Copenhagen COP15

From climate denialism to activist alliances

December 2009

Seattle offers a lesson to the African negotiators at the climate talks: by walking out - alongside civil society protesters - and halting a bad deal in Copenhagen on December 18, we can together pave the way for subsequent progress.

Contours of Climate Justice

November 2009

Edgardo Lander

Walden Bello

Ulrich Brand, Nicola Bullard, Tadzio Mueller

This publication aims to contribute to a more sophisticated understanding of the emerging climate justice movement and to create resonances between different perspectives and spheres of engagement. The activities around the COP 15 in Copenhagen are a starting point in the creation of such a...

Critical Currents

Taking care of business

November 2009

Oscar Reyes

The world’s biggest corporations have hijacked the UN climate talks. That’s bad news for our future.

Holding our fragile planet to ransom

November 2009

Praful Bidwai

Due to the resistance of the northern governments, it now appears extremely unlikely that the Copenhagen climate conference will produce the strong, comprehensive agreement which the world needs to avert irreversible climate change.

Carbon trading isn’t working

November 2009

Kevin Smith

Last week, Graciela Chichilnisky wrote that carbon trading can save a climate-change agreement. However, such markets haven’t worked – and won’t in future.

Breaking the Global Climate Impasse

November 2009

Praful Bidwai

It would be better for India to walk out of the talks then “greenwash” a deal that lets
the North shirk its responsibility for climate change and pass on a good portion of its burden on to the South’s underprivileged people.