Home

Environmental Justice

The War on Colombia’s Poor
January 2012
Ross Eventon

The EU's proposed free trade agreement with Colombia will worsen the already serious human rights violations in the country, as its drive to access to cheap raw materials for European corporations means forcing local people off their land.

RIO+20 and the greenwashing of the global economy
January 2012
Olivier Hoedeman

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.

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

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!
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.

Resistance and hope at a time of climate emergency
January 2012
Nick Buxton

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?

Miguel Altieri: On agroecology, and why it is the solution to hunger and food security
January 2012
Miguel Altieri

Today, a billion people live in hunger. Can we feed the world and achieve economic development while conserving ecosystems and improving the livelihoods of peasants and the rural poor?

Durban's Climate Zombie tripped
January 2012
Patrick Bond

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
January 2012
Praful Bidwai

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

 
Conference of Polluters
December 2011
TNI

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.

The Green Economy: the Wolf in Sheep’s clothing
image[node-id]
December 2011
Edgardo Lander

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.

Syndicate content