Not another 4 years of blocking climate progress: How US Doha team must start to move forward
With the ministerial session beginning this afternoon, to conclude climate change discussions at a conference threatening to end with no substantial delivery, one reason is that US climate negotiators appear at odds with the new ambition expressed by President Obama following his second election.
To hear more about what Obama must do, please join us at a press conference.
SPEAKERS: Kumi Naidoo, Executive Director, Greenpeace International
Samantha Smith, Global Climate and Energy Initiative Leader, WWF
David Waskow, Climate Change Program Director, Oxfam America
DATE: Tuesday 3 December 2012
TIME: 16h30 to 17h00
PLACE: Press Conference Room 2, Qatar National Convention Centre
PURPOSE: What Obama must tell his team in Doha
PLEASE NOTE THAT THERE WILL BE NO PRESS RELEASE HANDOUT
Please note that this press conference will be webcast live at:
For more information please contact:
WWF
Mandy Jean Woods
mwoods@wwf.org.za / @MandyJeanWoods
+27 82 553 4211 (please send SMS if urgent) / +974 6607 3079 (Doha number)
GREENPEACE
Tina Loeffelbein,
tina.loeffelbein@greenpeace.org,
+974 6618 6317 (Doha number)
OXFAM
Sunita Bose
Sunita.bose@oxfaminternational.org
+974 550 46084