U.S. Army Sgt. Mark Phiffer stands guard duty near a burning oil well in the Rumaylah Oil Fields in Southern Iraq. / Photo credit U.S. Navy photo by Photographer's Mate 1st Class Arlo K. Abrahamson @ WikicommonsFor anyone concerned with militarism, news of the terrorist attacks in Brussels brought a familiar sense of dread. We ached as we hear the stories of more innocent lives lost, and we... Read more
For political reasons, the words ‘carbon markets’ or ‘carbon offsetting’ do not explicitly appear in the Agreement. However, these approaches are indirectly referred to in several of the Agreement’s provisions. Article 6, for example, encourages “cooperative approaches that involve the use of internationally transferred mitigation outcomes towards nationall... Read more
People. Power. Action. D12 protests in Paris / Photo credit Friends of the Earth International @ flickrThe UN climate talks that take place yearly have become marathon efforts for the government delegates who lose sleep and perhaps their souls in neon-lit repurposed aircraft hangars fighting over words like ‘shall’ and ‘should’. Yet their appraisal has in recent years frequently come down to... Read more
Soldiers from the 150th and 160th Engineer Companies, New Jersey Army National Guard, discuss movement options for their D7 bulldozers prior to performing beach replenishment operations Nov. 8, 2012. / Photo credit By New Jersey National Guard @ Flickr... Read more
A caravan of various security forces cruises through the flooded streets of the 9th Ward distrtict of New Orleans, in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. / Photo credit Ussocom @FlickrThe Secure and the Dispossessed: how the military and corporations are shaping a climate-changed world, co-edited by Ben Hayes and Nick Buxton, warns that the security and military apparatus currently used by... Read more
Los derechos especiales para las grandes empresas propuestos en los acuerdos comerciales de la UE impiden la transición energética necesaria para luchar contra el cambio climático, según se desprende de un nuevo informe publicado hoy.1 “Un paraíso para los contaminadores – Cómo los derechos de los inversores en los acuerdos comerciales de la UE sabotean la lucha por la transición energética”... Read more
