Objectives of People's Action on Climate Change

General Objective:

To contribute to global efforts to bring about climate justice by bringing forward and highlighting Asian grassroots situation and calls on the challenges posed by impacts of climate change

Project Objectives:

At the end of the APCIACC, grassroots and civil society organizations (CSOs) will have

1. Brought international attention, especially to global leaders and negotiators in the COP, the Asian grassroots situation of displacement, continuing threats, poverty and hunger, their calls and demands on climate change, most especially the call to abandon market based mechanism of the Kyoto Protocol and instead cause drastic cuts in GHG emissions by big oil companies, capitalists and investors of the world’s most pollutive and destructive industries and a stop to plunder of world’s natural resources
   ensure justice and measures for adaptation of victimized and vulnerable grassroots communities for the unabated destruction and pollution of the environment and people’s lives and livelihood
2. Increased understanding and capacities of representatives and leaders of grassroots movements to further educate, organize and mobilize their constituents.
3. Charted sectoral plans among sectoral movements to bring about broader unity and action for UNFCCC- COP15 and beyond
   organizations