Category: Guest Blogs

Justicia Climática e Interseccionalidad

Adrian September 4, 2015 0 Comments
* Artículo escrito y compilado por Majandra Rodriguez Acha (fb),una amiga y aliada del Peru. El Artículo fue publicado originalmente en TierrActiva Perú. Las actividades, acciones y contenidos de TierrActiva Perú se basan en un enfoque de Justicia Climática e Interseccionalidad. ¿Qué es la Interseccionalidad? La interseccionalidad se centra en cómo las categorías sociales como el...

10 things that are wrong with this approach to “equity”

COA Admin September 4, 2014 2 Comments
Ever since our own Anjali Appadurai stood before world leaders at the 2011 Durban climate talks to demand “equity now,” echoing a longstanding demand of climate justice movements across the world, there has been an increasing use of the word in discussions on international climate change policy. The idea of equity is contested, as everyone from social movement leaders to former Heads of State...

Development Justice Now! Declaration of the Peoples’ Global Camp at WTO

guest December 8, 2013 0 Comments
as the latest WTO round closed in Bali this week, we are cross-posting the declaration which came out of the Peoples' Global Camp. We, representatives of people’s organizations, social movements and political forces come together in the People’s Global Camp (PGC) in Denpasar, Bali on December 3-6, 2013 to collectively expose, resist and call to junk the renewed neoliberal offensives of the...

DUMPED: Japan’s fling with climate finally ends, three years after giving up custody of lovechild Kyoto

Anjali Appadurai November 16, 2013 0 Comments
by Anjali Appadurai It was a move that had been expected with dread: on Friday morning Tokyo time, the Japanese government announced its new greenhouse gas emissions target for 2020. The numbers are grim. Japan will cut emissions by 3.8 per cent from its 2005 level by 2020; this translates to an increase of 3.1 per cent from its 1990 levels. The government had been reviewing its international...

Response to ‘Concern’ over Reclaim Power Actions at the World Coal Conference

guest October 14, 2013 1 Comment
cross posted from Push Europe As you probably already know we have been busy planning Reclaim Power - Month of Action on Energy for the past few months & the focus of week two in Europe is People Vs Coal.  With Berlin hosting ‘Coaltrans Berlin’ – the 33rd world coal conference, bringing together over 600 companies with interests in coal – our groups and partners thought that this...