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Not sure if I have done all my 200 words, I think most of my contributions have been in the power-point thus far. Soo… I guess I will use this opportunity to sum up my points, as tomorrow we each need to present a part:

I am focusing on our allies who can support us in this miserable state of affairs. I have mentioned seven SIDS (Small Island Developing Nations), and used this website for my info http://www.activesustainability.com/climate-change/countries-risk-disappearing-climate-change/.

I then went on to discuss how these SIDS can enlarge our voice in the fight to awaken larger nations and garner their support.

Next up, I have been in contact with Sarah Morris from the Spanish team. We have collaborated to unite our causes. They are wishing to signpost the Marshall Islands as a dire consequence of inaction surrounding climate change, commenting that as her country also has large populations residing on the Mediterranean coast, this is also a highly problematic future domestic issue. Sarah also informed me her country is the 5th largest producer of wind energy, and wants to support us to encourage larger, economically capable states to follow suit in SID support and use of renewable energy. Spain looks at our alliance as one of self-preservation as well, as worsening climate change will intensify the already massive movement of refugees around Europe.

I finished by assessing the urban populations, most of which are in developing states, that will be impacted and force to relocate due to rising sea levels. The most essential point here is that if we act on climate change now, more than half of this urban relocation can be avoided. This point I think really represents our larger cause. We accept that climate change is in the process. We need to address the causes immediately, not the symptoms. By addressing the cause, we avoid more than half of the symptoms.

Have a look at the article Brett just posted about Kiribati. I really like the quote in the beginning:

“Like a drop of water in a bucket, on its own is small, but if there are many, many drops, soon it is overflowing.”
I think it's a real testament of my main point, that alone we are hard to hear, but our allies make us more audible and globally noticed.

Stay woke everyone
Tamara xx

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"Like a drop of water in a bucket, on its own is small, but if there are many, many drops, soon it is overflowing."

Erietera Aram's water analogy is apposite. His country faces being lost under the waves of the Pacific Ocean.

Migration is the last option. We want to save our countries

Aso Ioapo from Tuvalu

The i-Kiribati man is in Australia delivering his message about the reality of climate change in his country, and of its immediacy. Each discussion, he says, is like a drop of water, adding to the one before it, slowly building understanding of the existential threat to his people and place.

"Climate change is not something off in the future, it's not a problem for later. We are living it now," he says.

The archipelago of Kiribati - 33 tiny coral atolls spanning 3.5m square kilometres of ocean - is the world's lowest-lying country, with an average height above sea level of just two metres.

Most of the 113,000 i-Kiribati live crammed on to Tarawa, the administrative centre, a chain of islets that curve in a horseshoe shape around a lagoon.

"My place is very small," Aram says. "If you stand in the middle, you can see water on both sides. We are vulnerable. One tsunami, one tsunami and our whole country will disappear."

Already, there is less and less of Kiribati for its inhabitants. The coastline is regularly being lost to king tides and to creeping sea levels, and in a very real sense, there is nowhere to go.

The loss of land is causing conflict - Tarawa is growing ever more densely crowded, as families living on the coastline are forced inwards, infringing on another's claim.

The next round of multinational climate talks in November - COP 23 - will be chaired by Fiji, and is expected to swing particular focus of the global climate debate to the Pacific, where comparatively minuscule amounts of carbon are produced, but the effects of climate change have been felt first, and most acutely.

Assuming the COP presidency, the Fijian prime minister, Frank Bainimarama, said he would "bring a particular perspective to these negotiations on behalf of some of those who are most vulnerable to the effects of climate change - Pacific Islanders and the residents of other small island developing states and low-lying areas of the world".

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The Betio hospital in Kiribati, which sustained damage during Cyclone Pam in 2015. Photograph: Kiribati Climate Action Network

But the islands' fight to be saved was everybody's, Bainimarama said.

"Our concerns are the concerns of the entire world, given the scale of this crisis."

Aram and compatriots from Kiribati and fellow low-lying islanders from Tuvalu are travelling with the Edmund Rice Centre, a social justice group, across Australia. They have met politicians, unions, coalminers, and officials from the CSIRO and power stations "and we think they have heard our stories, they understand how serious this is".

Recent reports from groups as disparate as the World Bank, the Menzies Research Centre and the Lowy Institute have suggested allowing open-access migration from Pacific Islands to Australia as a more effective economic stimulus than aid, and as a strategy for coping with the impacts of climate change, which are already beginning to see islands across the Pacific lost to the sea.

In April, the former US deputy undersecretary of defence Sherri Goodman visited Australia, and said the Pacific was "right in disaster alley" and the region would be " on the frontlines " of widespread forced migration caused by climate.

The issue of a mass migration is a contentious one for the Pacific Islands facing annihilation under the waves. Many islanders are resistant, but understand it may be inevitable.

"We don't want to leave our country," Aram says. "We love our land, and it doesn't have the same meaning to be living somewhere else. We don't want to be migrants of climate, but if there is no change our country will disappear into the sea."

It feels terrible, he says, to worry about one's country's very existence.

"What will happen to my children's country, that's why I worry. What am I leaving behind? We are the voice of the children of these vulnerable countries."

Aso Ioapo from Tuvalu says "migration is the last option of the Tuvaluan people".

"Our history and our culture are very important to us, and we believe that this is the place we are supposed to be. We don't want to lose that, we don't want to lose who we are."

Tuvalu has had an increasing number of cyclones, of greater intensity, over recent years. In 2015, Cyclone Pam sent massive waves washing over some entire islands. About 45% of the country's 10,000 population was displaced, the government said.

"The cyclones are occurring more regularly, and they are more powerful now," Ioapo said.

"We have to face that we might have to go to another place. That is hard. But migration is the last option. We want to save our countries."

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'Our country will vanish': Pacific islanders bring desperate message to Australia

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"Like a drop of water in a bucket, on its own is small, but if there are many, many drops, soon it is overflowing." Erietera Aram's water analogy is apposite. His country faces being lost under the waves of the Pacific Ocean. Migration is the last option.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Abc015i-XU

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A few links on allies and regional organisations

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A few links on allies and regional organisations

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http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=39745#.WQwXv2VY41Q
http://www.forumsec.org/pages.cfm/strategic-partnerships-coordination/framework-for-pacific-regionalism/
http://www.imuna.org/resources/country-profiles/marshall-islands
http://aosis.org/about/

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Hopefully its what is needed, if more is needed or something needs to be looked at, ill be happy to do it

Laura

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UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. 

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UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. 

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197 members of the convention exist at the moment. Was created to strengthen the response to global climate change and to reduce the average level of global temperature increases.

Pranav.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2011/mar/11/kyoto-protocol

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Contributions to reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions

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Contributions to reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions

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The biggest carbon emitter, USA and China had erased the reductions that were made by other countries during the Kyoto Period. The EU were on track of the Kyoto protocols.

Emissions worldwide, soared from 1990 to 2009 according to the NEAA.
Pranav.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2011/mar/11/kyoto-protocol

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Even if the IPCC Implemented at 100% effectiveness the process of slowing down the rate of climate change, the Kyoto protocol wouldn't represent any progress.

Pranav.

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Kyoto Protocol
To cut Greenhouse Gas Emissions to a certain percentage. 1990 was chosen as the  baseline an the cuts were to take place between 2008-2012.

84 countries have signed  the protocol, and many have agreed to make certain cuts to the amount of emissions in which they emit.  Until the protocol is ratified, its rendered meaningless as its targets  are not met.

Any country can withdraw from the agreement through a one year notice. Binding penalties do not exist for non-compliance.

No general agreement exists as to what constitutes a reduction. Countries with large forests (e.g. Russia) argued that credits should be received as such forests absorb greenhouse gases from the atmosphere.

Pranav.

http://climatechange.sea.ca/kyoto_protocol.html

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Here is what I have so far. I haven't written anything up yet, it's just my outline and some resources I found, in addition to the ones already posted. I'm just getting my 800 words finished, once thats done I can devote my full attention. How cool is this blogging forum?!
Thanks
Tamara

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https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/12/02/world/The-Marshall-Islands-Are-Disappearing.html?_r=0

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Majuro Declaration for Climate Leadership

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Majuro Declaration for Climate Leadership

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http://www.daghammarskjold.se/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/44th-PIFS-Majuro-Outcome.pdf

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Majuro Declaration for Climate Leadership

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I will begin looking at topic 3.
Thanks! Love your work
Tamara

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As discussed yesterday. Preparations for the CC Summit

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Io̧kwe aolep! Welcome to the Global Climate Change Conference Simulation !!!! I hope you'll enjoy this.

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Io̧kwe aolep! Welcome to the Global Climate Change Conference Simulation !!!! I hope you'll enjoy this.

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Brett