Dear the United States, the United Kingdom, India, Australia, Canada, Japan, Germany, Italy, France, and Sweden…

DSC_0364We’ve got your back.

To be exact, Reed Schuler (US), Anna Collins (UK), Leela Raina (India), Cara Bevington (Australia), myself (Canada), Eri Aoki (Japan),  Ole Seidenberg (Germany), Andrea Cinquina (Italy), Benoît Kubiak and Florent Baarsh (France), and Jonathan Sundqvist (Sweden) will be watching the delegations of their countries as they negotiate at the United Nations climate talks in Bonn, Germany over the next two weeks, June 2-12.

Why these countries? Because their actions, positions and decision at the United Nations (UN) over the coming weeks have the ability to influence and shift the way in which the world continues to address climate change.

Adopt a Negotiator is a cross-alliance campaign project designed to open international climate negotiations to people around the world. For the first time, individual concerned citizens will be closely following the progress of UN talks and reporting them directly to people around the world who are demanding climate justice.

The project launches at the UN intersessional Bonn 2 with Negotiator Trackers adopting a lead negotiator and negotiating team from key countries in the talks. The Trackers will be watching and monitoring the actions of negotiating teams from Bonn to Copenhagen, aiming to make the world of complex climate negotiations accessible to a global audience.

You can follow the regular updates from these countries on http://www.adoptanegotiator.org/  or sign up for regular email updates at http://avaaz.org/en/adopt_a_negotiator/

1 Response to “Dear the United States, the United Kingdom, India, Australia, Canada, Japan, Germany, Italy, France, and Sweden…”


  1. 1 benka Jun 1st, 2009 at 11:10 am

    Florent is coming on second week of negociation, I’m the french tracker for the first week. My profil here : http://adoptanegotiator.org/the-trackers/benoit-kubiak-france/

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Zoë is the co-author of ''Global Warming for Dummies" written with Elizabeth May, and Editor on ItsGettingHotInHere. She is the Climate Policy & Advocacy Specialist for WWF-Canada and is on the provincial renewable energy stakeholder consultation project team in Nova Scotia. She is President on the national board of Sierra Club Canada and was a founding member of the Canadian Youth Climate Coalition. Zoë attends United Nations Climate Change Conferences and was aboard the Students On Ice International Polar Year 2007 Expedition to Antarctica. She has appeared Vanity Fair and ELLE magazines for her work on climate change.

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