AEPF Briefing Paper
for the ASEM (Asia Europe Meeting) Public Conference on EU-Asia Inter-Regional Relations.
 
Recommendations to ASEM8
from the Asia Europe People’s Forum
 
AEPF-8 Call to Action
Challenging and Eroding Corporate Power - Building States of Citizens for Citizens
Ecological Justice
Establishing an AEPF Climate Justice Working Group

Why a Working Group on Climate Justice in AEPF?

This year's G8 Summit, which was held in L'Aquila, Italy from July 8 to 10 offered one more opportunity for leaders from major economies to break the climate deadlock by demonstrating their political will in solving the climate crisis and produce something substantial on the table on key issues of technology cooperation and financing. Unfortunately, that opportunity was once more missed. For those following the negotiations in the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), this is not surprising for the divide between the interests of developed and developing countries are huge and the contradictions related to offered solutions are getting bigger.

 

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