Welcome to the Paradise

UNFCCC
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

The United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 14)
1-12 December 2008 , Poznań, Poland

The Governor of California - Arnold Schwarzenegger - is the kind of real hero, prince present at the conference in Poznan. The event is like the fairy tale for this not so known city and Arnold is its hope and the main symbol. Apart the ecology problems this is a wonderful chance for promotion of Poznan.

Krasnal Bansky „Welcome to the Paradise / Arnold Schwarzenegger / The United Nations Climate Change Conference 2008 / from the series Great Poles”. 2008. Akcrylic on canvas. 60 x 90 cm

We don't know if there will be some crucial results after this summit, but we appeal the fight for economy development and protection of own interests not dominate over the main aim which is the protection of our planet!

Laureates of Nobel Peace Prize present at the conference are the world’s peace symbols – peace that can be easily disturbed by climate changes. Water shortages, disappearing of lands under the water, limiting the surface of cultivation land, potential conflict arising from the Arctic thawing which will see countries having an interest making territorial claims – all these aspects profoundly impact international security and can provoke humanitarian disasters or wars.

“The most appropriate way of viewing climate change is as a threat multiplier: it aggravates the stresses and strains within and between countries. Climate change threatens to overburden those countries and regions that are already fragile and conflict-prone. The critical variable is governance. How governments will respond to the impacts of climate change depends on how well they resolve conflicts today. “Javier Solana

Just to continue this thought, Beijing has postponed a European Union-China summit following the European leaders' contacts with the Tibetan leader, the Dalai Lama. China is against meeting Nicolas Sarkozy with Dalai Lama on 6th December in Gdansk in Poland, on the occasion of 25th anniversary of awarding the Peace Nobel Prize for Lech Wałęsa.



Whielki Krasnal „We want to love the World: We love EU (Nicolas Sarkozy), We want to love China (Wen Jiabao), Nature is the answer (Dalai Lama) / The United Nations Climate Change Conference 2008 / from the series Great Poles”. 2008. Oil on canvas. Triptych: 60 x 50 cm, 60 x 50 cm, 50 x 70 cm

We ask the questions:

Will Brazil, China and India take the initiative and join the international talks about the climate? What position will the USA take in the situation of recession?
What rules will oblige after 2012? Will the emissions be reduces by 50% by 2050?


Whielki Krasnal „USA…? / Al Gore / The United Nations Climate Change Conference 2008 / from the series Great Poles”. 2008. Oil on canvas. 46 x 55 cm

Krasnal Hałabała “Let always there will be a sun / Wangari Maathai / The United Nations Climate Change Conference 2008 / from the series Great Poles”. 2008. Oil on canvas. 60 x 50 cm

Krasnal Hałabała “So I’m Arnold / Lech Wałęsa / The United Nations Climate Change Conference 2008 / from the series Great Poles”. 2008. Oil on canvas 50 x 70 cm

‘Welcome to the Paradise’

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