Fossil Fuels and Climate Change
Conference on the Parties of the Climate Change Convention
Bonn, Germany 2001

If we evaluate the process that has taken place from Kyoto to The Hague and now in Bonn, we recognize that there is a failure in making decisions toward real reductions in gases that cause the climatic change. These failures concentrated on not reaching significant goals, now not achieving those minimum goals. 

The destruction of the atmosphere should be considered a crime against humanity. 

In the last few years deaths as a result of excess of carbon in the atmosphere have outstripped deaths in many wars. Most of the dead are members of humanity's more vulnerable groups. 

Too much time has passed and governments have not faced their obligation in relation with their CO2 reductions. Instead, they have avoid critical issues, by promoting insufficient alternatives, like the Clean Development Mechanis; by taking political desicions to abate climate change, and promoting unacceptable and insufficient technological proposals.  

Oilwatch's Resistence Network proposes a moratorium on oil exploration. Now the Network has ratified the moratorium and it is implementeed it, using our supreme rights to resist.  

Accordingly, we call upon organizations that fight for the human rights, those that combat racism, those that fight for the conservation of biodiversity, and those that promote clean energy, to come together and support this moratorium. 

Now. in Bonn we are ratifing our "Declaration of Climate Change" and presenting who, communities from different parts of the world are proposing concrete actions, real reductions, in front of the inactivity of many governments that would dare sabotage international agreements. 

For the planet and humanity!
OILWATCH

For more information see: 
* Oilwatch International Position Paper 

* To the G-77 and China Group and all Nations concerned on the growing Energy Crisis and Climate Change