Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by HJORT Linn
Thousands of lobbyists from multinationals swarming the UN, and the oil companies that are part of negotiation delegations to COP without any intention to cut back on their emissions have, so far, more power than a few phrases about women’s rights and a woman chairperson to the COP.
That (…)
, by ANTENTAS Josep Maria, VIVAS Esther
We will save the markets, not the climate. That is how we can summarize the outcome of the 17th Conference of Parties (COP17) to the United Nations Framework on Climate Change (UNFCC) which took place in Durban, South Africa between 28 November and 10 December 2011. There is a striking contrast (…)
, by Climate Justice Now!
For Immediate Release 10 December, 2011
COP17 succumbs to Climate Apartheid
Antidote is Cochabamba Peoples’ Agreement
Durban, S. Africa –Decisions resulting from the UN COP17 climate summit in Durban constitute a crime against humanity, according to Climate Justice Now! a broad coalition (…)
, by Collective / Multiple signers
As African civil society and international allies, we reject the call of many developed countries for a so-called “Durban mandate” to launch new negotiations for a future climate framework.
A new mandate for a new treaty in place of the Kyoto Protocol should be understood for what it really is (…)
, by SOLÓN Pablo
Durban will be worse than Copenhagen and Cancun. Everyone knows that this is a catastrophe. But instead of becoming outraged, they attempt to sweeten the poison.
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DURBAN, South Africa — After 9 days of negotiations there is no doubt that we saw this movie (…)
, by Global Alliance of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities against REDD and for Life
Global Alliance of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities against REDD and for Life Calls for a Moratorium on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD+) United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, 17th Conference of the Parties
Durban, South Africa, (…)
, by La Via Campesina
Assembly of the Oppressed, 5th December 2011, Durban, South Africa.
As the Assembly of the Oppressed we are gathered here to demand the transformation of the entire neo liberal capitalist system. The fight against climate change is a fight against neoliberal capitalism, landlessness, (…)
, by BOND Patrick
November 22, 2011— Durban Mercury, via Green Left Weekly — There they fell during 2011, one after the other in past-their-prime domino descent: Zine El Abidine Ben Ali from Tunis, Hosni Mubarak from Cairo, Dominique Strauss-Kahn from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Muammar Gaddafi from (…)
, by ANGUS Ian
Ian Angus, editor of Climate and Capitalism, is currently in Australia to speak at the Climate Change Social Change conference in Melbourne, September 30 – October 3.
During his pre-conference speaking tour, he was invited to address several meetings of trades union members. The following is a (…)
, by BOND Patrick
Judging by what transpired at the global climate negotiations in the former West German capital, Bonn, it appears certain that in just over five months’ time, the South African port city of Durban will host a conference of climate procrastinators, the COP17 (Conference of Parties), dooming the (…)
, by HARVEY Fiona
Economic recession has failed to curb rising emissions, undermining hope of keeping global warming to safe levels.
Greenhouse gas emissions increased by a record amount last year, to the highest carbon output in history, putting hopes of holding global warming to safe levels all but out of (…)
, by BOND Patrick
South Africa’s most vocal neoliberal politician, Trevor Manuel, is apparently being seriously considered as co-chair of the Green Climate Fund. On April 28-29 in Mexico City, Manuel and other elites meet to design the world’s biggest-ever replenishing pool of aid money: a promised $100 billion (…)
, by Collective / Multiple signers
More than 90 organizations and global networks urge leaders to strictly limit the role and influence of the World Bank in designing a new Green Climate Fund.
The Sustainable Energy & Economy Network at the Institute for Policy Studies has joined with over 90 environment, development, (…)
, by REDMAN Janet
More than 90 environment, development, human rights, and anti-debt organizations from around the world want the Bank to have no say in setting up this key new tool for helping poor nations address climate change.
The UN climate talks held in Cancún late last year paved the way for a new Green (…)
, by BOND Patrick
A sober look at what was needed to reverse current warming and what was actually delivered shows that negotiators in Cancun’s luxury Moon Palace hotel failed by any reasonable measure.
CANCUN, MEXICO. The December 11 closure of the 16th Conference of the Parties – the global climate summit - (…)
, by BUXTON Nick
Bolivia was not an obstacle to progress at Cancun’s climate talks. It was rather the only nation daring enough to tell the truth.
In the famous Hans Christian Anderson fable, The Emperor’s New Clothes, a weaver famously plays on an emperor’s arrogance and persuades him to wear a non-existent (…)
, by Bolivia’s Plurinational State
The Plurinational State of Bolivia believes that the Cancun text is a hollow and false victory that was imposed without consensus, and its cost will be measured in human lives. History will judge harshly.
There is only one way to measure the success of a climate agreement, and that is based on (…)
, by Hemispheric Social Alliance
In the early morning hours of December 11, 2010 a COP 16 Accord was announced. However the text of this Accord did not represent an advance on what came out of last year’s “Copenhagen Accord”, and instead signalled an acceptance of the earlier ´agreement´ thereby evading any real solutions to (…)
, by La Via Campesina
No agreement is better than a bad agreement:
The people hold thousands of solutions in their hands
Global Forum for Life, Environmental and Social Justice (December 4-10, 2010)
Members of La Vía Campesina from more than thirty countries from all over the world united our thousands of (…)
, by La Via Campesina
Press release - La Via Campesina
ALBA Governments Join La Via Campesina to Denounce Elite Climate Talks;
Cochabamba People’s Agreement is the peoples’ solution to the Climate Crisis
(Cancún, 7 December 2010) La Via Campesina, the world’s largest movement of peasant and smallholder farmers, (…)
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