UIA - 1.2 million architects adopt C&C Jul 08, 2008 The UIA is a body representing over 1.2 million architects worldwide. It has just committed to lobbying @ Copenhagen for a treaty based on the principle of contraction and convergence. “Climate Change Resolution for UIA General Assembly, Torino July 2008 Preamble In line with its commitment to sustainable development and responsible architectural practice the UIA believes that co-ordinated international action is urgently required to arrest global warming. Current Climate change is the greatest emergency human civilisation has faced. There is overwhelming scientific consensus that it is caused by human activities and that it threatens a major proportion of life on earth. We believe that to successfully mitigate climate change it is essential to reach an intergovernmental agreement to limit greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions so as to stop the rise of GHG concentration in the atmosphere. As an international body of architects we feel a particular need for such a global agreement for it would create the conditions in which our members can better play their part in advocating local action and finding effective solutions. The international climate change agreement must be science based, equitable, and enforceable. It must lead to a progressive contraction of total emissions and a progressive convergence of per capita emissions worldwide. The United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, COP-15, to take place in November December 2009, offers an unrepeatable opportunity to finally put in place a more effective treaty to replace the very limited Kyoto Protocol which in any case expires in 2012. The UIA commits itself to campaigning for the most effective outcome possible at COP-15 through advocacy of an emission limitation agreement based on the principle of contraction and convergence. Sections are encouraged to work with other professional institutions and NGOs in their countries and regions, to organise events or join with already planned events in pursuit of effective intergovernmental action on climate change.”
G8+5 – No Slam, No Dunk; Kerplunk! Jul 10, 2008 [1] The G8 slam Contraction without Convergence [-50% emissions *globally* by 2050 – i.e. capping *all* countries] . . . . [2] the additional 5 [India, China, Mexico, South Africa, and Brazil] join them at the end and dunk them with Convergence without Contraction Result – no slam no dunk; Kerplunk! [1] plus [2] equals the now familiar and predictable failure to engage and therefore agree anything at all. Who was it aid, “You can’t be serious?” [So near but so far]. This increasing tragic and lethal waste of time is subsidised by the iterative ignorance of pompous individuals such as Professor Tom Burke. He recently advised the suddenly irresolute UK House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee: “C&C *could* be an eventual outcome, but that the international community would not willingly and deliberately adopt it – trying to push any particular framework in the negotiations would cause problems.” The UNFCCC Secretariat says, “C&C is inevitably required to achieve the objective of the Convention.” If Burke is now not even sure that C&C will an outcome – let alone in input – we are going into the realm of perpetual darkness and calamity. He is saying we are going to fail because the reality is that if C&C is not an outcome, we’re done for and effort from now on is in reality wasted. If effort is not to be wasted C&C has to be the outcome, and if C&C is to be the outcome it has to be an input – slam dunk – as the G8 plus 5 have just negatively proved yet again. Saying C&C is an outcome but not an input is delusional. It is the same as saying that the sun shines because plants are looking for the light. Has this man been taking too much medication?
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