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<B><FONT COLOR="#000000">05 December 2007</FONT></B>
<B><FONT COLOR="#000000">For Immediate Release</FONT></B>
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<DIV ALIGN=center><B><FONT SIZE="5"><FONT COLOR="#000000">Grassroots and CSOs support the call for a People’s Protocol on Climate Change</FONT></FONT></B></DIV>
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<B><FONT COLOR="#000000">Hundreds of signatures have already been gathered from grassroots and organizations worldwide supporting the People’s Declaration on Climate Change which calls for, among others, a People’s Protocol on Climate Change. </FONT></B>
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<B><FONT COLOR="#000000">The People’s Declaration on Climate Change was drafted and accepted by 170 participants from the Asia Pacific region during the Asia Pacific Research Network’s Conference on Natural Resources in Bangkok, Thailand last October 2007, saw the need for a People’s Protocol on Climate Change in recognition of the fact that the Kyoto Protocol failed to offer a sustainable solution to the issue and did not allow sufficient voice from the marginalized sectors who suffer the greatest blows from climate change. </FONT></B>
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<B><FONT COLOR="#000000">The People’s Protocol on Climate Change is founded on people’s sovereignty over natural resources and sustainable economic framework as viable solutions to the climate change issue.</FONT></B>
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<B><FONT COLOR="#000000">Led by IBON Foundation, Aidwatch, Indonesians’ Human Rights Defenders and the ILPS-Indonesia (AGRA, FMN, INDIES), and other people’s organizations in Denpasar, Bali, a series of workshops has been held which allowed people to discuss, critique and adopt the People’s Declaration on Climate Change. On December 7, hundreds of peasants, women, youth, fisherfolk, indigenous people, workers and CSOs will again gather in Inna Bali, Denpasar to discuss and adopt the People’s Declaration on Climate Change.</FONT></B>
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<B><FONT COLOR="#000000">Five thousand more signatures are expected to endorse the People’s Declaration on Climate Change in a nationally coordinated people’s actions in 14 key cities in Indonesia, particularly in Jakarta, Yogyakarta, East Java, West Kalimantan, Central Sulawesi, North Sumatra, South Sumatra and Lampung on December 10, International Human Rights Day.</FONT></B>
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<B><FONT COLOR="#000000">All these events will lead up to a conference in Copenhagen in 2008 which will come up with the finalized version of the People’s Protocol on Climate Change, led by Pesticide Action Network International, People’s Coalition on Food Sovereignty and the Asia Pacific Research Network in time for consideration and inclusion for the post-Kyoto agreement.###</FONT></B>
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<B><FONT COLOR="#000000">For more details, please get in touch with Ava Danlog at <A HREF="mailto:adanlog@ibon.org">adanlog@ibon.org</A>, mobile number +6281337948071 and with Syamsul Ardiansyah at <A HREF="mailto:syamsuladzic@gmail.com">syamsuladzic@gmail.com</A>, mobile number +6281315912363. </FONT></B>
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