Klimaforum09 demands a carbon-free society by 2040

*The first climate draft to come out of COP15 is not very visionary, say the
organisers of Klimaforum09, the alternative peoples’ global summit, which is
taking place aside the official conference. Today the forum offers its own
declaration calling for a 100% carbon-free economy by 2040. *

Participants at the peoples’ climate summit have agreed on a declaration
ready to be presented to the politicians at the Bella Center next week. The
declaration has been influenced and agreed upon by many of the
Klimaforum09’s participants from developing countries - those being affected
by the climate changes in their everyday lives.

"We are pleased that in spite of the many different voices and views we have
succeeded in our agreement on this important document. It has been created
through an open and democratic dialogue between people and organisations
from all over the world”, says declaration spokesperson Paul Quintos from
the Philippines.

One of the first to sign the alternative declaration at Klimaforum09 was
Indian environmentalist Dr Vandana Shiva. “This is the declaration, which
the Bella Center should be working on”, she said.

70 organisations and participants at Klimaforum09 from 92 different
countries stand behind the declaration, which recommends the following
demands:

- A complete abandoning of fossil fuels within the next 30 years.
- An immediate cut in greenhouse gases of industrialized countries of at
least 40% compared to 1990 levels by 2020.
- Compensation of the people who are already affected by the adverse
effects of climate change*.
- Rejection to purely market-oriented and technology-centred false
solutions such as nuclear energy, agro-fuels, carbon capture and storage.
- Real solutions to climate crisis based on safe, clean, renewable and
sustainable use of natural resources.
- Fair and just exchange of technologies and ideas between North and South.