Category: Environment
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La Via Campesina: Food Sovereignty and the Global Feminist Struggle
Via Campesina is the world’s foremost international movement of small farmers. It promotes the right of all peoples to food sovereignty. Via Campesina was established in 1993 at the dawn … Keep reading »
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Contested Futures: Tar Sands and Environmental Justice
Reports on front-line resistance, discussion, and the search for answers. Convener: Eva Portillo, Toronto Bolivia Solidarity. Panelists: Raul Burbano, Common Frontiers and Latin American and Caribbean Solidarity Network, reporting back … Watch video »
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The Fraser Institute’s Global Petroleum Survey
Near the end of June 2012 the Fraser Institute released their latest survey of the oil and gas industry. They reported that 623 managers and executives from 529 oil and … Keep reading »
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The RIO+20 U.N. Conference
An Ecosocialist Assessment Representatives of governments from all the world will be present at the Rio+20 U.N. Conference on Sustainable Development, June 2012. What can we expect from this so-called “Earth … Keep reading »
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State and Market Climate Failures Amplified by Civil Society Failure
After the Durban climate talks In 2007, former World Bank chief economist Nick Stern termed climate change the worst “market failure” in history – since those who pollute with greenhouse gases … Keep reading »
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Is the ‘Green Economy’ a New Washington Consensus?
Working Group on Green Economy The current environmental and climate crisis is not simply a market failure because nature is not simply a form of capital. Putting a price on nature … Keep reading »
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Unravelling Carbon Markets
Larry Lohmann is a scholar and activist who works with The Corner House, a UK-based NGO that supports democratic and community movements for environmental and social justice. As part of … Keep reading »
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Ottawa Tar-Sands Protest: Reports and Impressions
I participated in the demonstration against the Alberta tar sands outside the Canadian Parliament here in Ottawa on September 26. As was widely reported, the civil disobedience component of the … Keep reading »
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Climate Meetings are Conferences of Polluters
From Copenhagen and Cancun to Bonn and Durban Judging by what transpired at the global climate negotiations in the former West German capital, Bonn, it appears certain that in just over … Keep reading »
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Montreal Conference Rallies Support for Rights of Nature
Bolivia marked Earth Day (April 22) this year by formulating the Law of Mother Earth, which – when adopted – will establish eleven new rights for nature, including the rights … Keep reading »
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From Cairo to Dakar to Durban, Another World Actually Is Possible!
Last week’s World Social Forum (WSF) in Dakar, Senegal, ended up riotously happy thanks to the eviction of a universally-hated Egyptian Pharoah, after near-debilitating logistical disasters at the event’s outset. … Keep reading »
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‘Climate Capitalism’ Won At Cancun – Everyone Else Loses
The December 11 closure of the 16th Conference of the Parties – the global climate summit – in balmy Cancun, Mexico was portrayed by most participants and mainstream journalists as … Keep reading »