Friends of the Earth International wants rich industrialised nations to take the lead in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and assist the Global South in adapting to climate change. With governments failing to meet the obligations laid out in the Kyoto agreement, we insist that the Global North agrees to reduce their emissions and pay their climate 'debt' to those countries suffering the effects of a problem they did not create.
The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change was adopted
in 1992 and recognises the rich, industrialised
nations’ overwhelming contribution to historical emissions and
therefore their responsibility in acting first to bring down their
national emissions. The first commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol ends in 2012 and
governments are currently negotiating the second commitment period of
the Protocol, scheduled to be completed in December 2009. Despite strong scientific evidence and the experience of climate
change threatening the lives and livelihoods of people across the
globe, governments of the Global North are failing to live up to their
convention obligations.
Read what our climate campaigners have been blogging about.
Blogging on climate justice and energy
2009
