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GCAP at the climate change conference in Bali, Indonesia

A long and winding road
The Bali Roadmap may offer the direction needed. However, it is at best, a long and winding road…and, with no targets on the table, one with no clear end in sight.
By Ben Margolis, Global Call to Action against Poverty (GCAP) Mobilisation Taskforce

Starting on December 3rd, the UN will host a major climate change conference in Bali, Indonesia. These meetings will include the Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC and the Meeting of Parties to the Kyoto Protocol. Everyone from IPCC to Nicholas Stern to thousands of civil society organisations are pointing to this meeting as a crucial moment for global agreement on tackling climate change. The consequences if these talks fail are disastrous.

GCAP's presence in Bali is organised and coordinated by GCAP Indonesia with support from the SENCA regional secretariat and the IFT support team. Friends in South Asia and in Europe are also writing supporting statements and documents and friends around the world are taking part in activities on December 8 - global day of action on climate change.

The objectives for GCAP in Bali are as follows:
1. To ensure that the links between poverty and climate change are clear in both the official meetings and civil society events
3. To make links with other networks, alliances and organisations to strengthen GCAPs future advocacy and campaigning on climate change at all levels

AGENDA of GCAP Activities in Bali

Dec 4
Activity: National Workshop on Poverty, Environment and Climate Change
Place: Room 2, CSF compound
Time: 10:00am – 12:00pm
Details: A workshop being organised by GCAP Indonesia focusing on the links between poverty, the environment and climate change in the Indonesian context.

Dec 5
Activity: International FGD on Gender Perspectives on Climate Change Policies and Practices
Place: Room 2, CSF compound
Time: 10:00am – 12:00pm
Details: Workshop organised by GCAP Indonesia with Indonesia People’s Forum

Dec 6
Activity: National Shared Learning on climate change adaptation and mitigation
Place: Room 1, CSF compound
Time: 14:00 – 16:00
Details: Workshop organised by GCAP Indonesia, Indonesia People’s Forum and INFID

Dec 7
Activity: Side event: Climate Justice, Indonesia
Place: UN Compound
Time: 15:30 – 17:30
Details: Official UN side event coordinated by Civil Society Forum of which GCAP Indonesia is a member

Dec 8
Activity: Global Day of Action Against Climate Change
Place & Time: Global
Details: GCAP allies, partners and staff in Indonesia to support activities there being coordinated by FOE Indonesia and supported by the Civil Society Forum. National platforms of GCAP involvement.

Dec 10
Activity: Launch of CSO report on MDGs
Place & Time: tbc
Details: Organised by GCAP Indonesia, Oxfam GB, INFID and GAPRI

Contact GCAP In Bali

If you are in Bali, contact the GCAP Team and get involved in the Civil Society Forum activities.

For more information on GCAP in Bali, for interviews request, please contact
Benjamin Margolis
Cell: +62 (0) 81805434625
Email: bmargolis@oxfam.org.uk

GCAP Spokespeople

GCAP will have a number of spokespeople in Bali as agreed by
GCAP SENCA, GCAP South Asia and GCAP Indonesia. These will include

Nur Amalia (GCAP Indonesia coordinator)
Wahyu Susilo (INFID and GCAP Indonesia)
Razaul Chowdury (COAST, Bangladesh)

Support the call

We hereby encourage all national GCAP platforms to support the following actions:

Support existing events taking place in your country (see globalclimatecampaign.org for details of what is happening, if anything, in your country and for contacts)

Call on political leaders for urgent action on climate change: on the 8th December or shortly before we call on GCAP national platforms to write to or visit senior ministers or Heads of State demanding urgent action on climate change.

Report photos, videos, stories and messages from people affected by climate change within your country: content on whiteband.org will focus on links between poverty and climate change, information on Bali including GCAP activities and links to other web sites. We encourage all national campaigners to send us political declarations, videos, photos, blogs and testimonies. Testimonies will be published on testimonies-whiteband.org, whiteband.org and on endpovertyblog.org. Testimonies should be accompanied by a photo and very short biog of the author.