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Climate Summit June 2015 Page 3 of 4 Volume 2014 | 20: Jan Editor: Vol 29: Special Edition - Climate Summit Editor: Peter Airey – Feb Te UNAA World Environment Day Climat Summit “One must care about a world one will not see.” Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)* The Summit is a contribution to the UN World Environment Day; to the UN 70th Anniversary Seminar Series on Climate Change; and to the UNAA Climate Campaign 2015. The Scientific Consensus The human influence on climate change is clear and recent anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases are the highest in history. Recent climate changes have had widespread impacts on human and natural systems - UN Climate Report 2014**. The Views of World Leaders and Heads of State (Page 2) Te Climat Summit 8:30 am to 4 pm Fri 5th June; Sydney Mint 10 Macquarie St Sydney Opening: The Summit will be opened by a representative of Government (tbc) Keynote Speakers: The following exciting speakers have accepted: ★ Mr Geoffrey Cousins AM, Chairman Australian Conservation Foundation ★ Mr Hugo Llorens, Consul General USA ★ Mr Kevin Petrini UNDP Regional Climate Change Specialist for the Pacific ★ Professor Leslie Hughes, Councillor, Climate Council ★ Holley Somerville-Knott brilliant young 11 year old environmentalist and artist The Conference will conclude with an Open Discussion in which your views will be canvassed. The Report will comprise recommendations for Australia’s negotiating position at the UN Climate Conference in Paris. COSTS: $155 (incl. a UNAA(NSW) membership); $95 UNAA members, students, pensioners The event is fully catered by the Mint. BOOKINGS: Tribooking http://www.trybooking.com/131744 (Other payment options: page 4) Background: The build up of Cyclone Pam, Vanuatu March 2015. * Quoted in “Convenient Action; Gujurat’s Response to Climate Change” by Prime Minister Narendi Modi ** “Climate Change 2014” UN Int Panel for Climate Change Fifth Assessment Report. Summary for Policy Makers SPM 1 (first observation). http://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment-report/ar5/syr/AR5_SYR_FINAL_SPM.pdf United Nations Association of Australia (NSW) Inc. ABN 85 071 992 936 PO Box K229 Haymarket NSW 1240 Humanist House, 10 Shepherd St, Chippendale NSW 2008 Email: [email protected] Tel: 0456 124 965 Web: www.unaa.org.au Page %2 of %4 Statements from World Leaders Indian Prime Minister Narendi Modi and Heads of Government UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon Please refer to the book written by Mr Modi ‘Convenient Action: Gujarat’s Response to “This is the moral challenge of our generation. Challenges of Climate Change’ " … (S)ucceeding generations depend on us. We cannot rob our children of their future.”" Tuvalu Prime Minister Enele Soponga “Our atmosphere can’t tell the di$erence between emissions from an Asian factory, the Climate Change is “already like a weapon of exhaust from a North American SUV, or mass destruction, and the indications are all deforestation in South America or Africa,”" there .. We are not dealing with sovereignties any more - there are no boundaries to the http://www.global-greenhouse-warming.com/ e$ects of climate change. We are dealing with climatequotes.html saving human lives - and therefore saving Tuvalu is also saving the world.” (Editor His Holiness Pope Francis underlined)" “The e$ective struggle against global warming http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-08-15/an-tuvalu- president-is-climate-change-27like-a-weapon-of-mass-/ will only be possible with a responsible 5672696 collective answer, that goes beyond particular interests and behaviour and is developed free World Bank President Jim Yong Kim of political and economic pressures” … [On climate change], “there is a clear, definitive and ineluctable ethical imperative to The World Bank Group works on climate act”… [The establishment of an international change because it's a fundamental threat to climate change treaty] “is a grave ethical and development in our lifetime. We know that if moral responsibility”." we don't confront climate change, there will be no hope of ending poverty or boosting shared prosperity. Furthermore, the longer we http://catholicclimatecovenant.org/catholic-teachings/ delay in tackling climate change, the higher pope-francis/ the cost will be to do the right thing for our planet and for our children." US President Barak Obama Someday, our children, and our children’s http://www.cfr.org/climate-change/world-bank-president-jim- children, will look at us in the eye and they’ll yong-kim-economic-development-paris-climate-agreement/ p35803 ask us, did we do all that we could when we had the chance to deal with this problem and leave them a cleaner, safe, more stable world? Acknowledgments https://www.whitehouse.gov/energy/climate-change The UNAA(NSW) is pleased to acknowledge Chinese President Xi Jinping the following:" The Conference Coordinator Amber “We agreed to make sure international climate Ferguson for her months of dedication to change negotiations will reach agreement as the Event;" scheduled at the Paris conference in 2015 and agreed to deepen practical co-operation on All the speakers who so generously clean energy, environmental protection and donated their time and expertise;" other areas.”" The Volunteers without whose help we could not have a Conference;" http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/nov/12/china- The Mint for the discount rate for the and-us-make-carbon-pledge magnificent venue;" The United Nations Information Centre UNIC for a grant under the 70th Anniversary Page 3 of 4 UNAA Summit: Draft Program Keynote Speakers (subject to change) 08:30 Registration M r G e o ffre y C o u s i n s i s President of the ACF. He is 09:00 Opening Ceremony well known as a community 09:30 Keynote Lecture l e a d e r , b u s i n e s s m a n , Mr Kevin Petrini UNDP Regional environmental activist and Climate Change Specialist/Pacific w r i t e r. H e s u c c e s s f u l l y opposed the Gunns Paper Mill 10:15 Keynote lecture in Tasmania. He founded the Mr Geoffrey Cousins AM, Chairman Starlight Children’s Foundation Australian Conservation in Australia and is currently Chairman of the St Foundation (ACF) James Ethics Foundation. 11:00 Morning Tea Leslie Hughes is a Distinguished 11:15 Keynote lecture Professor within the Department Professor Leslie Hughes, Councillor of Biological Sciences at Climate Council Macquarie University and an expert on the impacts of climate 12:00 Keynote lecture c h a n g e o n s p e c i e s a n d Mr Hugo Llorens, Consul General ecosystems. She is a Lead United States Author on the UN IPCC Fourth 12:45 Lunch and Fifth Assessment Reports; A Councillor of the Australia 13:30 Keynote Presentation Climate Council; a Board Holley Somerville-Knott, Young member of WWF Australia; and a Board Environmental activist and artist Member of ‘One Million Women’. 14:15 Panel discussion Mr Kevin Petrini is the 15:00 Afternoon Tea UNDP Regional Climate Mr Kevin Petrini 15:15 Recommendations for Conference Change Specialist for the report Pacific and is supporting the development of a 16:00 Closing ceremony Strategy for Climate and 16:15 Disperse Disaster Resilience in the Pacific. He has worked An informal get together for drinks and further widely throughout the discussion after the Conference is being P a c i fi c m o s t r e c e n t l y organised. supporting the Government of Fiji in their climate negotiations. Kevin holds a Master of Science in Chemical Engineering and served for two years as US peace Corps Volunteer in Hope for the Future rural Samoa. In the words of ‘One Green Mr Hugo Llorens is the Planet’ Holly Knott a highly United Stares Consul talented 11year old is on a General for NSW. He is a Mission to Save the Planet. distinguished diplomat who She has already raised funds has previously served at and enhanced awareness for senior levels in Afghanistan, Rainfall Rescue, Australian Latin America and Canada Seabird Rescue, Wires and as well as at home. Rise of the Eco Warriors. United Nations Association of Australia (NSW) Inc. ABN 85 071 992 936 PO Box K229 Haymarket NSW 1240 Humanist House, 10 Shepherd St, Chippendale NSW 2008 Email: [email protected] Tel: 0456 124 965 Web: www.unaa.org.au Page %4 of %4 Pathway to Paris: Dec 2015 Observations on Climate Change Extracts from the UN IPCC Fifth Assessment UN Climate Change Conference Report: Technical Summary http://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment-report/ar5/ 1979: First global climate conference wg1/WG1AR5_TS_FINAL.pdf 1990: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Global surface temperature: Each of the past Change IPCC releases first assessment report three decades has been successively warmer at the Earth’s surface than any the previous 1992: Rio Earth Summit: UN Framework decades in the instrumental record.There is high Convention on Climate Change UNFCC signed confidence that annual mean surface warming 1997: Kyoto Protocol adopted since the 20th century has reversed long-term 2005 Kyoto Protocol ratified. Encourages cooling trends of the past 5000 years in mid-to- high latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere (NH)." countries to reduce emissions by 5% over the period 2008 - 2012 Sea level rise: It is virtually certain that over the 20th century sea level rose. The mean rate of 2007:Australia ratifies Kyoto sea level increase was 1.7 mm per year between 2009: Copenhagen accord recognised the 1901 and 2010 and this rate increased to 3.2 scientific view that any increase in global mm per year between 1993 and 2010." temperature should be kept below 2 deg C. The Extreme climate: There is high confidence that accord did not commit countries to a binding the intensity of extreme precipitation events will successor to the Kyoto Protocol.
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