Groups Slam 'Corporate Takeover' of UN Climate Summit, Call for System Change

[unhappycamper]

http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/09/10/groups-slam-corporate-takeover-un-climate-summit-call-system-change



Representing over 200 million people around the world, groups declare: "To deal with the crisis, we must address the root causes and change the system"

Groups Slam 'Corporate Takeover' of UN Climate Summit, Call for System Change
Sarah Lazare, staff writer
September 10, 2014

Ahead of the 2014 United Nations Climate Summit, which trumpets itself as an event to "catalyze ambitious action," grassroots organizations from around the world are warning that the global gathering, in fact, has been hijacked by corporations that are pursuing "false promises" and "exploiting the tragedy of climate change."

"The undersigned social movements that all together represent more than 200 million people around the world, denounce [the] corporate takeover of the UN and the climate negotiations process and call for a deep systemic change," reads a statement, released Tuesday by international social movement groups, including La Via Campesina, Grassroots Global Justice Alliance, Indigenous Environmental Network, and more.

"There will be no going back from the climate chaos if we do not fight for real solutions and do nothing to confront and challenge the inaction of our governments’ policy-making being hijacked by polluting corporations," the statement continues. "It is crucial for us to unify and strengthen our economic, social and environmental struggles and focus our energies on changing the capitalist system."

But this "capitalist system" will be represented in full force at the upcoming UN summit, which will take place September 23 at the New York City headquarters of the UN. The meeting was convened by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to showcase "government, finance, business, and civil society" solutions to the climate crisis, according to a UN announcement. The summit, which President Obama is expected to attend, will not host negotiations for binding climate commitments, but rather is being billed as a platform for the announcement of voluntary commitments to cut emissions, as well a host of so-called private-public partnerships.

[CRH]

1. UN Climate Summit and the IPCC, ...

are 'economically acceptable' presentations of diluted climate science and policy, confined by the veil of consensus, and used by governments of the global carbon economy to prevent meaningful policy on carbon budgets and emissions.

Read page 2 from David Wasdell’s - Critical Evaluation of the Summary for Policymakers for the IPCC AR5 WG1; though the whole critique (22 pages) is worth the read. Sorry I can not paste an excerpt, the PDF format prevents.

Link - http://www.apollo-gaia.org/IPCC%205AR%20SPM10%20Crit.pdf

This article drafted from the same paper, also, illustrates the main thrust of the OP.
http://americablog.com/2014/05/ipcc-climate-report-diluted-political-pressure-protect-fossil-fuel-interests.htm

[Nihil]

2. "will not host negotiations for binding climate commitments"

So, it's just another feel-good political junket to re-paint the facade.

The common herd will see "important people" meeting and walking away smiling & satisfied.

Any meaningful points will be so diluted & re-written by the time-wasting politicians (with the
willing help of their astro-turfing PR "supporters&quot that, yet again, nothing will get out to the
public at large - only to those who are already so committed to the issues that they will pry
through the layers of bullshit in order to find the tiniest grain of truth being desperately hidden
therein.

Still, at least the "leaders" will get their smiling faces in the paper again, the meaningless
posed handshakes to support their campaigns and President Fossil Fuel will move happily
along with Prime Minister Tar Sand and the current commander of Airstrip One, all on their
progress along their career path to the cash-pot talking jobs once they leave office.


Time-wasting shit being painted by time-wasting shithouses.