2011 Special Broadcasts / COP 17
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.
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7 December 2011 | Videos | COP 17
An Unforgettable Tour
What is concealed at the COP: The oil industry and its criminal practices in the south of Durban
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
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6 December 2011 | Interviews | COP 17
In the REDD
Friends of the Earth warns that REDD mechanism “leads to neoliberalism”
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
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5 December 2011 | Videos | COP 17
Not One Step Back
Big La Via Campesina mobilization in Durban
“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
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5 December 2011 | News | COP 17
No Ambition
Ricardo Navarro analyzes what is at stake in South Africa
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
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5 December 2011 | Videos | COP 17
Gender Equality to Achieve Climate Justice
Fighting climate change as part of the fight against capitalism: the women’s perspective
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
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5 December 2011 | Videos | COP 17
Peasant agriculture: a real solution to climate change
La Via Campesina mobilized in Durban during UN climate talks
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
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4 December 2011 | Videos | COP 17
We have run out of patience
The voices of the Global Day of Action for Climate Justice
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
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2 December 2011 | Videos | Financialization of nature | COP 17
20 Years of COPs
Interview with Brazilian environmentalist: the Climate talks and Rio+20
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
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30 November 2011 | Videos | COP 17
“Apartheid Against Nature”
Interview with former Bolivian ambassador to the UN, Pablo Solon
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
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30 November 2011 | Videos | COP 17
“Stop stealing tomorrow’s future today”
The voices of African social movements: Protests outside the COP
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
