Climate Change: Not Just Any Action Will Do
On Sunday, hundreds of thousands gathered in New York for one of the biggest marches against climate change.
View ArticleHow Did Leaders Respond to the People’s Climate March?
About 400,000 people went to the streets on September 21st to ask for real actions to address climate change. It was the greatest climate march in history. The UN Climate Summit organized by Secretary...
View ArticleTime to Take Power from the Polluters: Lima Failed to Deliver Real Solutions...
After 11 full days of intense negotiations, the 20th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP20) held in Lima, Peru ended last week with proposals...
View ArticleNotes for Understanding the Lima Outcome
Pablo SolónDecember 20, 2014The “Lima call for climate action” which came out of the recent UN climate talks, establishes a roadmap to a post-2020 agreement that will be weaker than the ongoing Cancun...
View ArticlePablo Solón on COP20 and Carbon Markets
"The carbon market is a mechanism to keep polluting if you’re able to pay," says Pablo Solón of the global agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions under negotiation at the United Nations Climate...
View ArticleHow the US-China Deal Subverted the Lima Climate Talks
Hopes that the so-called COP 20 (Conference of Parties 20) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) would deliver an outcome that would reverse the momentum towards climate...
View ArticleInternational NGOs Call for Transparency in Murder Investigation of...
On January 12, Amazon Watch and 13 other environmental and human rights organizations -- including Focus on the Global South -- urged the Ecuadorian government to ensure a just, transparent, and...
View ArticleIs the Philippines Squandering Its Moral Authority on Climate Change?
With its exposure to extremely violent typhoons that have taken thousands of lives, the Philippines has become the poster child for the malevolent effects of climate change. This has conferred a kind...
View ArticleThe Impasse on Progressive Action to Address Climate Change: A Southern...
24 February 2015 Last week in New Delhi, we participated in an interactive session to discuss recent international climate negotiations and talks, as well as to gather perspectives from activists on...
View ArticleBehind the climate negotiating text for COP21
The future lies in the past. What has happened will determine what will come. The idea that we can change everything and save the world at the last minute is exciting in movies but it does not work in...
View ArticleLatest issue of Mausam, the magazine from India Climate Justice
A message from the Editors: This latest issue of Mausam includes fresh reports from how communities on the ground are battling the harsh realities of a climate-changed world—the aftermath of the 2013...
View ArticleClimate Change and the Agriculture Crisis : Agroecology as a Solution
What exactly is the climate change crisis ? How does it affect us ? Are we causing it ? How ? How is it going to affecting our land, water, food and lifestyle ? Can we anything about it ? How ? Why is...
View ArticleIndia Climate Justice's fourth issue of Mausam
Our friends at India Climate Justice have just released their fourth issue of Mausam. The contents of this issue are as follows:Editorial (p.2)Experiencing the Change: Climate Change and Everyday Life...
View ArticleLooking at the Non-Negotiables: People and Planet
A keynote address at the Rountable Discussion: EU-ASEAN Trade Relations, State of Play and Areas of Strategic Cooperation co-organized by the European Institute for Asian Studies (EIAS) and...
View ArticleIndia Climate Justice's fifth issue of Mausam
17 November 2015Our friends at India Climate Justice (ICJ) have released their most recent issue of Mausam. A brief message from the editors: This fifth issue of Mausam focuses on India’s Intended...
View ArticleThe Road Through Paris Newspaper
20 November 2015 We all want action on climate change, but what does that action mean? Will it be effective, will it be fair, and are the Paris climate talks going to deliver that action?Campaigns...
View ArticleMoving forward from the climate negotiation madness in Warsaw
Since the beginning there was almost no expectations on the 19th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP19) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Warsaw,...
View ArticleThe Paris Climate Talks: Is No Deal is Better than a Bad Deal?
Statement of Walden Bello, Manila, Nov 28, 2015. Originally posted on Rappler.comWe want a planet that sustains life, not one that is driven on the road to death by corporate greedWhat has been billed...
View ArticleNew Permits to Pollute: REDD and the Green Economy
by Shalmali GuttalAuthor: Shalmali Guttal
View Article[EVENT] Cooling the Planet: Frontline Communities Lead the Struggle
The Global Convergence of land and Water StrugglesInvite you to join the public meeting on Cooling the Planet: Frontline Communities Lead the StruggleSimultaneous interpretation in French, English and...
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