IBON International COP19 Climate Update 2
By Tetet Nera-Lauron, 19 November, 2013. Source: IBON International ‘Coal power can be part of the solution to tackling global warming. If there’s a will, there’s a way.’ This was the message of UNFCCC...
View ArticleIBON International: Update #3 from Warsaw climate negotiations
By Tetet Nera-Lauron, 20 November 2013. Source: IBON International UN Secretary General Ban-Ki Moon urged the ministers gathered at the 19th Conference of Parties (COP 19) to take ‘tougher action’ to...
View ArticlePoor countries walk out of UN climate talks as compensation row rumbles on
By John Vidal, 20 November, 2013. Source: The Guardian Representatives of most of the world’s poor countries have walked out of increasingly fractious climate negotiations after the EU, Australia, the...
View ArticleClimate Update #4: Tension high in Warsaw talks as G77+China walk out vs...
By Tetet Nera-Lauron, 21 November, 2013. Source: IBON International Tensions and tempers run high with only two days left at the 19th Conference of Parties (COP 19) and tremendous pressure for the...
View ArticleBreaking: Civil society walks out of Warsaw climate talks – Says hope lies...
NOTE: GJEP did not go to the UN Climate charade due to the takeover by corporate interests. We walked out in Durban, South Africa two years ago and never came back. Actually two people from GJEP had...
View ArticleClimate Update #5: Global civil society walks out from deadlocked Warsaw...
By Tetet Lauron, 21 November, 2013. Source: IBON International With only two days to go until the 19th Conference of Parties wraps up, and growing increasingly disappointed that this year’s climate...
View ArticleThe Warsaw, Poland Exhibit at the UN Climate Conference
On 21 November 2013 various non-governmental organizations walked out of the Warsaw climate talks. I am glad I have not attended for the last two years as I feel corporate interests have taken over...
View Article“We Have to Consume Less”: Scientists Call For Radical Economic Overhaul to...
Nov 21, 2013, Source: Democracy Now! A pair of climate scientists are calling for what some may view as a shocking solution to the global warming crisis: a rethinking of the economic order in the...
View ArticleEarth Watch Interview: Simone Lovera of Global Forest Coalition on UN Climate...
Last week’s Earth Minute discussed COP-19, the UN Climate Talks in Warsaw Poland. Simone Lovera, Executive Director of Global Forest Coalition described the situation on the ground.Filed under: Actions...
View ArticleThe Warsaw Framework for REDD Plus: The decision on REDD finance (sort of)
By Chris Lang, 29th November 2013 Source: REDD-Monitor Negotiators at COP19 in Warsaw last week agreed seven decisions relating to REDD – the “Warsaw Framework for REDD Plus”. You can find each of the...
View ArticleLovera: A Pathetic REDD package
Note: Global Justice Ecology Project is the North American Focal Point for the Global Forest Coalition. Simone Lovera is co-founder and executive director of the Global Forest Coalition, an...
View ArticleTyphoon Haiyan exposes the reality of climate injustice – We strengthen our...
December 4, 2013. Source: La Via Campesina On November 8, 2013, the strongest super typhoon ever recorded in history, with winds as high as 314 kilometers per hour, slammed into the Philippines....
View ArticleThe climate change scorecard
Note: While Global Justice Ecology Project maintains that climate change is more about systems of economic and social domination and oppression than parts per million of carbon in the atmosphere, the...
View ArticleThat was the year – Unlucky 13
January 7, 2014. Source: ETC Group Unlucky 13: Our 2012 year-end review, “193 Shades of Gray,” stumbled into the surreal, post-Rio+20 “Hunger Games” as FAO admitted that it has been underestimating the...
View ArticleHistorical Critique of the Corporate Takeover of the UN
This piece examines the history of the takeover of the UN Climate Conferences by industry and promotes the US climate movement getting on board with the fundamental demands and actions, and alternative...
View ArticleThe Warsaw, Poland Exhibit at the UN Climate Conference
On 21 November 2013 various non-governmental organizations walked out of the Warsaw climate talks. I am glad I have not attended for the last two years as I feel corporate interests have taken over...
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