Proposal for COP21, Paris, December 2015

The purpose of this document is to present the commitments and efforts of the peoples, nationalities, and communities against the extraction of oil, gas, or carbon, as a contribution to avoid climate disaster.

In addition to these commitments, we present our petition to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and member governments to recognize, respect, promote, and protect these actions as a goal to protect climate and life on the planet.

Marcelo Calazans, Tamra Gilbertson and Daniela Meirelles*

In 2005, the Brazilian oil company, Petrobras discovered hydrocarbons below the geological salt layer in the Tupi field located in the Atlantic Ocean off-shore of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In 2006 a consortium of Petrobras, BG Group, and Petrogal drilled in the Tupi field and discovered an estimated 5-8 billion barrels of oil equivalent resources in a pre-salt zone. The pre-salt oil and gas lie below an approximate 2000m deep layer of salt, which is below an approximate 2000m layer of rock under 2000-3000m of the Atlantic. Further exploration found hydrocarbon deposits in the pre-salt layer extended through the Santos, Campos, and Espírito Santo basins located off-shore of Rio de Janeiro and Espírito Santo states.

Dear friends,

Justiça Ambiental (Friends of the Earth Mozambique) partnering with organisations all over the world, hosted Seeding Climate Justice: Maputo meeting on Real Solutions to the Climate Crisis, couple weeks ago.

Attached here (in English & Portuguese) is the political understanding we build together in the meeting. Its called the Maputo Declaration of African Civil Society on Climate Justice.

We are still to add the sign-ons of all the organisations in attendance.

We are also accepting signatures of organisations who weren't at the meeting.

Would any of your organisations like to sign in solidarity with African civil society?

Please forward to anyone who might want to sign. Preferably, sign-ons should be sent by Tuesday, 12 May, by emailing < This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. >.

We will also upload all the presentations, the meeting Reader and other documents related to the meeting on the net. I will send later the link.

thanks
~ Anabela & dipti

EN-_Final_Maputo_Declaration_on_Climate_Justice.pdf42.06 KB

PT-_Declaração_final_de_Maputo_sobre_Justiça_Climática.pdf42.44 KB