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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.

    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.

    UN World Water Day 2011: Reclaiming public water for our cities
    March 2011
    Water Justice

    TNI's Water Justice programme is marking this year's UN World Water Day in Cape Town at the GWOPA (Global Water Operator partnerships Alliance) Congress, in the continuing struggle to reclaim public water.

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