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Copenhagen

The UNFCCC Copenhagen climate change negotiations

Progressio believes that it is essential that the climate change negotiations in Copenhagen in December 2009 conclude with a strong and fair legal deal, with clear and ambitious targets and timelines. Progressio is an official observer organisation of the UNFCCC (the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change) and a small delegation will be present at the negotiations in Copenhagen in December 2009. To minimise our environmental impact, the UK delegation will be travelling by train to the meeting.

Within the negotiations Progressio is focusing on two main issues, water and voices from the global South. Water is the primary transmitter of climate change impacts on society and the environment and also a key vehicle for adaptation, but was not mentioned in the original negotiation text on adaptation. Progressio therefore collaborates with the Global Public Policy Network on Water Management (GPPN) to raise the profile of water within the negotiations and for an inclusion of appropriate water related language into the negotiation text on adaptation.

Progressio feels that it is essential to highlight the voices of the South to the climate change negotiations – the people that are and will be most affected by climate change. There is a lack of strong Southern civil society voices within the UNFCCC process and we therefore support the participation of partners, so that they can contribute with direct evidence from their countries and so that they can better understand the negotiation process, which will be of benefit both in terms of reporting back to their communities and for monitoring the process and implementation stages in the longer term. We sponsored a partner from UNES, El Salvador, to join our delegation to the informal negotiation session in Barcelona in November 09 and are sponsoring two partners from IEE and CAMAREN in Ecuador to join us in Copenhagen in December 09.

In the UK Progressio is a member of Stop Climate Chaos, the largest UK coalition working on climate change issues

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