The 17th Conference of the Parties (COP 17) to the United Nations Conference on Climate Change will take place from November 28 to December 9 in Durban, South Africa. As in previous years and since 2007, Real World Radio will do a special coverage of the climate conference on the ground. While industrialized nations pressure for agreements that will release them from responsibility towards the climate crisis they have caused, social movements from all over the world will arrive in Durban to demand justice and real solutions. Real World Radio’s goal is to follow the agenda of the people affected by climate change, such as peasants, indigenous, fisherfolk, as well as environmentalists and women’s movements and other social organizations that support them in their struggle for climate justice.
7 December 2011 | Videos | COP 17
Giant oil transnational corporations like Shell and BP (which are both part of the SAPREF consortium) and others such as Malaysian company Engen, are causing havoc in the South Durban industrial basin. The reports reached as far as The Hague, Netherlands. Watch video
6 December 2011 | Interviews | COP 17
Isaac Rojas, coordinator of the Forests and Biodiversity Program of Friends of the Earth International spoke with Real World Radio in Durban about the risks implied by the mechanism known as REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation). Read more
5 December 2011 | Videos | COP 17
“Climate change is not something which is inevitable, it can be managed, it can be stopped”, Zimbabwan peasant Elizabet Mpofu would say this to any official delegate of an industrialized country at the United Nations Climate negotiations (COP 17) in Durban, South Africa. Watch video
5 December 2011 | News | COP 17
The United Nations Climate Conference (COP 17) in Durban, South Africa, shows the economic interests above the causes and consequences of global warming. Read more
5 December 2011 | Videos | COP 17
Several women organizations arrived in Durban to express their point of views at the side events held in parallel to the United Nations COP 17 on Climate Change, which will last until December 9. Watch video
5 December 2011 | Videos | COP 17
International movement Via Campesina is demanding that agriculture be left out of the climate multilateral talks in Durban and for an ambitious agreement with legally binding emissions reduction targets for developed countries. Watch video
4 December 2011 | Videos | COP 17
Thousands of people marched Saturday in Durban, South Africa, at the Global Day of Action for Climate Justice. The demonstrators marched outside the International Convention Center where the United Nations talks on Climate change are taking place. Watch video
2 December 2011 | Videos | Financialization of nature | COP 17
Tens of people mobilized on Thursday outside the 17th Conference of the Parties (COP) to the UN Convention on Climate Change in Durban, South Africa, to ask for the World Bank to stay out of the international climate fund. Watch video
30 November 2011 | Videos | COP 17
The lack of commitment of developed countries in reducing their polluting emissions and the pressure to kill the Kyoto Protocol to promote another weaker agreement lacking ambition, set the tone of the United Nations talks on Climate Change. Watch video
30 November 2011 | Videos | COP 17
An action against carbon markets, offsetting and false solutions and to demand urgent and drastic cuts to polluting emissions, was held Tuesday in Durban, South Africa. The protest took place a few meters from the city's International Conference Center, where the UN climate talks are taking place. Watch video
Real World Radio 2003 - 2018 | All the material published here is licensed under Creative Commons (Attribution Share Alike). The site is created with Spip, free software specialized in web publications. Done with love.