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Manado declaration on oceans 'powerless' without UN recognition

Despite the governments of developing nations adopting the Manado Ocean Declaration (MOD) recognizing the impact climate change has on oceans, Indonesia - the host and initiator of the world's first ocean conference - is now facing an uphill battle getting the MOD onto the negotiation table for the Copenhagen climate conference later this year. President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has ordered the Climate Change National Council (DNPI) to coordinate efforts to register the MOD with the UN system. DNPI executive chairman Rachmat Witoelar, also Indonesia's state minister for the environment, spoke with The Jakarta Post's Adianto P. Simamora on the sidelines of the ocean talks in Manado, North Sulawesi, from May 11-15, 2009.

Question: What's the next step after nations agree to adopt the Manado Ocean Declaration?

Answer: The Indonesian government, through the Climate Change National Council (DNPI), will officially report the outcome of the Manado Ocean conference to the formal bodies at the United Nations. In this case, we will take our findings directly to the United Nations Framework Climate Change Convention (UNFCCC), which deals with issues of air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions.

The UNFCCC will host the Copenhagen climate conference in December but before that we still have about four or five UN inter-sessions on climate change. At these, we will try to submit the Manado Ocean Declaration. Hopefully we will get it on the table for the Copenhagen meeting.

Aside from these formal proceedings, we will also make use of informal meetings to push for the inclusion of ocean issues at the UNFCCC. These could prove even more effective for our cause. I will attend the second meeting of the Major Economies Forum in Paris. I will submit the Manado outcome, which highlights the importance of oceans in mitigating climate change, to the forum. It will be attended by leaders of industrialized nations, including the United States.

In that respect, the world will recognize that oceans are an integral part of saving the world from the impacts of climate change and as an Indonesian, I am proud of our nation's initiative to make ocean issues a key focus. This is not only for the benefit of Indonesia, but for the entire world. It is not only the wish of my President *Yudhoyono*, but for all the nations that attended the Manado conference. Furthermore, if we fail to launch this initiative, we will not have access to funding available in the UN for the environment.

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Bikes, Copenhagen and Disneyland

Bikes, Copenhagen and Disneyland: what we have in common.
Steve Hymos is a blogger over at the LA times. He interviewed blogesphere celebrity (in the cycle-chicness world) Mikael Colville-Andersen -aka- Zakkaliciousness in Flickrland and his series of Cycle Chic blogs from Copenhagen (links posted @story link) whom, has inspired a myriad of blogs, Flickr™ groups and people around the globe to ride a bike, relax and look good while at it. Mind you, Copenhagen & Europe are quite different in traffic structure than here in the US, but we can still look good trying, right?
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He notes an interesting history facts from both cities, Los Angeles and Copenhagen.
"There is no part of the world where cycling is in greater favor than in Southern California, and nowhere on the American continent are conditions so favorable the year round for wheeling. -It's from a 1897 newspaper article, back during Bicycle Culture 1.0 and back when 20% of all trips were made by bike in Los Angeles. Impressive stats and an impressive cycling history in L.A."
Hundreds of thousands of cyclists on the roads. Ironically, the world's most impressive separated bike path was built to connect Pasadena to Los Angeles in 1900. At that time 20% of all trips where made by bicycle in the Los Angeles region so the construction of the eight-mile Arroyo Seco Cycleway -- an elevated, multilane, wooden bike path, complete with streetlights and gazebo turnouts -– was a given.
Copenhagen was a congested, polluted city in the 1960s and more and more cars were being bought.
Now, 40-odd years on, a progressive network of separated bicycle lanes blankets the city. Doctors, students, parents with kids in a cargo bike, lawyers and shop assistants are all apart of a pleasingly aesthetic flow of human-powered goodness. Fifty-six percent of Copenhageners say that they ride their bikes because it's easy and fast.
Bicycles are normalized transport vehicles and they are the lifeblood of the city, not the domain of impenetrable subcultures with political leanings. With my Copenhagen Cycle Chic blog I try to show how my fellow citizens ride each day. In style, with ease and every day of the week.

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