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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29 November 2011 | News | COP 17
Basic rights
Indigenous groups demand respect of traditional knowledge at UN climate talks
Nearly a hundred indigenous leaders from different parts of the world arrived in Durban, South Africa, to participate in the Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention on Climate Change (COP17). Read more
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29 November 2011 | Videos | COP 17
The Conference of the Polluters
Increasing voices urge to occupy UN COP on climate change
Director of groundWork-Friends of the Earth South Africa, Bobby Peek, said the 17th Conference of the Parties (COP) to the United Nations Convention on Climate Change that is taking place in Durban is the “conference of the polluters”. Watch video
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28 November 2011 | Videos | COP 17
Lack of Commitment
Friends of the Earth press conference at the kick-off of the UN climate talks in Durban
Environmental federation Friends of the Earth International (FoEI),with 76 member groups around the world, expressed great concern over the developed countries attempt to undermine the international framework under which these countries must reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. Watch video
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28 November 2011 | Videos | COP 17
Durban: “One planet, One Africa, One people: We have faith”
Chair of Friends of the Earth International and Nobel Peace Prize Winner demand legally binding agreements at the COP on Climate Change
“Now we are asking our politicians that they cannot come to Durban and end the conference without a reasonable legally binding treaty that actually places responsibility and commitments on the polluters. We will not accept it”. Watch video
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24 November 2011 | News | COP 17
"Stronger Targets"
Environmentalists concerned over US agenda at Durban climate talks
The same old story: despite being the major responsible for causing climate change, developed nations attend the UN climate negotiations to try to undermine the global agreements reached in terms of emissions reductions. Read more
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22 November 2011 | News | COP 17
Another Model is Possible
La Via Campesina once again at the COP on climate change. Dirty Energy Week begins in Durban
Over 200 members of La Via Campesina of Africa, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean will attend the upcoming United Nations Conference on Climate Change in Durban, South Africa, in order to promote peasant agriculture and agroecology to stop global warming. Read more
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21 November 2011 | News | COP 17
One Year Since Cancun and Just Days Away from Durban: MORE THAN 4°C
Balance sheet and perspectives on the climate change negotiations (Part I)
Pablo Solon (*) Almost a year has gone by since the results of the climate change negotiations in Cancun were imposed with the objection of only Bolivia. It’s time to take stock and see where we are now. Read more
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21 November 2011 | Interviews | COP 17
The Naked Truth
Interview with David Hallowes, from groundWork-Friends of the Earth South Africa
“We believe that the parties to the conference, in other words the national governments who are going there, have been much more interested to defend their interest in capital than they have been to address the problem. (...)What we think needs to happen is that there needs to be a different logic. Governments need to start going to the COP on the logic that we actually have to address the climate issue and we think that is not going to happen unless people force them to”. Read more
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17 November 2011 | Interviews | COP 17
Our Proposals
Mozambican social movements raise their flags ahead of the UN COP on climate change
La Via Campesina Mozambique, the organization Justicia Ambiental-Friends of the Earth Mozambique and the National Peasant Union of Mozambique presented a joint political position on Thursday in Maputo, ahead of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention on Climate Change (COP 17) that begins on November 28 in Durban, South Africa. Read more
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16 November 2011 | Interviews | COP 17
In the Path to Renewables
Dirty energy: A key issue for South Africa ahead of the COP on climate change
Cheap, renewable energy for local communities and to stop mining and the use of coal for electricity will be the main demands of the South African organization Greater Middleburg Resident’s Association in the upcoming United Nations Climate Conference (COP 17) to be held in Durban. Read more
