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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 (...) -
How the Exploitation of Africa Helps Fuel Global Capitalism
8 January 2022 - by Chris Dite, Maha Ben Gadha
The political and economic crises roiling countries like Sudan and Tunisia right now cannot be separated from the global institutions of capital and the cycles of indebtedness that they impose. The political and economic crises in Sudan, (...) -
Rio Linglong: Eco Uprising in Serbia
12 December 2021 - by Nenad Glišić
The case of the brutal exploitation of Vietnamese workers in the Chinese company LingLong and the servile attitude of the authorities towards the interests of the multinational company Rio Tinto have become central political topics in Serbia. (...) -
Glasgow’s ‘Conference of the Polluters’ again confirms that global arson needs local fire extinguishers
15 November 2021 - by Patrick Bond, Desmond D’Sa
Global elite failure, yet again The United Nations COP26 Glasgow Climate Pact signed on November 14 is another confirmation of what we learned in Durban in 2011, at the 17th UN climate summit. As expressed by Indigenous activist Ta’Kaiya Blaney (...) -
Lessons from the assassination of Fikile Ntshangase: Climate violence, the “Right to say No!”, uncompensated resource extraction, financial profiteering and unpaid ecological debt in South Africa’s coal mining belt
22 October 2021 - by Patrick Bond
Fikile Ntshangase died aged 63 on October 22, 2020, assassinated by three thugs who entered her house – with several grandchildren playing nearby – and shot her six times, following her success in stalling a local mine’s expansion. The murder was (...) -
BRICS New Development Bank Corruption in South Africa
5 September 2021 - by Patrick Bond
1. Introduction: Raised – and dashed – expectations for the BRICS replacing Western banking In 2013 in Durban, at the heads-of-state summit of the Brazil-Russia-India-China-South Africa (BRICS) bloc, a New Development Bank (NDB) and Contingent (...) -
How Austerity Helped to Ignite Greece’s Historic Wildfires
22 August 2021 - by Stelios Foteinopoulos
If Ferdinand Lassalle lived today, he would be able to watch his ideas age badly. In 1862, Lassalle, speaking to a socialist gathering in Berlin, outlined his theory of the night-watchman state – a neoliberal concept whereby the state transfers (...) -
Global North ‘climate reparations’ to prevent Southern fossil-fuel conflict
19 August 2021 - by Patrick Bond
Abstract The climate crisis is amplified by socio-political and economic injustices everywhere but in 2021, perhaps nowhere as acutely as northern Mozambique. There, the Cabo Delgado province is a site for military intervention against Islamic (...) -
What can be done now to ameliorate poverty, unemployment and inequality?
2 August 2021 - by Jeff Rudin, Jonathan Cannard, Bruce Baigrie, Maxine Bezuidenhout, Jaco Oelofson, Keamogetswe Seipato
“What are the status quo limits to what can be done about poverty, unemployment and inequality?” This sentence, buried deep in a recent Daily Maverick article by one of us, evoked a sizable response, some sympathetic, others hostile. The already (...)
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