BOMB OF INFORMATION Road to the Climate Summit in NY! Take the time to read it carefully. Dear YOUNGO, First of all Climate Summit is just around the corner and is one of the spaces that define the direction of the climate negotiations this year, heading 2015 and the coming years. We have received a statement towards the Climate Summit in NY. By favo, take the time to read it carefully. This email was sent to all YOUNGO list in three languages (English, Spanish and French). Please, if anyone can translate it into other languages, it would be excellent. Thank you. Message: This joint statement is a common contribution from different members of major groups and constituencies recognized under the United Nations, that aims to address the world leaders invited by the UN SG Ban Ki-moon to the Climate Summit scheduled on the 23 of September in New York. This follows on from a previous common expression of non-State actors for the UN Open Working Group 7 on Sustainable Development Goals, with a position paper defending a stand-alone SDG on “Sustainable urbanization”, prepared during different working meetings, in particular on the occasion of the World Summit on Sustainable cities Ecocity. It had been endorsed by various member organizations of six major groups –among them several organizing partners - and presented to the co-chairs during the morning hearings on “Sustainable cities” in January 2014 in New York. This enabled to show that organizations from different groups of non-State actors can work together and address the UN Member States in a negotiation process. The initiators of the first text have agreed to continue this collaboration towards the Climate Summit, convened by the UN SG Ban Ki-moon to relaunch the dynamic of negotiation on the way to the Paris Climate Conference in 2015. That Summit is a unique opportunity for non-State actors to deliver common messages to national governments on the urgency and the level of ambition necessary for the agreement, and on their own commitments to contribute to the achievement of the objectives that the national governments will set for themselves. This time, both major groups (following SDGs) and constituencies (following climate negotiations) have been invited to join the initiative. Climate action being crucial to development, we consider that climate negotiations and post-2015 development negotiations are strongly interconnected, as the joint statement recalls. It thus appears very important to strengthen dialogue and coordination between major groups and constituencies, for common expressions in the negotiations. This joint statement has been elaborated on the occasion of two meetings, in Paris in March, and in Bonn in June, and on the basis of contributions provided by representatives of different member organizations of the nine groups. It will be sent officially to Ban Ki-moon and to the UN Member States before the opening of the Climate Summit. It is now open for signatures. We have less than 3 weeks left before the Summit. If you are willing to join the organizations which have already signed the text, please confirm your signature by email [email protected]. Coordination is ensured by Ronan Dantec, world organization UCLG spokesperson for climate (United Cities and Local Governments). To give you some elements of contents: last June during the UN Climate Talks some YOUNGOs members have participated to the meeting organized by Ronan Dantec with other constituencies to write this statement. Now, he is calling for signatures. If your organization is interested on putting its signature, please send a message to [email protected] with copy for both FPs before Monday 8th of September. Kind regards, Sabrina & Danaé YOUNGO FPs to UNFCCC
Posted on: Thu, 04 Sep 2014 07:49:43 +0000