Climate Change
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Voices of developing world urge action
CCTV: Many African leaders stressing that the voice the of the majority needs to be heard. Many of the African leaders had their say this week at he Copenhagen climate talks, now with less than 24 hours to go. They say, at this point, there’s no room for anything but action. They’re stressing that the… Continue reading
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Copenhagen: Chavez Salutes Climate Protestors By Kiraz Janicke
Chavez, who received a standing ovation for his speech, said the process in Copenhagen is ‘not democratic; it is not inclusive.’ In particular, he criticised an attempt by rich countries to overturn the Kyoto Protocol. Doing so would eliminate differentiation between the obligations of rich and poor countries, treating countries from the Global North and… Continue reading
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Book Review: Yankee Doodle Ecologist: Tom Friedman and the Green Revolution By Jerry Harris
The book’s title, Hot, Flat, and Crowded is a good indicator as to how Friedman understands environmental problems. Underline that word crowded because the book takes us on a Malthusian ride through the Third World. It’s overpopulation, not capitalism and its need for every expanding accumulation that is destroying the world’s environment. Continue reading
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Copenhagen spoof shames Canada; Climate Debt No Joke
What at first looked like the flip-flop of the century has been revealed as a sophisticated ruse by a coalition of African, North American, and European activists. The purpose: to highlight the most powerful nations’ obstruction of meaningful progress in Copenhagen, to push for just climate debt reparations, and to call out Canada in particular… Continue reading
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Interview with Bolivia’s Climate Change Ambassador By Robert Eshelman
Pablo Erick Solón Romero Oroza: For the capitalist system everything, nature – even other humans – is considered an object that you can use to obtain a profit. What we are seeing is the consequence of this vision Continue reading
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Copenhagen eyewitness: The rising tide of climate justice By Lauren Carroll Harris
One hundred thousand protesters braved near freezing temperatures and took over the Danish capital, Copenhagen, on December 12 to crank up the heat on world leaders at the United Nations Climate Summit (COP15) and demand climate justice. Continue reading
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Copenhagen and capitalism
Video: Minqi Li: No legally binding agreement the result of elites seeking short term profits first Continue reading
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COP-15 Guía de Acciones /Le Guide d’Action /Guida all’azione /Protestleitfaden /Action Guide
11 December, 2009 — https://lists.riseup.net/www/info/copenhagen2009info Espanol Guía de Acciones para el COP15 Mapa de Acciones… Version ‘en línea’ de este mapa: tinyurl.com/ycqolgo Francais Le Guide d’Action pour la COP15 La Carte des Actions… Voir la carte en ligne: tinyurl.com/y85p4op Italiano Guida all’azione per il COP15 Mappa delle azioni… Versione online qui: tinyurl.com/yeb9ewh English Action Guide Continue reading
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Leaked Document Shows Rich Nations Plan Climate Coup in Copenhagen By John Vidal
The UN Copenhagen climate talks are in disarray today after developing countries reacted furiously to leaked documents that show world leaders will next week be asked to sign an agreement that hands more power to rich countries and sidelines the UN’s role in all future climate change negotiations. Continue reading
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Not so Swift, Hackers: Why the scandal sometimes called “ClimateGate” is overblown
The truth, however, is that while the CRU emails don’t always look very good—and not all of them can necessarily be defended—in the end this saga amounts to little more than a distraction from the real and burning issues in climate science and climate policy. Moreover, its suspicious timing—coming just weeks before the U.N. Copenhagen… Continue reading
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Video: Climategate and those hacked E-mails
6 December, 2009 — Climate & Capitalism The least the conspiracy nuts could do would be to actually read the documents they stole… http://widgets.vodpod.com/w/video_embed/ExternalVideo.904286 more about “Video: Cimategate and those hacked E-…“, posted with vodpod Continue reading
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Global Warming: "Fixing the Climate Data around the Policy" By Michel Chossudovsky
The Copenhagen Summit not only serves powerful corporate interests, which have a stake in the global multibillion dollar carbon trading scheme, it also serves to divert public attention from the devastation resulting from the “real crisis” underlying the process of economic globalization and a profit driven war without borders, which the Pentagon calls “the long… Continue reading
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Video: The Story of Cap and Trade
Host Annie Leonard introduces the energy traders and Wall Street financiers at the heart of this scheme and reveals the “devils in the details” in current cap and trade proposals …. Continue reading
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The real scandal in the hacked climate change e-mails controversy By Rupert Read
It is day six of the ‘scandal’ over the hacked emails from the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia’s School of Environmental Sciences, in which a thousand or so private email messages between climate scientists were hacked into and made public. According to the ostriches hoping that Copenhagen will fail, these emails… Continue reading
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Invitation to the 7th International meeting for Climate Justice Action
You are invited to the next international meeting of Climate Justice Action in Copenhagen, Denmark just prior to the UN Climate Conference (COP-15). Climate Justice Action meetings will also be held during the week of the UN meetings (Dec 11 onwards) in order to share information about actions and coordinate plans for the upcoming year… Continue reading
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Climate change email claims ‘rubbish’
Skeptics claim leaked emails suggest Professor Phil Jones altered evidence about climate change Continue reading
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Most Vulnerable Nations Seek Climate Justice
Final Draft of declaration issued November 11 in the Maldives, by the Climate Vulnerable Forum, comprising the 11 countries considered most vulnerable to climate change: Maldives, Kiribati, Bangladesh, Nepal, Vietnam, Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania, Barbados and Bhutan. Continue reading
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A Real Green Deal By Hilary Wainwright and Andy Bowman
Thirty-five years ago, workers at the Lucas Aerospace company formulated an “alternative corporate plan” to convert military production to socially useful and environmentally desirable purposes. Hilary Wainwright and Andy Bowman consider what lessons it holds for the greening of the world economy today. Continue reading
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Anand Naidoo, "Interview with Arundhati Roy"
“It’s beginning to increasingly look as if this urge to the 10% growth rate and democracy are mutually incompatible . . . because this growth has been based on . . . the displacement of millions of people off their land. It’s based on extracting minerals and harnessing rivers in a way that is ecologically… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 