December 2009
This photo essay aims to explore some of the voices that are living next to and resisting carbon offset projects.
December 2009
Mary Robinson and other leaders from the public, academic and NGO sectors will lead a discussion on emerging institutions and processes for applying equity and human rights to guide the long-term vision and decision-making on mitigation, adaptation, REDD, carbon markets and technology transfer.
December 2009
Carbon trading is a complex system with a simple goal: to make it cheaper for companies to continue polluting.
December 2009
Carbon trading is a complex system with a simple goal: to make it cheaper for companies to continue polluting. The carbon market has fielded perhaps the largest avenue for businesses to earn money while polluting.
December 2009
This workshop will decode and explore ‘Climate Justice’ as a concept through the use of popular education tools to ensure maximum participation. The aim will be to gain a greater understanding of where the concept of climate justice comes from historically and highlight the importance of grassroots-based struggles related to environmental and social change.
December 2009
Seattle offers a lesson to the African negotiators at the climate talks: by walking out - alongside civil society protesters - and halting a bad deal in Copenhagen on December 18, we can together pave the way for subsequent progress.
November 2009
Ulrich Brand, Nicola Bullard, Tadzio Mueller
This publication aims to contribute to a more sophisticated understanding of the emerging climate justice movement and to create resonances between different perspectives and spheres of engagement. The activities around the COP 15 in Copenhagen are a starting point in the creation of such a broad movement
November 2009
The world’s biggest corporations have hijacked the UN climate talks. That’s bad news for our future.
November 2009
Last week, Graciela Chichilnisky wrote that carbon trading can save a climate-change agreement. However, such markets haven’t worked – and won’t in future.
November 2009
It would be better for India to walk out of the talks then “greenwash” a deal that lets
the North shirk its responsibility for climate change and pass on a good portion of its burden on to the South’s underprivileged people.
