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The Initiation of CSF for Climate Justice
 
Civil Society Forum (CSF) for Climate Justice s a consensus built at a meeting of several Indonesian civil society organizations (CSOs) regarding the COP 13/CMP 3 on May 21, 2007. The meeting was elaborating the importance of consolidation among Indonesia CSOs towards the COP 13/CMP 3 of UNFCCC in Bali on 3-14 December 2007.
 
At the beginning there were 19 organizations attended and agreed on a decision to form the CSF that will organize programs and activities prior to, during and post to the COP 13 both inside and outside the UN system. More organizations were later committed to join CSF two months after the initial meeting. There are 30 organizations were committed to this forum. Since CSF on Climate Justice is an open forum, the opportunity for any parties, both NGOs or individual, to commit and engage  the forum is remain open.
 
Seven CSOs are agreed to collectively take responsibility to organize CSF activities, referred to as the Forum Dynamics Team (FTD). The CSF’s FTD comprises Wahana Lingkungan Hidup Indonesian (WALHI), Masyarakat Penanggulangan Bencana Indonesian (MPBI), Yayasan Kelompok Masyarakat Pengelola Sumberdaya Alam (KEMALA), Yayasan Keanekaragaman Hayati Indonesia (KEHATI), Sawit Watch, SatuDunia and Sekretariat Bersama Indonesia Berseru (SBIB).
 
Objectives of CSF for Climate Justice
 
Climate change is a fact and inevitable. Ordinary people are bearing witness to highly intensive anomaly of climate and weather throughout Indonesia and directly receive impacts of such phenomenon. More importantly is, climate change is an in equivocal proof failure of the global development model to secure safety of global citizens, to protect productivity of people in the developing world to meet their quality of life, and to enhance people capacity in maintaining the ecological services.
 
The global orchestrated efforts for the past twelve years for reducing impact of the global warming must depart from conscious recognition towards ongoing failures of the growth oriented development model. Therefore, critical evaluation towards the global political-economy supported by various multilateral political instruments is becoming an urgent need to cope with recurrent North-South inequality and intergeneration injustice and massive scale of corruption particularly in the developing world as by product of such political-economy. To better understand the aforementioned context and to convey some key counter arguments of solution are objectives of CSF for Climate Justice towards UNFCCC.
 
CSF for Climate Justice Initiatives are strategic stepping stones toward real action for permanent settlement of the ongoing recurrent suffers burdening vast population of Indonesia. The forum will accommodate interests of CSOs and People Organizations (POs), particularly those are voicing the vulnerable communities towards political processes at the UNFCCC meeting. Strong movement has to be initiated to push the Government of Indonesia to be more relevant to the reality of the vulnerable and highly impacted communities.
 
More specifically, key immediate objectives of the CSF are:
 

• Raise and build public awareness on impacts of climate change in Indonesia;
• Strengthen solidarity amongst CSOs to respond climate change politics at the national, regional, and international level;
• Facilitate voices of the vulnerable communities in COP 13/CMP 3  of UNFCCC event in Bali; and,
• Provide key counter arguments for putting the vulnerable community’s interest first to the government regarding its political position in UNFCCC

 
CSF Activities
 
The CSF for Climate Justice will organize series of activity prior to, during, and post of COP 13/CMP 3 of UNFCCC. The activities cover four major concerns:
 

• Human security
• Productivity and Consumption
• Debt, including ecological debt
• Land Use

1. Indonesian People’s Forum (IPF).
2. Wahana Lingkungan Hidup Indonesia/Friends of the Earth Indonesia (WALHI)
3. The Indonesian Biodiversity Foundation (Yayasan KEHATI)
4. Sawit Watch
5. Sekretariat Bersama Indonesia Berseru (SBIB)
6. Masyarakat Penanggulangan Bencana Indonesia (MPBI).
7. Satu Dunia
8. Lembaga Alam Tropika Nasional (LATIN)
9. Yayasan Pelangi Indonesia (PELANGI)
10. Yayasan Kelompok Masyarakat Pengelola Sumberdaya Alam (KEMALA)
11. Institut Hukum Sumber Daya Alam  (IHSA)
12. Indonesian Centre for Environmental Law (ICEL)
13. Jaringan Advokasi Tambang (JATAM)
14. Yayasan Pembangunan Berkelanjutan (YPB)
15. TELAPAK
16. Yayasan Burung Indonesia
17. TIFA Foundation
18. NASTARI
19. Institute for Essential Services Reform (IESR)
20. Aliansi Masyarakat Adat Nusantara (AMAN)
21. Forest Watch Indonesia (FWI)
22. Federasi Serikat Petani Indonesia
23. RACA Institute
24. Solidaritas Perempuan
25. The Foundation of Indonesian Institute of Energy Economics (IIEE)
26. CUSO Indonesia
27. The Nature Conservancy (TNC)
28. Conservation International (CI)
29. Greenpeace South East Asia
30. GEF SGP Indonesia
31. World Wild Fund for Nature (WWF)

 
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