Alliance adopts radical greenhouse gas emissions reduction target May 26, 2007: The Socialist Alliance has adopted radical greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets—95% of stationary power emissions and 60% of overall emissions compared to 1990...
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Paraguayan Campesinos Protest Biofuel Production Urgent Call for Solidarity and Support
A Paraguayan campesino organization that opposes Agro-fuel monoculture is in a state of alert and requires international solidarity. A camp of landless youths from Pariri is being threatened with eviction, and there is an attempt to frame and...
Paraguayan Activists Demand an End to Agro-Fuel Monoculture
Official Declaration of Chake Ñuhá on the Agro-fuels and Environmental Services Traps Asunción, Paraguay, 24 April 2007 – Paraguay has set a short term goal of exporting agro-fuels. The plan is to export at least 50 million dollars worth of...
Climate Justice Now! The Durban Declaration on Carbon Trading
In October 2004, representatives from organizations and peoples’ movements from around the globe met in Durban, South Africa to discuss realistic avenues for addressing climate change. The group emerged from the meeting with this call for a global...
Greenhouse Gas Emissions Are Worse Than the IPCC’s Worst Case
by Ian Angus Yesterday I wrote: ”Contrary to claims made by conservative critics, IPCC reports are far from “alarmist” — the Panel’s conclusions are a conservative, lowest-common-denominator summary of scientific judgments. That makes...
Emissions Trading and ‘Clean Development’ — Climate Policies That Don’t Work
Critics of the Canadian, U.S. and Australian governments frequently argue that implementing the emissions trading and clean development mechanism components of the Kyoto Protocol would be a big step forward in reducing greenhouse gas emissions. In...
Ottawa's Global Warming Plan: 'A complete and total fraud designed to mislead the Canadian people'
by Ian Angus From Socialist Voice, May 21, 2007 UPDATE: An expanded version of this article has been published in the Sept-Oct 2007 issue of Canadian Dimension magazine. It is posted on the CD website. Canada’s federal government is fiddling while...
UN Climate Report Says Corporate Polluters Can Save Us
by Zane Alcorn & Zoe Kenny From Green Left Weekly, 11 May 2007 On May 5, the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its final working group report, the third in a series, as a part of its Fourth Assessment Report (AR4)...
Canada in Bonn: a Trojan horse for anti-Kyoto countries
From Climate Action Network Canada, May 18, 2007 United Nations Negotiations on Climate Change: Canada a Trojan horse for anti-Kyoto countries Bonn, Germany – The United Nations conference on climate change which concluded today witnessed Canada...
Climate Change: A Guide for the Perplexed
Check out Climate Change: A Guide for the Perplexed on the New Scientist Website. Add it to your Bookmarks right now — It’s an invaluable resource for everyone involved in the growing movement to stop greenhouse gas emissions. Especially...