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COP Parallel Events / Regional Activities - Meeting Details
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Towering Tree Ambassadors |
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Parallel - Montreal |
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RainforestCoalition.org |
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November 29, 2005 |
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1:00 - 2:00 pm |
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Palais des congrès de Montréal
corner of St Antoine St and Rue De Bleury |
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Everyone |
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Kevin Conrad
1-212-660-2990
Conrad@RainforestCoalition.org
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Description
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Trees will arise at the Palais des congrès de Montréal1 in Canada from 1pm to 2pm, to draw attention to continuing extreme levels of tropical deforestation worldwide. The large tree puppets - some as high as 8 meters – will call attention to the lack of resources in the Convention on Biological Diversity2 (CBD) & and the Framework Convention on Climate Change3 (FCCC) to halt tropical deforestation. Tropical deforestation is the leading cause of species extinctions worldwide and emits 20% of the global greenhouse gas emissions.
Sadly, even though tropical deforestation is a proximate cause of biodiversity loss and global warming, neither UN treaty has made progress in halting the 25 million acres of tropical forest destruction each year. The trees will gather in front of the UN meetings and negotiators will be encouraged to come and “listen to the trees”. Then, several large puppets representing the UN Treaties will come out from the UN talks and fail to notice that a large Axe-Machine is cutting all the trees. The trees will then call on diplomats to pass a vote in favor of more help for the world’s diminishing rainforests. |
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