Two Good Days When Crimes Against Nature Were Exposed
By Nnimmo Bassey For two days in the Maison des Metallos, Paris, experts, victims, prosecutors and judges presented or listened to cases of crimes against Mother Earth and at the end judgements were passed. There were solemn spiritual moments, moments...
A blue and just future is possible
Maude Barlow’s keynote speech from the International Conference on Water, Megacities and Global Change, UNESCO Headquarters, Paris, December 1, 2015 In early December, the world turned its attention to climate talks in Paris. At their international headquarters in Paris, UNESCO...
COP Out: The hollow promise of the Paris climate deal
Hal Rhoades, Gaia Foundation, December 16, 2015 COP21 has had a mixed reception and the agreement reached has been criticised more for what it doesn’t say as much as for what it does. The Gaia Foundation’s latest blog COP out:...
The Paris COP21 failure demonstrates climate justice lies beyond the “Red Line”
Movement Rights Blog, By Shannon Biggs and Pennie Opal Plant, December 21, 2015 If you’ve been confused by the conflicting reports of the success COP 21 negotiations, you’re not alone. On the final day of the UN climate talks, President...
Grand promises of Paris climate deal undermined by squalid retrenchments
By comparison to what it could have been, it’s a miracle. By comparison to what it should have been, it’s a disaster. George Monbiot, The Guardian Monbiot goes on to note: Inside the narrow frame within which the talks have...
What are those Rights of Nature. You should know, aren’t you part of her …
[facebook_ilike] “What we have forgotten is to give back some times. We think that exchanging money, or paying a bill with a plastic card, somehow makes us even in this exchange. But here today, we are going to share from...
Mind the gap: Climate negotiators and civil society don’t agree
By Elisa Garcia for Global Sisters Report Photo: Indigenous leader from Ecuador speaks to crimes against nature by Chevron to a 13-member international panel of judges headed by South African lawyer Cormac Cullinan, author of Wild Law. Left is co-prosecutor...
UN Press Conference International Rights of Nature Tribunal
Prominent International Rights of Nature Tribunal Offers Earth-Driven, Not Market-Driven, Solutions to Climate Change http://unfccc6.meta-fusion.com/cop21/events/2015-12-09-11-30-ithaca-college In an extraordinary display of global solidarity, vision and determination, communities and organizations from all over the world took the initiative this past weekend to...
COP21: call for international treaty on rights of nature and communities
By Hal Rhoades, 8th December 2015, The Ecologist A new initiative launched alongside COP21 in Paris this week is aiming to “Adopt and implement an international treaty to prevent and enforce against corporate human rights violations” and “Incorporate rights of...
The Insanity of the COP: We Must Adopt a Different Vision
by John Foran, originally published by Resilience.org | Dec 8, 2015 “AMY GOODMAN: What did you make of President Obama’s speech on Monday here at the U.N. Climate Summit? JAMES HANSEN: Well, we have to decide, are these people stupid or are...
