Contraction and Convergence Campaigns

Dear Aubrey

PLEASE add my name to the list of those people who are supporting the C&C Proposal to the UNFCCC. I agree to sign this proposal without reservation.

Thank you and much good luck with this initiative,

Steven Earl Salmony, Ph.D., M.P.A.
AWAREness Campaign on The Human Population, established 2001

"Contraction and Convergence is a prime example of a UNFCCC-compliant Global Climate Change Framework. It is a rational formulation for reconciliation of 'Climate Justice without Vengeance'. Several ideas derived from C&C have surfaced since Kyoto with ideas that can be perhaps in various ways incorporated into C&C. However, there is an overwhelming need for an over-arching UNFCCC-compliant Framework that enables the globally competing interests of the over-consuming and the under-consuming to be reconciled with each other and with the objective of the UNFCCC in a non-random manner. We feel that C&C is the veteran and indeed the apex example of this and urge you to consider our request. At Kyoto in December 1997 and shortly before they withdrew from these negotiations, the USA stated, “C&C contains elements for the next agreement that we may ultimately all seek to engage in.” The adversarial reasons for their withdrawal then were in play again at COP-15. C&C answers this in a unifying and constitutional way and the need for this answer becomes increasingly critical."
Letter & signatories at: -

Steven Earl Salmony
AWAREness Campaign on The Human Population [estab. 2001]
Jonathon Porritt
Forum for the Future
Sara Parkin,
Founder Director, Forum for the Future
Roger Martin
Chair, Optimum Population Trust