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Anticapitalism and climate justice

29 March 2010 - by Esther Vivas

Today, climate change is an undeniable reality. The political, social and media impact of the Copenhagen Summit in December 2009 was a good proof of this. A summit that showed the inability of the capitalist system to give a credible response to (...)
South Africans say no to Eskom’s R29 billion World Bank Loan

Communities, environmental groups, academics and NGOs today call on the World Bank to cease and desist from a proposed loan of R29 billion ($3.75 bn) to Eskom. If this loan – which may come up for a Board vote in March or April – goes through, (...)
Bangladesh: Government against climate aid via World Bank

DHAKA, 16 February 2010 (IRIN) - Bangladesh has voiced strong opposition to plans by the UK Department for International Development (DFID) to provide close to US$100 million in climate change aid - because of its delivery through the World (...)
We must support a Universal Declaration of the Rights of Mother Earth

9 January 2010 - by Cormac Cullinan , Pablo Solón

For Bolivia, December marked an important and historic step forward in climate change politics. We are of course not referring to Brokenhagen, where we saw the worst of intransigent, undemocratic and cynical tactics from the world’s largest (...)
From climate denialism to activist alliances

9 January 2010 - by Patrick Bond

Seattle offers a lesson to the African negotiators at the climate talks: by walking out - alongside civil society protesters - and halting a bad deal in Copenhagen on December 18, we can together pave the way for subsequent progress. (...)
How to cure the post-Copenhagen hangover

9 January 2010 - by Patrick Bond

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 (...)
Climate change and our tasks

16 December 2009 - by Daniel Tanuro

The climate change that is underway is not the product of human activity in general but is mainly due to the fact that the capitalist system, guided by considerations of short-term profit and superprofit, has based and continues to base its (...)
Presse release of the african Attac network on Copenhaguen Council

Emergency. Let us save the planet, let us save Africa

No to the commodification of the climate Another world, social, united and ecological, is possible Africans still bear in mind the recent floods that have led to the death and displacement of hundreds of thousands of people in several (...)
Divisions remain deep on eve of Copenhagen Climate Conference

12 December 2009 - by Martin Khor

In late November the news on climate change has been on the downgrading of expectations for the Copenhagen conference in December. This is a surprise to those who have been involved in or following the UNFCCC climate talks The last two (...)
We demand effective commitments for fighting climate change

8 December 2009 - by Alianza Social Continental

Between the 7th and 18th of December, 2009 during the UN Conference on Climate Change (COP15) in Copenhagen, world governments will attempt to make commitments for reducing carbon emissions and lay out policies for mitigating climate change. In (...)
Socialists, the environment and ecosocialism: a view from South Africa

6 December 2009 - by Trevor Ngwane

There is an ecological crisis in the world and this crisis can be traced to capitalism. There is deforestation due to the trade in timber. There is climate change due to unsafe production methods. The working class is the class that suffers the (...)
Pakistani women are worst hit by climate change

16 November 2009 - by Bushra Khaliq

Pakistan is among the countries which will be hit hardest in near future by effects of climate change even though it contributes only a fraction to global warming. The country is witnessing severe pressures on natural resources and environment. (...)
Developed Countries Must Pay for Historical and Ecological Debt

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 (...)
Press Statement - International Meeting on Strategies on Climate and Finance

Finance for Socioeconomic and Climate Justice

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, (...)
Call for a ‘Seattle’ approach to Copenhagen climate talks, Africans demand reparations

14 September 2009 - by Patrick Bond

September 5, 2009 – Durban — Here’s a fairly simple choice: the global North would pay the hard-hit global South to deal with the climate crisis, either through the complicated, corrupt, controversial ``Clean Development Mechanism’ (CDM), whose (...)
The grave ecological destruction sponsored by the World Bank

30 July 2009 - by Eric De Ruest, Hélene Baillot

The meeting of IPCC at Paris in the beginning of 2007 had sounded the alarm bell on the gravity of the situation with reference to the climatic imbalance and opened the road to the climate conference at Bali. The governments present at the (...)
Climate, Energy and Natural Resources management crisis

The climate crises into which the world has been plunged is a crisis that will continue to deepen unless decisive steps are taken to halt the unsustainable consumption lifestyle dependent on increasing use of fossil fuels. Today the world has a (...)
Which development facing poverty?

24 September 2008 - by Nicolás Angulo Sanchez

When we speak of human development and the reduction of poverty, we must not refer to the unleashed consumption of goods (from cars, computers, increasingly powerful cell phones down to an almost unlimited variety of any product), but to the (...)
Financing Emissions From Jets and cows

23 September 2008 - by Robert Goodland

Environmental scientist Robert Goodland , who served the World Bank Group between 1978 and 2001 is credited with authoring some of the Bank’s environmental safeguard policies. He helped create the World Commission on Dams. In an e-mail interview, (...)
From false to real solutions for climate change

22 May 2008 - by Patrick Bond

Amidst her welcome critique of the biofuel mania, Vandana Shiva’s ZNet commentary (December 13, 2007) also made this point: “The Kyoto Protocol totally avoided the material challenge of stopping activities that lead to higher emissions and the (...)