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Climate Change

World on Course for Catastrophic 6° Rise

Fast-rising carbon emissions mean that worst-case predictions for climate change are coming true Share: Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to email a link to a friend...

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Capitalism

Friedman Fantasizes about Green Capitalism

The mentality that “natural capitalism” can save the world will lead to a the “Fortress World” scenario, the rich, walled in enclaves, periodically breached by the world’s poor (Courtesy of Jewbonics, November 15, 2009) Climate change is class war, extended to future...

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Food and Farming

Food Summit Fails Before It Starts

Despite record-high harvests, the number of hungry people continues to rise – and the world’s rulers do nothing Share: Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to...

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Carbon Pricing

Carbon Trading: A Spectacular Failure

Free-market ideologues still trumpet the virtues of carbon trading, but a host of NGOs, businesspeople and even government bodies now admit that we got it badly wrong. Share: Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit Click to...

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Climate Justice UN Meetings

Most Vulnerable Nations Seek Climate Justice

Final Draft of declaration issued November 11 in the Maldives, by the Climate Vulnerable Forum, comprising the 11 countries considered most vulnerable to climate change: Maldives, Kiribati, Bangladesh, Nepal, Vietnam, Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania, Barbados and Bhutan. Share: Click to share on Facebook...

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UN Meetings

Climate Talks on the Road to Nowhere

The seeds of the current impasse were planted in Bali and nourished in subsequent negotiations Share: Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to email a link to a friend (Opens...

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Asia UN Meetings

The Looming Debacle in Copenhagen

The major capitalist powers are blocking the road to a global climate treaty … and preparing to blame China for the failure Share: Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to...

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Greenhouse Gas Tar Sands

Carbon Capture Can't Clean the Tar Sands

A new study produced by The Co-operative Financial Services and WWF-UK debunks the idea, lauded by oil companies and the Canadian government, that carbon capture and storage (CCS) will significantly counter the high levels of greenhouse gases emitted in the production of oil from the Alberta tar...

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