An Assessment of the Failure of the Durban Summit on the Climat
By Esther Vivas and Josep maria Antentas We will save the markets, not the climate. That is how we can summarize the outcome of the 17th Conference of Parties (COP17) […]
Going Deeper On What Happened In Durban: An Ethical Critique of Durban Outcomes
By DONALD A. BROWN I. Introduction: What Is Missing In Reporting About The Durban Outcome? It has now been two weeks since negotiations at the 17th Conference of the Parties […]
“REDD-plus” decision further shapes actions on forests
Beijing, 22 Dec (Chee Yoke Ling) – The recently concluded Durban climate conference adopted two decisions on policy approaches and positive incentives that reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation […]
Movement of Technology Mechanism in Durban Outcome
Manila, 20 Dec (Elpidio V. Peria [1] ) – The technology transfer discussions in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Durban, South Africa under the Ad […]
The Durban Package: escape hatches, empty shells, and a death notice to equity
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 […]
Durban’s climate Zombie tripped by dying carbon markets
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 […]
How not to tackle climate change and call it a success: the Durban package
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:
Farming Carbon Credits a Con for Africa: The many faces of Climate Smart Agriculture
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 […]
Showdown at the Durban Disaster: Challenging the ‘Big Green’ Patriarchy
By Anne Petermann, Executive Director, Global Justice Ecology Project Dedicated to Judi Bari, Emma Goldman, my mother and all of the other strong women who inspire me An action loses […]
The Durban Package: “Laisser faire, laisser passer”
By Pablo Solon (December 14, 2011) The Climate Change Conference ended two days later than expected, adopting a set of decisions that were known only a few hours before their […]