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    Durban's Climate Zombie tripped
    January 2012
    Patrick Bond

    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.

    Conference of Polluters
    December 2011
    TNI

    TNI was present at the Durban UN Climate Conference challenging the role of corporations in undermining and seeking to profit from attempts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

    As COP17 approaches: Dirty Durban’s manual for climate greenwashing
    August 2011
    Patrick Bond

    Will the host city for the November-December world climate summit, COP17, clean up its act? The launch of Durban's strategy, Towards a Low Carbon City suggests the new municipal leaders are climate greenwashers, disguising high-carbon economic policies with pleasing rhetoric.

    Fighting the Minerals-Petroleum-Coal Complex’s Wealth and Woes
    August 2011
    Patrick Bond
     Khadija Sharife

    Ecocide by the "minerals-energy complex" should be faced by a broad-based opposition, focusing on sanctions against neo-colonial exploitation, and international solidarity with the communities affected.

    Climate Meetings Have Become Conferences of Polluters
    June 2011
    Patrick Bond

    Without serious mobilisation, Durban's UN climate conference, ‘COP
    17’ (Conference of Parties), looks doomed to be a conference of procrastinators threatening the planet and its peoples.

    Africa and the climate finance controversy
    October 2010
    Patrick Bond

    Will Africa end up paying for technologies that commodify life, or demand reparations for ecological damage done by the North?

    Roundtable debate on Asia European relations
    October 2010
    Walden Bello
    Praful Bidwai
     Nicola Bullard, Christa Wisterich, Marica Frangakis

    Debate between leading European and Asian analysts on the decline of European power, the economic rise of China and India, the likelihood of global recession, climate change and proposed alternatives to the current global economic model.

    Carbon market “growth” is mainly fraudulent, World Bank report shows
    August 2010
    Oscar Reyes

    The global carbon market grew in 2009. Far from signalling a success, this reflects a massive increase in fraud, the dumping of surplus emissions permits by industry, and a rise in financial speculation.

    Climate Justice protesters reclaim power as UN talks dither
    December 2009
    Oscar Reyes

    With ministers and heads of states arriving in Copenhagen, protests surrounded the climate change conference venue, while negotiations remained blocked.

    What is cap and trade?
    December 2009
    Oscar Reyes

    Cap and trade interprets climate change into the language of neo-liberal economics. Instead we need to rethink our trade system and rethink how we produce and consume goods.

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