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CAT Media Department: Press Release
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| Sara Tackles Climate Change in Montreal |
| CAT staffer attends International Climate Summit |
| Contact: Amanda Roll Pickering (Email) |
Date: 09/01/2006 |
 CAT staff member Sara Turnbull has recently returned from Montreal where she attended the COP11, an important international climate change summit. Sara went with the Global Commons Institute (GCI), an NGO which campaigns for the use of contraction and convergence as a framework for allocating limits of CO2 emissions.
The summit held in the Palais de Congress de Montreal. “It was a beautiful building from the outside, but inside there were all these rooms with people debating things with no windows. It was a bit strange to be talking about the environment when we were completely cut off from the outside world.”
By the end of the talks, few solid conclusions had been reached, but delegates agreed to continue with the Kyoto targets, and made some (albeit watered-down) commitments to talk again.
“What was really missing was a sense of urgency – it’s really sad they weren’t able to put in a positive framework. Of the people I met, 90% wanted to do something to stop climate change, and about 50% were already doing something, if only in their own lives.”
Sara thought that one of the main problems with the conference was the number of delegates. Canada, for example, was able to field 400 representatives who could attend all the discussions and deal-making going on alongside the main event. Uganda’s three representatives could not.
The Canadian government tried to offset all of the greenhouse emissions caused by the conference and transport to the event, with renewable energy projects across the country.
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