Survival at stake? What is needed in Copenhagen for the most vulnerable?

DEVELOPMENT & CLIMATE DAY at Bonn II negotiating session of the UN Framework Convention on Climate change

International Conference and Film festival, Saturday, 6th June 2009

Venue - Haus der Geschichte (www.hdg.de), Bonn, metro station Heussallee/Museumsmeile

The June negotiating session (Bonn II, 1 to 12 June) will be of crucial importance towards the historic UN climate change agreement in Copenhagen. Bonn II will see the first draft of a negotiating text.

While most of the public attention traditionally turns to mitigation, Bonn II will also give an early indication of the degree by which the Copenhagen Agreement will cater for the needs of the most vulnerable to cope with the growing impacts of the now unavoidable levels of climate change.

Development & Climate Day at Bonn II will put a focus on those people, communities and countries whose survival is at stake, who are most vulnerable to the adverse effects of climate change. In particular, it will:

• highlight recent science results and their implications for climate-resilient development;
• learn from people living with the growing threat of climate change what the Copenhagen agreement must do for them;
• present successful examples of adaptation, including from the community-level, and how Copenhagen can enhance such approaches;
• advance the debate of future support for national adaptation strategies in developing countries and their role in a Copenhagen Agreement;
• promote the development of alliances between governments, civil society etc. on the way to Copenhagen;

The Development & Climate Day at Bonn II will bring together negotiators, science experts, civil society, community organisations, and other interested people.

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A FILM FESTIVAL will provide examples on impacts and how people adapt to them from the "real world". It will run in parallel to the conference in the same venue, allowing people to chose between the conference and the films. For more information on how to make your films be shown in the festival, please go to: http://tinyurl.com/recwrx

Information on the event will be updated in the coming weeks at
http://www.germanwatch.org/termine/2009-06-06

Participation is free of charge, no registration is required.

*Contact:* klima@germanwatch.org

Hosted by Germanwatch, Bread for the World, Oxfam International, VENRO, The Development Fund (Norway), Misereor, Heinrich Boell Foundation, International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD), Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI), African Centre for Technology Studies (ACTS), Network on Climate Change (Bangladesh), WWF International, Practical Action, Jeunes Volontaires pour l'Environnement (Togo), German Protestant Development Service (EED), Women in Europe for a Common Future (WECF), gender cc - women on climate change.