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WSF Tunis
To Reclaim Our Future, We Must Change the Present25 April 2013
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No More "Green Capitalism"
by Josep Maria Antentas, Esther Vivas10 January 2012
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2011 COP17 succumbs to Climate Apartheid!
11 December 2011
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Auditors find World Bank skipped policy steps in approving huge South African coal plant
World Bank screwed up on Eskom coal loan: big ooooops, bad timing!
by Lisa Friedman5 December 2011
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COP17 civil society statement on conflict during the Global Day of Action
5 December 2011
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‘Conference of Polluters’
COP17’s dirty secret: another failure will please certain South Africans
by Patrick Bond30 November 2011
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Durban, South Africa, November 26th
Declaration of members of the indigenous people biocultural climate change assessment (IPCCA) initiative28 November 2011
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Statement from Civil Society Organizations of Nepal
Say NO to ‘climate loan’18 February 2011
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The World Social Forum and the battle for COP17
by Vishwas Satgar18 February 2011
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Cancun Declaration
12 janvier 2011
The capitalist system has exploited and abused nature, pushing the planet to its limits, so much so that the system has accelerated dangerous and fundamental changes in the climate. Today, the severity and multiplicity of weather changes – characterized by droughts, desertification, floods, hurricanes, typhoons, forest fires and the melting of glaciers and sea ice – indicate that the planet is burning. These extreme changes have direct impacts on humans through the loss lives, livelihoods, (...)
We will save the markets, not the climate. That is how we can summarize the outcome of the 17th Conference of Parties (COP17) to the United Nations Framework on Climate Change (UNFCC) which took place in Durban, South Africa between 28 November and 10 December 2011. There is a striking contrast between the rapid response by governments and international institutions at the onset of the economic and financial crisis of 2007-08 in bailing out private banks with public money and the complete (...)
Antidote is Cochabamba Peoples’ Agreement! CJN! Press release, 10 December, Durban, S. Africa Decisions resulting from the UN COP17 climate summit in Durban constitute a crime against humanity, according to Climate Justice Now! a broad coalition of social movements and civil society. Here in South Africa, where the world was inspired by the liberation struggle of the country’s black majority, the richest nations have cynically created a new regime of climate apartheid “Delaying real action (...)
The World Bank failed to follow several of its own policies when it approved a $3.75 billion loan for the South African utility Eskom to build one of the world’s biggest coal plants, an independent audit obtained by ClimateWire found. The year-and-a-half-long investigation by the World Bank Inspection Panel criticized the bank for insufficiently taking health, water scarcity and the pressures on local services into account when supporting the 4,800-megawatt Medupi power plant in South (...)
Durban 4 December 2011 – On Saturday 3 December, the mid-point of COP 17, about 12 000 people from across the continent and the world gathered in Durban to demand climate justice and unite against climate change. The march was largely peaceful, with divergent activist groups uniting to demand action from governments around the world. The march culminated in the handing over of memoranda of understanding to UNFCCC COP17 President Nozipho Mxakato-Diseko and UNFCCC Executive Secretary (...)
One of the world’s most extreme cases of climate injustice happens to be the site for the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change Conference of the Parties 17 (COP17) climate summit. According to our government’s National Climate Change Response White Paper: ‘potential impacts on South Africa in the medium- to long-term are significant and potentially catastrophic’ for under conservative assumptions, ‘after 2050, warming is projected to reach around 3–4°C along the coast, and 6–7°C in the (...)
The participants of the workshop on REDD and Biocultural Protocols organized by the Indigenous Peoples Biocultural Climate Change Assessment (IPCCA), from Ecuador, Panama, India, Nicaragua, Peru and Samoa met on 24 and 25 November 2011 in Durban, South Africa to share emergent findings and analyse how REDD is affecting our territories in order to respond through our assessments. We discussed strategies for addressing climate justice. We, the Indigenous Peoples denounce the serious (...)
In a world plunged ever deeper into an uncivilised global capitalist condition, the World Social Forum is a crucial beacon of hope. But while news of Egypt and Tunisia’s revolutions electrified activists at this year’s gathering in Dakar, Vishwas Satgar asks whether progressive civil society is powerful enough to organise for a genuine climate change solution at COP17.
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