Planetary Permaculture: A Global Strategy for Climate Change - Tony Andersen of Klimaforum09

Tony Anderson of Klimaforum09 and the International Permaculture Council is interviewed by Nicholas Roberts of Permaculture TV about the 10 000 Trees per lifetime / 1 Tonne C02 per year plan for Planetary Permaculture

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At Climate Camp UK, in London, we kept getting asked “where we going to Copenhagen (for COP15 and to get involved in the network of Climate Justice Action ?”. The answer eventually was “we would like to, if we could afford it and had something serious to do!”. We developed a couple of ideas, one was a Climate Social Forum, in the World Social Forum principles and process.

After a little enquiry was informed there is government funded civil-society forum: Klimaforum09, which sounds rather like the European Social Forum, Malmo 2008 in its left-establishment (vertical-left) support. On the surface its structured like a World Social Forum, but under-the-hood, its a government funded conference for NGO’s, an extension of Nordic soft-power public-diplomacy.

However the Kilmaforum2009’s 9 themes and the attending organisations are right-on and would love to work-out how to go and work on Gaia Permaculture and the Permaculture Worker Cooperative Movementprojects. The Klimaforum2009 creator is a Danish permaculturalist: Tony Anderson. So, its an amazing opportunity, will try to reconnect with Malmo solidarity accommodation types and contact  the Nordic permaculture contingent, and the Klimaforum online forum.

One very promising discovery, which could be a lead-in to Gaia Permaculture is the plan developed by Tony Anderson and the Scandanavian Permaculture network for the Øresund Bioregion and the global plan for10 000 trees.

Source: GaiaPermaculture.com

Invite to Klimaforum09

Tony Andersen, organiser of Klimaforum, member of the International Permaculture Council and co-author of the 10000 Trees planetary permaculture plan invites you to Klimaforum09 – Copenhagen 7-18 December 2009

Tony Andersen is

• an  organiser of Klimaforum09, with 5000 activists & grassroots attending, 1 million Euro funding
• Copenhagen based Danish architect specialising in cooperative design
• permaculture designer of 25 years, having done work on Øresund Bioregion
  
• co-author of 10 000 Trees: A Practical Response to Climate Change
• member of International Permaculture Council

Introduction to Klimaforum09

“we dont just work for climate change, we work for systems change”

• welcome to Permaculture TV
• Copenhagen architect practicing democratic, cooperative and participatory design, i.e. empowering users of his house, building and social designs, lead him to permaculture design in the 1980s
• many realised in Brazil at IPC8 (International Permaculture Convergance 8 ) [DVDs] from experience doing global permaculture, realised a global disaster was happening and would get worse
• drew from the global permaculture experience and started to develop a practical response Strategy of 10000 Trees: A Practical Response to Climate Change
• call for grassroots, environmentalists and activists
• COP15 to straighten-out the climate change problems
• Klimaforum09 publicly, officially funded, so invitees could be funded & proper facilities provided, result of 2 years negotiation with Danish government
• Klimaforum09 supported by 20 Danish grassroots environmental groups, 60 international organisations, 5000 attendees, 200+  workshops for 2 weeks
• running parrallel with UN conference
• 80 grassroots projects, working on declaration, pre-conference, editor group, international editing group (12 people), edit & present pre-conference declaration
• 2 days debated in Klimaforum, presented in paper to UN conference
• UN process is “sh%^y”, the outputs “will never work”
• after 18th Dec, make a pre-conference declaration; basic points, directions and trends for future work i.e. 10000 Trees
• avoid the Rio problem, everyone assumed things would work-out, but instead they got worse, and so will maintain a Klimaforum network, to keep-up pressure
• develop strategies for changing attitudes, concludes “we dont just work for climate change, we work for systems change”

10 000 Trees “best means to take c02 (GHG) from the atomosphere is not technical means, it is trees”

“best means to take c02 (GHG) from the atomosphere is not technical means, it is trees”

Tony Andersen of the International Permaculture Council and organiser of Klimaforum09 talks about the global permaculture strategy of 10000 Trees

LESS THAN

1 TON CO2 PER PERSON PER YEAR

MORE THAN

10,000 TREES PER PERSON PER LIFETIME

• One of the grassroots movements, most experienced managing trees, via perennial polyculture, family farms, local people
• international permaculture network strategy
• related to IPCC calculations, to make a huge impact
• also cut down C02 to less than 1 tonne per person per year
• Danish have proved you can change lifestyles without complete disaster impact on lifestyle
• if we can plant 5000-6000 in the next 25 years, we will be close to balance
• oceans, boreal forests are no longer functioning as carbon sinks
• “best means to take c02 (GHG) from the atomosphere is not technical means, it is trees”

10,000 Trees: A Practical Planetary Permaculture Strategy for Climate Change

The characteristics of Permaculture are its ability create projects that provide plenty of food
for the people involved,at the same time that it regenerates the basic natural resources:
soil, water, wind, energy all through – planting systems.

THE 1 TON CO2 10.000 TREES PROJECT……………………………………………………………………………4
Permaculture…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..4
Climate Change…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..5
Carbon sink…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….6
More than 10,000 TREES pr. person pr. lifetime………………………………………………………………………6
Less than 1 TON CO2 pr. person pr. year………………………………………………………………………………..7
The U.N. Climate Conference 2009 / COP 15………………………………………………………………………….8
Parallel activist and grassroots Conference………………………………………………………………………………9
The Permaculture network…………………………………………………………………………………………………..10

Source: 10 000 Trees: A Practical Response to Climate Change

Soil Carbon

Tony Andersen of the International Permaculture Council and organiser of Klimaforum09 talks about the global permaculture strategy of 10 000 Trees more on http://www.Klimaforum09.org

Funded by a global carbon tax of 100 Euro per tonne of C02, most of the carbon will be sequestered in the soil around the perennial polyculture, agroecology of the 10 000 Trees planetary permaculture program.

Tony Andersen, Klimaforum09 organiser and member of International Permaculture Council explains the relationship between 10 000 Trees and Soil Carbon.

• 10 000 Trees per person
• 1 tonne of C02 per person per year
• 100 Euro per tonne global Carbon tax

		Global Carbon Stocks (Gt C)
	Area ( 109 ha)	Vegetation	Soil	Total
Biome
Tropical forest	1,76	212	216	428
Temperate forest	1,04	59	100	159
Boreal forest	1,37	88	471	559
Tropical grassland	2,25	66	264	330
Temperate grassland	1,25	9	295	304
Deserts/semideserts	4,55	8	191	199
Tundra	0,95	6	121	127
Wetlands	0,35	15	225	240
Croplands	1,60	3	128	131
Total	15,12	466	2011	2477

Data & Models of 10 000 Trees

Tony explains the sources of data for the 10 000 Trees program. Many mainstream sources of scientific information, IPCC, Stern etc. Also latest information from academics in Greenland and other Nordic Regions where climate change is a reality NOW.

• 10000 Trees idea comes from IPC4 in Nepal, after IPC8 Brazil decided to develop
• collecting data IPCC, James Hansen, ocean-data from Danish Greenland gulf stream from ’96, ship circumnavigating globe measuring ocean currents
• Greenland, Nuuk, university, collected Arctic data, dying boreal forest, melting permafrost
• followed-up Independent & Guardian newspaper daily monitoring
• Stern Report

More on www.InPermCou.org

International Permaculture Networks

Planetary permaculture networks for 10 000 Trees

• Parallel activist and grassroots Conference: conversation between activists and grassroots “need to work together to implement 10000 Trees”
• existing 200-300 Permaculture Institutes teaching 2-3 Permaculture Designer Courses per year
• in 50 years there will need to be 100 000 such institutes
• need to start now, the situation is getting worse all the time

Transition Networks & Bioregions

Transition Towns Totnes (Transition Network) and Bioregions

• Transition Towns Totnes visit
• Tony lives in slum in Copenhagen and have a rural food system
• they won a Prize in 1996, to develop a bioregional plan for Copenhagen and southern Sweden
• 5 metre sea-level rise is in-built, breakdown of glaciers, poles
• huge resettlement, 1.5 million people
• new traffic systems with no GHG
• basic local food system
• same aspects in this plan as in Transition Towns
• Transition Towns and Bioregional groups are coming to Klimaforum09
• have to make concrete plans within the
• 36 000 peopple Vesterbul area, translated to English, shows you can get below 1 tonne, from 11/12 tonne )6-7 in urban areas) to less to 1
• Scandanavian Permaculture network for the Øresund Bioregion and the global plan for 10 000 trees.
• more information at International Permaculture Council website www.InPermCou.org

Planet Permaculture vs. Gaia Permaculture

Tony explains how the ethics, principles, strategies, techniques and patterns of permaculture can be applied on a local level and scale-up to a planet level permaculture.

He also politely avoids my neologism Gaia Permaculture. lol

• Gaia Permaculture, or Gaia specifically is not used, its too vague
• permaculture interconnects, relates the small project to the global scheme