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The Daily Tck: 28 November 2011

As the Durban climate talks got underway this morning news came that last nights violent storm killed six people in

Durban and Pietermaritzburg and destroyed several homes. The extreme weather, struck hours before the opening of theclimate change conference here, caused flooding and widespread damage and has brought the number of people killed

by floods in KwaZulul-Natal to 13 in less than two weeks.

Meanwhile, we received an overnight media report that the Canadian government plans to announce their

withdrawal from the Kyoto Protocol after the Durban meetings. It is no secret that the Canadian Government didnt

even try to meet their Kyoto commitments but if this report is true this would be a cynical ploy to sit in the Kyoto

negotiating sessions presumably trying to influence the outcome, all the while knowing they would withdraw from the

KP within a couple of weeks. As Alden Meyer of the Union of Concerned Scientists said Canada needs to either

disavow these rumors or it should man up and acknowledge they are true and pull out of the KP negotiations in other

words, come clean or go home.

We know that the battle to save Kyoto is key to unlocking the talks as we move to a second commitment period.

Another battle will be timing for a global agreement involving all the largest emitters. Some governments are pushing

to delay any deal until 2020. Even the conservative International Energy Agency sounded the alarm earlier this month

when it warned that without an enforceable global deal in place by 2017 the world would close the door on holding

temperatures to 2 degrees C above pre-industrial levels; a level scientists have warned would put the world at risk to

runaway climate change. www.iea.org/weo/

What is happening?The Mercury, the local paper here in Durban, had a front page picture of the wind turbine being raised on the beach

under a banner headline saying Only a Revolution will

do. http://themercury.newspaperdirect.com/epaper/viewer.aspx

In Europe, Greenpeace activists took direct action to blockade both major entrances to the UKs Department of

Transport (DfT) in London whilst other campaigners demonstrated with banners outside British embassies in Paris,

Berlin and Stockholm. Campaigners are targeting the British government after documents released showed how

officials from its transport department are working to sabotage a key European proposal that would block tar sands oil,

the dirtiest oil in the world, from ending up in petrol pumps across Europe. The environmentalists say the UK is doing

Big Oils dirty work following lobbying by oil majors including BP and Shell.

Just in time for the news that Canada plans to officially withdraw from the Kyoto Protocol, the Canadian Youth

Climate Coalition has released a new line of fashionable suits for the Canadian negotiators and Environment Minister

Peter Kent.Check out BituMensWear hereand download hi-res photos here.

The ITUC is holding aWorld of Work pavilion. Sharan Burrow General Secretary said Workers are not sitting on the

sidelines waiting for an international agreement; we are actively creating policies to enable a transition that will help

people and the planet. The World of Work showcases how workers can be drivers for change.

Alden Meyer of the Union of Concerned Scientists talks about expectations:

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http://oneworldgroup.org/2011/11/28/alden-meyer-expetations-from-the-cop17-united-nations-climate-talks-in-durban/

The Adopt a Negotiator team is back in full force at COP17. All of their posts are freely available for sharing and

reposting (with attribution):

Meet the core team of trackers here inDurban:http://adoptanegotiator.org/2011/11/23/meet-our-negotiator-trackers-in-durban/

EU tracker Sbastien Duyck explains why the UN climate talks stillmatter: http://adoptanegotiator.org/2011/11/25/why-should-we-still-spend-our-energy-following-the-un-climate-negotiations-motivations-for-durban/

A beautiful and powerful video of singing at the close of COY from JulianaRussar, the Brazilian tracker: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkdA0EePEsQ&feature=youtu.be Read her post about the video here(it is in Portuguese, click the translation button top right to read inEnglish): http://adoptanegotiator.org/2011/11/27/podemos-esperar-alguma-coisa-da-cop-17/

Follow AaN ontwitter: https://twitter.com/#!/list/adoptnegotiator/trackers-in-durban

Message of the DayThese talks need to adopt a strong second commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol; a mandate to conclude

negotiations on a more comprehensive legally binding instrument for all by 2015 at the latest; and we need to get

money into the Green Climate Fund to support vulnerable countries.

We have no time to waste; the world cannot wait until 2020 for a global climate deal. As Fatih Birol the IEAs Chief

Economist said If we do not have an international agreement in place by 2017, then the door to [holding temperatures

to 2C of warming] will be closed forever.

The Alliance of Small Island States (Aosis) warned that if Durban puts off a legally binding agreement and closes thedoor on raising mitigation ambition before 2020 many of small island states will be severely threatened.

What can you do today?Today may only be the first day of negotiations, but there are already plenty of ways to share resources, ideas and

amplify each others efforts. Here are a few:

Tweet your support for the Kyoto Protocol and show solidaritywith the Alliance of Small Island States:

We stand with the small islands! The world needs a binding climate dealbefore 2020. #COP17 #Durban

Why do we love the #KyotoProtocol? Because we love our planet. Help

keep emission targets on the agenda at #COP17 #COP17 negotiators: there is no time to waste! We need a #climate deal

this year, not in 2020 Are you in Durban for COP17? Attend the Daily Tck meeting at

10:15am tomorrow in Bhira River. If youre tweeting about COP17, we want you on our official

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