Offsets Under Kyoto: A Dirty Deal for the South

The ‘Clean Development Mechanism’ is grossly ineffective and enormously unjust

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Poznan Climate Talks: Fiddling While the Earth Burns

The UN Climate Conference failed to achieve any breakthrough towards a global climate deal — a sign not merely of bad timing, but of a flawed system that takes no account of climate justice

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Belem Ecosocialist Declaration: A Call for Signatures

This Declaration was prepared by a committee elected at the Paris Ecosocialist Conference of 2007 (Ian Angus, Joel Kovel, Michael Löwy), with the help of Danielle Follett. It will be distributed at the World Social Forum in Belem, Brazil, in January 2009.

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Radical New Agenda Needed To Achieve Climate Justice

Members of Climate Justice Now! — a worldwide alliance of more than 160 organisations — have been in Poznan for the past two weeks closely following developments in the UN climate negotiations. This statement is our assessment of the Conference of Parties (COP) 14, and articulates our principles for achieving climate justice. 

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Book Review: Psychology, Culture and Climate Change

Alastair McIntosh. HELL AND HIGH WATER: CLIMATE CHANGE, HOPE AND THE HUMAN CONDITION. Birlinn Limited, Edinburgh, 2008. ISBN 978-1841586229

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Canada’s Role at UN Climate Talks: “Profoundly Hypocritical”

Welcome to diplomatic doublespeak 101

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4 out of 3: Canada Sets a New ‘Fossil of the Day’ Record

A year ago, in Bali, Canada’s government embarrassed itself by winning multiple “fossil of the day awards” for its efforts to block concrete action on climate change. This year, in Poznan, Canada continues its “winning” streak …

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Climate Change: World War III by Another Name?

“Surely it should be obvious to all that the ruling elites care more about saving capitalism than they do about saving the planet”

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Evo Morales on Climate Change:
Save the Planet from Capitalism!

Humankind is capable of saving the Earth if we recover the principles of solidarity, complementarity and harmony with nature in contraposition to the reign of competition, profits and rampant consumption of natural resources’

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Climate refugees — the hidden cost of climate change

 For the inhabitants of Pacific and Indian Ocean island nations, climate change is already a devastating reality

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Ecology and the Transition from Capitalism to Socialism

John Bellamy Foster: “the human relation to nature lies at the heart of the transition to socialism”

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Monbiot: One Shot Left

The latest science suggests that preventing runaway climate change means total decarbonisation

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Student climate activist: ‘Get into the streets again!’

“People and the environment — not saving an inherently destructive economic system — must come first”

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Chevron Hires Global Warming Denier as Consultant

Oil giant’s ad campaign touts a “green” image while Amazon humanitarian crisis festers

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Frightening Numbers in Latin America and Caribbean

The region needs billions of dollars to reduce emissions and adapt to catastrophic changes. Where will the money come from?

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