Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by TANURO Daniel
In the worst case scenario 150 million people could be obliged to relocate between now and 2050 following the rise in ocean levels due to planetary warming . At the same time, deaths due to lack of water, malaria and famine could increase respectively by three billion, 300 million and 50-100 (…)
, by SILBERMAN Jerry
A North American Labor Assembly on the Climate Crisis was held May 7 and 8 in New York City [[Webpage: ]. Put on by the Cornell Global Labor Institute, the event was sub-titled “Building a Global Movement for Clean Energy”. A report by labor organizer and peak oil activist Jerry Silberman. (…)
, by SMITH Kevin
The National Emissions Trading Taskforce is due to present some sort of design scheme for an Australian national emissions trading scheme in the second half of 2007, and PM John Howard has announced a task group to look at how Australia could participate in the global market.
It’s hard to see (…)
, by ALCORN Zane, KENNY Zoe
On May 5, the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its final working group report, the third in a series, as a part of its Fourth Assessment Report (AR4), aimed at evaluating global warming. The IPCC published its first assessment report in 1990, a supplementary report in (…)
, by GIEGOLD Sven
All of a sudden everyone is talking about the climate ? especially the German Chancellor. That?s a way to cover up the social conflicts within the EU and G8. But protecting the climate will be impossible without justice.
The EU is in deep crisis. Many people are dissatisfied with the social (…)
, by JONES Van
In 2005, Americans sat before our television sets, horrified by images of an American city underwater. In 2006, we sat in the nation’s movie houses, watching Al Gore make the case for urgent action. In 2007, Americans are finally rising from our seats and demanding action to reverse global (…)
, by Wise
Self-presentation of Wise taken from its website on March 21, 2007/
We’re small. We’re powerful. We’re anti-nuclear. We are grass-root oriented. And we are proud of what we have achieved. We are anxious to go on, serving people with important information and skills. We have existed since (…)
, by Movements (international)
To sign on to this declaration please send an email to info fern.org or visit www.sinkswatch.org
As representatives of people’s movements and independent organisations, we reject the claim that carbon trading will halt the climate crisis. This crisis has been caused more than anything else (…)
, by Socialist Resistance (Britain)
The report of UN’s International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on global warming recently published in Paris has changed the terms of the debate on this issue. It is the most extensive study to date and is the first a series of reports to be published this year. Previous IPCC reports (this is (…)
, by BOND Patrick, DADA Rehana, ERION Graham
With climate change posing as one of the gravest threats to capital accumulation - not to mention humankind and our environment - in coming decades, it is little wonder that economists such as Sir Nick Stern, establishment politicians like Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown and US Democrat (…)
, by SMITH Kevin
The carbon offset industry was all about growth in 2006. The high-profile, Britain-based CarbonNeutral Company reported an annual turnover of £2.7 million, while the global market sold an estimated £60 million, and this figure was estimated to increase five times over in three years.
From the (…)
, by KENNY Zoe, PEARCE Rohan
“I’m just, I’m a little concerned with all this hysteria over this greenhouse gases and the environment, that the Liberal Party is not selling your message the way you sold it now to Leon, and that it’s not getting through to the average man in the street” — this is what “Emile”, an “unashamed (…)
, by KENNY Zoe
Al Gore’s documentary An Inconvenient Truth has helped focus attention on the threat posed by fossil-fuel driven climate change. Gore’s film was met with a predictable barrage of criticism by right-wing pundits. For example Herald Sun columnist Andrew Bolt wrote in a September 13 article that (…)
, by FoE
SEPT 28-29, 2006
ANOTHER ENERGY FUTURE IS NECESSARY – ALTERNATIVES EXIST
STOP OIL AND GAS EXPLORATION NOW!
Member groups of Friends of the Earth International (FoEI ) from 51 countries including Nigeria’s Environmental Rights Action (ERA) and other national and international civil society (…)
, by CONWAY Terry
Britain’s largest trade union has affiliated to the Campaign against Climate Change (CCC), reflecting alarm across the labour movement at the Labour government’s plans to replace its aging nuclear submarines and power stations. It was the second major advance made by the Campaign in the same (…)
, by KENNY Zoe
Despite being seen as a climate change “renegade”, Prime Minister John Howard is currently attempting to gain “greenie” points by pushing for acceptance of “cleaner and greener” nuclear power as the solution to global warming. However, environmentalists, scientists and opposition political (…)
, by MANAHAN Mary Ann
People from aross the globe gathered in Mexico City from March 16-22, 2006 to discuss the “fate of the world’s water.” The World Water Forum is a formal gathering of governments, international water experts and professionals, development aid institutions, water corporations and other agencies (…)
, by Fourth International
Resolution adopted at the February 2006 meeting of the International Committee (IC) of the Fourth International (FI).
Given:
• That it is well established that global warming is in its majority the result of emission of greenhouse gases, derived mainly from burning of fossil fuels as well (…)
, by WARD Phil
Capitalism has known about global warming for at least fifty years but seems unable to face up to the consequences. Is there something inherent in capitalism that prevents its moving to a low Greenhouse Gas economy? Phil Ward argues that while planning under workers’ and community control is (…)
, by KAU- Indonesia, RAJA SIREGAR P.
Introduction
An estimated 1.1 billion people in the world do not have access to safe water; 2.4 billion in the world do not have access to adequate sanitation. The poor, especially in developing countries, have suffered most from water shortages.
In many developing countries, the majority of (…)
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