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    Is the Green Economy a new Washington Consensus?
    February 2012
    Working Group on Green Economy, WSF

    The current environmental and climate crisis is not simply a market failure because nature is not simply a form of capital. Putting a price on nature under the label of the "Green Economy" is an attempt to expand the reach of finance capital and privatise our planet.

    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?

    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.

    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.

    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.

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