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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...

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)...

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...

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...

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...

Update on "The Global Fight for Climate Justice"

Canada’s leading publisher and distributor of progressive books will publish a North American edition of The Global Fight for Climate Justice: Anticapitalist Responses to Global Warming and Environmental Destruction. Share: Click to share on...

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...

Denmark Aims to Criminalize Climate Protests

As the Copenhagen climate summit approaches, the Danish government is rushing through a harsh new law that allows preventive detention, increases fines and extends sentences for demonstrators Share: Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)...

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...

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...