`Survival at stake? What Copenhagen has to deliver for the most vulnerable`

The June negotiating session (Bonn II, 1 to 12 June) will be of crucial importance towards the historic UN climate change agreement in Copenhagen. Bonn II will see the first draft of a negotiating text. While most of the public attention traditionally turns to mitigation, Bonn II will also give an early indication of the degree by which the Copenhagen Agreement will cater for the needs of the most vulnerable to cope with the growing impacts of the now unavoidable levels of climate change.

Development & Climate Day at SB 30 will put a focus on those people, communities and countries whose survival is at stake, who are most vulnerable to the adverse effects of climate change. In particular, it will

• highlight recent science results and their implications for climate-resilient development;
• learn from people living with the growing threat of climate change what the Copenhagen agreement must do for them;
• present successful examples of adaptation, including from the community level, and how Copenhagen can enhance such approaches;
• advance the debate of future support for national adaptation strategies in developing countries and their role in a Copenhagen Agreement;
• promote the development of alliances between governments, civil society etc. on the way to Copenhagen.

The Development & Climate Day at SB 30 will bring together negotiators, science experts, civil society, community organisations, and other interested people.
A film festival will provide examples on impacts and how people adapt to them from the `real world`. It will run in parallel to the conference in the same venue, allowing people to chose between the conference and the films. For more information on how to make your films be shown in the festival, please click here. Please apply with films until 24th of May.