COP-15
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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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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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Climategate and Climate Change: Blowing hot and cold By William Bowles
2 December, 2009 The leaked emails from the University of East Anglia seem to have put the proverbial cat in with the climatic pigeons. So what to make of it? Firstly, there’s an awful lot of information to wade through, some of which I find extremely confusing eg, Climate Change: This is the Worst Scientific 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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Kartoon Kate's take on Climate Change
Kartoon Kate’s latest cartoon discusses our chances of getting a workable treaty from the Copenhagen COP 15 UN climate negotiations. And it’s snappier than it sounds from that description. Continue reading
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A Call to Climate Action
We stand at a crossroads. The facts are clear. Global climate change, caused by human activities, is happening, threatening the lives and livelihoods of billions of people and the existence of millions of species. Social movements, environmental groups, and scientists from all over the world are calling for urgent and radical action on climate change. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 