Ecology

As South African climate justice veterans fall, consciousness begins reviving, from below and across

2 January 2021 - by Patrick Bond

On three days last week – December 23-25 – South Africa’s east coast province of KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) lost three of its clearest voices for social justice and environmental sanity: rural women’s leader Sizani Ngubane (74), trade unionist Patrick (...)
Climate and environmental crisis: Sorcerer’s apprentices at the World Bank and the IMF

23 December 2020 - by Eric Toussaint

In December 2020, on the occasion of the fifth anniversary of the signature of the Paris Agreement on Climate, the UN General Secretary sounded the alarm because the situation has fundamentally worsened. In this article we analyze what the World (...)
Strengthening Agro-business Capitalism and Weakening Federalism

4 December 2020 - by Pritam Singh

India is currently rocked by farmer’s protest. Tens of thousands of farmers have surrounded India’s capital, New Delhi, where they intend to camp out for weeks to protest against the contentious new agricultural laws that could destroy their (...)
Class Struggle, Environment and the Corona Virus Pandemic

22 April 2020 - by Kunal Chattopadhyay

The Corona virus threat has been declared a pandemic by the World Health Organisation. How not to respond to it from the left is easily seen, by apparently leftist posts circulating in social media (Facebook, WhatsApp, Twitter), which suddenly (...)
State of Power 2020

Corporations as private sovereign powers: the case of Total

7 February 2020 - by Alain Deneault

Total is viewed as “a French oil company,” but in reality it is — like many other transnational corporations — more like a private sovereign power. Contribution of the philosopher Alain Deneault at « State of Power 2020 ». Having studied, written (...)
Extractivism and resistance in North Africa

23 November 2019 - by Hamza Hamouchene

Northern African countries are key suppliers of natural resources to the global economy, from large- scale oil and gas extraction in Algeria and Tunisia, to phosphate mining in Tunisia and Morocco, to water-intensive agribusiness paired with (...)
Climate change and imperialism: what connects the Amazon fires and the EU-Mercosur agreement?

2 October 2019 - by Aleksandar Matković

From the crisis to the Mercosur agreement There have been many discussions on the next global crisis (including Adam Tooze and Ann Pettifor, and the Marxist economists Michael Roberts and John Smith), and I’ve also written and talked about it (...)
Big Shift Global coalition reacts to the World Bank Group’s post-2020 climate goals announcement

5 December 2018 - by Big Shift Global coalition

On Monday, the World Bank Group released a new set of climate targets for 2021-2025, through which it aims to provide and mobilize $200 billion in support of countries’ climate action over this period. According to the Bank’s press release, it (...)
Climate scheme hands $105 million profit to global insurance industry

27 November 2018 - by Jubilee Debt Campaign

Caribbean disaster insurance scheme receives $293 million in premium payments and grants, pays out $131 million in claims, with $105 million going as profit to global insurers Figures released ahead of climate change negotiations in Poland show (...)
Despotism, neoliberalism and climate change: Morocco’s catastrophic convergence

26 July 2017 - by Jawad Moustakbal

Claims of Morocco’s exceptionalism during the Arab Spring now ring hollow as protests spread in the face of elite policies that deny dignity to the majority. On Friday, 28 October 2016, a tragic fatal incident happened in Al Hoceima city in (...)
How TIAA Funds Environmental Disaster in Latin America

6 February 2017 - by Linda Farthing

Pension fund giant TIAA is investing its clients’ funds in farmland and agribusinesses tied to environmental and human rights abuses in Latin America. If you are in U.S. academic, research, medical, or cultural fields, your assets are likely (...)
The rise and fall of World Bank funded megaprojects

3 February 2017 - by Bretton Woods Project

Summary World Bank confirms support for controversial Southern Gas Corridor Bank pulls out of DRC Inga hydropower project IFC to sell stake in Guinea Simandou mining project New complaint regarding Uganda Bujagali hydropower project (...)
Behind the fumes: the dirty truth behind the World Bank’s commitments on climate change

3 February 2017 - by Bretton Woods Project

Summary IFC investments in FIs supported at least 41 coal power plants since 2013 Investments contravene 2013 Bank policy on coal, contribute to climate change and deforestation Lack of disclosure on FI sub-projects continues to deprive (...)
Big business in Marrakech: fertiliser industry and finance dominate COP22

9 November 2016 - by ATTAC/CADTM Maroc, GRAIN

Africa will be centre-stage at this year’s Conference of Parties on climate change (COP 22) in Marrakech. According to the Moroccan steering committee, this is the “African COP”. The event will feature an “Africa Pavilion”, with activities supported (...)
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 Maroc

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 Transnational Institute, 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 (...)