COP6

Climate Action Network Europe Key Demands for COP6  (pdf)

What else is on this page? Climate Action Network Position papers  Why sinks in the Kyoto Protocol are a major problem  No to nuclear energy!  About the flexible mechanisms  Background information on COP6  Key UNFCCC official documents for COP6  Emissions data - progess report  Practical information  on The Hague  NGO actions in and around COP6

Climate Action Network (CAN) Positions

Read the full position paper on all issues online!

• CAN Position on Compliance (pdf)
• CAN Position on Demonstrable Progress (pdf)
• CAN Position on CDM (pdf)

SINKS

• CNE Position on sinks
• Verification of the Kyoto Protocol: A Fundamental Requirement VERTIC briefing paper on the key issues for COP6, including the verifiability of sinks.

Latin American NGOs - declare opposition to sinks and nuclear power in the CDM
• Latin American NGOs sign on to oppose plantations and forests in the CDM
• Argentinian NGOs
• Paraguayan NGOs
• Uruguayan NGOs
• Indigenous Peoples
• See also The World Rainforest Movement website
• NGO plea to the secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). SIGN ON!
• Australian Government wants credit for growing weeds. Press Release of the Wilderness Society, Australia

Nuclear Power

• 'Playing Safe' Keeping nuclear and large hydro out of the CDM at COP6 Liam Salter, WWF, Nov 2000
• Nuclear Proliferation - The Solution to Climate Change? Greenpeace, Oct 2000
• Why nuclear power is not the answer Jason Anderson, CNE
• 12 Reasons why there should be no nuclear power in the CDM (in French)
• The CDM: An Instrument for Sustainable Development or a New Nuclear Subsidy? Greenpeace Briefing Paper (From the link go to Policy and Politics then Briefing Papers)
• Climate Change and Nuclear Power WWF

Flexible Mechanisms

• CNE Position on Joint Implementation (Sept 2000)
• 10 Reasons why there should be a cap on flexible mechanisms
• 'Playing Safe' Keeping nuclear and large hydro out of the CDM at COP6 Liam Salter, WWF, Nov 2000
• CAN Position on the CDM

Background Information for COP6

• Press Kit  Gives brief explanations of the key issues at COP6 and also gives basic emissions data

Some of the key UNFCCC official documents for COP6.

• FCCC/sbsta/2000/12 LULUCF draft negotiating text. (Sinks)
• FCCC/SBSTA/2000/10/Add.1Part 1 Mechanisms consolidated text part 1(Joint Implementation)
• FCCC/SBSTA/2000/10/Add.1 Part 2 Mechanisms consolidated text part 2 (Clean Development Mechanism)
• FCCC/SBSTA/2000/10/Add.1 Part 3 Mechanisms consolidated text part 3 (Emissions Trading)
• FCCC/SBSTA/2000/10/Add.1 Part 4 Mechanismsconsolidated text part 4 (Registries)
• FCCC/SB2000/10 Mechanisms - overview
• FCCC/SB2000/10/Add.1 Mechanisms text by the chairman (Joint Implementation)
• FCCC/SB2000/10/Add.2 Mechanisms text by the chairman (Clean Development Mechanism)
• FCCC/SB2000/10/Add.3 Mechanisms text by the chairman (Emissions Trading)
• FCCC/SB2000/11 (Compliance)
• FCCC/SBI/2000/11 Annex 1 greenhouse gas emissions 1990-98

UNFCCC page on COP6

(Lack of) progress report on emissions reductions

• CO2 emissions

Practical information about COP6 and The Hague

• Practical information for COP6(13th -24th November 2000)
• Getting From the Airport to The Hague
• Tram and bus information in The Hague
• Getting to the CAN Strategy Sessions (for CAN members only)
• Map showing the hotels and Conference Centre ( Large 835KB)
• Map showing the hotels and Conference Centre (Smaller 333KB)

ACTIONS

• CNE Workshop on Jobs and Climate Change Side event at COP6
• The Bet European Youth Climate Campaign- we bet we can save 8% C02 within only 8 months
• Sign on letter to the Secretariat of the Biodiversity Convention
• Greenpeace Campaign on F-gases
• Friends of the Earth International  - action to build dike around the COP6 Conference Hall
• Bouw mee aan de Dijk (Belgium)
• Climate Voice. Over one million signatures Add your voice of protest here.
• Independent Media Center web site
• About Rising Tide Organisations
• Rising Tide Festival of Events
• WISE  - anti-nuclear campaign at COP6