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    The Global Water Grab: A Primer
    March 2012
    Jennifer Franco
    Sylvia Kay

    Water grabbing refers to situations where powerful actors take control of valuable water resources  for their own benefit, depriving local communities whose livelihoods often depend on these resources and ecosystems.

    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?

    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
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    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.

    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.

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