...
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Fossil Awards for Tuesday, Dec 4
FIRST PLACE: JAPAN Japan wins for proposing yesterday to, quote, “move beyond the kyoto protocol”—and listing elements of a post-2012 agreement without mentioning absolute emissions reduction targets and timetables for developed countries. Emissions reduction targets are the heart of the Kyoto Protocol. Japan’s proposal would kill it. SECOND PRIZE: JAPAN Japan wins a...
What are the Fossil of the Day Awards?
The Fossil-of-the-day Award is given nightly at 6pm to countries that block progress at the United Nations climate change negotiations. The winners are chosen by a vote of the Climate Action Network. The awards are presented by the international youth delegation and Avaaz.org.
“Thrown in with the United States and Saudi Arabia, Canada was one of three...”
– Tony Burman, CBC News
“It’s not easy being green. Particularly if you are big polluters Saudi...”
– David Fogarty, Reuters
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WINNERS FOR MONDAY, DECEMBER 3rd
3rd Prize Fossil of the Day: Awarded to Canada, accepted by Hannah McKinnon of the Canadian Youth Delegation with the following justifications: For insisting, in a belated AWG submission today, on “emission reduction obligations for all the largest emitting countries.’ Canada was isolated on this point at last month’s Commonwealth summit, and begins the Bali conference by continuing this...