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      What is wrong with the UNFCC COP ?

      David Sauvage · Thursday, 2 November, 2017 - 10:13 edit · 2 minutes

    The School of Ecology 2017 - Mauritius was an amazing collective moment we shared together with comrades from Indian Ocean and Southern Africa. I have been able to learn the necessary foundation to make the people's of the global south voices heard at the global arena during the UN climate negotiations as a UNFCC COP23 RLS/CARES delegate.

    The starting point here is what is wrong with the UNFCC COP process ? and Rodrigo formulates it clearly:

    We are really worried about the way the processes of COP are going, specially because it came towards what we call the commoditization of life, when we see the so called green or blue economy which not is more than to put price not only on the physical part of the planet, but also in the fluxes and the dynamic of life. When you see the REDD and other policies like the climate smart agriculture, or when we are talking about carbon trade, in simple words carbon trade is kind of putting a price on photosynthesis and they create through this economy of the ecosystems and biodiversity, they create a kind of a mentality, a kind of idea that the dynamic of life are services that the nature is given to us, and then we have to pay for these services, so I think this is a way to capture nature and those cycles as assets, and to be at the domination of the economy and it goes of course it terms of the corporations. So i believe that life is an integral part of ourselves, life as a whole, we are natures, and it is impossible to put a price with a common goods; not only because it is important for human beings, but for nature itself. I would say the necessity that the different struggles, we put them together, because if we come also from the perspective of nature, we leave in a very biodiverse world, but also social cultural diverse world. The issues nowadays are so many, they are all interconnected, there are the traditional ones in terms of labor, in terms of the material part of life, but we have gender issue, women struggles, struggles against patriarchal-ism, agriculture struggles, struggles against colonialism. We are living a period of a crisis in politics. We have to rethink to approach those different damages to our life and try to find together responses.

    Time of Paradoxes

    • Germany, a country that presents itself as a climate champion, is one the largest coal exporters, and dirty car industry promoters.
    • Although Paris agreement was kind of a success, right wing countries, climate change deniers (that refuses to pay for their ecological debt) and underlaying corporate lobbyist at the UNFCC are fooling the all process.
    • We are having both a biaised COP (due to commoditization of life) and a People’s Climate Summit 2017 that speak out for Climate Justice

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