Occupy movement comes to Cop 17
(Sapa-AFP) Inspired by the Occupy Wall St. movement, protesters calling for “climate justice” are set to gather at the opening of UN climate talks in Durban organisers say.
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LETTER FOR ORGANIZATIONAL SIGN-ON
Dear Members of the Transitional Committee and Chairs of Country Groupings: We are civil society organizations and social movements deeply concerned about the current direction of the Green Climate Fund […]
DECLARATION OF MEMBERS OF THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES’ BIOCULTURAL CLIMATE CHANGE ASSESSMENT (IPCCA) INITIATIVE
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 […]
Environmental and grassroots organizations in Latin America demand their government’s to reject carbon credit projects that finance incinerators and landfills.
In a letter addressed to the respective national authorities designated to define the approval of projects for carbon credits, members of the Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives (GAIA) of Argentina, […]
Bolivarian alliance calls for extending and strengthening the Kyoto Protocol and climate adaptation aid to poor countries, and opposes the commodification of forests under REDD
Representatives from the Latin American and Caribbean governments that comprise the Bolivarian Alliance of the Peoples of Our Americas (ALBA) met in Bolivia on November 17-18 to coordinate their battle […]
Facing the COP17-Durban and Rio+20: NO to the market mechanisms as solutions to climate and environmental crisis
Declaration of Brazilian movements and civil society organizations Despite successive failures related to market based solutions proposed in the last almost 20 years of UNFCCC negotiations, some governments, and Brazil […]
New report calls for a EU ban on CDM carbon credits from waste projects
Barcelona, 21st November 2011. A new report released today by GAIA – Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives, reveals serious flaws in CDM-backed Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) projects. Most of these projects […]
Durban COP17, agriculture and soil carbon markets
To: African Agriculture and Environment Ministers We, the undersigned civil society organisations from Africa and around the world, strongly object to a decision in Durban for an agriculture work […]
Highlights from UNFCC 2011 SREX report
Here are some highlights of the forecasts for the future from the 2011 SREX report: – A 1-in-20 year hottest day is at least 66% likely to become a 1-in-2 […]
The Best from the Press Agencies
Please find below important news and articles from the press. ASEAN stance on economic capitalism must be bold “Cap and Trade Will Fail”: An Interview with Alegria de la Cruz […]