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- Ethical and philosophical fundamentals: subjectivity, domination, and emancipation
- Human rights, peoples, territories, and defense of Mother Earth
- Political subjects, the architecture of power, and democracy
- Production, distribution and consumption, access to wealth, common goods, and economies in transition
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November 19 2011
20 years to…where?
The gains of development investment are now lost. So, on the one
hand, the world has to reinvent the growth paradigm because it ...
By Sunita Narain
November 17 2011
The Illusion of a Green Economy
To ensure production of the goods necessary for life, in a way which
neither stresses nor degrades nature, something more than the ...
By Leonardo Boff
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
October 22 2011
Rio2012: Latin America defends sustainability
and rejects “green economy”
Following three days of deliberations, the representatives examined
the gaps still remaining since the 1992 Earth Summit for ...
By Editorial Team
