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“LOCAL AND NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENT FACED TO CLIMATE CHANGE
CHALLENGES POST-KYOTO ERA.
Links between Buen Ayre Forum and Argentine Republic Government”
Author:
Lic. ELDA VIVIANA TANCREDI
Social Sciences Department, Lujan National University, ARGENTINA
Prepared for presentation at the Open Meeting of the Global Environmental Research Community, Rio de Janeiro, 6-8
October, 2001
OBJECTIVE:
•to describe the main characteristics of the environmental movement in Argentina, specifically related to
Global Climate Change Issues in post-Kyoto Era, conforming the Buen Ayre Forum (FBA)
•to analyse the links among NGOs, national government and public policy
EXTERNAL INSTITUCIONAL FORCES:
- UNITED NATIONS FRAMEWORK CONVENTION ON CLIMATE CHANGE
(UNFCCC)
- The KYOTO PROTOCOL (KP)
ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENT FACED TO CLIMATE CHANGE
Environmental Movement Types:
1- ”grass-roots” movements
(small. disorganised, urgency to meet local economic and
social needs)
2. NGOs
related to urban environmental conditions (in general middleclass problems)
3- National offices of international Groups
(e.g. GREENPEACE, EARTH FRIENDS)
Civil Society and NGOs
participation
as component of Public
Policy
NATIONAL GOVERNMENT FACED TO CLIMATE CHANGE
NATIONAL NATURAL RESOURCES AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
SECRETARY (SNRyDS)
WHY?
COP IV to be held in Buenos Aires
Forum OBJECTIVES:
- real interest ?
- minimising conflicts while international
event?
Principle
“common but differentiated responsibilities”
“specific national and regional development
priorities,
objectives and circumstances”
1- to incorporate Climate Change Issues in NGOs agenda
2- to spread (through Workshops) and publish knowledge on
Climate Change
3- to promote NGOs network (more than 100 members)
4- to facilitate NGOs participation before, during and after COP IV
ACTIVITIES BEFORE COP IV
(from July to November, 1998)
- Local and National Consultation
Process
•4 Forum Workshops
•2 National ONGs Meetings
•5 Regional Workshops (Buenos
Aires, Cuyo, Litoral, NOA,
Patagonia)
•4 Meetings with National
Authorities
-Buen Ayre Forum Bulletin
(1993) National Law n° 24.295 Adhesion to UNFCCC
ACTIVITIES of Buen Ayre Forum
(supported by UNPD and SRNyDS)
ACTIVITIES DURING COP IV
(November, 1998)
Special Events
•synthesis of activities developed
•Meeting: “Mitigation scenarios and
mechanism of clean development”
•Intervention in the Plenary Session
-ARG/99/003/A/03/99 Project Greenhouse Gasses Emission
reduction
ACTIVITIES AFTER COP IV
(1999, 2000, 2001)
- Argentine Office to Joint Implementation
(OAIC)
(822/98; 223/00)
•Participation in Advisory Committee of the
National Commission for Elaboration and Proposal
of the Goal of GHG emissions (OAIC)
Main actors:
(only 2 Meetings during 1998-1999)
•3 small and local NGOs (specially CIMA •Since 2000 (new national authorities), few participation and consensus
“Interdisciplinary Commission of Environment”,
exercising the FBA Secretary)
- Program of activities toward and during
•2 Global Groups:
-GREENPEACE Argentina
- COP V (Bonn, 1999)
-EARTH FRIENDS Argentina
- COP VI (La Hague, 2000- Bonn, 2001)
MAIN ASSERTIONS
- New environment campaigns with Greenpeace
1- Needs of GHG emission reduction;
and Earth Friends)
2- Clean and renewable Energy and energy efficiency;
3- Not to Nuclear Power and huge hydraulic power centres
4- Consensus with GREENPEACE “ENERGY CAMPAIGN 1998” and
(2001) National Law n° 25.438
afforestation and reforestation as the only eligible LULUCF project activities under the CDM
5- Needs to develop mechanisms of diffusion of information and programs of formal and
ARGENTINA
adhesion to KYOTO PROTOCOL
non-formal environmental education
6- NGOs needs of an effective and efficient financial support on the part of the State and
international organisms
BUT, CLIMATE CHANGE IS NOT SEEN AS RELEVANT, (EXCEPTION: GLOBAL GROUPS) IT COMPITES WITH OTHER LOCAL PRIORITIES