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![Kleptocratic capitalism, climate finance, and the green economy in Africa Kleptocratic capitalism, climate finance, and the green economy in Africa](http://rio20.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/3829783806_f60a384753_bis-160x110.jpg)
January 19 2012
Kleptocratic capitalism, climate finance, and
the green economy in Africa
As Africa faces up to the enormous challenge of climate change and
the creation of a sustainable ‘green economy’, it must look ...
By Pambazuka News ◾ Third World Network-Africa ◾ Yash Tandon
![How to Build a Sustainable World: Practical Guidelines to Change How We Live and Work How to Build a Sustainable World: Practical Guidelines to Change How We Live and Work](http://rio20.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/4134011104_73817804ab_bis-160x110.jpg)
November 15 2011
How to Build a Sustainable World: Practical
Guidelines to Change How We Live and Work
It is now up to our political leadership to back up promises and
rhetoric about creating green jobs. If we actively pursue ...
By Glenn Ashton ◾ South African Civil Society Information Service
![The Green Growth Agenda: Is This the New Hope? The Green Growth Agenda: Is This the New Hope?](http://rio20.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/6327697329_b965d458a6_bis-160x110.jpg)
November 15 2011
The Green Growth Agenda: Is This the New Hope?
It’s clear that the focus on greening the economy led by a
clean-tech boom only continues to support the prevailing ...
By Saliem Fakir
![Africa Must Lead: COP 17 Must Deliver Climate Justice to Developing Nations L’Afrique doit mener le jeu : la COP 17 doit obtenir la justice climatique pour les pays en voie développement](http://rio20.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/6328447630_5c5aa4db39_bis-160x110.jpg)
November 15 2011
Africa Must Lead: COP 17 Must Deliver Climate
Justice to Developing Nations
Climate justice is about cutting a deal at the COP meeting that
provides just that – climate justice for all, not justice for ...
By Glenn Ashton
![From Bonn to Durban, climate meetings are conferences of polluters From Bonn to Durban, climate meetings are conferences of polluters](http://rio20.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/2452227272_037aff0fc2_z-160x110.jpg)
November 15 2011
From Bonn to Durban, climate meetings are
conferences of polluters
What everyone now predicts is a conference of paralysis. Not only
will the Kyoto Protocol be allowed to expire at the end of its ...
By Patrick Bond
![Environmental justice: Putting the poor first Environmental justice: Putting the poor first](http://rio20.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/4391372009_faa450ac54_b-e1320916316170-160x110.jpg)
November 10 2011
Environmental justice: Putting the poor first
Behind the public face of the climate action campaigns there is a
deep malaise and debate within civil society circles about ...
By Brian K. Murphy
![Contesting a”just transition to a low carbon economy” Contesting a ‘just transition to a low carbon economy’](http://rio20.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Orlando-cooling-towers-small-160x110.jpg)
November 10 2011
Contesting a”just transition to a low carbon
economy”
A ‘just transition’ could involve demands for shallow change focused
on protecting vulnerable workers, or it could involve deep ...
By Jacklyn Cock
![Kleptocratic capitalism, climate finance, and the green economy in Africa Kleptocratic capitalism, climate finance, and the green economy in Africa](http://rio20.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/original_Picture-7-160x110.jpg)
November 10 2011
Kleptocratic capitalism, climate finance, and
the green economy in Africa
As the African continent faces up to the enormous challenge of
climate change and the creation of a sustainable ‘green economy’, ...
By Yash Tandon
![The Green Economy, Poverty and the Global Inequality The Green Economy, Poverty and the Global Inequality](http://rio20.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/4293716030_9bb59d5867_z-160x110.jpg)
July 23 2011
The Green Economy, Poverty and the Global
Inequality
The contemporary crisis’s of global capitalism are however only the
most acute in the last eighty years. Whilst originating in the ...
By Rasigan Maharajh