2014 Special Broadcasts / COP 20 - Lima

From 1 to 12 of December of 2014, Peru’s capital, Lima, will host the 20th Conference of the Parties (COP 20) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. Industrialized countries will try to free themselves of their obligations resulting from the climate debt they owe to the countries of the south (such as reducing emissions, climate finance and technology transfer) and they will continue to promote false market solutions to climate change. At the same time, from December 9 to 12, social movements and organizations of the world will meet in Lima at the Peoples’ Summit to promote real solutions and mobilize for climate justice.

  • 27 November 2014 | |

    System change not climate change

    Interview with Dipti Bhatnagar, Friends of the Earth International

    The 20th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) will be held the first two weeks of December in Lima, Peru. Friends of the Earth International will participate in the COP campaigning for a fair global climate deal, demanding that the most developed countries cut their emissions substantially and assists developing countries to change over to clean energy. Dipti Bhatnagar, Climate Justice & Energy Co-coordinator from Friends of the Earth International talks about the risk of governments this year, yet again pushing for false solutions – instead of focusing on actions to reduce climate change. Read more

  • 12 November 2014 | |

    From Margarita Island to Lima

    Social Pre COP on Climate Change at Margarita Island completed: now it’s time for the People’s Summit in Lima

    From November 4 to 7 social movements and organizations from around the world gathered in Margarita Island, Venezuela, in the Social Pre COP on Climate Change, organized by the national government. Read more

  • 11 November 2014 | |

    Working to Increase Popular Participation

    Details Released on People’s Summit in Lima

    In this report, we hear from three members of movements and organizations that participated in the Social PreCOP on Climate Change recently held on Margarita Island, Venezuela, from November 4 to 7, which for the first time aimed to explicitly create a space for organizations and social movements to have greater influence on the negotiations taking place in the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. Read more

  • 5 November 2014 | |

    “System Change, Not Climate Change”

    Venezuela: Ministerial Social PreCOP towards Lima

    The Ministerial Social PreCOP was launched on Tuesday 4 in Isla Margarita following discussions by social movements and non governmental organizations (NGOs) to establish their position and agree on a document to be discussed on Thursday with Ministers from 40 countries. This sets a historical precedent since it is the first time a part of the international community will sit together with the people to discuss and define strategies for the struggle against climate change. Read more

  • 22 October 2014 | | |

    New video on the financialization of nature

    Real World Radio has launched a new short video produced for the Forests and Biodiversity Program of the environmental federation Friends of the Earth International. The video analyzes the financialization of nature and features several activists who have been working on issues linked to the financialization of nature for many years and from different perspectives. Watch video

  • 22 September 2014 | |

    International Day of Struggle Against Monoculture Tree Plantations: There is no “smart monoculture”

    Declaration on the International Day of Struggle Against Monoculture Tree Plantations: Dismantle the power of transnational plantation corporations! There is no “smart monoculture”: Support the People’s Climate March! Read more

  • 17 September 2014 | |

    A Southern COP: Climate Justice Movement Strategies in the Lead-Up to UN Climate Conference in Peru

    The Center for Democracy, a Bolivia-based organization, has issued a new report named “Strategies of the Movement to Move Mountains. Conversations with activists from around the world about how to take advantage of the COP in Latin America to build citizens’action on climate”. Read more

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