Ecological debt

• Cancun Declaration

  12 janvier 2011

  Cancun Declaration We, peoples’ organizations from throughout the global South, representing a diversity of networks in Africa, Asia, the Pacific, Latin America, and the Caribbean, convened in Cancun, Mexico, for the South-South Summit on Climate Justice and Finance, simultaneous to the 16th meeting of the Conference of Parties to the UNFCCC (COP-16). From November 26th to December 4th, we met in plenary sessions, workshops, group discussions, and common actions that strengthened our unity (...)

• Africa and the climate finance controversy

  by Patrick Bond

  21 October 2010

  Will Africa end up paying for technologies that commodify life, or demand reparations for ecological damage done by the North, asks Patrick Bond. Let us accept Pat Mooney’s six theses about damaging new world trends: Loss of diversity; the threat of shock-therapy bio-engineering; the profusion of state-subsidised technological fixes (mainly unworkable); the disempowerment of those promoting ecologically- and socially-preferable alternatives; amplified state-corporate control over body (...)

• From Copenhagen to Cochabamba: Walking We Ask Questions, 2.0?

  by Tadzio Mueller

  17 May 2010

  In this essay Tadzio Mueller (Political scientist and contributing editor of Turbulence) reviews the outcomes of both the Copenhagen and Cochabamba conferences, addressing the political and organisational space these differing ‘climate focused’ events open for the social movements for Climate Justice. The Run-Up Copenhagen, Denmark, December 2009. The climate summit’s failure manages to underwhelm even the already low expectations of the emerging global climate justice movement. Once it (...)

• Climate debt as a subversive political strategy

  by Nicola Bullard

  22 April 2010

  Perhaps without fully realising either the meaning or the implications, progressive movements have gravitated around the slogan of “climate debt” as a way into the complex world of climate negotiations. It is easy to understand why: debt is simple concept and in a just world, debts should be paid. But — more that that — the notion of climate debt goes to the heart of climate change politics. It raises the central question of historical responsibility and who owes whom for what. And by (...)

• How to cure the post-Copenhagen hangover

  by Patrick Bond

  9 January 2010

  Copenhagen unveiled that the leading southern countries are willing accomplices in climate crime to the rich nations, while the hope remains with the rising power of the climate justice movements. In Copenhagen, the world’s richest leaders continued their fiery fossil fuel party last Friday night, December 18, ignoring requests of global village neighbours to please chill out. Instead of halting the hedonism, U.S. President Barack Obama and the Euro elites cracked open the mansion door to (...)

• Developed Countries Must Pay for Historical and Ecological Debt

  11 novembre 2009

  As we write this to the Government of India, different country governments are busy with intense climate negotiations at the ongoing UNFCCC sessions in Bangkok. As people all over the world have realised, the face of climate negotiations has been dramatically altered with the call given by a large number of developing country governments in their official submissions to the UNFCCC, demanding that the climate debt of the developed countries must be repaid, and this payment must begin with (...)

• Press Statement - International Meeting on Strategies on Climate and Finance

  Finance for Socioeconomic and Climate Justice

  5 October 2009

  Press Statement released at the conclustion of the International Meeting on Strategies on Climate and Finance STATEMENT Finance for Socioeconomic and Climate Justice Bangkok, September 28, 2009 We, the undersigned social organizations, movements and networks working towards climate and socioeconomic justice, gathered for an International Strategy Meeting on Climate and Finance in parallel to the Bangkok United Nations climate talks, call for: * the recognition of the Global North´s (...)

• Cancellation Of The External Debt And Recognition Of The Ecological Debt

  by Sajida Hussein

  6 June 2009

  The debt owed by poor countries to the IMF and World Bank is crippling, and very often comes at the expense of essential investments in people such as education, health care and environmental services. Some African countries, for example, spend an average of $US14 per person each year on servicing their debts, compared to only US$5 per person on health care. Viewed from an angle, the average debt of every Indian has been estimated to soar to about Rs 30,000 in about a year with the (...)

• 2nd South Asian Workshop on International Financial Institutions and Debt

  Impact of industrialisation & mining on Water, Agriculture, Fishery and Human. An Ecological Debt debate

  by Stanley Williams

  15 January 2009

• Millions of acres of African rainforest threatened as Congolese government moves to ‘legalise’ felling for timber

  by Greenpeace

  30 September 2008

  Greenpeace International – Rainforest Foundation – Global Witness Press Release For Immediate Use 24 September 2008 A group of international NGO’s have today warned that millions of acres of rainforest could be at risk as the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) considers whether to legalise more than 150 timber felling contracts. The groups condemned the process used to review of the legality of the country’s entire logging industry as being fundamentally flawed. (...)

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