16 June 2010: During a press conference held at UN Headquarters in New York, US, Bolivian Ambassador Pablo Solόn strongly objected to the advance
draft of a revised text to facilitate negotiations among parties produced by the Chair of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Action under the UNFCCC (AWG-LCA) at its tenth session, held in Bonn, Germany, earlier in June.
These supplements have been distributed by the regional newspaper O Povo to 35.000 direct readers, reaching out to some 100.000 people, as part of CARE Brasil efforts to raise awareness and mobilize public opinion on state-level at Ceará, one of the most affected states by climate change.
You can browse and read the booklets at the following links:
The first links lead to the corresponding introduction pages, where the actual file can be found at the bottom of each page. The (.doc) and (.pdf) links are direct links to the actual report file.
National Report Summary
Challenges and opportunities of civil society actors regarding their participation in the national and international negotiation and decision making processes facing climate change.
An overview on the Brazilian civil society action
Citizens Global Platform - Brazil
Institute for the Development of Cooperation and International Relations - IDECRI
São Paulo - November, 2009
Este relatório apresenta a pesquisa feita pela Plataforma Global dos Cidadãos no Brasil (CGPBrasil) sobre o panorama da atuação da sociedade civil brasileira no campo das mudanças climáticas.
The Chinese president said China-Brazil relations have been deepening in a comprehensive way, marked by frequent exchange of visits between their leaders and political mutual trust.
Brazil's Environment Minister Carlos Minc said in an interview late on Wednesday that he would make the proposal at a climate summit involving the four emerging market nations this weekend in New Delhi.
"We will fully comply with the targets. It doesn't matter that Copenhagen didn't go as well as we had hoped," Environment Minister Carlos Minc told reporters after meeting with President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
Lula will veto three items from a climate bill approved by Congress last month but would maintain the emissions targets, Minc said.