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    Is the Green Economy a new Washington Consensus?
    February 2012
    Working Group on Green Economy, WSF

    The current environmental and climate crisis is not simply a market failure because nature is not simply a form of capital. Putting a price on nature under the label of the "Green Economy" is an attempt to expand the reach of finance capital and privatise our planet.

    RIO+20 and the greenwashing of the global economy
    January 2012
    Olivier Hoedeman

    Challenging the corporate co-option of the UN should be a major priority in the run-up to the UN Rio+20 Earth Summit in June 2012.

    The Politics of Climate change and the Global crisis
    January 2012
    Praful Bidwai

    In his book Bidwai addresses the impacts of climate change and the politics of the international climate negotiations; and second, lndia as an example of an 'emerging economy' major polluter, which can potentially both aid or obstruct the fight against climate change.

    Praful Bidwai at the Durban Climate conference, interview with DemocracyNow!
    January 2012
    Praful Bidwai

    Praful Bidwai talks to DemocracyNow!'s Amy Goodman in Durban during the climate conference about the state of the climate negotiations.

    Resistance and Hope at a time of Climate Emergency
    January 2012
    Nick Buxton

    The Durban climate conference could act as a turning point. Are we willing to be truly honest about the failure of our political and economic system to tackle climate change and willing to exercise our power in shaping the world we want to live in?

    Miguel Altieri: On agroecology, and why it is the solution to hunger and food security
    January 2012
    Miguel Altieri

    Today, a billion people live in hunger. Can we feed the world and achieve economic development while conserving ecosystems and improving the livelihoods of peasants and the rural poor?

    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.

    Durban’s greenwash outcome
    January 2012
    Praful Bidwai

    The outcome of Durban is a disaster for global climate protection and the survival of millions. 

     
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