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, by ANGUS Ian
“We are ending up with something so watered down there was no need for 12,000 people to gather here in Bali to have a watered-down text. We could have done that by email.” —Dr. Angus Friday, Chair of the Alliance of Small Island States
In a narrow and formal sense, last month’s Climate Change (…)
, by BOND Patrick
Amidst her welcome critique of the biofuel mania, Vandana Shiva’s ZNet commentary (December 13, 2007) also made this point: “The Kyoto Protocol totally avoided the material challenge of stopping activities that lead to higher emissions and the political challenge of regulation of the polluters (…)
, by BOND Patrick
Amidst her welcome critique of the biofuel mania, Vandana Shiva’s ZNet commentary last month (December 13, 2007) also made this point: “The Kyoto Protocol totally avoided the material challenge of stopping activities that lead to higher emissions and the political challenge of regulation of the (…)
, by Focus on Trade
Focus on Trade (# 135, December 2007) has published a special issue on the Bali Climate Conference. Some of the contributions presented here had already been posted on ESSF website, the others are now online too.
Plese find below the introduction from Focus of this issue, its content and the (…)
, by REDMAN Janet
Following two weeks of climate talks in Bali that brought together nearly 190 countries and more than 10,000 delegates, observers and activists, it looks like there’s very little to show for negotiations that were less about urgent climate action than business as usual.
The meetings were (…)
, by TANURO Daniel
Daniel Tanuro is the ecological correspondent of La Gauche, newspaper of the Belgian Socialist Workers Party. An earlier version of this article, in French, was published in Europe Solidaire sans frontières, Dec. 20, 2007. The translation of the expanded article was done by Climate and (…)
, by MACAN-MAKAR Marwaan
BALI, Indonesia, Dec 18 (IPS) - This resort island, better known for drawing foreign tourists due to its tropical splendour and its deep spiritual traditions, is poised to enter the vocabulary of another international set — the rapidly expanding global civil society movement.
Bali will soon (…)
, by MENOTTI Victor
The world’s economic policymakers are addressing climate change with an unprecedented level of engagement at the Bali conference. While the negotiations for a new global climate accord to replace the Kyoto Protocol wrap up in Nusa Dua, numerous trade ministers are meeting to initiate an (…)
, by LOVERA Simone
The tune “The money keeps rolling” from the musical “Evita” kept playing in my mind as I witnessed the forest-related wheeling and dealing that took place during the 13th Conference of the Parties to the Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Bali in December. The song describes how (…)
, by The New York Times
A week that could have brought important progress on climate change ended in disappointment.
In Bali, where delegates from 187 countries met to begin framing a new global warming treaty, America’s negotiators were in full foot-dragging mode, acting as spoilers rather than providing the (…)
, by BELLO Walden
(Bali, Dec. 16). A day after the dramatic ending of the Bali climate talks, many are wondering if the result was indeed the best outcome possible given the circumstances. The US was brought back to the fold, but at the cost of excising from the final document—the so-called Bali Roadmap—any (…)
, by ATHANASIOU Tom
It’s important, this time, to draw conclusions, and to do so publicly. Because Bali has taken us — barely and painfully — over a line and into a new and even more difficult level in the climate game we’ll be playing for the rest of our lives. In fact, it’s not too much to say that, with the (…)
, by REDMAN Janet
Very little, it seems, at the end of two weeks of climate negotiations that were less about climate than business and more about calculated obstruction than negotiation.
The unprecedented booing of US under secretary of state for democracy and global affairs Paula Dobriansky was far less (…)
, by Climate Justice Now!
BALI (INDONESIA), 14 December 2007 - Peoples from social organizations and movements from across the globe brought the fight for social, ecological and gender justice into the negotiating rooms and onto the streets during the UN climate summit in Bali.
Inside and outside the convention centre, (…)
, by BELLO Walden
With 48 hrs to go before the Bali climate conference comes to a close, it is now universally expected that the COP (Conference of Parties) 13 will produced a watered-down “Bali Roadmap” that reflects countries bending over backward again to seduce the United States to join a post-Kyoto (…)
, by SHIVA Vandana
December 3 - 14, 2008 will see more than 10,000 representatives of Government and civil society gather in Bali for a meeting of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. This is the international treaty under which the Kyoto Protocol was negotiated. The Protocol expires in 2012, (…)
, by La Via Campesina
The Global Day of Action Against Climate Change took place on Saturday, in parallel to the Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention on Climate Change, which is being held in Bali for the past two weeks. A delegation of over 200 members of La Via Campesina from nearly 20 countries from (…)
, by Collective / Multiple signers
Governments meeting in Bali, Indonesia for the 13th Conference of the Parties/3rd Meeting of the Parties to the United Nations’ Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), 3-14 December 2007, need to recognise that this may be our last opportunity to stop runaway climate change and that (…)
, by La Via Campesina
Members of La Via Campesina from Japan, Thailand, Sri Lanka, India, Cambodia, Norway, Canada, Mozambique and Brazil visited the Jatiluwih village in Bali to see rice cultivation in terraces and to analyze ways to practice peasant farming with local producers.
The meeting aims to exchange (…)
, by Collective / Multiple signers
“Climate and Capitalism” editor’s note: The document below seems to be a worthwhile initiative, but we have been unable to learn much about its authors and origins. Can any reader of Climate and Capitalism provide more background?
According to the limited information we’ve found on the web, it (…)
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