ERC -- Pacific Calling Partnership & ERC Eco Justice -- Copenhagen UNFCCC COP15 Summit on Climate Change

What Pacific Calling Partnership did at COP15 Copenhagen

For the two weeks of the Copenhagen 2009 UN Climate Change Conference, the Pacific Calling Partnership’s delegation put the human face of climate change onto the international stage in the hope that the overwhelming international attention there will contribute to build up a groundswell of concern for the effects climate change is having on low lying Pacific Islands.

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Copenhagen - Postcards to the Pacific

Regular updates from the Pacific Calling Partnshership / Edmund Rice Centre delegation that is attending Copenhagen UNFCCC COP15.

• Postcard to the Pacific #1 - Tuesday, 8th Dec 2009 
• Postcard to the Pacific #2 - Saturday 12th Dec 2009
  

Tweeting from Copenhagen

ERC Director, Phil Glendenning is on Twitter and posting regular updates from Copenhagen where he is part of the ERC / PCP delegation to the UNFCCC COP15.

Read Phil's Copenhagen Tweets (opens Twitter in a new browser tab/window)

Delegation of Pacific Islanders, with Indigenous & non-Indigenous Australians depart Sydney for Copenhagen UN Climate Change Summit - COP15

Representatives from the Pacific Island communities most threatened by rising sea levels, will depart Sydney this week to attend the Copenhagen UN summit, together with Australian human rights advocates, to ensure that the human face of climate change is not forgotten.

The delegation consists of eight people:-

ERC Media: Time to respond to the human face of climate change Copenhagen: Delegation of Pacific Islanders and Australians depart for UN Summit Representatives from the Pacific Island communities most threatened by rising sea levels, will travel to the Copenhagen UN summit this week, together with Australian human rights advocates, to ensure that the human face of climate change is not forgotten. "For too long the climate change discussion has been an elitist debate between scientists, politicians, economists and environmentalists,” explained Phil Glendenning, director of the Edmund Rice Centre, and a member of the Pacific Calling Partnership (PCP) delegation. “Our humanity is at stake and this elitism cannot be allowed to continue.”  Read more

Copenhagen: A Peoples' Preparation - Across Rising Waters

Climate change advocates from within church groups in Australia are heading for the Pacific island nation of Kiribati to strategise with colleagues there, on how they will communicate the plight of the people of Kiribati at the UN Climate Change Summit when the two groups travel to Copenhagen together in December.

“The I-Kiribati and many other peoples in low-lying islands make minimal impact in causing rising sea levels but are asked by the rest of the world to pay the maximum price.” Mr Glendenning said.

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