I am flying to Copenhagen from Los Angeles on Friday (assuming no reversals) will be covering Klimaforum09 and the Copenhagen Climate Complex/Circus/Bizarre/Conference (take your pick)
Bob Brown talks about Mr Rudd’s “Continue Polluting Regardless Scheme” saying it locks in failure with its unacceptably low targets and its $16 billion handout to polluters
The Rudd Government’s carbon pollution reduction scheme (CPRS) is a thoroughly compromised version of an emissions trading scheme (ETS). It deserves to be rejected in the Senate even if it requires an unholy alliance between the Greens and the climate change deniers in the Coalition parties.
Australia (and other countries) would be better off with no ETS (Emissions Trading System). Two recent reports – The Brave New World of Carbon Trading by Australian ecological economist, Clive L. Spash, and A Dangerous Obsession by Friends of the Earth – spell out in detail why the attempt to deal with global warming by setting up ETS schemes have already failed, why they will continue to fail and also why governments, in thrall to financial interests, continue to persevere with them.
According to both studies, carbon trading is failing against its fundamental purpose – it hasn’t achieved the levels of emissions cuts promised nor is it driving the major technological innovations that are needed to shift our economies on to more low-carbon paths.
For polluters whose emissions exceed their permits, carbon trading makes lower-cost permits an alternative to the higher cost investments that they would otherwise be forced to make.
Over dinner I was contemplating the similarities between software architecture and legal architecture. After all — reading something like the Waxman-Markey Bill or the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme legislation is very much like reading source code. Then it dawned on me — in the field of software development, there is a way of describing the climate architecture that is being discussed in the UNFCCC negotiations. It is called a big ball of mud. Wikipedia describes it as follows:
In computer programming, a big ball of mud is a system or computer program that appears to have no distinguishable architecture. It usually features other anti-patterns.
Here is a definition:
A Big Ball of Mud is a haphazardly structured, sprawling, sloppy, duct-tape-and-baling-wire, spaghetti-code jungle. These systems show unmistakable signs of unregulated growth, and repeated, expedient repair. Information is shared promiscuously among distant elements of the system, often to the point where nearly all the important information becomes global or duplicated. The overall structure of the system may never have been well defined. If it was, it may have eroded beyond recognition. Programmers with a shred of architectural sensibility shun these quagmires. Only those who are unconcerned about architecture, and, perhaps, are comfortable with the inertia of the day-to-day chore of patching the holes in these failing dikes, are content to work on such systems.
A big ball of mud is the architecture you get when there is no architecture. This is why the legal architecture of a post-2012 framework is so important.
December 7-18, world leaders will meet in Copenhagen to negotiate the next global climate change treaty — and social movements from across the planet with be inside the talks and on the streets to demand a just solution to the greatest crisis facing our generation. The time to frame the future of climate change action is right now, and smartMeme is on the case with a crew of U.S. climate justice leaders.
Your support can send smartMeme to Copenhagen — and build the movement for Climate Justice
NEW LIFE COPENHAGEN is official partner of both the UN Climate Summit at Bella Centeret and the alternative Climate Summit at DGI-byen. Our partners connect us with visitors in need of housing during COP15 from december 7th to 18th 2009.
The many climate guests are coming from across the world to discuss global warming solutions in Copenhagen.
With local hotels being overbooked and very expensive, the guests have nowhere to stay without the help and hospitality of Danish citizens
While industrialized countries like the United States, China, and India continue to argue over the best way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, small, underdeveloped countries are already starting to feel the effects of global climate change. The worst part is that these countries have done very little to contribute to the problem, yet they’re the ones who are paying the price. Ring of Fire’s next guest says that the US and other carbon emitting countries need to be footing the bill to protect these areas, by what’s known as climate debt. Mike Papantonio talks about this concept with Naomi Klein, author of the best-selling book “The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism.”
As faith in government action dwindles, however, climate activists are treating Copenhagen as an opportunity of a different kind. On track to be the largest environmental gathering in history, the summit represents a chance to seize the political terrain back from business-friendly half-measures, such as carbon offsets and emissions trading, and introduce some effective, common-sense proposals — ideas that have less to do with creating complex new markets for pollution and more to do with keeping coal and oil in the ground.
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
At Climate Camp UK, in London, we kept getting asked “where we going to Copenhagen (forCOP15and to get involved in thenetwork 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 aClimate Social Forum, in theWorld Social Forum principlesand process.
After a little enquiry was informed there is government funded civil-society forum:Klimaforum09, which sounds rather like theEuropean Social Forum, Malmo 2008in 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 Nordicsoft-powerpublic-diplomacy.
However the Kilmaforum2009’s9 themesand theattending organisationsare right-on and would love to work-out how to go and work onGaia Permacultureand thePermaculture 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 theØresund Bioregionand the global plan for10 000 trees.
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
“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
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
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
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
This is the first part of a long interview we made with Tony Andersen, founder and organiser of Klimaforum09 . Nicholas Roberts of Permaculture TV asks Tony the simple question “What is Klimaforum09 (Climateforum09)?
Organiser: “We just had to do something ourselves”
The inspiration for Klimaforum09 originated in Brazil. It has taken two years to develop the idea to its current stage: The establishment of an alternative climate summit.
It is because of the collaborative efforts of many individuals that, parallel to the climate summit in December, Copenhagen will be providing a platform for its residents and the many non-accredited foreign grassroots activists and NGOs visiting the city.
However, Tony Andersen, the former architect and long-time member of the international permaculture network, has played a vital role in the process. He helped come up with the idea and send out the first invitations. He was also responsible for the initial, probing contact with the Danish authorities, the hosts of the fifteenth climate summit.
The idea came from an international permaculture conference held in Brazil in 2007. We heard reports from Alaska, Australia, Africa, and Greenland that the ecological collapse had already begun. At the same time, we learned that Copenhagen would be hosting COP15, the climate summit at which a replacement would be negotiated for the Kyoto Agreement, which expires in 2012.
As the Danish representative, I offered to find out whether it would be possible to stage an alternative climate summit. To be blunt, folks doubted that the politicians would make the necessary decisions. The feeling was that we just had to do something ourselves
Watch the COP15 Behind the Scenes video about Klimaforum09, the people’s global climate summit, which will be held during the UN Climate Change Conference 2009 (COP15) in December, 2009 in Copenhagen.
Programme
The Klimaforum09 programme offers you 150 climate workshops, 40 exhibitions, 30 climate films and documentaries, global music, theater, invited guest speakers and much more.
A preliminary programme is now available and can be downloaded as a pdf-file here. Please note that changes will be made to programme. More debates, guest speakers, exhibitions and events will be added in the following week.
Klimaforum09_Programme_Draft_2810
PDF file made for on-screen view!
A final programme will be made public around mid November.
About Klimaforum09
While the UN conference will be a platform for political decision making, Klimaforum09 gathers citizens from all corners of the world to create a socially just and sustainable future.
The idea behind Klimaforum09 is to create an open space, where people, movements and organizations can develop constructive solutions to the climate crisis.
Klimaforum09 is based on the belief that meeting the climate challenge requires more than just new technologies fixes and ‘business as usual’ practices. New ways of thinking, new cultural values, and new ways of organizing society are called for.
Thousands of participants from all continents are expected to take part in Klimaforum09. Special efforts are being made to invite people from regions in Asia, Africa, Latin America, and Oceania who will suffer most from climate change.
The klimaforum09 programme offers a wide variety of workshops, debates, exhibitions, and cultural events focusing on climate change from a global perspective.
Klimaforum09 opens 7 December and ends 18 December. The summit takes place in large, modern facilities at DGI-byen close to the Central Station.
Klimaforum09 is organized by a broad coalition of Danish and international environmental movements and civil society organizations.
Klimaforum09 is your climate summit, the global civil society counterpart of the official UN conference in the Bella Center.
While the UN conference will be a platform for political decision making, Klimaforum09 gathers citizens from all corners of the world to create a socially just and sustainable future.
The idea behind Klimaforum09 is to create an open space, where people, movements and organizations can develop constructive solutions to the climate crisis.
Klimaforum09 is based on the belief that meeting the climate challenge requires more than just new technologies fixes and ‘business as usual’ practices. New ways of thinking, new cultural values, and new ways of organizing society are called for.
Thousands of participants from all continents are expected to take part in Klimaforum09. Special efforts are being made to invite people from regions in Asia, Africa, Latin America, and Oceania who will suffer most from climate change.
The klimaforum09 programme offers a wide variety of workshops, debates, exhibitions, and cultural events focusing on climate change from a global perspective.
Klimaforum09 opens 7 December and ends 18 December. The summit takes place in large, modern facilities at DGI-byen close to the Central Station.
Klimaforum09 is organized by a broad coalition of Danish and international environmental movements and civil society organizations.
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 Movement projects. 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.
Glocalisation of climate
My major unresolved question with solutions, revolves on this reflexive obsession with localisation. It’s a kind of allergic reaction to the Washington Consensus modality of globalisation. Pure localisation just wont work. Globalisation is real; climate, weather, migration of organisms including people, trade etc. We live on a planet with a global climate.
Are we going to localise climate? It's a nonsense.
The mindless business mantra of “Think Globally, Act Locally” is largely to blame. Corporations and the rich don’t limit themselves to this, they Think Globally and Act Globally. They Think Locally and Act Locally. Everyone knows the edge between the global and local is the most corrupt level of government, its the place where organised crime operates, dodgy planning occurs, corporations do things, see The Power Elite. Indeed there is a term; Glocalisation
Organisation needs to come from below but continue to the global level. We saw very large worker cooperative industrial democracy at Mondragon: from team to very large groups of 100 000s. It is possible to organise modern, industrial society with democratic decision-making and ownership. We need more highly organised social and economic arrangements. The anarcho-syndicalists also did it in Spain before betrayal by the liberal democracies, Socialists and Communists.
Democracy is a fractal. It can work on all scales and all systems.
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 for 10 000 trees.
Animals migrate yearly, organisms move. So do people. We need technology, transport, communications etc. While COP15 progresses inside, Kilmaforum09 runs outside. COP15 is top-down, and Kilmaforum09 is bottom-up. But where do they meet ? The place where globalisation meets localisation is where corporations, the rich and the powerful control the present and the future. One of the reasons localisation is so popular is that its is so harmless and diffuses energies away from real political economic change into gardening. As Mollison said, ad nauseum, permaculture is more than a gardening system. Again, keep coming back to Gaia Permaculture wiki project. Me thinks the Rose Room will be good for developing the wiki.
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