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Dear colleagues:
The following Climate Justice web log ("blog") is being launched at the 10th Conference of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol now underway in Buenos Aires to help frame a much-needed critique of carbon trading. While it is encouraging that the Kyoto Protocol will come into force in February 2005, despite the withdrawal of the US, there remain profound concerns among NGOs and communities on the ground that agreeing to the terms of the Protocol may encourage a global "climate apartheid," with the poorest in the global South paying for the carbon profligacy of those in the North via carbon trading.
The blog is meant to track the conversations, press, NGO inputs, and responses to this critique. It also includes photos and inside commentary from those NGOs now in Buenos Aires at the climate negotiations. Please forward widely, and encourage active interaction with those who post to the blog. We would like to start the conversation with all of you.
To visit the blog, go to:
http://climatejustice.blogspot.com/
Daphne Wysham IPS/SEEN
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