After Copenhagen: Can we save the world? Video: Is the climate sick of us?
Ian Angus interviewed by Esquerda.net during the conference O Clima Farto de Nos? (Is the climate sick of us?), held in Lisbon, March 26-27. The three questions, shown in text in Portuguese, are: Is...
View ArticleFourth International: Mobilisation for the climate and anti-capitalist strategy
[The following documents dealing with capitalism's climate crisis were presented at the 16th World Congress of the Fourth International, held in Belgium in February 2010.]* * * By Daniel TanuroFebruary...
View Article(Updated April 22) Bolivia: `Capitalism is the main enemy of the Earth', Evo...
Video report fromDemocracy Now! (Full transcript of report below)[For more coverage of the World People's Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth, click HERE.]Prensa LatinaApril 20,...
View ArticleVoices from Bolivia people's conference: The `most important event in the...
Nnimmo Bassey interviewed by Democracy Now! (Transcript below).April 21, 2010 -- Democracy Now! AMY GOODMAN: Among those who spoke at the opening ceremony for the World Peoples’ Climate Conference was...
View ArticleEvo Morales: `Combating climate change -- lessons from the world’s Indigenous...
Bolivia's President Evo Morales interviewed on Democracy Now!, April 23, 2010. Full transcript below.By Evo Morales,president of the Plurinational Republic of Bolivia.read more
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Climate debt owed to Africa: What to demand and how to collect?
By Patrick BondMay 5, 2010 -- The “climate debt” that the industries and over-consumers of the global North owe Africans and other victims of climate change not responsible for causing the problem has...
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Evo Morales: United, the developing countries can save Mother Earth
“The response to global warming is global democracy for life and for the Mother Earth.… we have two paths: to save capitalism, or to save life and Mother Earth.” — Speech by Evo Morales, president of...
View ArticleComparision of the Cochabamba People’s Agreement and the Copenhagen Accord
June 16, 2010 -- PWCCC -- The debate about climate change is divided between the “Copenhagen Accord” that failed to be imposed by a group of countries led by the United States at the Copenhagen...
View ArticleBolivia's UN ambassador: Despite extreme weather, rich countries fail to cut...
August 10, 2010 -- Democracy Now! -- Even as the world faces a series of extreme weather events that scientists warn is related to global warming, international climate negotiations are moving at a...
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Ian Angus: What next for ecosocialists?
By Ian AngusAugust 30, 2010 --Canadian Dimension viaClimate & Capitalism -- Not long ago, most socialists had little to say about environmental issues, and the environmental movement was focused on...
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`Leave the oil in the soil!' -- Oil curses, climate conferences and fake...
A humpback whale at the Bluff Whaling Station, South Durban, in 1909. From "Facts About Durban".By Patrick Bond November 23, 2010 -- Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal -- The stench of...
View Article(Updated Nov. 29) Cancun climate summit should not be `Copenhagen Accord Part...
Statement by the Plurinational State of BoliviaNovember 27, 2010 – At the next meeting of the Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP 16), which begins...
View ArticleWikileaks: Bolivia's UN rep on secret US manipulation of climate talks &...
[For more analysis of the Cancun climate talks, click HERE.] December 6, 2010 -- Democracy Now! -- Secret diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks have revealed new details about how the United States...
View ArticleCancun climate talks: `Hollow and false' -- Bolivia, activists condemn deadly...
Red Road Cancun, by Allan Lissner. Highlighting Indigenous voices excluded from the COP16 UN Climate Conference in Cancun, Mexico.Statement by the Plurinational State of BoliviaDecember 11, 2010 --...
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‘Climate capitalism’ won at Cancun – everyone else loses
Protest in Cancun. [For more analysis of the Cancun climate talks, click HERE.]By Patrick Bond, Cancun, MexicoDecember 12, 2010 – Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal– The December 11...
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El capitalismo climático gana en Cancún -- todos los demás pierden
Por Patrick Bond, Cancún 12 de diciembre -- Bolpress/Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal -- La clausura el 11 de diciembre de la 16 Conferencia de las Partes –la cumbre global del clima–...
View ArticleCuba on Cancun climate talks: `Another year has been lost since the deception...
[For more analysis of the Cancun climate talks, click HERE.]Two speeches by Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, Cuba's minister of foreign affairs, at the COP16 of the UNFCCC, Cancun, Mexico December 8, 2010 --...
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Cancun climate agreement stripped bare by Bolivia's dissent; Pablo Solon on...
Activists from Via Campesina, an international movement of peasants, demonstrate during the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Cancun, Mexico, December 7, 2010. Photo AP/Eduardo Verdugo.[For...
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প্যাট্রিক বন্ড কানকুন সম্মেলন : সবাই হারলো, জিতলো কেবল পুঁজিবাদ?
Protest in Cancun. (English at http://links.org.au/node/2041)ভাষান্তর : হাসান মেহেদীread more
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Stand up for Africa! Stand up for climate justice!
June 4, 2011 -- From May 24 to 26, 2011, representatives of African trade unions, farmers, women and faith-based groups, as well as key African non-governmental organisations and networks concerned...
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From Copenhagen and Cancun to Bonn and Durban, climate meetings are...
By Patrick Bond, DurbanJune 21, 2011 – Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal -- Judging by what transpired at last week’s global climate negotiations in the former West German capital, Bonn,...
View ArticleCapitalist globalisation and the environment: Offshoring carbon emissions
By Martin Hart-LandsbergJune 12, 2011 -- Reports from the Economic Front, posted at Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal with the author's permission -- More than 3000 participants from 183...
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South Africa: Fighting the minerals-petroleum-coal complex’s wealth and woes...
WikiLeaks revealed Washington’s bullying, bribery and blackmail when promoting the non-binding 2009 Copenhagen Accord (being hatched by leaders above), a sham of a climate agreement designed to ditch...
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Nnimmo Bassey on what to expect from Durban climate talks
Nnimmo Bassey (centre). Photo: Right Livelihood Award Foundation.November 2, 2011 -- It’s unlikely there will be "an equitable outcome" from the COP17 climate talks, to be held in Durban in December...
View ArticleWelcome to Durban (excerpt from new book, 'Durban’s Climate Gamble')
Above: Durban’s Climate Gamble editor Patrick Bond (right) and contributor Ashwin Desai provide a background to the Durban climate talks. [The following is an excerpt from a new book, Durban’s Climate...
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Τι μπορεί να αναμένεται από τις συνομιλίες του Ντάρμπαν;
Νίμο Μπάσεϊ. Photo: Right Livelihood Award Foundation.[In English at (Αγγλική εκδοχή σε) http://links.org.au/node/2585.] του Νίμο ΜπάσεϊΜαρξιστική Σκέψη, τόμος 4, Ιανουάριος-Μάρτιος 2012, σελ. 416,...
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BRICS bloc’s rising ‘sub-imperialism’: the latest threat to people and planet?
President Dilma Rousseff of Brazil, Russian President Dimitry Medvedev, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Chinese President Hu Jintao and President Jacob Zuma of South Africa pose prior to the...
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Patrick Bond: Doha climate talks another ‘conference of polluters’
Professor Patrick Bond.By Busani BafanaNovember 27, 2012 -- Inter Press Service -- There is no political will among rich nations to find funding for developing countries experiencing the brunt of...
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Climate and collusion: 'The window to halt runaway climate change is closing...
Environmental activists attempt to gain access to the plenary session of the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP17) in Durban.By Patrick Bond, Durban August 30, 2014 -- TeleSUR English,...
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Paris COP21: Seattle-style shutdowns or another climate cul de sac?
400,000-strong climate march, New York, September 21, 2014.Click for more on the struggle against climate change. By Patrick Bond, TunisMarch 29, 2015 -- originally published by TeleSUR, submitted to...
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