By Alexander Jung Emissions trading, the European Union hoped, would limit the release of harmful greenhouse gases. But it isn’t working. The price for emissions certificates has plunged, a development […]
By Anne Petermann and Orin Langelle This year’s UN Climate Conference of the Parties (COP-17) in Durban, South Africa, nicknamed “The Durban Disaster,” took the dismal track record of the […]
IBON assessment of the Durban climate change summit The next ten years could decide whether the world’s fight against climate change is lost or won. The Durban Package – the […]
By Patrick Bond Looking back now that the dust has settled, South Africa’s COP17 presidency appears disastrous. This was confirmed not only by Durban’s delayed, diplomatically-decrepit denouement, but by plummeting […]
Nele Marien (*) The official package deal of Durban consisted of 4 main documents, apart of several other decisions, most of them less critical, that have been adopted:
By Teresa Anderson, The Gaia Foundation (16 December 2011) -African Agriculture has been ignored by UN Climate Change discussions!” bellowed the South African minister for Agriculture, Tina Joemat-Pettersen at the high-level […]
(Jakarta, 16 December 2011) La Via Campesina, the global movement of peasants, small-scale and agricultural family farmers, denounces the attempts of the largest carbon emitters to further escape their historic […]
COP 17 & Class Struggle: Amidst the deepening crisis of climate change and in the context of the COP17 negotiations that were taking place in Durban, the National Union of […]
DURBAN, SOUTH AFRICA, 13 DECEMBER 2011 – The UN climate talks in Durban were a failure and take the world a significant step back by further undermining an already flawed, […]
Durban, 9 Dec (Payal Parekh) – With no consensus in the Informal group tasked with Various Approaches including opportunities for using markets, to enhance the cost-effectiveness of, and to promote, […]