INFORSE in Poznan
INFORSE participated in Poznan as NGO observer with the largest delegation so far (12 persons are delegated by INFORSE). INFORSE is among the 150 exhibitors and organises a side-event together with WECF in the Environmental NGO's (ENGO) room.

Date	Time	Place	INFORSE Activities at Poznan
December 1-12	during day	15B	INFORSE Exhibition & Information Booth Posters! Brochures & Newsletters! Manual on sustainable energy solutions in South Asia how to reduce poverty ! Brand new NGO report on Climate Policy in new EU countries in CEE. Join Online Education The way to the Zero Carbon Scenario by 2050 or already by 2030! Pictures of INFORSE exhibition at COP14
December 6, Saturday	18:00 - 19:30	Grouse (ENGO)	Side Event of INFORSE & WECF Sustainable Energy & CC Policies: Poverty Reduction in Asia & EECCA. Zero Carbon Scenario in EU. - Successes to reduce poverty, new manuals for development solutions with less GHG in South Asia, sustainable energy visions / scenarios for North. - Exchange of views among NGOs, EECCA governments & UN on capacity building, role of women, technology transfer, UNFCCC mechanisms, human rights. Program (pdf 60 kB) Program, and presentations' handouts can be downloaded as pdf files at Proceedings INFORSE-COP14, at UNFCCC 's list of side event. A review is at WECF.
			INFORSE-Europe included:
December 4, Thursday	19:30-21:00	Grebe	Side Event of REC CEE Climate Policy in CEE and Turkey The program included an INFORSE-Europe presentation on Sustainable Energy Scenarios in CEE with focus on Bulgaria to Mitigate Climate Change. Presentation handout (pdf file) Read more: REC
			INFORSE Members' Activities:
December 1	9:30-17:00	EU Pavilion	Side Events of Life e.V. & GenderCC Gender Justice in Climate Change Policy More: GendeCC
December 5 - Conference	9:30 - 17:30	Mercure Hotel
December 9 -Sde event	13:00-15:00	Swan
December 11 9:00 - 9:30 Action: Emissions Down - Women' Rights Up	9-9.30	Next to the Entrance
December 1-12	during day	Exhibition Area
December 8	11:00-12:30	Aescula- pian snake	Side event of HELIO International Indicators to adaptation projects that reinforce energy system resilience in Sub-Saharan Africa. More: Helio
			INFORSE-Europe at Econcern Sustainable Energy Event Parallel with COP14 in Poznan
December 5	13:00-15:00	WTC	Theme Day: Renewable Energy Vision: Europe 100% renewable in 2050 Paul Allen, CAT, UK / INFORSE-Europe (pdf file) Henrik Lund, Aalborg University Kristian Petrick, Ecofys Spain
			NGO Action - Public Apeal
December 10			INFORSE is among the 300 NGOs, which signed a public appeal to keep the nuclear power option out of the climate talks. More: nuclear .
	Pictures from COP at Poznan Official & NGO Actions

INFORSE’s delegation of NGO observers:

- European Coordinators and Board:
Gunnar Boye Olesen, (OVE/92 Group, Denmark),
Emil Bedi (FAE, Slovakia), Paul Allen (CAT, UK), Ursel Beckmann (WB, Germany),
Andrej Konechenkov (REA, Ukraine).

- Asia & Africa Coordinators and Focal Points:
Raymond Myles (INSEDA, India), Farida Hussain (AIWC, India), M. Ba (ENDA Senegal), Roque Pedace (Rejima, Argentina), Lumin Kumar Shrestha (CRT, Nepal).

- Sustainable Energy News:
Judit Szoleczky, editor

Other INFORSE Members at Poznan:
Beside the INFORSE’s accredited 12-person delegation, several members are also participating on their own:
- Exhibition and side events on gender organised by Life e.V. (Germany) at GENDERCC (see above).
- Side events organised by Helio International (France) (See above).
- Exhibition by ENDA (Senegal), and GERES (France).
Other INFORSE member organisations representations, among others, were:
Olga Senova (FB, Russia), Alda Ozola (LGM, Latvia), Earthlife Africa (South Africa), and EREF (Belgium).

CURES
INFORSE is also one of the coordinators of CURES, which also held a side event.

Climate Change - The Negotiations
INFORSE's Views. Copy of article in Sustainable Energy News, October 2008.

Strong Evidence vs Slow Progress
In spite of the increasing evidence of harmful climate change, negotiations are progressing only slowly toward an international agreement on post-2012 climate policies.
If a meaningful international climate agreement is to be in place by 2012, it is crucial that progress be made at the COP/MOP in Poznan, Poland, December 1-12, 2008. The agreement at the 2007 COP/MOP in Bali of a 25-40% reduction of CO2 emissions from 1990 levels by 2020 in industrialized countries is only adequate to prevent harmful climate change if the target is a firm 40%; anything less will keep emissions too high.

Negotiators Tasks to Do
The task facing negotiators in Poznan must be to translate the conclusions from Bali into agreements among all countries willing to take climate change seriously.
The agreements must lead to real, substantial reductions in emissions, not just more trading of hot air.
Further, they must be based on reductions of emissions of energy use and industries, not mixing them with land-use change or (other) sinks.
The strong greenhouse gases must have their own reduction agreement, not allowing reduction projects of these gases to get windfall profits from participating in the same mechanisms as other projects.
Agreements to reduce emissions from energy and industry must be followed by an agreement addressing land-use change and deforestation. The net emissions from deforestation's etc. not only have to be stopped, they also have to be reversed, such that land-use globally very quickly becomes a sink and not a source of greenhouse-gas emissions.

Positive Proposals
There are several positive proposals in the recent official negotiations in Bonn and Accra, such as South Africa’s proposed vision for the reduction and subsequent reversal of global emissions within a decade and, later, reductions in South Africa. Also positive is Norway’s proposal to address global shipping by allocating emissions to the owners of the ships. The EU countries have shown significant initiative in their stated willingness to reduce emissions by 30% by 2020 as part of an international agreement. These are some of the proposals that could build up success at the negotiations in Poznan and in 2009 in Copenhagen.

Watering Down Attempts
Unfortunately, there are many attempts to water down the potential outcome of the negotiations in Poland from all parts of the world, including Poland itself. There are proposals to introduce hot air of various kinds, to let uncertain sinks replace emissions, directly or via various trading systems, to let nuclear power replace more sustainable projects in CDM, and many others. In the middle of December we will know whether Poznan was a positive step towards the negotiations in Copenhagen or simply two weeks wasted on toothless international negotiations.

Read more:

- INFORSE participation on COP 13 here.
- UNFCCC official site: UN Framework Convention on Climate Change
- COP14 Polish host site: COP 14 in Poznan
- INFORSE at COP15 in 2009 in Copenhagen, Denmark
- Climate Action Network: CAN and CAN-Europe

INFORSE's delegates travel is supported by the Norwegian Forum for Development and Environment, EU DG Environment operational grant for INFORSE-Europe, the Swedish Acid Rain Secretariat and Henrich Böll Foundation.

See INFORSE's Participation at Present, and Following UNFCCC Conference of Parties (COP):

- INFORSE at UNFCCC COP24 in Katowice, Poland, 2018
- INFORSE at UNFCCC SB48, in Bonn, Germany, April 30-May 10, 2018
- INFORSE at UNFCCC COP23 in Bonn/Fiji, 2017
- INFORSE at UNFCCC COP22 in Marrakesh, Morocco, 2016.
- INFORSE at UNFCCC SBI44 PreCOP22 in Bonn, Germany, 2016.
- INFORSE at UNFCCC COP 21 in Paris, France, 2015.
- INFORSE at UNFCCC SBI42 PreCOP21 in Bonn, Germany, 2015.
- INFORSE at UNFCCC COP 20 in Lima, Peru, 2014.
- INFORSE at UNFCCC COP 19 in Warsaw, Poland, 2013.
- INFORSE at UNFCCC COP 18 in Doha, Qatar, 2012.
- INFORSE at UNFCCC COP 17 in Durban, South Africa 2011.
- INFORSE at UNFCCC COP 16 in 2010 in Cancun, Mexico.
- INFORSE at UNFCCC COP 15 in 2009 in Copenhagen, Denmark.
- INFORSE's Position Paper on Climate Change (INFORSE's Position pdf file 99kB) at the start of COP15, 7 December, 2009.
- INFORSE's brief analysis of the outcome of COP15 (INFORSE's Analysis pdf file 64 kB), 21 December, 2009.
- INFORSE at COP14 in 2008 in Poznan, Poland.

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