ABOUT CAN CEE
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CAN CEE’s main aim is to
promote actions to limit human-induced climate change to ecologically
sustainable levels. |
What does CAN CEE do?
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unites NGO views from across the region into a common
position and helps to represent their concerns at an international
level, including co-ordinating their lobbying efforts in the UNFCCC
process |
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acts as a source of information for its members and a
mean for them to exchange views with each other on climate change by
maintaining a web page and mailing lists |
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promotes the actions of its members and helps link these
to wider efforts |
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co-ordinates the Central and Eastern European efforts in
combating the climate change and co-operating with other focal points of Climate Action Network |
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develops the network on international, national and
regional level |
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enhances the public awareness about climate change
problems by using press-campaigns, conferences and workshops |
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monitors and encourages the implementation of strategies
and regulations to combat climate change |
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encourages Central and Eastern European governments to be
internationally more responsible for implementing the provisions of the UNFCCC and its Protocols |
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sets up and co-operates with thematic networks, platforms
and ad hoc co-operations on all levels |
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carries out other activities that could contribute to
fulfilling the aim of CAN CEE |
Providing
information
As an active
player in the Climate Action Network, CAN CEE has access
to a world-wide group
of experts and
campaigners in climate
issues. Through
CAN CEE its members
are kept abreast
of
the latest developments in the
international negotiations.
CAN
CEE also produces
a newsletter, to both
provide and update
on this information
and to highlight the
important
developments in CEE. Through
its international
links it is
capable of providing information
on EU programmes and initiatives.
Making
CEE’s voice heard
Increasingly, and especially
in those countries
preparing for accession
to the EU, policy
is being influenced
from outside the region. With
its close links to the international
NGO community and its
sister organisation
in Brussels, CAN CEE makes
sure that the
NGO voices from
CEE are heard in the
wider
policy framework.
It promotes
and supports the
local
actions of its members by publicising them
more widely and helping
to link them
to the
wider European
climate agenda. Working
closely with Climate
Action Network
Europe, its
Western European partner, CAN CEE works
to make climate
change and sustainable
energy, transport, waste
and agriculture issues
a central part of
transition, including
accession to the
EU for the candidate
countries.
Participating
in international
debates
As a regular
participant in the meetings
of the
UNFCCC and other international
negotiations, CAN CEE helps
to shape the outcomes of those
negotiations. CAN CEE campaigns
to make sure that the Kyoto
Protocol targets
are achieved and enforced.
In particular, CAN CEE has expertise
on the development
of Joint Implementation
(JI), Actions Implemented
Jointly (AIJ) and emission
trading (ET).
"Climate change is one of the most
important global environmental, economical and social problems. The
public and
political awareness of the problem in CEE region is limited. Therefore
the
activities of CAN CEE, such as pressing the politicians to take some
actions or
raising public awareness, are very important. That makes CAN CEE a part
of the
democratic process that is going on in the CEE region."
Zbigniew Karaczun, Polish Ecological
Club – FoE