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TNI has been at the forefront of challenging free market approaches to addressing climate change since its groundbreaking book, Privatising Nature in 1998. TNI hosted the Carbon Trade Watch project until 2009, which became a leading global critic of carbon trading. Through its fellows and programme work, TNI continues to advocate for effective, socially and environmentally justice responses to climate change.

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  • RIO+20 and the greenwashing of the global economy

    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.

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  • Conference of Polluters

    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.

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  • Durban and the climate change deniers

    The EU could play a valuable role in preventing another flawed climate deal if it neutralises the US and brings other ditherers on board while starting talks on future obligations for the emerging economies.

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  • The perilous dependence on cheap food imports for food security

    The free market approach to food security has depended too heavily on an unsustainable system of cheap food imports and high fossil-fuel consumption. It's time to counter this by supporting environmentally efficient small farms, and increasing investment in agro-ecological research.

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  • As COP17 approaches: Dirty Durban’s manual for climate greenwashing

    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.

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The politics of climate change and the global crisis
Praful Bidwai
 January 2012

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!
Praful Bidwai
 January 2012
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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
Nick Buxton
 January 2012

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?

Durban's Climate Zombie tripped
Patrick Bond
 January 2012

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
Praful Bidwai
 January 2012

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

 
The Green Economy: the Wolf in Sheep’s clothing
Edgardo Lander
 December 2011
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The fundamental flaw at the heart of UNEP's report "Towards a Green Economy" is its failure to analyse the extraordinarily unequal power relations that exist in today’s world, and the interests at play in the operation of this global economic system.

The Land Deal Politics Initiative
October 2011

The Land Deal Politics Initiative calls for applications to their small grant competition. Grants are available to undertake original field research, carry out follow up fieldwork on an ongoing related initiative, or write up a paper based on research. 

Protect people's lands, water and forests
October 2011

 CSOs remind all governments of their immense responsibilities in reaching an agreement on one of the most pressing issues of our time.

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

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.

Nukes and India
Praful Bidwai
 June 2011

Have our rulers decided to place India on the wrong side of history and arrest her social progress? Going by their policy of forcibly promoting nuclear power regardless of its hazards, environmental damage potential, high economic and social costs, and unpopularity, that seems to be the case.

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