QUAKERS & CLIMATE CHANGE WORLDWIDE
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This paper presents four examples of multilateral agreements that have involved complex negotiations, some spanning several years, others several decades. The examples draw on international processes in environment, disarmament, human rights and trade.
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Moving Forward in International Negotiations_UPDATED_30_July_2014
Facilitating trust among Parties is vital to enabling and encouraging States to stabilise their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and prevent dangerous levels of climate change.
An effective and positive monitoring system can be an important part of building mutual trust between Parties to an international Convention, increasing confidence that all Members will fulfil their obligations by providing support for implementation while also identifying areas of non-compliance.
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Minute 36 challenges us, as Friends, to seek a sustainable, equitable and peaceful life on Earth. Britain Yearly Meeting is responding to this challenge by focusing on how to become a low-carbon sustainable community. The Quaker United Nations Office (QUNO) responds to the same challenge at the international level.
This briefing paper connects the work of QUNO to the concerns and the spirit of Minute 36, describing the linkages between local, national and international levels of engagement. QUNO seeks systemic change and provides a Quaker voice at the UN and related institutions.
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This paper, published as part of QUNO’s ‘Preparing for Paris’ series, proposes that the grassroots voice has an essential role in gaining progress at the international climate change negotiations, and with climate policy in general. This paper was co-written with Laurie Michaelis of Living Witness, a Quaker organisation supporting sustainable living.
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QUNO Paper 2 Grassroots Influence – Preparation for Paris 2015
“A Call to Conscience: Quaker experiences facing the challenge of Climate Change” features interviews with Quakers worldwide on why they care about climate change, and what they are doing to address the challenge locally, nationally and internationally.
QUNO Geneva has created this publication as a form of witness in facing anthropogenic climate change through love and action, rather than fear. The people portrayed span our worldwide Quaker community, from Africa to Europe, Asia Pacific to the Americas.
Call to Conscience was originally published in September 2014. Read by clicking the link above.
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