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| Climate Change Talks in Copenhagen and EquityBD Participation | ||
The world leaders from 192 countries met in Copenhagen, Denmark, from December 7 to 18th |
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Post Copenhagen Press Briefing: Peoples’ Struggle in Copenhagen and the Accord of Discord”. |
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| Seminar on 'Issues and Concerns of the LDCs in climate change negotiation: position of the CSOs' Copenhagen, 14th December, 2009: EquityBD, in association with LDC Watch, Jubilee South, SAAPE, RRN and MS Action Aid Denmark organized a seminar to raise  concern of the CSOs of the LDCs in climate change negotiation. In this seminar CSO leaders from the LDCs urged for justice to the least developed countries those already are adversely affecting by the impacts of climate change. They also called LDCs to act together to claim compensation of carbon debt and ecological debt from the developed / annex-1 countries.. Dembe Musa from Senegal, Cemil Chalmers from Haiti, Azeb Gimri from Ethiopia, Aloys from Rwanda, Kong Sung from Cambodia, Alsa Pinto Oka from Timor Leste, Saheen Anam from Bangladesh and Tashmina Netra from Nepal gave testimonies on climate change impact in their countries. Dr. Arjun Karki of LDC Watch moderated the seminar. Please download the documents related seminar: Position paper , Press release (form Bangladesh), seminar Photos |
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Seminar ‘Climate Change Induced Forced Migrants: in need of a new protocol under UNFCCC' Please download the documents related seminar: Position paper Joint Call , Online Signature form , press release and seminar photos , media coverage |
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Photo Exhibition on Climate Change Impact in Bangladesh EquityBD, in association with CSRL and Saptahik, organized a Photo Exhibition at Purple Hall 1, DGI Byen, Kodybyan from 9 to 16 December 2009. Saheen Anam, Executive Director of Manusher Jonno Foundation, Bangladesh, inaugurated the photo exhibition titled “ Bangladesh : The Ground Zero of Climate Change”.
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December, 2009 to negotiate an agreement under the UNFCCC to protect the Earth from the climate change and its impacts. Aside with the official negotiation process of the country Parties, CSO (Civil Society Organization) accross the globe also gathered in Copenhangen under an alternative platform called 'Klimaforum09' to raise people's concern and views in the climate change negotiation. EquityBD (Equity and Justice Working Group Bangladesh) participated many of the Klimaforum events and also organized a number of events to voices of the people of Bangladesh for climate justice and a 'just deal' in CoP 15. 
the expectation and outcome of Copenhagen climate summit. He also termed COP 15 as the failure of global leadership. In his statement Rezaul Karim Chowdhury, Convener EquityBD, said ' we have to act together to change the system that are responsible for climate change. He also emphasized importance of global CSO movement to create pressure to the political system andglobal leadership. Through this press briefing EquityBD urged the government to lead and strengthen LDCs and MVCs in climate change negotiation. They also put forward few suggestions for the government to follow in the future negotiation process. 
Seminar titled “Climate Change Induced Forced Migrants: in need of a new protocol under UNFCCC' was organized in association with LDC Watch and SAAPE while they termed climate migrants as 'Universal Natural Persons'.