Rich industrialised Countries Offer Little Hope for Just Climate Agreement
in Copenhagen

BONN, GERMANY, June 12, 2009 --Throughout the United Nations climate talks
due to end today in Bonn, the United States administration blocked
progress to move negotiations forward, according to Friends of the Earth
International.

Rather than show global leadership, the Obama Administration failed to
live up to its responsibility as the world's largest historical greenhouse
gas polluter. This strategy damages the prospects for a just, equitable,
and effective outcome at the key UN conference planned in Copenhagen,
Denmark, in December this year.

"The election of President Obama created tremendous hope worldwide that

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According to the United Nations, close to a million species of plants and animals could disappear from the face of the earth in the next 50 years as a result of greenhouse gasses being released primarily from motor vehicles.

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Countdown for Survival: Global groups make an urgent call to end deforestation
and conserve the world's forests during UN Climate Talks

Bonn, Germany - A coalition of youth, environmental groups, NGOs, Indigenous
Peoples organizations and women's groups delivered a plea to negotiators asking
them to ensure a strong climate deal and warning them that they will put our
survival at risk if they do not act immediately to halt deforestation and the
industrial logging of the world's primary forests (forest
degradation). [Signatories and statement below in NOTE 1]

"Survival is not negotiable. The climate deal signed in Copenhagen needs to
ensure the survival of all countries and people. The immediate protection of

This from Vicky Corpuz, chair of UNPFII

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Good people, please understand that climate change is a natural cyclical pattern of a living breathing Earth. The planet warms and cools according to her own cycles, and currently she is coming into her water cycle. We indigenous peoples know this, have always known this, and are not afraid of her movements.

The Global Forest Coalition, a worldwide network of environmental organizations and Indigenous Peoples Organizations, have publicly rejected the plans of the Prince of Wales to finance rainforest protection with a system of bonds that are to be paid back with funding derived from carbon markets. The Prince launched his idea at a meeting with G20 Heads of State in St. James Palace today.

ROME, ITALY, MARCH 16 -- In a reaction to the alarming data released today in
the 2009 State of the World's Forests report by the UN Food and Agricultural
Organisation (FAO), Friends of the Earth International <http://www.foei.org>[1]
and the Global Forest Coalition <http://www.globalforestcoalition.org/>[2], two
leading networks of environmental and Indigenous Peoples' Organisations, called
on world governments to take immediate action to halt deforestation and forest
degradation.

Deforestation rates continue to be shockingly high in many countries despite