Editor’s Note. The site is no longer maintained since 2015 – 2018. Kumi Naidoo chaired TckTckTck and is honorary president of CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation.
He has also served the Global Call to Action Against Poverty and the Global Call for Climate Action (Tcktcktck.org) , which brings together environmental aid, religious and human rights groups, labour unions, scientists and others and has organised mass demonstrations around climate negotiations.
The UN SDG Action Campaign is a special initiative of the UN Secretary-General, hosted by the Executive Office of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and based in Bonn, Germany. The Campaign is mandated to engage, campaign and catalyze positive change towards the Sustainable Development Goals while advocating for rethinking, recalibrating and reimagining economies and societies so that they serve people and the planet.
TckTckTck was an unprecedented global alliance, representing hundreds of millions of people from all walks of life, who are united by a desire to see a strong global deal on climate change. We are made up of leading environment, development, and faith-based NGO’s, youth groups, trade unions and individuals, and we are calling for a fair, ambitious and binding climate change agreement.
World leaders know they failed to produce a climate treaty at Copenhagen. Climate change is putting life on earth in peril, but there is still time to build a safer, greener world. The climate deal we need in 2010 is what they didn’t get done in 2009.
We want a strong climate treaty that not only reverses the march of dangerous climate change, but also helps us tackle some of the world’s largest challenges. We can create millions of green jobs, reduce healthcare costs, lift millions out of poverty, and put renewable energy into the hands of everyday citizens in the developing world.
Leading experts, scientific bodies, and economists have documented the benefits of strong action on climate change. Copenhagen should have been remembered as the moment when world leaders made bold decisions, but they didn’t. Our leaders aren’t done yet, and we still need the same thing.
We call on our leaders to sign a global climate deal that is:
FAIR: for the poorest countries and people that did not cause climate change but will suffer most from it.
AMBITIOUS: enough to leave a planet safe for us all.
BINDING: with real targets that can be legally monitored and enforced.
Leading experts, scientific bodies, and economists have documented the benefits of strong action on climate change. Copenhagen could be remembered as the moment when world leaders built a clean energy economy or when they failed to secure an agreement that is fair enough for everybody to agree on, ambitious enough to work, and binding enough to stick.
International issues grow from local concerns. Watching Amy Goodman for 20 years, regarding: Tuvalu.
tcktcktck.org, though abandoned, brought our attention to efforts around the world to address the impact of climate change on everyone in our lifetime, for our children and grandchildren and the unborn, across all boundaries and jurisdictions. Amy Goodman at Democracy Now has been following it’s impact on the Pacific Island of Tuvalu since 2002.
Simon Kofe: “We will not stand idly by as the water rises around us. We’re not just talking in Tuvalu. We are mobilizing collective action at home, in our region and on the international stage to secure our future. On the national level, we are pursuing bold legal avenues to ensure that Tuvalu’s existing maritime boundaries will remain intact and we will be recognized as sovereign, even if our land territory is lost to climate change.”
Prime Minister Feleti Teo: “We expect the declaration to include the following: firstly, to ascertain the principle of statehood continuity as a tenet of international law and international cooperation, and to affirm that statehood cannot be challenged under any circumstances of sea level rise. Our membership in the United Nations and its specialized agency is permanent, notwithstanding the impact of climate change.”
Prime Minister Feleti Teo: “To put it plainly, it is a death sentence — not phrases that I use lightly — for us, Tuvalu, if larger nations continue to increase their emission levels. … A fossil fuel treaty will be a global mechanism essential for managing a just transition away from coal, oil and gas.”
Penny Wong: “We recognize we live in a more contested region, and we have to work harder to be a partner of choice. We know that. And unlike the previous government, we have been doing the work, and we will do the work, to work with the Pacific Island Forum members to assure Australia’s presence as a member of the family and as a partner of choice.”
Laingane Italeli Talia: “Tuvalu may soon become uninhabitable. In these circumstances, there can be no question that our fundamental right to self-determination is being violated. And in these proceedings, there is unsurprisingly considerable consensus across participants that climate change is impeding the right to self-determination.”
representing hundreds of millions of people from all walks of life, who are united by a desire to see a strong global deal on climate change. We are made up of leading environment, development, and faith-based NGO’s, youth groups, trade unions and individuals, and we are calling for a fair, ambitious and binding climate change agreement.
