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World Bank money is helping to finance Asia’s coal boom: report

4 November 2016 - by Isabel Esterman

Should the World Bank Group be held accountable when financial institutions it supports invest in projects that threaten forests and communities? After tracing the Group’s links to controversial projects like the Rampal coal power station, the (...)
Migrations – Looting and Climate

20 October 2016 - by Nicolas Sersiron

With its 1.79 children per household, Germany is in demographic decline. The production of its wealth relies on wage earners. It must import a workforce for which it does not have to provide care for the first few years and which it hopes will (...)
On the perspective of ruling classes and the elite in Morocco on global environmental issues

12 October 2016 - by Jawad Moustakbal

The dominant neo-colonial thinking represents the biggest hardship that we face in this country. We were a colony controlled by the French state that left behind some traditions: achieving success and happiness in life is embodied in the attempt (...)
Tata Mundra Project: Time to End World Bank Immunity

21 September 2016 - by Sushovan Dhar

Fisher-folks, farmers and marginal wage earners in Gujarat, India were shocked to hear about the US federal district court ruling in March this year that the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private lending arm of the World Bank (...)
Kerkennah: on the frontline of resistance to the fossil fuel industry in Tunisia

26 July 2016 - by Hamza Hamouchene

The effects of climate change and neoliberalism converge in Kerkennah in the worst possible way – but the islands are fighting back. Kerkennah is a group of islands lying off the east coast of Tunisia in the Gulf of Gabès, around 20km away from (...)
COP22

ATTAC/CADTM Morocco quits the moroccan climate justice coalition

17 June 2016 - by ATTAC/CADTM Morocco

On February 7, 2016, our organization attended the constitutive meeting of the Moroccan Coalition for climate Justice in Rabat. Our objective is to collaborate with all organizations aiming to struggle against environmental injustice as well as (...)
Investment Court System put to the test

26 May 2016 - by TNI, Corporate Europe Observatory, Friends of the Earth Europe, Forum Umwelt und Entwicklung , Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

The European Commission says that its new investment proposal –the Investment Court System - will protect governments’ abilities to regulate on crucial matters such as public health and environmental protection. But analysis of five of the most (...)
For Indigenous Peoples, Megadams Are ‘Worse than Colonization’

16 March 2016 - by Philippa de Boissière , Sian Cowman

These mega-projects expropriate land, spoil environments, and pollute democracies. Berta Cáceres gave her life resisting them. Early in the morning of March 3, Berta Cáceres was assassinated. They can displace communities, destroy the local (...)
Recent Developments of the Global Campaign to Dismantle Corporate Power

14 March 2016 - by Radio Mundo Real

Real World Radio has interviewed Brid Brennan from the Transnational Institute (TNI) to discuss recent works of the UN Intergovernmental Working Group (IGWG) in Geneva, including side events of acknowledgement for Berta Caceres, and the (...)
Videos: Documentary series about the TTIP

10 February 2016 - by Art.35 Films

Documentary series about the TTIP, the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, which the United States and the European Union are negotiating. TTIP: The privatizacion of justice TTIP: Energy and climate change TTIP: A corporate (...)
Three reasons why the Paris climate deal is a fraud

15 December 2015 - by Jerome Roos

World leaders are congratulating themselves on a set of promises they will never be able to keep without taking on the immense power of the fossil fuel industry. World leaders and the international media are hailing the deal struck in Paris as (...)
Paying climate debts for global climate justice

4 December 2015 - by Helmut Selinger

The issue of worldwide climate injustice has been high on the agenda of the global climate movement for several years. This injustice stems from the fact that many countries of the Global South are suffering the worst effects of anthropogenic (...)
SDG Indicators and Data: Who collects? Who reports? Who benefits?

3 December 2015 - by Barbara Adams

As part of its mandate to develop an indicator framework by which to monitor the goals and targets of the post-2015 development agenda, the Inter-agency and Expert Group on SDGs (IAEG-SDGs) held its second meeting in Bangkok, 26-28 October 2015. (...)
Cooking the planet

17 November 2015 - by Corporate Europe Observatory

One year on from the appointment of Cañete and Šefčovič, Corporate Europe Observatory takes a look at who the commissioners responsible for climate and energy policies are meeting, and finds Big Energy dominating the agenda. According to data (...)
The REDD+ and its carbon trade will not resolve the climate crisis

14 November 2015 - by GRAIN, Attac Gabon

As with other mechanisms supported by “world climate governance”, we doubted from the beginning that the Reduction of Emissions caused by Deforestation and the Degradation of Forests (REDD) mechanism would be likely to resolve the global climate (...)
Are Climate Advocates not Welcome in France for COP21?

3 November 2015 - by Sophie Chapelle

The French government is set to reintroduce border controls for a month, over the period of the International Climate Conference in Paris. This exceptional measure is taken “where there is a serious threat to public policy or internal security”. (...)
Together we can cool the planet!

18 October 2015 - by La Via Campesina, GRAIN

For many years, La Vía Campesina and GRAIN have been telling the world about how the agroindustrial food system causes half of all greenhouse gas emissions. But the world’s governments are refusing to face these problems head on, and the Paris (...)
Yes to changing production and consumption systems ... Not to climate change !!

30 September 2015 - by ATTAC/CADTM Morocco

Appeal signed by 11 organizations from Egypt, Lebanon, Algeria, Mauritania, Tunisia, Turkey, Morocco (Morocco ATTAC), France and Spain on Climate Change. Since the failure of the Kyoto Conference, Doha, Copenhagen, ... it is urgent for a (...)
Mobilizing collectively against climate change throughout 2015

16 April 2015 - by Coalition Climat 21

To build the pressure needed for ambitious and just climate action, and transformational and sustainable public policies, close to 100 civil society organisations have collectively foundedthe French platform Coalition Climat 21. The fight for (...)
Debt, plunder and degrowth

28 January 2015 - by Nicolas Sersiron

Here we publish the speech by Nicolas Sersiron from CADTM France, made during the regional Degrowth workshop in Budapest on January the 24-25 th. Historically, capitalism was developed by the looting of natural and human resources (territorial (...)
The world is not a commodity! And neither are women!

8 December 2014 - by World March of Women

The World March of Women at the People’s Summit for Social and Environmental Justice: against the commodification of life, for the defense of common goods! We will keep fighting against green capitalism and strengthening women’s alternatives! (...)
Is there a political path towards Paris (COP 21 – December 2015)?

12 November 2014 - by Felipe Van Keirsbilck, Altersummit

The essential issue of transitioning to an ecological economic system that does not destroy the planet and climate has been deferred by the 2008 “crisis” (undoubtedly one of the numerous benefits the crisis gave banks and multinationals…) Not just (...)
Call for mobilization towards Lima People’s Summit

In Lima change the system, not the climate! Social movements and organizations, trade unions, peasants, indigenous peoples communities, women and environmentalist organizations, gathered in Lima, Peru, on the 12h and 13th of August, invited by (...)
There will be no going back from the climate chaos if we don’t halt polluting corporations and change the system

18 June 2014 - by Collectif

Climate change negotiations are being dominated by irresponsible states, polluters and corporations that only care about current operations and the furtherance of profits through more fossil fuel exploitation and in new carbon markets which are (...)
WSF Tunis

To Reclaim Our Future, We Must Change the Present

The capitalist system has exploited and abused nature, pushing the planet to its limits, so much so that the system has accelerated dangerous and fundamental changes in the climate. Today, the severity and multiplicity of weather changes – (...)