Sri Lanka in Taipei goes well,…
SLGA candidate “Sanka Chandima Abayawardena” Got elected to
the Coordinating Committee of the Asia Pacific Greens Network during the
APGN congress held in Taipei-Taiwan. He is the youngest ever in the world
to get elected to a regional green political networks coordinating body.
SLAG proposed a resolution to APGN congress on climate change and got adopted:
It is:
5. Shift in Paradigms and Systems that Govern Societies
Sri Lanka Green Alliance-Sanka chandima Abayawardena
The APGN demands mechanisms that take into account indigenous and local knowledge, sciences, ideologies and concepts. This would include
conducting research of the causes and impacts of climate change and to create impact models at regional, national and global levels. We also
support localised adaptation and mitigation techniques to address climate change and pressure all parties at all levels to facilitate indigenous and
local solutions.
Link: http://www.apgn2010.org/adopted-resolutions
More info in to what really happened in Taipei,…..
Greens from Asia Pacific region meet in Taipei
The Asia Pacific Greens Network Congress took place in Taipei from Friday through Sunday. It brought together members of Green parties and environmental activists from many countries throughout the Asia-Pacific region and also from Europe. I attended the conference on Saturday.
The focus of the day’s talks was climate change, particularly in the light of the failure of the COP15 meeting in Copenhagen last December to achieve a satisfactory outcome. The opening speech was given by Mr Apisai Ielemia, the Prime Minister of Tuvalu. Tuvalu is one of the smallest nations on Earth and also one of the most vulnerable to climate change. The people of Tuvalu must face not just the impacts of climate change but the possibility that their entire country may be submerged by rising sea levels.
Ielemia explained why he believed the talks in Copenhagen were a failure. He put the blame squarely on the USA, saying the Copenhagen Accord was hastily put together to cover over the lack of action by the USA and for President Obama to have something to take home for domestic political reasons.
A problem with the Accord is that it sets a target of below 2ºC for the peaking of global temperatures. “Recent science tells us that a global temperature peak of around two degrees is likely to cause Tuvalu to disappear under the sea. I was certainly not going to sign on to a document that would spell the end of Tuvalu,” Ielemia said.
Ielemia proposed that the continuation of the Kyoto Protocol and setting ambitious targets for this. “The Kyoto Protocol is the only international agreement that binds industrialised countries to emission reduction targets,” Ielemia said. He also said the UK government has expressed support for continuation of the Protocol and he hopes the rest of Europe will follow.
