The outcome of the latest UN climate negotiations is a page of bold promises, stirring calls, and grand statements, woefully empty of anything actionable.
Climate Negotiations
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COP21
Specter of geoengineering haunts Paris climate deal
To avoid challenging the fossil fuel profiteers, the Paris negotiators bet on untested and dangerous geoengineering technologies.
COP21
Paris climate agreement: a terror attack on Africa
Patrick Bond: Supporters of the climate deal reached at the Paris Conference of Polluters are endorsing a plan that will kill millions
COP21
Seven objections to the Paris climate deal
Oscar Reyes: Hailed as a breakthrough and the beginning of a new world, the COP21 Agreement is long on rhetoric and short on action.
COP21
At COP21, the world agreed to increase emissions
Some countries will reduce emissions a little, but other countries will increase them a lot. You would never know this from UN and media reports.
Movement Building
Ian Angus: COP21, the climate crisis, and ecosocialism
Interview with Climate & Capitalism editor: The environmental question is the most important problem that we face in the 21st century: If we don’t recognize its centrality, our politics will be irrelevant.
Climate Justice
Most vulnerable nations form climate action coalition
‘Vulnerable 20’ communique: “Climate change is the defining challenge of our time. Overcoming it is a matter of survival for people on all continents and vulnerable communities everywhere.”
FI Statement: Mobilize for change at COP21
Fourth International: There is no choice between climate emergency and social justice; it is one and the same struggle.
In Paris, just say ‘no’ to COP21
Climate negotiations resume soon in Paris. John Foran argues that the best outcome of COP21 may be no agreement at all.
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Monbiot on why the UN climate talks have wasted 23 years … Pablo Solon on the climate negotiating text … Bakken Oil and market anarchy … A new era of rapid temperature change
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CO2 levels for February eclipsed prehistoric highs … How agroecology can feed Africa … State of Power 2015 … Paris climate talks and the failure of states
Peoples Climate Summit speaks for the exploited and oppressed
Outside the scandalous UN meeting in Lima, an unofficial international assembly met to plan global resistance to capitalism and fight for a model of life in harmony with Nature and Mother Earth.
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Can Borneo’s tribes survive the biggest environmental crime? … Big Oil’s carbon counterattack … Lima’s roadmap for global burning … Post-quake Haiti: Left in the rubble … Conserving, restoring and enhancing Africa’s soils
After Lima fiasco, Bolivia plans global assembly to fight climate change
ALBA backs Bolivian call for international assembly of social movements in 2015; Evo Morales urges “a climate agreement for life, not business and capitalist commercialism”
Lima agreement fails humanity and the earth
The result of the Lima conference was yet another decision that weakens international climate rules, fails the planet, and threatens humanity’s future.
The new climate movement
This is a movement of hope, a new militant social movement against fossil fuels. It is no longer an environmental battle but a harsh cry for climate justice.
Unions urge rapid and just transition to save climate
At COP20, the global labor federation calls for decisive climate action to keep warming below 2 degrees, promote equality and defend workers’ rights
Why U.N. climate talks continue to fail
The science is definitive. The dangers are real and increasingly obvious. So why is there so little action to stop catastrophic climate change?
The great ‘poverty reduction’ hoax
Global poverty is much worse than the UN’s spin doctored story. The global poverty headcount has increased, and the triumphalist narrative is a lie.
Poorest nations: Time is running out for climate agreement
Least Developed Countries warn that if substantial progress isn’t made this year, the Paris climate meeting is likely to be another failure