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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.

Durban’s greenwash outcome
January 2012
Praful Bidwai

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

 
Durban and the climate change deniers
November 2011
Praful Bidwai

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.

Land in Zimbabwe
September 2011
Ian Scoones

Zimbabwe's political crisis staggers on, but the untold story is that the agricultural economy is recovering well. In-depth research in Masvingo province shows that despite abuses and corruption in land reform, there have also been successful results from land-...

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

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

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.

Climate Meetings Have Become Conferences of Polluters
June 2011
Patrick Bond

Without serious mobilisation, Durban's UN climate conference, ‘COP
17’ (Conference of Parties), looks doomed to be a conference of procrastinators threatening the planet and its peoples.

European trade policy and the food crisis in Africa
May 2011
Dot Keet

Dot Keet explains how IMF and World Bank policies have brought about the current food crisis in Africa, and why food sovereignty and local production are necessary to secure long term food security.

The banksters and the climate fund
April 2011
Patrick Bond

The resumé of Trevor Manuel, confirmed co-chair of the Green Climate Fund, gives reason to worry. As South Africa's finance minister, he frequently rewarded transnational corporations at the cost of rising inequality, unemployment and environmental degradation.

The politics of achieving the Right to Water
April 2011
Susan George
Water Justice
 Mthandeki Nhlapo, Peter Waldorff

Privatisation offers nothing to the 43 percent of Africans in cities who have no access to water. On World Water Day 2011, experts met in Cape Town to share experiences of successful public-public partnerships for equal public access.

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