25 November 2015 | Interviews | Victims of climate change | UN Climate Change COP 21 | Pinocchio Awards 2015
This year’s international climate talks (COP21) in Paris appear to be sponsored by the same perpetrators guilty of hindering real solutions to climate change. The French electricity company, EDF, has been nominated for the Pinocchio Awards under the category ‘greenwashing.’ The company claims their electricity mix is carbon free and they are presenting themselves as ‘the official partner of a low-carbon world.’ Read more
24 November 2015 | Interviews | Victims of climate change | UN Climate Change COP 21 | Pinocchio Awards 2015
With the Pinocchio Climate Awards approaching, the heat is on to pick this year’s winner in each category of green washing, lobbying, and local impacts. Focusing on the latter, one company appears to be substantially destructive of lives and the climate. BNP Paribas has been nominated due to their involvement as one of the top international banks supporting the expansion of the coal sector by contributing to a whopping 15.6 billion euro to mining and coal-fired power plants. Read more
20 November 2015 | Interviews | Victims of climate change | UN Climate Change COP 21
With the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference approaching, much focus has been set on the development on the Green Climate Fund (GCF). The GCF is a mechanism initiated by UN Convention on Climate Change to counter the impacts of climate change through mitigation and adaption in developing countries. To date, the Fund has raised USD $10.2 billion dollars, which is to be divided over the next four years to promote low-emission and climate-resilient development. Read more
21 October 2015 | Videos | Victims of climate change | UN Climate Change COP 21
With less than three days of negotiations on climate change to go in the framework of the United Nations (UN) in Bonn, Germany, before the COP21that will begin on November 30, in Paris, France, Filipino activist Lidy Nacpil, coordinator of the Asian Peoples Movement on Debt and Development, said: “to save our people, our planet, our communities, we have to act globally”. Watch video
21 October 2015 | News | Victims of climate change | Free Honduras | Land grabbing
The Black Fraternal Organization of Honduras (OFRANEH) was awarded the Food Sovereignty Prize 2015 by the US Food Sovereignty Alliance, which recognizes the work of grassroots activists who work for a more democratic food system. Read more
13 October 2015 | News | Victims of climate change | UN Climate Change COP 21 | Financialization of nature
The peoples of the world gathered in Tiquipaya, Bolivia from 10 to 12 October 2015, we worked on a agreed proposal to be presented to the international community and governments around the world to preserve the life and combat climate change; as an urgent response to a failed capitalist system and civilization model that are the structural causes of the climate crisis in the world. Read more
1 July 2015 | News | Victims of climate change
Last June 20, communities threatened by fracking, mining and dams met during two days to share information and initiatives against these megaprojects that “represent an attack against the life of communities”, at the North Gulf Meeting in defense of the territory, water and life, against death projects. Read more
26 June 2015 | News | Victims of climate change
Nothing less than a systemic transformation of our societies, our economies, and our world will suffice to solve the climate crisis and close the ever-increasing inequality gap. Read more
24 June 2015 | Interviews | Victims of climate change
Ricardo Navarro, of CESTA-Friends of the Earth El Salvador, said to Real World Radio that the main issue with waste incineration in Mesoamerica is related to cement transnational companies (such as Holcim) that burn toxic residues. Read more
9 June 2015 | Interviews | Victims of climate change
A new website was launched by Friends of the Earth Europe and Friends of the Earth International on June 3rd where the organizations are inviting everyone to join the energy revolution, demand justice for people affected by climate change and support renewable energy sources controlled by communities to the detriment of fossil fuel use. Read more
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