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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
January 13 2012
Indigenous Peoples Condemn Climate Talks Fiasco
and Demand Moratoria on REDD+
“We will not allow our sacred Amazon rainforest to be turned into a
carbon dump. REDD is a hypocrisy that does not stop global warming”.
By Global Alliance of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities against REDD and for Life
December 19 2011
Civil Society Organizations: Time for Systemic
Strategies
Myriad civil society organizations (CSOs) are addressing the full
range of environmental and social problems, including ...
By Michael Narberhaus ◾ Orion Kriegman ◾ Pamela Pezzati ◾ Paul Raskin
December 14 2011
Governance of international trade for the green
economy
Today’s trade system may be incapable of steering the world into a
“green economy.” It is, however, a wisely constructed ...
By International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development ◾ Ricardo Melendez-Ortiz
December 13 2011
Enter the Four Degrees Celsius World: The
Failings of Climate Negotiations
Perhaps the UN’s tedious methods are not the answer for the run-away
crisis of climate change.
By Saliem Fakir ◾ South African Civil Society Information Service
December 13 2011
Global Environmental Governance: The Role of
Local Governments
What could a model for involvement of local governments in
international environmental governance look like?
By ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainibility ◾ Konrad Otto-Zimmermann
December 11 2011
Wealth, power and the future of the planet
Concentration of wealth is unjust and confers undue advantage to
those who then use this wealth primarily to usurp the ...
By International Forum on Globalization ◾ Jack Santa Barbara
December 09 2011
Tracks and Sidetracks for Biocivilization
Thinking the basis of a new civilization and becoming part of the
long process of social dismantlement and of reconstruction ...
By Cândido Grzybowski
December 03 2011
Global Environmental Governance and Rio+20:
Thinking Big – Doing Little?
There is little faith in the reform of the UN system; nonetheless,
the Rio+20 Conference is not only to set the stage for a ...
By Barbara Unmüßig
November 30 2011
Anticapitalism and environmentalism as a
political alternative
We cannot analyse the global ecological crisis separately from the
crisis in which we are immersed or the critique of the ...
By Esther Vivas
