COP17: Inspiring the global climate justice movement
by Nnimmo Bassey PAMBAZUKA NEWS: What role will Environmental Rights Action (ERA) and Friends of the Earth International be playing at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP17) in Durban? What […]
Cochabamba
The climate justice approach and the politics of climate change
by Lim Li Lin The climate change talks have been going on for a long time. Since Rio in 1992, when the Climate Convention was adopted, there have been 16 […]
CJN! members call on governments to support Cochabamba proposals
During the last Climate Talks in Bonn in August some concrete proposals were brought to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in order to advance the negotiations […]
From Copenhagen to Cochabamba: Walking We Ask Questions, 2.0?
by Tadzio Mueller, May 2010 The Run-Up Copenhagen, Denmark, December 2009. The climate summit’s failure manages to underwhelm even the already low expectations of the emerging global climate justice movement. […]
PEOPLES AGREEMENT
World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth April 22nd, Cochabamba, Bolivia Today, our Mother Earth is wounded and the future of humanity is in danger. […]
System crisis, climate crisis
Letter of the Social Movements Assembly at the World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth 21 April 2010 Movements, networks and social organizations gathered at […]
Climate battle moves to Bolivia
Martin Khor* Published in The Star (Malaysia), Monday 26 April 2010 Last week over 30,000 people converged in the Bolivian town of Cochabamba in the heart of the Andes mountains […]
Indigenous peoples take on the climate crisis in Cochabamba
by Daphne Wysham* First published in AlterNet [Cochabamba, 21 April 2010] Four months after world leaders who gathered in frigid Copenhagen failed to agree on a binding climate treaty, a […]
La Via Campesina participates in the inauguration of the Peoples’ climate conference
[Cochabamba, 20 April, 2010] This morning Itelvina Masioli, a Brazilian leader of the international peasant movement La Via Campesina, spoke at the inauguration of the People’s World Conference on Climate […]
Social movements for system change
[Cochabamba, April 19, 2010] On April 19, an Assembly of the Social Movements was one of the first activities on the agenda at the People’s World Conference on Climate Change […]