December 2008
The UN Climate Conference in Poznan, Poland failed to achieve any breakthrough towards a global climate deal – a sign not merely of bad timing, but of a fundamentally flawed system that takes no account of climate justice.
December 2008
We will not be able to stop climate change if we don't change the neo-liberal and corporate-based economy which stops us from achieving sustainable societies, writes Climate Justice Now! alliance in the Poznan statement.
Members of Climate Justice Now! – a worldwide alliance of more than 160 organisations -- have been in Poznan for the past two weeks closely following developments in the UN climate negotiations.
This statement is our assessment of the Conference of Parties (COP) 14, and articulates our principles for achieving climate justice.
December 2008
Climate Justice Now!
The UN Climate Conference in Poznan is systematically privileging business lobby groups over public interest organisations.
The UN Climate Conference in Poznan is systematically privileging business lobby groups over public interest organisations, according to members of the Climate Justice Now! Coalition.1 In addition, Indigenous Peoples´ representatives do not get formal access to the negotiations, despite the fact that they are amongst the most affected by climate change.
* Who is the biggest non-governmental organisation (NGO) in Poznan?
December 2008
The UN´s Clean Development Mechanism is beyond repair and should be dumped, climate justice campaigners told delegates at the UN Climate Change Conference in Poznan today.
“The CDM is a ´lose-lose´ proposition that has become a corrupt and cheap way for the rich North to avoid making real emission reductions.
December 2008
Kevin Smith
Despite driving poor communities off their land and patently failing to deliver carbon emissions reductions, lobbyists for big industries and institutions such as the World Bank were active in Poznan climate negotiations pushing for further deregulation and expansion of the market-based Clean Development Mechanism.
In Western Panama, the Naso and Ngobe peoples are fighting against the construction of four hydroelectric dams being built on the land of Indigenous Peoples, saying that they will destroy their homelands.
November 2008
We can resolve the multiple crises facing us by financing total conversion of our system towards an ecological carbon-free energy system.
November 2008
Susan George décrit le «piège triangulaire» social, financier et écologique en train de se refermer sur l’humanité, et propose des issues originales pour s’en échapper, inspirées d’un keynésianisme d’un genre nouveau.
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Le monde est assailli de crises et, comme
chacune de celles-ci renforce et aggrave les
autres, il est utile de les penser structurellement
comme formant un triangle.
October 2008
Nick Lazaredes talks to Kevin Smith and others
This week Video Journalist Nick Lazaredes travels to Europe, to examine the highly contentious issue of carbon trading.
Kevin Rudd wants a similar system here - so how are the Europeans faring in this attempt to reduce carbon emissions?
In Belgium, politicians are debating changes to their Carbon Emissions Scheme, but environmentalists warn that Europe's solution to global warming is turning into a farce.
Carbon trading is a process where companies can trade their unused carbon credits for a tidy profit.
October 2008
The current financial crisis provides the ideal opportunity to implement tax reforms that would finance the conversion to eco-friendly industry: an environmental Keynesianism that would pull the world out of economic ruin and social chaos while getting the runaway global financial system under control.
October 2008
Kevin Smith
After the UN decided to allow more efficient coal-fired power stations to gain carbon financing as an offset project, the carbon market is now being used to support new coal in the South as well as the North, writes Kevin Smith.
In 2007, the UN decided to allow more efficient coal-fired power stations to gain carbon financing as an offset project through the Clean Development Mechanism.
