thanks I will disseminate this on various language on our network.
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> -------- Origineel bericht --------  Onderwerp: [fse-esf] Climate Space
> in Tunis : To Reclaim Our Future, We Must Change the Present Our Proposal
> for Changing the System and not the Climate  Datum: Wed, 24 Apr 2013
> 11:53:36 +0200  Van: Maxime Combes <maxime.combes@...><maxime.combes@...>  Aan:
> fse-esf@...
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> Dear all
>
> Please find below the final declaration of the Climate Space held in Tunis
> during the last World Social Forum.
> This final declaration is endorsed by the facilitator organisations of the
> Climate Space.
>
> Please find attached the declaration translated into Français, Español,
> Português e Italiano.
> You can find the different versions on http://climatespace2013.org :
>
>    - in english :
>    http://climatespace2013.wordpress.com/2013/04/22/to-reclaim-our-future-we-must-change-the-present-our-proposal-for-changing-the-system-and-not-the-climate/
>    - in Français :
>    http://climatespace2013.wordpress.com/2013/04/22/pour-reprendre-notre-avenir-en-main-nous-devons-changer-le-present-nos-proposition-pour-changer-le-systeme-pas-le-climat/
>    - in Español :
>    http://climatespace2013.wordpress.com/2013/04/23/para-recuperar-nuestro-futuro-tenemos-que-cambiar-el-presente-nuestra-propuesta-para-cambiar-el-sistema-en-vez-del-clima/
>    - in Português :
>    http://climatespace2013.wordpress.com/2013/04/22/para-garantir-nosso-futuro-temos-que-transformar-o-presente-nossa-proposta-para-transformar-o-sistema-e-nao-o-clima/
>    - in Italiano :
>    http://climatespace2013.wordpress.com/2013/04/22/per-pretendere-il-nostro-futuro-dobbiamo-cambiare-il-presente-la-nostra-proposta-per-cambiare-il-sistema-e-non-il-clima/
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> Please feel free to distribute it widely.
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> Cheers
> Maxime
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> *To Reclaim Our Future, We Must Change the Present*
>
> *Our Proposal for Changing the System and not the Climate*
>
>
>  The capitalist system has exploited and abused nature, pushing the
> planet to its limits, so much so that the system has accelerated dangerous
> and fundamental changes in the climate.
>
> Today, the severity and multiplicity of weather changes – characterized by
> droughts, desertification, floods, hurricanes, typhoons, forest fires and
> the melting of glaciers and sea ice – indicate that the planet is burning.
> These extreme changes have direct impacts on humans through the loss lives,
> livelihoods, crops and homes all of which have led to human displacement in
> the form of forced migration and climate refugees on a massive an
> unprecedented scale.
>
> Humanity and nature are now standing at a precipice. We can stand idle and
> continue the march into an abysmal future too dire to imagine, or we can
> take action and reclaim a future that we have all hoped for.
>
> We will not stand idle. We will not allow the capitalist system to burn us
> all. We will take action and address the root causes of climate change by
> changing the system. The time has come to stop talking and to take action.
>
> We must nurture, support, strengthen and increase the scale of grassroots
> organizing in all places, but in particular in frontline battlegrounds
> where the stakes are the highest.
>
> System Change means:
>
>    -
>
>    Leave more than two thirds of fossil fuel reserves under the soil, as
>    well as beneath the ocean floor, in order to prevent catastrophic levels of
>    climate change.
>     -
>
>    Ban all new exploration and exploitation of oil, tar sands, oil shale,
>    coal, uranium, and natural gas.
>     -
>
>    Support a just transition for workers and communities away from the
>    extreme energy economy and into resilient local economies based on social,
>    economic and environmental justice.
>     -
>
>    Decentralize the generation and ownership of energy under local
>    community control using renewable sources of energy. Invest in community
>    based, small-scale, local energy infrastructure.
>     -
>
>    Stop building mega and unnecessary infrastructure projects that do not
>    benefit the population and are net contributors to greenhouse gasses like,
>    mega dams, excessive huge highways, large-scale centralized energy
>    projects, and superfluous massive airports.
>     -
>
>    End the dominance of export-based industrial forms of food production,
>    (including in the livestock sector), and promote small-scale integrated and
>    ecologically sound farming and an agriculture system that ensures food
>    sovereignty, and that locally grown crops meet the nutritional and cultural
>    needs of the local community. These measures will help to cool the planet.
>     -
>
>    Adopt Zero Waste approaches through promoting comprehensive recycling
>    and composting programs that end the use of greenhouse gas emitting
>    incinerators – including new generation hi-tech incinerators – and
>    landfills.
>     -
>
>    Stop land grabbing and respect the rights of small farmers, peasants
>    and women. Recognize the collective rights of indigenous and tribal peoples
>    consistent with the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples,
>    including their rights to their lands and territories.
>     -
>
>    Develop economic strategies that create new kinds of ‘climate jobs’ -
>    decent paying jobs that directly contribute to carbon reductions - in such
>    sectors as renewable energy, agriculture, public transportation and
>    building retrofits.
>     -
>
>    Recover the control of the public sources to finance projects for
>    people and nature like health, education, food, employment, housing,
>    restoration of water sheds, conservation and restoration of forest and
>    other ecosystems and others and stop the subsidies to dirty industries,
>    agribusiness and military industry.
>     -
>
>    Take cars off the roads by building clean public transport
>    infrastructure that is adaptive to local, non-combustion energy sources,
>    and make it accessible and affordable to everyone.
>     -
>
>    Promote local production and consumption of durable goods to satisfy
>    the fundamental needs of the people and avoid the transport of goods that
>    can be produced locally.
>     -
>
>    Stop and reverse corporate driven free trade and investments
>    agreements that promote trade for profit and destroy the labor force,
>    nature and the capacity of nations to define their own policies.
>     -
>
>    Stop the corporate capture of the economy and natural resources for
>    the profit of Transnational Corporations.
>     -
>
>    Dismantle the war industry and military infrastructure in order to
>    reduce the greenhouse gas emissions of warfare, and divert war budgets to
>    promote genuine peace.
>
>
>  With these measures we will be able to achieve comprehensive employment
> for all because built into this systemic change there will be more and
> better quality jobs than currently exist within the capitalist system. With
> these measures we will be able to build an economy that serves the people
> and not the capitalists. We will stop the endless degradation of the
> earth’s land, air, and water and preserve the health of humans and the
> vital cycles of nature. We will avoid forced migration and millions of
> climate refugees.
>
> System change requires an end to the global empire of transnational
> corporations and banks. Only a society that has the type of democratic
> control over resources which is based on workers (including migrant
> workers), indigenous and women’s rights and respects the sovereignty of the
> people will be able to guarantee economic, social and environmental
> justice. System Change requires a break from the patriarchal society in
> order to guarantee women’s rights in all aspects of life. Feminism and
> ecology are key components of the new society that we are fighting for.
>
> We need a new system that seeks harmony between humans and nature and not
> an endless growth model that the capitalist system promotes in order to
> make more and more profit. Mother Earth and her natural resources cannot
> sustain the consumption and production needs of this modern industrialized
> society. We require a new system that addresses the needs of the majority
> and not of the few. We need a redistribution of the wealth that is now
> controlled by the 1%. And we also need a new definition of wellbeing and
> prosperity for all life on the planet under the limits of our Mother Earth.
>
> While there will still be a battle inside the international UN climate
> negotiations, the main battlegrounds will be outside and will be rooted in
> the places where there are frontline struggles against the fossil fuel
> industry, industrial agriculture, deforestation, industrial pollution,
> carbon offsets schemes, and REDD-type carbon offsets projects, all
> resulting in land and water grabbing and displacements taking place all
> over the world.
>
> The United States, Europe, Japan, Russia and other industrialized
> countries, as the main historical carbon emitters, should implement the
> biggest emissions reductions. China, India, Brazil, South Africa and other
> emerging economies should also have targets for emission reductions based
> on the principles of common but differentiated responsibility. We do not
> accept that on behalf of the right to development several projects for more
> unsustainable consumption and exploitation of nature are being promoted in
> developing countries only to benefit the profits of the 1%.
>
> The fight for a new system is also the struggle against false solutions to
> climate change. If we don’t stop them they will disrupt the Earth’s System
> and deeply affect the health of nature and all life. We therefore reject
> techno-fix “solutions” like geo-engineering, genetically modified
> organisms, agrofuels, industrial bioenergy, synthetic biology,
> nanotechnology, hydraulic fracturation (fracking), nuclear projects,
> waste-to-energy generation based on incineration, and others.
>
> We are also in opposition to those proposals that want to expand the
> commodification, financialization and privatization of the functions of
> nature through the so-called “green economy” which places a price on nature
> and creates new derivative markets that will only increase inequality and
> expedite the destruction of nature. We cannot put the future of nature and
> humanity in the hands of financial speculative mechanisms like carbon
> trading and REDD. We echo and amplify the many voices that are urging the
> European Union to scrap the EU Emissions Trading Scheme.
>
> REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation), like
> Clean Development Mechanisms, is not a solution to climate change and is a
> new form of colonialism. In defense of Indigenous Peoples, local
> communities and the environment, we reject REDD+ and the grabbing of the
> forests, farmlands, soils, mangroves, marine algae and oceans of the world
> which act as sponges for greenhouse gas pollution. REDD and its potential
> expansion constitutes a worldwide counter-agrarian reform which perverts
> and twists the task of growing food into a process of “farming carbon”
> called Climate Smart Agriculture.
>
> We must link social and environmental struggles, bring together rural and
> urban communities, and combine local and global initiatives so that we can
> unite together in a common struggle. We must use all diverse forms of
> resistance. We must build a movement that is based on the daily life of
> people that guarantees democracy at all stages of societies.
>
> Many proposals already contain key elements needed to build new systemic
> alternatives. Some examples include, Buen Vivir, defending the commons,
> respecting Indigenous territories and community conserved areas, the rights
> of Mother Earth – rights of Nature, food sovereignty, prosperity without
> growth, de-globalization, the happiness index, the duties to and rights of
> future generations, the Peoples Agreement of Cochabamba and others.
>
> We have all long hoped for the possibility of another world. Today, we
> take that hope and turn it into courage, strength and action - that
> together, we can change the system. If there is to be a future for
> humanity, we need to fight for it right now.
>
> *April 2013*
>
> *Signed by the facilitators of the Climate Space*
>
> Alliance of Progressive Labor, Philippines
>
> Alternatives International
>
> ATTAC France
>
> Ecologistas en Acción
>
> Environmental Rights Action, Nigeria
>
> ETC Group
>
> Fairwatch, Italy
>
> Focus on the Global South
>
> Global Campaign to Dismantle Corporate Power and end TNCs’ impunity
>
> Global Forest Coalition
>
> Grassroots Global Justice Alliance
>
> Grupo de Reflexão e Apoio ao Processo do Fórum Social Mundial
>
> Indigenous Environmental Network
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> La Via Campesina
>
> No-REDD Africa Network
>
> Migrants Rights International
>
> OilWatch International
>
> Polaris Institute
>
> Transnational Institute
>
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