The belly of the Bali beast
2007-12-07 by Kevvy KMarva Whitny (with James Brown) – Sunny
A first post from me for a fair old while… I’m in Bali at the UN climate negotiations. Sounds like a cushy little number, but in reality its been 12 hour days, sweaty crevices and the briefest glimpse of a beach one time in between the hotel and the conference centre, which is at a posh resort development funded by the World Bank that involved destroying a local reef ecosystem.
I just want to flag up to people that anyone who thinks that Kyoto is about saving the world is very sadly mistaken. Its all about making money here, mainly in the form of the various hare-brained schemes to expand the carbon market. And the biggest NGO here isn’t Oxfam, or even Friends of the Earth, or whoever, its the International Emissions Trading Agency, a corporate lobby group, who with 300+ people here represents about 7% of the total NGO community, all of them schmoozing their way into new deals, and new means of influencing governments into pushing pro-carbon trading measures. Hell in a hand cart I tell you.
Anyway, me and a bunch of folks I’m here with, the Durban Group for Climate Justice, are publishing an alternative conference newsletter, the Alter-Eco (in response to the Eco, the newsletter of the more mainstream, and many would argue, more compromised NGO Climate Action Network). SO basically, I am meant to be making blog links to push up its google rating, and here it is. Go check it if you’re into that sort of thing.
Oh, and here’s a very lovely version of Sunny. Just listen to it and describe it yourself.. I haven’t got the capacity to talk about anything except flexible mechanisms, joint implementations or the whole host of other nonsensical terms that will be making up the bingo-bullshit scorecard will be printing up for the delegates later this week.
I have been very music starved in the last week or so.. really looking fwd to beng back, harvesting the blogs and lining up a big playlist. At least I’m not being exposed to the perennial hell of the Christmas consumer binge-athon.
Oh, and happy second birthday to us for a couple of days back.. bit of a whimper of a celebration this year, but hey, still here, still blogging, still enjoying it, still making more blog-buddies out there, and looking forward to the next years worth of DC output.
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