climate change
After the Durban climate talks: State and market climate failures amplified by civil society failure
By Patrick Bond, Durban
February 28, 2012 -- Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal -- In 2007, former World Bank chief economist Nick Stern termed climate change the worst "market failure" in history – since those who pollute with greenhouse gases are not charged, and since they threaten future generations and vast swathes of natural life – and at that moment, even the 1991 ravings of another former World Bank chief economist, Larry Summers, made sense.
"I think the economic logic behind dumping a load of toxic waste in the lowest-wage country is impeccable and we should face up that", according to a memo with Summers’ signature, although actually Summers was a mere plagiarist of Harvard economist Lant Pritchett’s genius, insiders allege.
‘Global sustainability’ wilts in South Africa’s political hot air
By Patrick Bond, Durban
How Cuba mobilises to defeat public health emergencies
Medical students in Cuba.
Pablo Solon on Rio+20: For an international campaign against the commodification of nature
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Bolivia's proposals on the 'rights of nature' for Rio+20
December 19, 2011 -- The proposals developed by the Plurinational State of Bolivia bring together and build upon the progress made in the World Charter for Nature (1982), the Rio Declaration (1992), the Earth Charter (2000) and the World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth (2010).
[The United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) is scheduled for June 20-22, 2012, in Brazil. It marks the 20th anniversary of the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), in Rio de Janeiro, and the 10th anniversary of the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) in Johannesburg.]
I. A DEEPER COMMITMENT TO SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN THE 21ST CENTURY
Durban’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 HERE.]
By Patrick Bond
Ανατέμνοντας τους αριθμούς για τον υπερπληθυσμό
[In English (Αγγλική εκδοχή σε) at http://links.org.au/node/2520.]
Τι μπορεί να αναμένεται από τις συνομιλίες του Ντάρμπαν;
Νίμο Μπάσεϊ. Photo: Right Livelihood Award Foundation.
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 Clas
Indigenous peoples condemn climate talks fiasco and demand moratorium on REDD+
By the Global Justice Ecology Project