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| For Immediate Release/8:45AM EST | December 11, 2007 |
(Toronto, Ontario / Bali, Indonesia) KAIROS: Canadian Ecumenical Justice Initiatives is calling on the government of Canada to provide strong, progressive leadership in advocating for a just climate change agreement at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Bali, Indonesia.
“The unbreakable bond between social justice and ecological wholeness impels Canadian churches to address the issue of climate change and to call on the government of Canada to take a leadership role in Bali, which will set out the framework for negotiations of the second phase of the Kyoto Protocol beyond 2012” says the statement. “The position and record of actions on climate change the Canadian government is taking to the UN talks in Bali are cause for deep concern in relation to these priorities”.
KAIROS is a church-based nongovernmental organization that works
on a wide range of social justice issues in Canada, Africa, Asia,
Latin America and the Middle East, including ecology and climate
change. A full copy of the Bali statement is available on the KAIROS
website or at the following link:
http://kairoscanada.org/e/media/statements/stmBaliUNConference_5Dec07.pdf
In a related story, last month KAIROS issued a joint news release
with Ecojustice Canada calling on the federal government to justify
giving billions of dollars in tax breaks to Canada’s oil
and gas corporations, while having scrapped a key climate change
program designed to assist low-income Canadians. That release is
also available on the KAIROS website as follows:
http://kairoscanada.org/e/media/press/prOilSubsidies071114.pdf.
Both organizations have filed formal petitions with Canada’s
Auditor General demanding that the government publicly respond
to the obvious contradiction between subsidies that encourage fossil
fuel production and spending on measures aimed at reducing greenhouse
gas emissions (GHGs).
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Media contact:
Adiat Junaid
Communications Coordinator
KAIROS: Canadian Ecumenical Justice
Initiatives
(416) 463 5312,
ext. 223
ajunaid
www.kairoscanada.org
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