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Climate disaster CAN be prevented Practical, affordable solutions exist, but the necessary resources won’t be mobilized so long as corporations, media barons and generals make all the big decisions. by Simon Butler Green Left Weekly Several recent scientific reports on climate change have warned we are headed for disaster, giving frightening evidence of just how … Continue reading
Governments produce blank pages in Doha for planet’s future; La Via Campesina farmers are cooling the planet La Via Campesina – Press release (Jakarta, 6 December 2012) – As the climate negotiations come to a close, the industrialized countries insist on inaction for the next decade, finding even more ways to escape their historical responsibility, … Continue reading
Statement of Asia Social Movements on Climate Change at the Asia Social Movements Assembly Published on Thursday, 06 December 2012 14:26 World Social Forum on Migrations, Manila, Philippines We have seen climate change related phenomena with intensity never seen before, like Hurricane Sandy, in many parts of the world in the past year.We no longer … Continue reading
Bolivia at UN talks: The climate is not for sale! “We did not come here to turn the climate into a business, or to protect businesses of them who want to continue aggravating the climate crisis, destroying Mother Earth. We came here to protect the future of humanity.” Statement by Jose Antonio Zamora Gutierrez, Minister … Continue reading
Published on Friday, December 7, 2012 by La Via Campesina A Call to Reject False Capitalist Solutions to Climate Crisis World’s peasant farmers help cool a warming planet by La Via Campesina As the climate negotiations come to a close, the industrialized countries insist on inaction for the next decade, finding even more ways to … Continue reading
Bolivia defends Mother Earth from the threat of carbon markets Statement by the Plurinational State of Bolivia At the 18th session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, which is being held in Doha-Qatar November 26-December 7, the Bolivian delegation has reaffirmed its rejection of the use … Continue reading
Biofuels and hunger, two sides of the same coin By Daan Bauwens Inter Press Service, June 25 2012 Despite growing evidence that biofuel production is causing food insecurity around the world, the new European Union policy blueprint on renewable energy ignores the social effects of biofuels. Last week, Guatemalan victims of the food crisis came … Continue reading
Oceans rising 60 percent faster than predicted Study shows once again that the IPCC is far from alarmist, but in fact has under-estimated the problem of climate change by Liz Kalaugher Environmental Research Web November 28, 2012 Sea level is rising 60% faster than the IPCC fourth assessment projected. That is according to researchers from … Continue reading
By MIRIAM ROSS – POSITIVE NEWS, November 26th 2012 It’s a warm night in the small village of Chuao in Venezuela. Dozens of children are playing in the square in front of the old colonial church, and a local man, beating a drum he holds between his knees, sings: “This is the taste of my … Continue reading
‘Ocean-grabbing’ as serious a threat as ‘land-grabbing’ – UN food expert [30 October 2012] NEW YORK – The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to food, Olivier De Schutter, warned today of the threat of ‘ocean-grabbing’ to food security, and urged world governments and international bodies to halt the depletion of fish stocks, and … Continue reading
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