UN, G-20 and Climate Change - 9/21

Climate change is expected to play a central role in meetings of the
United Nations and G-20 this week.

ANASTASIA PINTO, ORIN LANGELLE,  http://globaljusticeecology.org
HALLIE BOAS,
     In Pittsburgh until Wednesday, Pinto is executive director of the
Center for Organizing, Research and Education in India. She said today:
"We're already seeing climate devastation in India. Scientists are
linking the floods India has experienced the last 30 years to climate
change. We must treat this issue with the urgency it requires."
     Langelle is co-director of the Global Justice Ecology Project. Boas
is coordinator of the group's New Voices effort, which is focusing on
indigenous and global analysts and activists.
     They are participating in events around the Three Rivers Climate
Convergence, which is being held in Pittsburgh to coincide with the
International Coal Conference (Sept. 21 to 23) and G-20 summit (Sept. 24
and 25). http://3riversconvergence.org/node/7

PATRICK BOND, [currently in California] http://www.zmag.org/zspace/patrickbond
     Director of the Center for Civil Society in South Africa, Bond is
co-editor of "Climate Change, Carbon Trading and Civil Society" (a PDF
of the book is available upon request). His most recent article is
"'Seattle' Copenhagen call, as Africans demand reparations." Past
articles include "From False to Real Solutions for Climate Change."
http://www.monthlyreview.org/mrzine/bond060108.html

RACHEL SMOLKER, http://www.climatesos.org
     Currently in New York City, Smolker is with Climate S.O.S.
     She said today: "At the national and international level, special
interest corporate lobbyists have held a stranglehold on climate
policymaking. 'Solutions' being offered are those most profitable and
convenient to corporate polluters and their acquiescent faux 'Green' NGO
allies. The panoply of cap-and-trade, emissions offsets, genetically
engineered organisms, and carbon capture and sequestration technology
form a pipe-dream constellation of false solutions."

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Sam Husseini, (202) 347-0020, (202) 421-6858; or David Zupan, (541) 484-9167