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Frying in France

18 July 2023 - by Michael Roberts

As I fry in record temperatures in the south of France, the concept of a short sunny vacation away from the vagaries of British weather has evaporated. The world endured the hottest week ever recorded between 3-10 July this year. And (...)
Economists of the world say yes to the Yasuní National Park in Ecuador

13 July 2023 - by Eric Toussaint, Alberto Acosta, Pierre Salama, Joan Martínez Alier, Wilma Salgado, Rosa Sueiro, Aleida Azamar

On 20 August, Ecuador will vote in a historic referendum to suspend oil extraction and keep the remaining oil reserves in the ground in Block 43 or the ITT field. This field is located in the Yasuni National Park, in the heart of the Ecuadorian (...)
Durban deceits threaten global climate politics

27 June 2023 - by Patrick Bond

The potential new leader of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) – the world body’s Nobel Prize-winning scientific network – could well be a long-serving Durban municipal official, Debra Roberts to be held in Nairobi (...)
Macron and Putin fight the same battle… against environmentalists!

27 June 2023 - by Yorgos Mitralias

The coincidence is terribly eloquent: On the same day, Wednesday June 21, 2023, almost at the same time, Macron and Putin declared war on all those who take the protection of nature, humanity and our planet seriously! Macron and his government (...)
Deal in Ignominious Green in the Galapagos

21 June 2023 - by Anne Theisen

According to Julien Bouissou’s article in Le Monde on 18 May 2023, ’cancelling the debt and offsetting it with a set of measures to safeguard the biodiversity of the Galapagos archipelago, a UNESCO world heritage site’ is an ’extraordinary green (...)
The Avocados of Wrath

8 May 2023 - by GRAIN

“This little orchard will be part of a great holding next year, for the debt will have choked the owner. This vineyard will belong to the bank. Only the great owners can survive, for they own the canneries too... Men who have created new fruits (...)
The Last Winter of Gas in Europe

31 March 2023 - by Collective

We will not sit idle while governments across the political spectrum repeatedly choose the path of collapse and continuous social and economic crises in order to save the fossil fuels industry. While hundreds of activists blockade the European (...)
Climate-Financing Carrots and Sticks in South Africa

29 March 2023 - by Patrick Bond

Abstract At a time international climate finance is hotly contested, especially in Britain, Europe and the United States, durable demands from the Global South have again arisen, especially that major greenhouse gas emitters’ contributions to (...)
Economist Joseph Stiglitz on How War, Covid & Climate Crisis Cause Economic Crises Around the World

10 March 2023 - by Joseph Stiglitz, Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!, Juan González

As the U.N. secretary-general blasts wealthy nations for rigging the global economy for their benefit, we speak with economist Joseph Stiglitz about how war, the pandemic and the climate emergency are causing economic crises across the globe. He (...)
How to combat the growing carbon inequality?

21 February 2023 - by Sushovan Dhar

Global attention has been drawn to the rising inequality that has recently been observed in almost all the nations. Growing inequality is a result of a number of reasons, including globalisation, technological advancement, labour market changes, (...)
The Dakar Declaration – Pan-African cooperation & global solidarity

1 February 2023 - by Collective

Scholars and activists from Africa, Asia, Europe, and North America, came together to draft the Dakar Declaration last year. The declaration condemns the constraints to Africa’s economic and monetary sovereignty. Against the multifaceted crises (...)
Davos 23: going pear-shaped

23 January 2023 - by Michael Roberts

This week, the jamboree of the rich global elite of the World Economic Forum (WEF) has started again after the COVID interregnum. Top political and business leaders have flown in on their private jets to discuss climate change and global (...)
Financing the 30x 30 agenda for the Oceans: Debt for Nature swaps should be rejected

16 December 2022 - by CADTM, Collective

1. At the UN Biodiversity Conference, or COP-15, the post-2020 framework will likely endorse the target of declaring 30% of the world’s land and oceans as protected areas by 2030. We recognise that protected areas can be effective means to (...)
French fossil imperialism, South African subimperialism and anti-imperial resistance

15 December 2022 - by Patrick Bond

Abstract As protest against TotalEnergies stretching from South Africa’s Cape coastline to eastern Uganda rises, the main Big Oil target of African climate activists is facing an historic choice. It can continue long-standing patterns of (...)
Western diplomats offer rotten climate carrot, and wield broken sanctions stick

5 December 2022 - by Patrick Bond, Desmond D’Sa

In 1965, Ho Chi Minh described U.S. President Lyndon Johnson’s half-baked $1 billion gift to the Vietnamese – and simultaneous threat of endless bombing – as a “rotten carrot and broken stick.” The National Liberation Front’s aim was to achieve (...)
Sign on statement

Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO): 19 years is enough

2 December 2022 - by CADTM, Collective, GRAIN, Friends of the Earth

This year’s general assembly of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), which begins on 1 December 2022 in Malaysia, marks the alliance’s 19th anniversary. For nearly two decades now, the RSPO has failed in its mission to make the (...)
Decarbonisation financing foiled in Egypt: World Bank and Pretoria sabotage global climate justice

12 November 2022 - by Patrick Bond

In Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, where the 27th United Nations annual effort at solving the climate crisis is half-way to failure, negotiators and anyone interested in South Africa’s welfare might get the wrong impression, given hype flowing in (...)
COP27

Isn’t the cancellation of Southern debt a solution to the climate crisis?

10 November 2022 - by Scandola Graziani

Financial compensation allows the countries of the South to finance their fight against global warming. But this makes their deficit deeper. At the time of the COP27, some of them insist on cancelling their debt. Sea level rise, wildfires, (...)
Another cop out?

10 November 2022 - by Michael Roberts

COP 27 started over the weekend. COP stands for the conference of the parties under the UNFCCC. Under the 1992 UN framework convention on climate change (UNFCCC), every country is treaty-bound to “avoid dangerous climate change” and find ways to (...)
Greta Thunberg: The Climate Event

6 November 2022 - by Greta Thunberg

Greta Thunberg calls for an urgent strengthening of the fight for climate justice and says that only mobilisation can force governments to act. Her speech starts at 21 minutes 21 seconds and lasts 14 (...)
Austerity budget accelerates both South Africa’s “Arab Spring” and climate crimes

1 November 2022 - by Patrick Bond

Can activists in South Africa link campaigns against debt and climate, consistent with a broader international push that heralds a “Loss & Damage” showdown with the Western establishment in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt at the United Nations climate (...)
What African Governments Must Fight for at COP27

25 October 2022 - by Africa Climate Justice Collective

We the African People: In solidarity, stand as women, men, youth, peasants, social movements, community- based and civil society organisations as a united front against the multi-dimensional crisis that is prevailing in our continent. Noting (...)
Thorny questions for Western and South African “Just Energy Transition Partnership” negotiators (from whom we won’t get satisfactory answers)

21 October 2022 - by Patrick Bond, Desmond D’Sa

What kind of monetary carrot is needed to help high-polluting middle-income countries to rapidly decarbonise? Mainly because of a South African pilot project supposedly worth $8.5 billion, the worlds of high finance and climate justice are (...)
Press Release

2022: Let us end the food crisis

5 September 2022 - by CADTM International

Many countries and their populations currently face a critical situation because of the rising prices of food or the impossibility of getting access to food in sufficient quantity. As the main cause is not the war in Ukraine, as repeated by (...)
Climate change and wars

10 April 2022 - by Michael Roberts

As the ugly war in Ukraine drags on, with more lives lost and atrocities (apparently) committed, energy and food prices hit yet more highs. The Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) of the UN publishes a monthly global price index. The FAO (...)