Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by La Via Campesina
Denpasar, Bali,
From the 7th to the 9th of December, over 200 delegates from the Via Campesina, representing 20 countries from Africa, Asia, America and Europe, are holding events with social movements parallel to the COP 13th, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in (…)
, by TANURO Daniel
Despite cold rainy weather and a strike that seriously affected the railways, 4000 people demonstrated in Brussels on December 8 “for climate and solidarity.” The demonstration was called by both the Climate Coalition and the group “Climate and Social Justice,” on proposal of the latter. (…)
, by CLARKE Renfrey
Delegates from more than 180 countries began meeting on the Indonesian island of Bali on December 3 at the United Nations Climate Change Conference. The gathering is meant to begin the process of negotiating an agreement on climate change for the period after 2012, when the first commitment (…)
, by KENNY Zoe
The first days of the December 3-14 Bali meeting on a post-Kyoto framework for tackling climate change showed that the US-led call for a “comprehensive new agreement” that would require Third World countries that are big greenhouse-gas emitters to commit to emission reductions had the support of (…)
, by KENNY Zoe
Kevin Smith, a researcher for Carbon Trade Watch, participated in the December 3-14 United Nations Climate Change Conference held in Bali, Indonesia. Smith spoke to Green Left Weekly’s Zoe Kenny about the campaign against carbon trading
With the global carbon trading market now worth almost (…)
, by Oilwatch
The international eco-logical call is a common strategy to save the areas of greatest diversity, leaving the captured carbon underground, based on the Climate Change Agreement and other international agreements via which the world’s governments committed to conserve the world’s biodiversity, (…)
, by KENNY Zoe
The first round of official talks to negotiate a global climate change agreement to follow on from the Kyoto Protocol in 2012 will be held in Bali, Indonesia, on December 3-14. Representatives of 130 countries will attend, ostensibly to begin a two-year negotiating process.
However, there have (…)
, by Collective / Multiple signers
The Indonesian People’s Movement Against Neo-colonialism and Imperialism (GERAK LAWAN; The Indonesian Federation of Peasant’s Union/ FSPI, Indonesian Human Rights Commitee for Social Justice/ IHCS, KAU, LS ADI, Federation of Trade Union Jakarta/ FSBJ, KAM LAKSI, Indonesian Youth Front (…)
, by GEARON Jihan, GOLDTOOTH Tom, Indigenous Environmental Network
BALI, Indonesia — Today marks the end of the 13th Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP 13) in Bali. Navajo and Mohawk representatives of the Indigenous Environmental Network leave with frustration about the outcomes of COP 13 but also (…)
, by HEARSE Phil
INTRODUCTORY NOTE: Since this article was written the idea of accelerating disasters as a result of climate change has been rapidly confirmed by another flooding disaster in Bangladesh, in which at least 3000 people have died, and another round of brush fires in California, this time around (…)
, by Global Climate Change Campaign
International Demonstrations on Climate Change
Saturday 8th December 2007
Coinciding with the UN Climate Talks (MOP 3, COP 13) in Bali, Indonesia, from the 3rd to the 14th December 2007
This webpage has been set up to publicise and promote plans for demonstrations on climate change, to (…)
Community Protests Coca-Cola Plant in India
October 25, 2007
http://www.indiaresource.org/news/2007/1054.html
Over 600 people marched and rallied against the Coca-Cola bottling plant in the village of Sinhachawar in Ballia district in India yesterday, demanding that the plant be shut down (…)
, by Ecosocialist International Network
FIRST INTERNATIONAL ECOSOCIALIST MEETING
PARIS: On October 7th and 8th 2007, a group of ecological activists from thirteen countries met in Paris to inaugurate the Ecosocialist International Network. The International Ecosocialist Manifesto , written some years ago by Joel Kovel and Michael (…)
, by BELLO Walden
The developing world’s stance towards the question of the environment has often been equated with the pugnacious comments of former Malaysian Prime Minister Mohamad Mahathir, such as his famous lines at the Rio Conference on the Environment and Development in June 1992:
"When the rich chopped (…)
, by REYES Oscar
EU and US targets and subsidies are fuelling a growing demand for ‘agrofuels’. Far from being a sustainable energy source, the increased cultivation of crops for fuel threatens the world’s poor with starvation, damages biodiversity and even contributes to global warming, argues Oscar Reyes. (…)
, by SMITH Kevin
Putting a price on carbon and making the polluter pay makes sense, doesn’t it? Kevin Smith shows how carbon trading has merely created big profits for transnational companies and had no impact on climate change.
If, as their proponents claim, carbon markets are wonderful tools for bringing (…)
, by KENNY Zoe
Sydney,
Despite the media fanfare, the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation summit, held in Sydney on September 8 and 9, achieved next to nothing in combating global warming.
The key outcome was the adoption of the “Sydney Declaration” — which amounts to little more than a vague statement of (…)
, by LOHMANN Larry
As the EU, the US and big business vie with each other to be recognized as taking serious action on climate change, Larry Lohmann wonders whether the real leadership is not to be found elsewhere.
Forget, for a moment, the Kyoto Protocol and the EU Emissions Trading Scheme. Leave aside the (…)
, by DAVIES Nick
On the eve of a G8 summit focused on climate change, Nick Davies reveals major flaws in the global system designed to reduce emissions.
In autumn 2005, three journalists working for the environmental group the Centre for Science and Environment decided to investigate some of the Indian (…)
, by SMITH Kevin
Tackling climate change is likely to be at the top of the agenda at this month’s G8 summit in Heiligendamm, Germany. But the emissions trading schemes promoted by G8 countries are deferring genuine climate action, while generating massive profits for the largest polluters. Kevin Smith (…)
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