Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is hosting a Climate Summit in New York next week. Expected to attend are top officials from all UN Member States, big transnational corporations, financial institutions, and a few select civil society representatives. The goal is to build political (…)
, by WAHL Asbjørn
This contribution was made at a Rosa Luxemburg Foundation/Left Labour Project meeting in New York, 18 September 2014.
Since each of us gets only a few minutes for our contributions on such a large subject as climate change, I have chosen to put forward ten brief points for a trade union (…)
, by Collective / Multiple signers
Social Movements representing more than 200 million people around the world denounce corporate take-over of Ban Ki-Moon Climate Summit
Social movements such as La Via Campesina, OilWatch International, Migrants Rights International, Global Forest Coalition, the Indigenous Environmental (…)
, by Collective / Multiple signers
When we, as human beings, get a fever, we immediately get worried and take action. After all, we know that if our body temperature rises to 1.5ºC, let alone 2ºC [3.6 ºF] above the normal average, there can be severe damage, while an increase of 4-6ºC [7.2-10.8 ºF] or more can cause a comatose (…)
, by Collective / Multiple signers
In Lima change the system, not the climate!
Lima, Peru – December 9 – 12, 2014
Social movements and organizations, trade unions, peasants, indigenous peoples communities, women and environmentalist organizations, gathered in Lima, Peru, on the 12h and 13th of August, invited by the Trade (…)
, by PETITJEAN Olivier, SATOKO Kishimoto
With important victories at the local, national and regional level, the Water Movement provides key lessons for the resistance against the privatization of public services in Europe. As the authors explain, “Referendums and other forms of popular consultation such as the European Citizens’ (…)
, by KAHLE Trish
Labor is often considered hopelessly reactionary on the environment. But democratic unions can fight for both jobs and the planet.
The “jobs versus environment” debate is often seen as a fundamental division between labor and environmentalists, most recently emerging in the fight over the (…)
, by BRECHER Jeremy
We can, and must, create common ground between the labor and climate movements.
In an era in which our political system is dominated by plutocracy, grassroots social movements are essential for progressive change. But too often our movements find themselves at loggerheads over the seemingly (…)
, by PETITJEAN Olivier
The Greek government and its creditors seem bent on imposing policy whose economic merits and democratic legitimacy seem rather dubious. A French company is especially active among the candidates for privatizing water in Athens and Thessaloniki: Suez Environnement.
As a condition for the (…)
, by La Via Campesina
(Jakarta, 3 December 2013) On November 8, 2013, the strongest super typhoon ever recorded in history, with winds as high as 314 kilometers per hour, slammed into the Philippines. Typhoon Haiyan devastated several cities in the islands of the Visayas, leaving in its wake, more than 5,000 dead, (…)
, by Focus on the Global South
Since the beginning there was almost no expectations on the 19th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP19) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Warsaw, Poland; held November 11 to 23. Based on previous COPS, from Copenhagen until now, the signs had not (…)
, by Collective / Multiple signers
We have said we stand in solidarity with the millions impacted by Typhoon Haiyan, and with all climate impacted people. Our solidarity compels us to tell the truth about COP 19 – the Warsaw Climate Conference.
The Warsaw Climate Conference, which should have been an important step in the just (…)
Civil society organizations and networks from Southeast Asia, who gathered in Bangkok for a two-day regional conference on emissions cuts and low-carbon alternatives, stressed today their common demand for urgent actions from government’s both in the North and the South to address the climate (…)
, par Association Alternatives face aux défis écologiques, Collectif / Signatures multiples
La crise écologique, dont le changement climatique est l’expression la plus inquiétante, représente une menace sans précèdent pour l’humanité et l’environnement. A la racine de cette catastrophe écologique se trouve une civilisation – le capitalisme occidental – fondée sur l’accumulation (…)
, by World Meteorological Organization
Press Release No. 981 For use of the information media Not an official record
Geneva, 13 November 2013 - The year 2013 is currently on course to be among the top ten warmest years since modern records began in 1850, according to the World Meteorological Organization. The first nine months, (…)
, by Collective / Multiple signers
The EU aims to expand carbon markets that would benefit big polluters at the UN climate talks, COP19 in Poland, says a Statement signed by 135+ groups, movements and networks from all over the world. The Statement denounces the corporate capture of COP19 by the same companies that stand to (…)
, by KLEIN Naomi
Naomi delivered the following speech on September 1, 2013 at the founding convention of UNIFOR, a new mega union created by the Canadian Autoworkers and the Canadian Energy and Paper Workers Union.
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I’m so very happy and honoured to be able to share this historic day with (…)
, by Climate and Social Justice
This year, the international climate negotiations are taking place in Warsaw from 11 to 22 November. This conference (Conference of the Parties, COP) organized by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), is being held for the nineteenth time. For too long we have been (…)
, par WAINWRIGHT Hilary
A combination of opposing privatisation and putting forward practical alternatives is helping water campaigners mount an effective challenge to austerity in Greece.
Privatisation and the nature of the state is moving to the centre of the struggle against austerity in Greece. The troika of the (…)
, par KLEIN Naomi
Some mainstream environmental organizations are trying to wean themselves from fossil fuel investments—but some aren’t.
The movement demanding that public interest institutions divest their holdings from fossil fuels is on a serious roll. At last count, there were active divestment campaigns (…)
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