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Pablo Solon: What to expect from Durban climate talks: temperature to rise...
Balance sheet and perspectives on the climate change negotiationsBy Pablo Solon November 17, 2011 -- Hoye es Todavia -- Almost a year has gone by since the results of the climate change negotiations in...
View Article#OccupyCOP17, Durban climate talks: African and Indigenous voices for real...
About 50 protesters held a pre-COP17 action on November 25, chanting "Phansi [down with] CDMs, phansi!" In the background is the World Cup white elephant, the Moses Mabhida Stadium, a few kilometres...
View ArticleWelcome to Durban (excerpt from new book, 'Durban’s Climate Gamble')
Above: Durban’s Climate Gamble editor Patrick Bond (right) and contributor Ashwin Desai provide a background to the Durban climate talks. [The following is an excerpt from a new book, Durban’s Climate...
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South Africa: Rural women demand action on climate change
[For more on the COP17 Durban climate talks, click HERE.]Memorandum from the Rural Women's Assembly to the UNFCCC, the government of the Republic of South Africa and the governments of Africa December...
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Durban climate talks: ‘Forests are not for carbon stocks’ -- climate justice...
Photo: Anne Petermann/GJEP-GFC.[For more on the COP17 Durban climate talks, click HERE.]December 4, 2011 -- Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal -- "Bolivia came out swinging at its first...
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Photo essay: Thousands hit the streets of Durban to protest UN 'Conference of...
Overview of the march. Photo: Petermann/GJEP-GFC.[For more on the COP17 Durban climate talks, click HERE.]Photo essay by Orin Langelle (Global Justice Ecology Project) and Anne Petermann (Global...
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South Africa: ANC hirelings attempt to hijack march, attack left
ANCYL members, employed as "host city volunteers" and dressed in green, clash with members of the Democratic Left Front, dressed in red, at the start of the rally. Photo by Sandile Ndlovu. [For more on...
View ArticleDurban climate talks: 'Rich-country negotiators are comitting ecocide' --...
December 3, 2011 -- OneWorldTV -- Pablo Solon, former Bolivian ambassador to the UN climate talks, speaks during the December 3 day of action in Durban, during the COP17 talks.[For more on the COP17...
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Climate talks: A dirty deal coming down in Durban
Photo: Orin Langelle/GJEP.[For more on the COP17 Durban climate talks, click HERE.]By Patrick Bond December 6, 2011 -- What, now, are the prospects for a climate deal by December 9? The biggest problem...
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La Via Campesina: 'No deal better than a bad deal that condemns humanity to...
[For more on the COP17 Durban climate talks, click HERE.]Assembly of the Oppressed, December 5, 2011, Durban, South Africa As the Assembly of the Oppressed we are gathered here to demand the...
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Climate talks: No to a 'Durban mandate'!; Pablo Solon, Patrick Bond: 'US...
Photo by Orin Langelle/GJEP.[For more on the COP17 Durban climate talks, click HERE.]By the Civil Society Committee for COP 17December 8, 2011 -- Civil Society Committee for COP 17 (C17) -- As African...
View ArticleSouth Africa: Second attack on climate campaigners by ANC goons; Zuma looks on
DON'T LET AFRICA FRY: ZUMA'S GOONS ATTACK from Jadis on Vimeo.South Africa's president Zuma watched as ANC supporters assaulted peaceful demonstrators.[For more on the COP17 Durban climate talks, click...
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Durban talks: Rich polluters impose 'new regime of climate apartheid'; Pablo...
Protesters block the halls at the Durban International Conference Centre, December 9, 2011. Photo from Earth Negotiations Bulletin.)[For more on the COP17 Durban climate talks, click HERE.]Antidote is...
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Climate talks: 'Social movements must unite to cool the planet' --...
"Developed countries, led by the United States, accelerated the demolition of the world’s international framework for fair and urgent climate action. And developing countries have been bullied and...
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National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa: COP17 and class struggle
The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa convened its first International Seminar on Climate Change and Class Struggle on December 4, 2011.By the National Union of Metalworkers of South...
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Τι μπορεί να αναμένεται από τις συνομιλίες του Ντάρμπαν;
Νίμο Μπάσεϊ. Photo: Right Livelihood Award Foundation.[In English at (Αγγλική εκδοχή σε) http://links.org.au/node/2585.] του Νίμο ΜπάσεϊΜαρξιστική Σκέψη, τόμος 4, Ιανουάριος-Μάρτιος 2012, σελ. 416,...
View ArticleDurban’s climate zombie tripped by dying carbon markets
Patrick Bond interviewed by the Real News Network on December 19. He explained the failure of the carbon markets. Go HERE for a full transcript.[For more on the COP17 Durban climate talks, click...
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Durban climate talks: How not to tackle climate change and call it a success
By Nele Marien[Environmental policy analyst Nele Marien helped organise the World People's Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth and was climate change negotiator for Bolivia...
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‘Global sustainability’ wilts in South Africa’s political hot air
By Patrick Bond, DurbanFebruary 15, 2012 – Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal -- The latest acts in South Africa’s’s intensifying political drama include a sizzling summer-long battle...
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After the Durban climate talks: State and market climate failures amplified...
Durban, December 3, 2011. Photo by Anne Petermann/GJEP-GFC.By Patrick Bond, DurbanFebruary 28, 2012 -- Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal -- In 2007, former World Bank chief economist...
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Promise-breaking at the World Bank: Why Jim Yong Kim will be a heartbreaker
Jim Yong Kim is also known for his rapping and dancing with talented Dartmouth College kids. By Patrick BondApril 5, 2012 -- Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal -- That 66th birthday month...
View ArticleValues versus prices at the Rio+20 Earth Summit: 'the Green Economy is the...
Climate Connections, June 18, 2012 -- What’s wrong with the green economy?: Joanna Cabello of Carbon Trade Watch at Rio+20.For more coverage of the Rio+20, click HERE. By Patrick Bond, Rio de...
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South Africa: What has Hurricane Sandy taught the ruling elite?
Storm surge from the cyclone in Durban, March 2007. By Patrick BondNovember 6, 2012 – Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal -- What did Hurricane Sandy teach us in South Africa, just as $30...
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BRICS bloc’s rising ‘sub-imperialism’: the latest threat to people and planet?
President Dilma Rousseff of Brazil, Russian President Dimitry Medvedev, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Chinese President Hu Jintao and President Jacob Zuma of South Africa pose prior to the...
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Patrick Bond: Doha climate talks another ‘conference of polluters’
Professor Patrick Bond.By Busani BafanaNovember 27, 2012 -- Inter Press Service -- There is no political will among rich nations to find funding for developing countries experiencing the brunt of...
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The commodification of crap and South Africa’s toilet apartheid
By Patrick Bond, DurbanDecember 5, 2012 – Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal -- The December 3-6, 2012, World Toilet Summit offers an opportunity to contemplate how we curate our crap....
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Small farmers, Indigenous peoples condemn Doha climate talks: 'Governments...
Trade unionists joined a march in Doha for action on climate change to demand improved human rights for migrant workers. Photograph: Karim Jaafar/AFP/Getty Images.Statement by the international peasant...
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South Africa: brics-from-below! Civil society gathering during the...
Whose turn to carve?March 18, 2013 -- In Durban, South Africa, five heads of state meet on March 26-27, 2013, to assure the rest of Africa that their countries’ corporations are better investors in...
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Paris COP21: Seattle-style shutdowns or another climate cul de sac?
400,000-strong climate march, New York, September 21, 2014.Click for more on the struggle against climate change. By Patrick Bond, TunisMarch 29, 2015 -- originally published by TeleSUR, submitted to...
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