Climate Change, Climate Politics and Climate Justice Run by: Christina Papageorgiou & Heidi BachramEuropean Social Forum 4 Time: 6-9pm Date: Friday 5th May 2006 Room: W Organised by: Mediterranean SOS Network, Carbon Trade Watch/Transnational Institute This workshop will explore the many dimensions of climate change, seeing it in the context of wider social and environmental justi... Read more
Talking points on Hurricanes Rita and Katrina, and climate changeDaphne WyshamSustainable Energy and Economy Network, 30 September 2005 1) Hurricane intensity is increasing due to ocean warming. While hurricane frequency is seasonably varied, recent scientific studies show that the intensity of hurricanes is increasing. While one can never say there is a clear link in the chaos o... Read more
Changing Mind on Climate ChangePraful Bidwai Inter Press Service, 16 December 2005 After welcoming the Montreal Action Plan on climate control, adopted last weekend at a landmark meeting, India is now dithering over commitments to reduce its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. It is the world's fifth biggest producer of GHGs. At the Montreal conference held under the 1992 United Natio... Read more
India must show leadership on climate changePraful Bidwai Khaleej Times, 18 December 2005 The world can breathe a sigh of relief that more than 150 countries agreed at the Montreal climate conference to hold further talks to counter global warming. So the Kyoto Protocol, agreed under the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, is secure — despite opposition fro... Read more
Climate Change and the Privatisation of the AtmosphereSeminar on Environmental Justice and Carbon Trading in the Kyoto ProtocolTNI Office, Wednesday, 12 October 2005, 14h00-16h00 The next climate change talks are fast approaching in Montreal in December. This seminar is a key moment to critically analyse the progress of the Kyoto mechanisms and debate the impacts of carbon trading... Read more
Carbon Trade Watch Trading the Absurd November 2005 Jim Vallette, Daphne Wysham, and Nadia Martínez A Wrong Turn from Rio. The World Bank's Road to Climate Catastrophe SEEN/IPS/TNI, 10 December 2004 Heidi Bachram Climate Fraud and Carbon Colonialism The New Trade in Greenhouse Gases [PDF document] Heidi Bachram Capitalism Nature Socialism Vol... Read more
Climate Change Kofi Annan UN Secretary-General Message on the 10th Anniversary of the Entry into Force of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change New York, 21 March 2004 UN Framework Convention on Climate Change UN Framework Convention on Climate Change [PDF document] List of Signatories & Ratification of the Convention [Parties in chronological order] [PDF document] ... Read more
African Skillshare on Public Finance, Energy Restructuring ang Climate ChangeTNI Energy Project/Global Village CameroonMaputo, Mozambique, 8-10 January 2003 Background Public finance is the major fountain from which energy policies and projects in Africa draw their viability. These projects tend to large-scale centralised hydropower, and fossil-fuelled energy, impact negatively on... Read more
Exhibition on Pollution Trading and Climate ChangeOrganised by Carbon Trade watch and Concrete Dok In parallel with COP9 (UN Conference on Climate Change) taking place in Milan Italy, the exhibition puts climate change in the bigger context of the privatisation of the environment and the effects of International Financial Institutions on our lives. The exhibition opens space for t... Read more
UN Framework Convention on Climate Change [PDF document] List of Signatories & Ratification of the Convention [Parties in chronological order] [PDF document] The text of the Convention was adopted at the United Nations Headquarters, New York on the 9 May 1992; it was open for signature at the Rio de Janeiro from 4 to 14 June 1992, and thereafter at the United Nations Headquart... Read more
