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    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?

    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.

    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.

    The road to Rio+20: The Green Economy Debate
    June 2011
    Praful Bidwai
    Olivier Hoedeman
    Gonzalo Berrón
     Yao Graham

    June 2012 will see a 20 year review of the famous 1992 Rio Earth Summit. The buzzword for the Rio+20 conference is "green economy" but what does this mean in practice?

    A test for India’s foreign policy
    June 2011
    Praful Bidwai

    While countries all over the world review their nuclear energy plans and safety measures in the wake of the Fukushima disaster, the Indian government still pushes ahead with it's fiercely opposed Jaitapur plant.

    Obama's dirty energy fixation
    April 2011
    Daphne Wysham

    Despite the clear alarm bells sounded by Fukushima and the BP Gulf oilspill, Obama has yet to change either his energy policies or strategy.

    People vs Nuclear Power in Jaitapur, Maharashtra
    February 2011
    Praful Bidwai

    In the Konkan, thousands of families in the environmentally rich and verdant Jaitapur area are waging a non-violent battle against the Department of Atomic Energy’s plan to construct the world’s biggest nuclear power complex in the region.

    Voices from the World Social Forum
    February 2011
    Susan George

    Although initiated as a counter-forum to Davos, the World Social Forum has evolved beyond it now, focusing on the root causes of problems facing humanity and developing real alternatives as solutions.

    President Dilma: Let Brazil set an example for a new ecological economy
    January 2011
    Marcos Arruda

    President Dilma Roussef has the mandate and responsibility to forge a new development path: one based on participatory planning, a social market and environmental sustainability.

    Cancun: The Next Chance for Democratic Solutions to the Climate Crisis
    December 2010
    Janet Redman

    American traditional homegrown democracy at a global level: how about allowing the countries that already bear the heaviest burden to step up to the microphone?

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