Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by TANURO Daniel
We are reproducing below the reworked version of the report on Climate change and Climate campaigns given at the meeting of the International Committee (IC) of the Fourth International in February 2009. This report has been adopted as the base to write the resolution of the coming FI world (…)
, by Bradstreet Katherine
The heatwave across south-eastern Australia in recent weeks has given a hint of what we can expect as global temperatures continue to rise: black-outs, fatalities and transport chaos as privatised infrastructure fails.
Throughout South Australia and Victoria, thousands of homes were left (…)
, by BUTLER Simon
Canberra,
We live in peculiar, troubling times, where the world’s climate scientists are all but screaming from the rooftops for governments to listen and take urgent action to avert climate change.
“Act without delay to end carbon emissions and work to draw carbon down from the atmosphere”, (…)
, by Collective / Multiple signers
Climate Justice Assembly Declaration adopted during the World Social Forum, Bélém, Brazil, 4 February 2009.
For centuries, productivism and industrial capitalism have been destroying our cultures, exploiting our labour and poisoning our environment.
Now, with the climate crisis, the Earth (…)
, by Climate Justice Now!
Members of Climate Justice Now! – a worldwide alliance of more than 160 organisations — have been in Poznan for the past two weeks closely following developments in the UN climate negotiations.
This statement is our assessment of the Conference of Parties (COP) 14, and articulates our (…)
, by Climate Justice Now!
Members of Climate Justice Now! – a worldwide alliance of more than 160 organisations — have been in Poznan for the past two weeks closely following developments in the UN climate negotiations.
This statement is our assessment of the Conference of Parties (COP) 14, and articulates our (…)
, by La Via Campesina
Statement of La Via Campesina
A delegation of small farmers and peasants from Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America has been observing this week the climate negotiations of UNFCCC in Poznan (COP14).
We are shocked by the level of corruption that UNFCCC has reached in allowing corporations (…)
, by TANURO Daniel
There was a line in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)’s fourth report, published on 2 February 2007, that didn’t get the attention it deserved: “Dynamic processes related to ice flow not included in present models but suggested by recent observations could increase the (…)
, by MORALES Evo
Sisters and brothers:
Today, our Mother Earth is ill. From the beginning of the 21st century we have lived the hottest years of the last thousand years. Global warming is generating abrupt changes in the weather: the retreat of glaciers and the decrease of the polar ice caps; the increase of (…)
, by TANURO Daniel
Some graphs are not reproduced here. You can find them on International Viewpoint website at:
http://www.internationalviewpoint.o...
------------------------
On October 12, 2007, researchers of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) received the Nobel Peace Prize, applauded (…)
, by RAD Foad
An overwhelming majority within the scientific community has reached an unprecedented consensus: The current climate change is primarily a result of human activities, and climate change will reach a critical point if no measures are taken. Meanwhile, world leaders and economic powers ignore (…)
, by LÖWY Michael, RAD Foad
Almost a year has passed since the IPCC released its reports on how rapid climate changes are taking us towards a disaster. The reports have made the issue more obvious and less controversial: the conclusion of this is that the climate threat can no longer be ignored. Foad Rad had a chat with (…)
, by BELLO Walden
There is something surreal about the ongoing World Trade Organization talks in Geneva, which aim at coming up with a new agreement to bring down tariffs in order to expand world trade and resuscitate global growth. In the face of the looming specter of climate change, these negotiations amount (…)
, by Focus on the Global South
BANGKOK (July 16) – Over 170 activists who gathered in Bangkok over the weekend harshly criticised governments and corporations for their failure to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. They called for “climate justice” and a “fundamental departure from the curent global order” to solve the climate (…)
, by PRAMONO Tejo, SUKIMAN Sarwadi
Poznan, 11 December 2008
Sarwadi Sukiman, a small farmer from Sumatra (Indonesia) is currently sharing his experience in Poznan during the United Nations climate talks, as part of the Via Campesina delegation. His story shows what happens when plans such as REDD (Reducing Emissions from (…)
, 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 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 (…)
Twitter
Facebook