Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
Paris, 11 December 2015
Seemingly out of the blue (or rather, out of the black smog of the UNFCCC process), some of the largest historical culprits for climate change, countries including the United States, Canada and the European Union, have decided to back an “ambitious goal” of limiting (...)
This assessment of COP27 was published by Truthout on Friday, and the agreement struck yesterday doesn’t change the main points. Headlines yesterday welcomed the fund for loss and damage – but so far it is just an “empty bucket”, as Mohamed Adow of Power Shift Africa pointed out.
In other ways (...)
Many of those following the UN climate talks at the 26th annual Conference of Parties (COP26) were frustrated, but not surprised, with its dismal results last year. Even the scientists and researchers involved in setting the process of the annual negotiations – the UN Framework Convention on (...)
We have just a few years to develop a necessary base for the coming struggles over who and what will be secured on this planet.
Why the time frame? The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) estimates that we must pursue aggressive, planetary climate action - including halving (...)
Campaigners from around the world are uniting to disrupt the Cop26 conference and put pressure on political leaders
The 1.5C temperature limit to be discussed by world leaders at critical meetings this weekend is a vital physical threshold for the planet’s climate, and not an arbitrary (...)
++ Ende Gelände finishes successful action weekend ++ “The climate justice movement is growing and is internationally stronger than ever!” ++
Ende Gelände has declared the action weekend for climate justice finished today. More than 2,000 activists participated in blockades at ChemCoast Park near (...)
The Paris Climate Agreement and subsequent United Nations follow-up conferences have not taken seriously the ecological crisis now unfolding. Not only does prominent scientist James Hanson describe its tokenistic measures in scathing terms, but those seeking climate justice have long despaired (...)
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1. Disasters, of which extreme weather events linked to climate change are the main cause, have doubled in 20 years, killing more than 1.2 million people worldwide since 2000. Record summer temperatures in the Northern and the Southern Hemisphere (...)
Five years ago, the landmark 21st Conference of Parties (COP21) under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) produced the Paris Agreement. The accord brought together 195 nations for the first time to agree to strengthen the global response to climate change by (...)
The surprising success of the online mobilisation, “From the Ground Up”, from 12-16 November, poses new challenges and new responsibilities for the climate movement. This “Global Gathering for Climate Justice” was organised by the COP26 Coalition to mark the time when the United Nations climate (...)
People are realising ‘we cannot keep looking away from these things’, says climate activist.
’Tipping point’ : Greta Thunberg hails Black Lives Matter protests – video not reproduced here
Greta Thunberg has said the Black Lives Matter protests show society has reached a tipping point where (...)
STATEMENT BY FOURTH INTERNATIONAL BUREAU The week of 20-27 September saw a historic mobilization for climate justice. With more than 7.5 million demonstrators in 185 countries, it is the largest coordinated global mobilization since the 2003 Iraq war.
A new generation is emerging, born from (...)
Critics say group is not doing enough to involve people of colour, or expose links between climate crisis and inequality
It was just a tweet, and whoever sent it probably didn’t think much about it. It was a sunny day in July and environmental activists had blocked the Strand with a big blue (...)
The week of mobilization that began on Friday, 20 September is of an historic scale: already more than five thousand events in 156 countries, four million demonstrators. Hundreds of thousands of young people have been coming out of their schools and universities on climate strike for months and (...)
School strikers, unions, businesses, teachers, scientists, celebrities and religious organisations take to the streets for a week of climate action.
• 5,800 actions to take place in 163 countries all over the world
• 73 trade Unions and 820 civil society organizations supporting
• 3,024 (...)
Green New Deals (GNDs), of various kinds, are increasingly a feature of the global climate and ecological struggle, writes Alan Thornett . They are not new but today they have greater significance.
The most important such deal to-date is one submitted to the US Congress – entitled ‘Recognizing (...)
The Philippines has replaced Brazil as the most murderous country in the world for people defending their land and environment, according to research that puts a spotlight on the administration of President Rodrigo Duterte.
More than three defenders were killed across the world every week in (...)
Young people have used strikes to call attention to the climate disaster. Now they’ve challenged adults to do the same.
In the past several months, people around the world have watched in awe as school students, led by the Swedish teen-ager Greta Thunberg , have taken their concerns about the (...)
Global general strike on 20 September could be historic turning point, say activists.
Greta Thunberg and leading youth strikers for climate action from across the world have called for all adults to join a global general strike on 20 September.
They are asking citizens to walk out of work (...)
We can’t stave off global heating by ourselves. Together, on 20 September, we can unleash mass resistance. A call by Greta Thunberg and 46 youth activists.
Tomorrow, schoolchildren and students will be out on the streets again , in huge numbers, in 150 countries, at over 4,000 events, (...)
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