Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, 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 (…)
, by Against the Current
WITH DECISION DAY looming for the Keystone XL pipeline, what’s really at stake for climate change, for human civilization, and for the environmental movement that’s fighting to save the future? That tar sands development may determine “game over for the climate,” in the phrase of NASA scientist (…)
, by Collective / Multiple signers
We are publishing below the final declaration of the Climate Space held in Tunis during the last World Social Forum. It is endorsed by the facilitator organisations of the Climate Space.
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The capitalist system has exploited and abused nature, pushing the planet to its (…)
, by Collective / Multiple signers
TIME TO SCRAP THE ETS DECLARATION
Civil society organisations demand that the EU scrap its emissions trading scheme
After seven years of failure, the EU’s claims that it can ‘fix’ its collapsing Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) no longer have any credibility. We believe that the ETS must be (…)
, by Against the Current
This editorial statement appears in the January-February issue of AGAINST THE CURRENT. It went to press before the full horror of the fire and heat crisis in Australia – with recorded temperatures of up to 129 degrees Fahrenheit! – had unfolded. We hope very soon to have reports on the (…)
, par Friends of the Earth Europe
The EU is committed to reducing its greenhouse gas emissions by 80-95% by the middle of the century. Meeting that objective is essential to avoid dangerous levels of climate change, but it won’t be easy. Political will amongst all EU member states, ambitious policies and the right technologies (…)
, by SOLÓN Pablo
Climate related events have always been a cause for migration in the history of humanity. This was the story of Egypt, Mesopotamia and other ancient societies. But in modern times the scale has been unprecedented. In 1995 there were at least 25 million climate refugees. Only 15 years later, in (…)
, by Solidarity Ecosocialist Commission / Working Group
As the Doha COP18 climate talks draw to a close, they have unfortunately confirmed The Economist’s description of the event as a “theater of the absurd.” Even as the World Bank has released a report describing a rise in average global temperatures by a catastrophic 4 degrees Celsius over the (…)
, by BELLO Walden, HEYDARIAN Richard Javad
Seldom has a global conference been so devoid of positive expectations than the coming United Nations Climate Conference that will take place in Doha, Qatar, in late November and early December. In fact, people could be forgiven for thinking a joke was being played on them, given that the (…)
, by BASSEY Nnimmo, McKIBBEN Bill, SOLÓN Pablo
To really address climate change UNFCCC-COP18 should decide to Climate Change: Open letter to governments and their negotiators: leave under the soil more than 2/3 of the fossil reserves.
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2012 saw the shocking melt of the Arctic, leading our greatest climatologist to (…)
, par BAFANA Busani, BOND Patrick
Busani Bafana interviews political economist and also the director of the Centre for Civil Society at the University of KwaZulu Natal in South Africa Professor Patrick Bond.
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BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe, Nov 27 2012 (IPS) - There is no political will among rich nations to (…)
, by La Via Campesina, Movements (Asian)
La Via Campesina and Asian social movements call for an end to financial speculation on food and climate as UN Climate negotiations move towards burning the planet.
(JAKARTA, September 18, 2012) Earlier this month in Bangkok, Thailand, a round of climate talks concluded under the United (…)
, by BELLO Walden, SOLÓN Pablo
The Bangkok intersessional meeting of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is about to end, with no progress among countries to commit to increasing the level of emission reductions for this decade. Why are the climate talks stalemated and what should be done to (…)
, by Collective / Multiple signers
Humans and nature are under attack. The endless growth model has pushed the planet to its limits. Governments are making people pay for the excesses of banks and transnational corporations through more and more severe austerity measures. There are now 1 billion people living in hunger. There (…)
, by CONWAY Terry
The United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, also referred to as the Earth summit, took place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in June 20. Rio+20 was larger, cost more than its predecessor 20 years ago and achieved nothing positive.
The situation facing us in terms climate change is much (…)
, by BIDWAI Praful
The outcome of Durban is a disaster for global climate protection and the survival of millions.
India’s corporate media has never before so blatantly blacked out or distorted a major international event as it did the Durban climate conference under the UN Framework Convention on Climate (…)
, by BOND Patrick
Looking back now that the dust has settled, South Africa’s COP17 presidency appears disastrous. This was confirmed not only by Durban’s delayed, diplomatically-decrepit denouement, but by plummeting carbon markets in the days immediately following the conference’s ignoble end.
Of course it is (…)
, by La Via Campesina
(Jakarta, 16 December 2011) La Via Campesina, the global movement of peasants, small-scale and agricultural family farmers, denounces the attempts of the largest carbon emitters to further escape their historic responsibility to make real emission cuts and push for more false and market based (…)
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