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Version française: BNTPhoto & RealAudio from 10 November's SPECIAL EVENTS |
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Friends of the Earth, along with Germanwatch and Oilwatch, staged a parody to illustrate the strong influence that the oil industry has over the US government's policy and inaction on climate change |  |
 Ignacio Prafil, Parlamento Mapuche, Argentina, and Esperanza Martinez,
Oilwatch International, Ecuador at an Oilwatch event calling on governments to stop the
destruction of local communities by oil companies |
 Stephen Kretzman, Project Underground, spoke on the three year
anniversay of the hanging of Ken Saro-Wiwa and 8 other Nigerian activists for peacefully
protesting against Shell's destruction of the environment in the Niger Delta |
BYOUNG-SU CHOI (E-mail: byoungsu99@hotmail.com, web site:http://www.ifp.or.kr/~ecoart)
Byoung-Su Choi creates huge pull-down paintings of a genre called Gulgae Gurim in Korea. He worked as an artist until "urgent social issues compelled him to use his [artistic] talents" within the context of the democratization movement in his home country. Mr. Choi links environmental problems to questions about the unequal distribution of wealth in the world and the relationship between past and future. In 1992 he took part in the ‘Earth Summit’ (UNCED) and produced a painting called ‘Waste’. In Kyoto last year he sculptured penguins from ice and allowed them to melt as COP-3 proceeded.
At COP-4 he is working on a project called "The end of civilization Compass" reflecting his concern about the moral dimension of climate change issues and a sense that the Earth has lost its way.
 Left: Byoung-Su Choi and Peter Doran, ENB
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Right: Byoung-Su Choi at workThe role of business voluntary initiatives - ways forward and next steps The aim of this event was to report on the initial findings of an inquiry into business voluntary initiatives and the role they can play in addressing climate change. The investigation was initiated last year by six organizations in partnership:
RealAudio interview with Norine
Kennedy (representing the ICC and
Vice President of Environmental Affairs for USCIB)
Monitoring and compliance under the Kyoto Protocol Two new reports dealing with monitoring and compliance under the Kyoto Protocol were introduced by their authors and discussed at this event. The first paper - Monitoring, Reporting and Review of National Performance under the Kyoto Protocol - was written by Jan Corfee Morlot of the OECD's Environment Directorate. The second paper - Responding to Non-Compliance under the Climate Change Regime - was authored by Jacob Werksman, also under contract to the OECD. The meeting was arranged by the OECD as part of its analytical work on climate change. These reports present some of its initial findings in terms of monitoring and compliance under the Kyoto Protocol. The reports can be read at http://www.oecd.org/env/cc/
Left: John Lanchbery, Birdlife
International, Jan Corfee-Morlot, OECD, Joke Waller-Hunter, OECD, and Jacob Werksman,
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In this RealAudio interview, the
OECD's Joke Waller-Hunter (Director, Environment Directorate, joke.waller-hunter@oecd.org) and Jan Corfee
Morlot (Principal Administrator, Environment Directorate, jan.corfee-morlot@oecd.org) discuss the
meeting and the findings of the two reports.
International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI)
Representatives of ICLEI (e-mail:ccp@iclei.org, web site:http://www.iclei.org/CO2) hosted this briefing to urge national delegations meeting in Buenos Aires to take firm steps to implement the Kyoto Protocol. Representing over 280 local governments worldwide, the ICLEI Communique to COP-4 called on delegates to:
make domestic reductions the primary means for achieving Kyoto Protocol commitments
place a cap on total allowable emissions and on what can be traded
Harvey Ruvin (Miami-Dade County) discusses the lead being taken on climate change by local government, and announces that the City of Buenos Aires has joined ICLEI
Harvey Ruvin, County Clerk, Miami-Dade County, Florida, and Rodrigo Walsh,
Buenos Aires
Dr. Mauricio Lobo, Environmental
Secretary, Rio de Janeiro, and Seiichi Uehara, Director, Enviornment Bureau, KyotoLand-use change and forestry: problems and open questions
This meeting looked at some of the technical and policy aspects of land-use change and forestry as it relates to the Kyoto Protocol. It was organized by the Oko Institut, the WWF and the German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU, http://www.wbgu.de). Panelists were Anke Herold (Oko Institut, herold@freiburg.oeko.de), Ursula Fuentes (WBGU) and Dr. Stephan Singer (WWF).
Ursula Fuentes, WBGU, discusses sinks
International Energy Agency (IEA) Press Briefing
Worldwide CO2 emissions will increase 75% on 1990 levels by 2020 under a "business as usual" projection, according to the latest edition of the IEA's World Energy Outlook released today. Using a new methodology and a new world energy model, the IEA's Outlook suggests that two-thirds of the increase in energy demand could occur in China and other developing countries.
The "business as usual" approach does not include climate change commitments made in Kyoto last December. The IEA (http://www.iea.org), which is the OECD's specialised energy arm, notes that governments will need to implement major new policies and measures in order to meet the Kyoto objectives.
Right: Robert Priddle, Director,
International Energy Agency (IEA)
Miscellaneous photos
 Top left: The Secretariat staff
presented Michael Zammit Cutajar, UNFCCC Executive Secretary, and Karl Goldschwend,
Chief of Protocol, with a birthday cake as they were both celebrating birthdays today
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Top right: SBI Chair Bakare
Kante at Executive Secretary Cutajar's birthday party
Bottom left: A
reporter interviews kids who are bringing a message to COP-4 delegates
Bottom right: A
BBC radio reporter interviews Hillary NussbaumReturn to ENB COP-4 home
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