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) […]
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NUMSA CENTRAL COMMITTEE STATEMENT
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 […]
Indigenous Peoples Condemn Climate Talks Fiasco and Demand Moratoria on REDD+
December 14, 2011 – Indigenous leaders returning from Durban, South Africa condemn the fiasco of the United Nations climate change talks and demand a moratorium on a forest carbon offset […]
New film and report show failures of carbon markets and foresee their collapse
As COP17 draws to a close the only game in town are the market-based mechanisms that are false solutions to climate change. The same institutions, corporations and governments who have […]
Pressure mounts for COP President to exclude coal power projects from UN offsetting scheme
Durban, South Africa, 6 December. As countries are negotiating the global climate crisis, an open letter sent by a broad coalition of green groups including Greenpeace, WWF and Friends of […]
Waste Pickers Tout Only Truly Green Solution to Municipal Waste, Decry Dirty Energy
Durban, December 5, 2011 – Waste pickers attending COP17 today called for a Green Climate Fund with direct community access and an end to CDM “waste-to-energy” projects. Representatives from three […]
Open letter to Environment Ministers: Integrity of carbon markets at COP 17
Dear Ministers, We, more than hundred civil society organisations from 35 countries across all continents, call on Parties to acknowledge the urgency with which climate change needs to be addressed […]
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, […]
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 […]