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Dear readers,
Welcome to our December newsletter where we're summing up the end of year updates for your preparation for 2008!
We embrace the Christmas and New Year 2008 with joyful and success stories of the LEAD International Training Session (ITS) 2007 on "Leadership and Climate Change," which was concluded in the first week of December in Jakarta and Bandung. We also joyfully embrace the success story of the UNFCCC climate change convention COP 13 in Bali, which almost faced a deadlock. However, this is just the beginning. Every nation of the world has now agreed that they will enter into accelerated negotiations and, by 2009, sign a new treaty to confront global warming, to set binding global targets for carbon emissions, and a mechanism for meeting them, that keep the earth's temperature from rising more than 2 degrees celsius - the amount that scientists say would be 'catastrophic'. Negotiators will fight it tooth and nail all the way. And we will too. LEAD efforts to put into action sustainable development will always be improved and developed. Updates of these efforts is reported in this LEAD newsletter.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2008. Wish you and your family a peace and happiness year, with an always better earth environment.
Best Regards
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Live simply that others may simply live
(Gandhi)
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LEAD Side Event on COP 13:
"Leadership and Climate Change"
"What kind of leadership is needed to tackle climate change?" was the theme for LEAD side event panel discussion during the COP 13 in Bali on December 6, 2007. A panel of recognised leaders presented their
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perspectives at Solar Room of Grand Hyatt Bali on the kind of leadership that is needed to achieve timely and critical action on a range of aspects on climate change faced by both developed and developing countries. Attended the event were Masse Lo, Director LEAD Francophone Africa (Senegal); Peter Goldmark, Environmental Defense (USA); Thais Corral, Chair LEAD Brazil (Brazil); Kate Hampton, Head of Policy, Climate Change Capital (UK); and Trevor Rees LEAD International. From Indonesia was represented by Ir. Dana A. Kartakusuma (Expert staff on Technology and Sustainable Development, State Ministry of Environment) and Prof. Dr. Emil Salim (Head of Indonesian Delegation to COP 13). [more]
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Indonesia Hosted LEAD International Training Session 2007 in Bandung
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Indonesia hosted a-week LEAD International Training Sesion (ITS) on "Leadership and Climate Change" in Lembang, Bandung, started from 26 December 2007. At the last day of the training on 1st December, the 120 participants from 26 countries compiled "The Bandung Declaration 2007", a series of appeal to the states and policy makers around the globe in response to the issue of climate change. The original title of the declaration was "The Bandung Declaration" but since in 1955 President Soekarno and state leaders from Asia and Africa countries had already issued the same title, so in order to distinghuish between Bandung Declarations, the mark of 2007 is added in the LEAD's Bandung Declaration to Response Climate Change. [more]
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A Note from Chief Executive of LEAD International
The eyes of the world have been on Indonesia in the last couple of weeks during the Bali Climate Convention the CoP 13, and the eyes of the LEAD world have also been on Indonesia for slightly different, but related, reasons. The week before the Bali COP, LEAD Indonesia hosted the 2007 LEAD International Training Session (ITS), and they did a fantastic job. As much as 120 of this year's LEAD Fellows from almost 30 countries and a variety of backgrounds - from business, NGOs, Governments, the media and academia - gathered
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for a week-long ITS focused on leadership and climate change. The idea was to give them a thorough understanding of climate issues, to enhance their leadership skills, and to give them the chance to network with fellow leaders from different parts of the world. It was a brilliant success, the best ITS I have ever been involved in. The Fellows were talented and lively, the sessions were well constructed, the speakers were excellent, the site visits were stimulating, and by the end the leaders present agreed on a "Bandung Declaration" - a message to the Bali CoP on measures they felt are necessary to show leadership on climate change. [more]
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Grant from Indonesia Power to Support Eco Fish Project
The fishermen in Gerokgak Sub-district, Buleleng District, Bali, now can take a deep-relieving breath as their cooperative, Koperasi Serba Usaha Wana Agung, which provides financial support for them, has just received 45 million IDR grant from Indonesia Power. "The grant will help many members of the cooperative. Some of the fishermen even have been longing for financial support since several months without significant result because our capitas has been so limited," said Nyoman Sudarsa, the manager of the cooperative after the signing of the MoU. [more]
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A Note of 2007
Since 2004 YPB has been building its new core competencies in promoting sustainable development to reach out more audience. As addition to its tradition in conducting LEAD Associate Training that embraces all sectors, in 2007 YPB has new program that focus more on specific target group: Promoting Leadership for Integrated Development for public decision makers, Developing Sustainable Business for corporate community, and Bridging Leadership for young community leaders at rural areas and Young in Action for young community
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