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The Daily TckRace to the Future: www.tcktcktck.org

13 June 2011

Summary of the Current status/situation

On Saturday, three months since the meltdown and the Fukushima nuclear plant,Japan was awarded theFossil of the Day for reiterating their position to include all technologies, including nuclear, in the Clean

Development Mechanism - CDM. That same day there were demonstrations against nuclear power in

Japan. It is clear that the government needs to listen both here in Bonn and to their citizens calling on

Japan to become a leader and persuade other countries to exclude nuclear form the CDM.

With only 5 days now left in the current negotiating session there is much work to do this week if we are to

see substantive progress for a successful climate conference in Durban later this year. The UNFCCC is not

immune to Monday morning blues and some of the youth gathered outside the Maritim Hotel this

morning to energise the delegates in an effort to increase ambition! Having had a day off from

negotiations hopefully delegates have come prepared to move forward and remove the blockages that held

up proceedings last week however, the start of the week sees NGOs closed out from a number of

informal consultations that are taking place although at least they are no longer bickering over the agenda!

While last week was quiet on the actions front it looks like they will be jammed into the week ahead! The

youth constituency gathered here in Bonn have a number of activities planned to raise ambition, highlight

the benefits of a financial transaction tax (FTT) as an innovative source of money for the climate fund, Push

Europe to a 30% target for green house gas emissions and search out the superheros here in the talks! We

hope to supply video and pictures of all of these during this week.

What is happening?

There is discussion around mid term financing (from 2013 2015) and what this practically means as no

country has a commitment to finance beyond 2012. This is an opportunity tohighlight what other countries

are going to do in terms of scaling up their financial contributions beyond the fast start finance period andto highlight the use of innovative source from both public and private finances. Meanwhile, although the

climate fund has been established, it is empty and needs filling.

The Climate Action Network gave their press briefing today and focussed on the week ahead and what was

required from the negotiations this week as well as discussing finance and NGO participation in the process.

The press conference can be viewed here: http://bit.ly/iLHFXe .

Great news today from Italy where there has just been a referendum that resulted in 95% vote against

nuclear power http://referendum.interno.it/.

Message for the day

You may be aware that the International Financial Transaction Tax campaign is about to launch their Global

Day of Action on June 22nd. Currently there are over 20 countries involved and more are expected to sign

up this week. The campaign itself has made some incredible progress in allowing supporting governments

to push forward with the idea through international negotiations.

The FTT is really A tiny tax on finance, but a giant leap for the climate fund.

With an eye towards the G20 in November and using the upcoming EU Finance Ministers meeting on the

15th

June and the European Council meeting on the 23rd

-24th

June as a focal point the campaign aims to

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ensure that the FTT is up there to help assist developing countries to alleviate poverty and adapt to the

impacts of climate change.

To help you out the Financial Transaction Tax Campaign have produced a step by step guidetoolkit which is

also available in French, Spanish and Portuguese as well as English from:

http://www.makefinancework.org/IMG/pdf/eng_mediaonline_packfinal.pdf

The GCCA encourages partners to get involved where they can and the toolkit provides all you need toparticipate in the Global Day of Action, from stunt ideas, to online mobilization, as well as directing you to

information on the policy background and press briefings.

Tomorrow we will be participating in an action at the Maritim in Bonn to draw attention to the FTT as well

as a follow up press conference which will be live streamed and can be found at: http://bit.ly/kOkElT

More Bonn talking points are at: http://bit.ly/mFJ6MP and at: https://sites.google.com/site/dailytck/rapid-

response

What you can do today?

Keep spreading the word about the Power Shift campaign by European youth networks and upload yourgreen CV at: http://pusheurope.eu/

If you want to update your supporters on whats going on in Bonn, check out the latestblogs and videos the

Adopt-A-Negotiator team has posted on their website.

Ellie Hopkins: http://adoptanegotiator.org/2011/06/13/adaptation-%E2%80%93-an-admission-of-defeat/

Anna Collins: http://adoptanegotiator.org/2011/06/12/one-precious-day/

Florent Baarsch: http://adoptanegotiator.org/2011/06/11/an-anonymous-group-of-countries-japan-

disappoint/

Other materials:

Photos from this mornings action at the Maritim in Bonn:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/adoptanegotiator/sets/72157626826115489/

Coverage from the demonstrations 3 months after the Fukushima disaster:

AP: http://hosted2.ap.org/APDEFAULT/signup/Article_2011-06-11-AS-Japan-Earthquake/id-

497edea632444bd7a13c437b49ecf4d4

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/06/11/984196/-Fukushima-Three-Months-After:-611-No-Nukes-

Action

In a slightly alarming story from the UK it appears that there are suggestions for climate change to be

excluded from the UK Cirriculum: http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2011/jun/12/climate-change-

curriculum-government-adviser

After news of more earthquakes in Christchurch our thoughts go out to the people of New Zealand:

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/06/13/us-newzealand-quake-idUSTRE75C08S20110613