System change - not climate change

"System change - not climate change" is a peoples´ declaration from Klimaforum09. Klimaforum09 was climate summit, the global civil society counterpart of the official UN conference held in the Bella Center Copenhagen.

Participating peoples and organisations call for urgent climate action:

• A complete abandonment of fossil fuels within the next 30 years, which must include
specific milestones for every 5-year period. We demand an immediate cut in GHG of
industrialized countries of at least 40% compared to 1990 levels by 2020.

• Recognition, payment and compensation of climate debt for the overconsumption of
atmospheric space and adverse effects of climate change on all affected groups and people.

• A rejection of purely market-oriented and technology-centred false and dangerous solutions such as nuclear energy, agro-fuels, carbon capture and storage, Clean Development Mechanisms, biochar, genetically "climate-readied" crops, geo-engineering, and reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD), which deepens social and environmental conflicts.

• Real solutions to climate crisis based on safe, clean, renewable, and sustainable use of natural resources, as well as transitions to food, energy, land, and water sovereignty.

You can find the whole declaration and sign it as an individual or on behalf of your organisation here: http://www.klimaforum09.org/Declaration