Environmental Justice - Africa

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.
August 2010 Patrick Bond
African elites, together with the West and now China, are still making Africans progressively poorer, thanks to the extraction of raw materials.