Workshop Backgrounder (pdf)
Stakeholder Programme (pdf)
A call for stronger greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets
As part of the Many Strong Voices workshop, the Climate Law and Policy Project organized a public event at the National Press Club in Washington on 1 April 2009. A public event highlighting the need to secure a global agreement that includes ambitious emissions reduction targets as a necessary means to prevent catastrophic climate impacts on vulnerable communities in the Arctic and Small Island Developing States.
The purpose was to send a strong message to President Obama and Congressional leaders that the costs of climate inaction, delayed action, or inadequate action – particularly to people in vulnerable communities – are too high to be permitted. The climate crisis puts their homes, livelihoods, and relationships with each other and their environment at risk and therefore is a question of survival.
Speakers included:
Lester Brown, President, Earth Policy Institute
Sheila Watt-Cloutier, Inuit advocate and 2007 Nobel Peace Prize nominee
Chris Flavin, President, Worldwatch Institute
Rolph Payet, Special Advisor to the President of the Seychelles
Audio from the event:
Public Press Event Advisory (pdf)
MSV Event Announcement (pdf)
Coverage of MSV workshop (www.thedailygreen.com)
Indigenous communities unite against climate change (www.nunatsiaq.com)