Cuidando los negocios: c�mo han secuestrado las negociaciones sobre el clima las grandes empresasFriday, 08 January 2010 | Oscar Reyes
Un nuevo realismo ha emergido. El cambio climático ya no es una teoría falsa que la economía mal se puede permitir. Ahora se ha convertido en una oportunidad de negocios.
Una flor florece bajo un foco. La misma es proyectada en una pantalla gigante,...
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Climate Justice for a Changing Planet: Beyond Carbon TradingTuesday, 15 December 2009 | Oscar Reyes and Tamra Gilbertson
“Billions wasted on UN climate programme.” “Truth about Kyoto: huge profits, little carbon saved.” “UN effort to curtail emissions in turmoil.” The headlines attracted by the carbon trading mechanisms at the heart of the Kyoto Protocol, most notably the Clean...
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COMMENTARY: Human Rights Groups Condemn Criminal Repression Of Indigenous Community In Peru Thursday, 10 December 2009 | Rebecca Sommer
The government of Peruvian President Alan García Pérez has its hands full of blood, again.
The massacre at Bagua on June 5, 2009 that resulted in international outrage was not an isolated case, but part of an ongoing, systematic campaign to criminalize social and...
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Taking care of businessTuesday, 01 December 2009 | Oscar Reyes
The world’s biggest corporations have hijacked the UN climate talks. That’s bad news for our future, argues Oscar Reyes.
A flower blooms under a floodlight. It is projected on to a huge screen, behind a panel of expensively suited executives. A CNN...
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New book uncovers carbon trading flaws ahead of UN climate talksTuesday, 24 November 2009 | Carbon Trade Watch
At a time when Copenhagen talks and the Kyoto Protocol seem likely to
end in failure, calling for an entirely different framework for
addressing the climate crisis may seem like madness. Carbon Trading:
How it works and why it fails, produced by the Transnational
Institute’s Carbon...
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Las negociaciones sobre el clima en Barcelona o el s�ndrome MacGyverWednesday, 11 November 2009 | Beatriz Martinez
Diario de campo de una observadora
Son muchas las líneas que ha dedicado la prensa a las negociaciones sobre el clima que se celebraron en Barcelona durante la primera semana de noviembre. El encuentro fue el último ensayo de...
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THAILAND: Renewable Energy Not So Clean and Green After All?Friday, 23 October 2009 | Nantiya Tangwisutijit*
Credit:Nantiya Tangwisutijit/IPS
PICHIT, Thailand, Oct 23 (IPS/IFEJ) - The view from Bhorn’s window in this northern province is as picturesque as one can find in rural Thailand. The Nan River flows majestically through the Gulf of Thailand, located 300...
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�Justicia Clim�tica en Copenhague!Thursday, 22 October 2009 | Climate Justice Action
Los movimientos por la Justicia Climática tomarán acciones masivas durante las negociaciones climáticas de la ONU
“Las negociaciones de la ONU no van a resolver la crisis climática”
Grupo de Prensa de Climate Justice Action
Copenhague,...
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The Bhilangana Dam on troubled watersWednesday, 07 October 2009 | Tamra Gilbertson
‘It’s a lie, we don’t want this dam! No, no!’
— a community resident near the Bhilangana Dam in Uttarakhand
Run-of-the-river dams have been promoted as renewable energy projects with promised social and ecological benefits under the CDM regime; but a...
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Mausam (issues 2-5) Talking Climate in Public SpaceWednesday, 07 October 2009 | NESPON, NFFPFW and Nagarik Mancha
Mausam magazine is designed to "challenge the 'intellectual fiefdom' established by governments, profiteers, and 'experts' of various shades and hues on issues of global warming and its solutions by providing space to alternative view points and voices, which are often wiser and more...
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Report Calls for the Rejection of REDD in Climate TreatyThursday, 01 October 2009 | Indigenous Environmental Network
Indigenous Environmental Network calls for solutions that reduce emissions, protect forests and respect rights
In a report released today, the Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN) predicts dire consequences for Indigenous peoples, biodiversity and the climate alike if the new,...
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C Words: carbon, climate, capital, culture, How did you get here and where are we going?Tuesday, 29 September 2009 | Platform
Exhibitions
Sat 3 Oct - Sun 29 Nov, 10am - 6pm (Closed Mondays)
Free
"The energy and climate-change crisis stands as a unique social and ecological challenge... Those least responsible for climate change are the worst affected by it..." Vandana Shiva, Indian Activist,...
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Marketing the ClimateThursday, 17 September 2009 | Tamra Gilbertson
Brazil: Plantar’s ‘new’ eucalyptus projects advance towards CDM validation
In mid-July the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) Executive Board accepted a new methodology proposed as part of the controversial Plantar project in Minas Gerais, Brazil (see background on Plantar on...
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Carbon Trading : a brief introductionMonday, 07 September 2009 | Oscar Reyes
Carbon trading is allowing industrialised countries and companies to avoid their emissions reduction targets. It takes two main forms: “cap and trade” and “carbon offsetting.”
What is cap and trade?
Under cap and trade schemes, governments or intergovernmenal...
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Indonesia: Sinar Resmi Declaration on climate change and REDDMonday, 31 August 2009 | Chris Lang
From 5-8 August 2009, the Indigenous Peoples’ Alliance of the Archipelago (Aliansi Masyarakat Adat Nusantara – AMAN) held a national consultation of indigenous communities on Climate Change and REDD. At the end of the meeting, the participants produced the Sinar Resmi Declaration...
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Declaration of the Africa People's Movement on Climate ChangeSunday, 30 August 2009 | Africa Peoples Movement on Climate Change
Confronting the climate crisis: Preparing for Copenhagen and beyond
Nairobi, Kenya, August 30, 2009 -- We, the leaders of various people's movements, community-based groups, academia, NGOs and civil cociety organisations, met in Nairobi under the banner of the People's Movement on...
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