Environmental Justice

Glaciers are still melting…

Praful Bidwai — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 04:00:00 +0000

Author(s):

Praful Bidwai

Mydigitalcf.com

Although an estimate of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change on rapid recession of Himalayan glaciers has become a political issue in India, its scientific foundations are quite solid.

Environmental Justice

Himalayan blunder

Praful Bidwai — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 13:11:37 +0000

Author(s):

Praful Bidwai

Frontline

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) should create a special commission to cross-check all references in its report if errors such as the one on Himalayan glaciers are not to recur.

Environmental Justice

The World Crisis and Beyond - Building a New Global Solidarity

Thu, 04 Feb 2010 16:13:56 +0000

Subtitle:

Summary of the seminar

Neoliberal financial-market capitalism has dragged the world into a crisis which threatens human civilisation as such. Climate destruction, resource wars, and the transformation of democracy into oligarchy are in front of us if we don't act now to reduce the burden we place on our unfortunate planet and reorganise the society on the more egalitarian basis.

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Environmental Justice

Really inconvenient truth

Saul Landau — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 10:01:18 +0000

Author(s):

Saul Landau

Progreso Weekly

Most political leaders face a challenge they refuse to acknowledge: to gain control of runaway climate change they must abandon convenience, the unchallenged assumptions that place the corporation as means and ends of policies.

Environmental Justice

Energy and Climate Change: C+

Daphne Wysham — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 05:00:00 +0000

Author(s):

Daphne Wysham

Institute for Policy Studies

In his first few months in office, Obama did take some significant actions to address climate change, but failed to follow through.

Environmental Justice

China: The Prince of Denmark

Walden Bello — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 14:00:20 +0000

Author(s):

Walden Bello

Foreign Policy in Focus

Like Hamlet, Shakespeare's conflicted Prince of Denmark, China was caught between conflicting currents in Copenhagen. Its failure to manage these challenges led to its biggest diplomatic debacle in years.

Environmental Justice

Fouling up the air

Praful Bidwai — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 15:11:51 +0000

Author(s):

Praful Bidwai

Frontline

India has become collusive in the weak and inequitable Copenhagen Accord. The government must correct course if India’s poor are not to suffer further.

Environmental Justice

On the Copenhagen UN climate summit or why you need more than butter to bake a cake

Beatriz Martinez — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 13:10:26 +0000

Author(s):

Beatriz Martinez

Reflections on positive outcomes

So it seems that for once everyone agrees on something: the UN climate summit in Copenhagen was a spectacular failure. That is quite an achievement in itself, since consensus seems a rarity in these times.

Environmental Justice

Copenhagen cop out

Praful Bidwai — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 05:00:00 +0000

Author(s):

Praful Bidwai

Hindustan Times

It is apparent to everyone that the Copenhagen Accord is a travesty of what the world needs to avert climate change.

Environmental Justice

Climate after Copenhagen

Boris Kagarlitsky — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 05:00:00 +0000

Author(s):

Boris Kagarlitsky

The Moscow Times

The reason for the failure in Copenhagen is clear - rather than discuss coordinated efforts, countries lobbied for their particular interests. Everything now depends on individual states and their respective blocs.

Environmental Justice

How to cure the post-Copenhagen hangover

Patrick Bond — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 05:00:00 +0000

Author(s):

Patrick Bond

The Bullet

Copenhagen unveiled that the leading southern countries are willing accomplices in climate crime to the rich nations, while the hope remains with the rising power of the climate justice movements.

Environmental Justice

Climate Justice protesters reclaim power as UN talks dither

aleksej — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 13:14:21 +0000

Author(s):

Oscar Reyes

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

Environmental Justice

What is cap and trade?

Oscar Reyes — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 11:27:47 +0000

Interview information

Interviewer:

Robert S. Eshelman

Interviewee(s):

Oscar Reyes

Where published:

The Nation

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.

Environmental Justice

Upsetting the Offset

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 12:59:44 +0000

TNI publication:

Yes

The Political Economy of Carbon Markets

Author(s) information

Author(s):

Joanna Cabello

Author(s):

Kevin Smith

Author(s):

Tamra Gilbertson

Author(s):

Walden Bello

Editor(s):

Steffen Böhm and Siddhartha Dabhi

Document details

Pages:

384pages

Publisher:

Mayfly

ISBN:

978-1-906948-07-8

You can buy a copy here:

MayFlybooks

The book contributes to a growing field of critics of carbon markets by highlighting several up-to-date examples of where the system has failed and often led to negative social, economic and environmental impacts in deprived countries.

Download:

>Download the book (4.55 MB)

Environmental Justice

Copenhagen talks: “Lies, damn lies and emissions reductions pledges”

Oscar Reyes — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 14:04:03 +0000

Interview information

Interviewer:

Nina Brenjo

Interviewee(s):

Oscar Reyes

A dazzling array of delegates from all over the world is in Copenhagen to hammer out a deal on tackling climate change. Oscar Reyes makes sense of the complex negotiations process.

Environmental Justice

Global alliances announce they will protest 15 years of failed climate negotiations with mass non-violent civil disobedience

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 11:01:37 +0000

Civil society groups inside and outside the COP process issue call to unite in “Peoples’ Assembly” to demand real solutions to the climate crisis

Media Contact:

Climate Justice Now!: 0045 2497 7863
Climate Justice Action: 0045 5066 9028; media@climate-justice-action.org

Environmental Justice

How the myth of unlimited growth is destroying the planet

Edgardo Lander — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 10:41:40 +0000

Interview information

Interviewer:

Nick Buxton

Interviewee(s):

Edgardo Lander

Economic growth and continued expansion are a vital requirement for the current pattern of civilisation. We need to change this if we are to solve the climate crisis.

Environmental Justice

Climate Justice for a Changing Planet: Beyond Carbon Trading

Oscar Reyes — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 05:00:00 +0000

Author(s):

Oscar Reyes

Author(s):

Tamra Gilbertson

UN Non-Governmental Laison Service

Instead of stimulating new commodity markets, the targets and obligations placed on industrialised countries should be met domestically.

Environmental Justice

Divide and rule: paving the way to an unjust deal

Oscar Reyes — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 12:04:55 +0000

Author(s):

Oscar Reyes

As climate talks enter their final phase, Oscar Reyes outlines the hardball negotiating tactics being used to force a weak deal that favours industrialised nations.

Environmental Justice

Climate technologies: a leap into the unknown

Oscar Reyes — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 05:00:00 +0000

Author(s):

Oscar Reyes

A new “technology mechanism” could reward untested techniques that damage the climate.