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Report Exposes Flaws and Fraud in Kyoto's "Clean Development Mechanism"
The Kyoto Protocol’s Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) is set to provide massive subsidies to hydropower developers while increasing greenhouse gas emissions, according to an investigation by International Rivers. As of November 1, 2007, 654...
Quebec Socialists Critique Ecoliberalism
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As Climate Disasters Accelerate, the Poorest Are Hit Hardest
An excerpt from “Climate Alarm: Disasters increase as climate change bites,” a new report published by Oxfam International. Climatic disasters are on the increase as the Earth warms up – in line with scientific observations and computer simulations...
Australia: Aboriginal Communities Will Be Most Hurt By Climate Change
By Rosslyn Beeby From The Canberra Times, November 26, 2007 Australia’s northern Aboriginal communities will bear the brunt of climate change, with increases in water-borne diseases and loss of traditional food sources, an international report...
Rich Nations Renege on Promised Climate Change Aid
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Indonesia: Biofuel Threatens Indigenous Farmers and Tropical Forests
From The Australian, November 24, 2007 Elderly ethnic Dayak farmer Hussin sits on the raised timber floor of his home, a shack on 6ha of mixed forest, itself nestled in thousands of hectares of oil palm plantation.Hussin (“I’m probably...
The Public Route to Sustainable Homes
Glyn Robbins is a member of Unite, the largest manufacturing union in Britain, and a supporter of Defend Council Housing. This article is a contribution to the discussion at the coming Trade Union Conference on Climate Change, to be held at the...
How Can an Effective Climate Change Movement be Built?
From Green Left Weekly, Nov. 16 2007 by Kamala Emanuel (Kamala Emanuel is a Socialist Alliance candidate for the Senate in New South Wales, in this week’s election in Australia) November 11’s national Walk Against Warming was an important...
Droughts, floods, hunger, malnutrition, disease, extinctions, fires, storms ….
The IPCC Synthesis Report, published November 17, describes these as “some examples of projected regional impacts.” Bear in mind that IPCC reports are consistently conservative. Quoting pages 10 and 11 … Africa • By 2020, between 75 and 250...