date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 09:05:05 +0100
from: David Viner <d.viner@uea.ac.uk>
subject: Fwd: DEADLINE**Funding for climate campaigners
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     Subject: DEADLINE**Funding for climate campaigners
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     Funding for climate campaigners.

     A call for proposals.

     from climate-l@eyfa.org

     Deadline: 30th September 1999

     **please distribute to others who may be interested**

     We would like to invite proposals from activists working on climate  campaigning.
     Following an activist and NGO meeting in March  this  year, attended by climate
     activists from Europe, Asia, USA,  Australia  and Latin America, funding was obtained to
     support two  people to work  on a project connected to the sixth United Nations  Climate
     Convention,  otherwise known as the Conference of the Parties  (COP6), which will
     happen in Autumn/Winter 2000/2001.  The United  Nations is currently  considering only
     one possible location for the  meeting - den Haag, The  Netherlands.

     The International working group formed after the activist and NGO   meeting are looking
     for two people  who would be able to create  something innovative and effective with
     this  funding.  They will be  based in a Climate research group in Portugal,
     'Euronatura'.  The  campaign will be supported by the International working  group
     which  has experience of United Nations negotiations, direct  action,  campaigning,
     economics and climate science.  Groups supporting this  campaign include :  eyfa, Aseed,
     Carbusters Magazine, Korean  Ecological Youth, Free The Planet USA, EuroNatura, Climate
     Action  Network Latin America, Climate Action Network Central and Eastern  Europe and
     Oilwatch Europe.

     The thing that  joins these people together is the desire to work together  to
     radicalise  the agenda of the climate negotiations.  The current  direction of the
     negotiations cannot hope to define targets nor build  mechanisms of  implementation and
     compliance which will stop the  currently dangerous  emissions levels of Greenhouse
     Gases.

     Ideally, the collaboration between the two funded  volunteers,  Euronatura and the
     International working group, will touch on all aspects   of climate change and the
     related campaigns of oil, forest, marine and   transport.  Equally, the collaboration
     will be aware of all strategies to   counter the weakness of the United Nations and the
     dominance of   certain lobbying groups (notably the oil and nuclear industry).  The
     strategies discussed by the International working group revolve around   direct action,
     research and negotiation.

     Project ideas which have been discussed are a counter/alternative   meeting at the same
     time and place as the UN meeting and/or a symbolic   event such as The Climate Train to
     Kyoto.  Please bring YOUR ideas to   us!  What do you think would be the most effective
     way to radicalise the   UN agenda and protect the climate from our current economic
     and   political systems?  There are plans for a team to work in USA on a   parallel
     campaign.

     The project should begin by the end of the 1999.

     Are you a person who has the energy, skills and commitment to   coordinate the European
     component of an international campaign?

     (unfortunately, the funding is only for people *under 26 years of age  *from Iceland,
     Norway, Algeria,  Cyprus, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon,  Malta, Morocco, Palestine,
     Syria,  Tunisia, Turkey or any EU country)

     Please make your proposal for the campaign which you would like to be   part of...

     Deadline 30th September 1999.

     Send to:

     Climate Campaigns,

     Postbox 94115

     1090 GC

     Amsterdam

     Netherlands

     fax: +31 20 692 8757

     email: climate-l@eyfa.org





     eyfa
     postbus 94115
     gc 1090
     amsterdam
     netherlands
     tel.  +31 20 6657743
     fax.  +31 20 6928757
     email.  eyfa@eyfa.org

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