In the panel from the left side Firmin Adjahousso, Satu Hassi, Sara Hlukepile Longwe, Henrik Grape, Clarisse Kehler Siebert and the moderator Anders Wijkmann

The European Development Days are over for this time and for the first time in Stockholm, Sweden.
I contributed to this panel on Climate Change and a fair treaty in Copenhagen. A good thing with this panel was that we were not just talking about "the other" not present but the panel had representation from Africa (man an woman) from the EU institutions from research and faith community. This was a broad perspective and I think that is needed to keep on mowing to a sustainable direction.



I will just put my last lines in my first intervention in the talk on this blogg.


"I think that we are in a very decisive moment. The window of opportunity is still open but not so much longer. We are in a position were we could reach a win/win solution. A sustainable development for the planet and a slightly more equitable world but we can also end up with a loose/loose deal. It means that we doesn’t respond properly do the climate and development challenge. And everyone will come out as losers.

People in the developing countries could get the means for a low carbon development and people in the rich countries could switch from a high material consumption level to a more efficient and smart use of natural resources with a better quality of life as a possible result.
Or we can go on with the business as usual pattern and everybody becomes a looser. Poor people first and then everybody else.

But being a part of families of faith I work in the hope business and have a hope that we can change, that we can see the possibilities of the people of the planet to come together and share the planet with much more of care and respect for each other and the limits of the planet.
I am , together with many people around the world, very concerned about how the climate change issue is dealt with today. But not without hope"