Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by G8 Action Network
Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan, July 9, 2008: The G8’s communiqué regarding their action on climate is actually inaction being masked as movement. It is a great fraud being perpetrated on the global community that would significantly reduce its capacity to contain climate change. We fully agree with (…)
, by TANURO Daniel
Daniel Tanuro is an activist in Climat et Justice Sociale in Belgium. This article is based on the talk he gave at the International Climate Forum organised by the Campaign Against Climate Change, in London on June 15.
Dear friends, dear comrades,
Thank you for the invitation to talk at (…)
, by ZACUNE Joseph
During the climate talks in Bali last December, NASA scientist James Hansen presented new data showing that serious climate change impacts are already happening more rapidly and at lower global ttemperature rises than previously projected, indicating that the atmosphere is more “sensitive” to (…)
, by NICHOLS Dick
The April 11-13 Climate Change-Social Change conference ended with the production of a statement that tries to specify the elements of a strategy against global warming that would actually have a chance of success.
It is an attempt to find a common language which would enable people from (…)
, by PATEL Vibhuti
Massive rally by on the 1st April 2006 by CITIZEN’S FORUM constituted of Institute for Community Organisation Research, Promoting People’s Participating In Water Governance, Apli Mumbai, Civic Political Cells of Andheri, Shehri Vikas Manch, Ashankur, Yuva, India Centre for Human rights and Law (…)
, by Collective / Multiple signers
The following statement was started by the participants in the Climate Change|Social Change conference. Anyone who agrees with it is welcome to add their signature, and an updated list of signatories will be issued on a regular basis.
Signatures can be sent to . It is being distributed to (…)
, by TOWNSEND Terry
A talk to the Climate Change Social Change Conference held in Sydney from April 11 to 13.
I’m sure everybody here is aware of the basic facts of global warming and the likely consequences if rapid and serious action is not taken. There is virtually unanimous agreement among scientists and (…)
, by BULLARD Nicola, MORARAS Bea
After the high drama of Bali, the Bangkok climate change conference (31 March - 4 April) was a dull affair. Al Gore did not descend from the heights, no daring delegate told the US where to get off and, as far as I know, UNFCCC executive director Yvo de Boer, shed no tears. In Bangkok the (…)
, by BOYLE Peter, HOLMES Dave
Dave Holmes is a veteran leader of the Democratic Socialist Perspective, a Marxist tendency in the Socialist Alliance. He co-wrote the pamphlet Change the System Not the Climate (Resistance Books, 2007) and will be participating in the upcoming Climate Change — Social Change Conference. Green (…)
, by NICHOLS Dick
Overwhelmed by the greenhouse debate? Bamboozled by all the competing claims that renewable energy sources cannot supply 24-hours-a-day power (“base load”)? Depressed by the unending vastness of “the literature” on global warming and renewables?
Luckily there is an antidote. It’s Mark (…)
, by ADVE Nagraj
Kids in my village Adve had a tough time bursting crackers on Diwali last year. Which was not surprising, because it was raining, and the crackers were not sufficiently dry. The surprise though was that it was raining at all.
The village is located near the coast in southern Karnataka, between (…)
, by La Via Campesina
In May 2008 in Bonn, Germany the 4th Meeting of the Parties to the Protocol on Biosecurity (MOP4) also called the « Cartagena Protocol » and the 9th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD, COP9) will take place.
For millenia small-scale farmers of the world (…)
, by BELLO Walden
THERE is now a solid consensus in the scientific community that if the change in global mean temperature in the twenty-first century exceeds 2.4 degrees Celsius, changes in the planet’s climate will be large-scale, irreversible, and disastrous. Moreover, the window of opportunity for action that (…)
, by Collective / Multiple signers
We, Turkish waterjustice activists, along with our international guests in Istanbul, March 24, 2008 pledge to work together to challenge the illegitimate, corporate-controlled, World Water Forum, scheduled to take place in Istanbul one year from now.
We stand for the principles of water (…)
, by Fourth International
The IC approves the general points of orientation developed by the seminar on climate change organized by the IIRE from 22 to 27 February, 2008:
1. The various capitalist proposals that are under discussion working toward a climate agreement going beyond 2012 (in particular the “climate (…)
, by GARROUSTE Laurent
The seminar which was held in Amsterdam from 23-27 February, 2008 at the invitation of the International Institute for Research and Education (IIRE) was extremely fruitful and stimulating.
Entitled “Faced with climate change, energy revolution and social transformation”, this initiative, (…)
, by BROWNHILL Leigh, TURNER Terisa E.
This paper was presented at the “Climate Change” seminar, at the International Institute for Research and Education (IIRE, Amsterdam), February 22-26, 2008 [20 February 2008 Draft version].
We demand that the world takes the example of Ecuador and join with one voice to demand the (…)
, by KASTLER Guy, La Via Campesina
Via Campesina Intervention to CBD [Convention on Biological Diversity] SSTTA 13, in Rome (Italy), 19th February 2008.
Via Campesina, the global movement of small-scale farmers in five continents, ROPPA, which represents the farmers and pastoralists of West Africa, and various civil society (…)
, by Searle Richard, WILKES Roy
RS: Although there’s universal agreement now that Climate Change is happening as a result of human activity, why is there no equally unanimous agreement on solutions? What’s the crucial fault line?
RW: It is easy to forget that this ‘universal agreement’ you speak of is in fact only very (…)
, by CLARKE Renfrey
Amid audible gasps of relief, on December 15 the US delegation to the United Nations climate change conference in Bali signalled that Washington would be part of the “Bali Roadmap” for combatting global warming. With the US on board, a two-year process of discussion would begin — hopefully to (…)
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