Posted by Carleen Pickard in Campaign for Climate Equity, Cancun / COP 16 on 28th November, 2010 | 4 Comments
I’m just about to meet my international and Mexican traveling companions for the next week and board the Via Campesina caravan from Acapulco, Mexico. First stop on this journey today will be to the much disputed potential site of the mega hydro-electric dam called La Parota and meet with community members and the organization Consejo de Ejidos y Comunidades Opositores a la Prensa La Parota (CECOP).
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Posted by Carleen Pickard in Campaign for Climate Equity, Cancun / COP 16, Climate Action on 27th November, 2010 | 1 Comment
Climate activist from around the globe have been planning activities on and around December 7 to unite as a community for climate justice and to denounce false solutions to climate change. Get involved by participating where ever you are!
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Posted by Carleen Pickard in Campaign for Climate Equity, Cancun / COP 16, Climate Action on 23rd November, 2010 | 12 Comments
In Cancun both La Via Campesina and Dialogo Climatico – Espacio Mexicano are organizing spaces for activist convergence, workshops and panels. Information about on the ground in Cancun organizing is here!
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Posted by Carleen Pickard in Campaign for Climate Equity, Cancun / COP 16 on 22nd November, 2010 | No Comments
Climate justice campaigners, environmentalists and social justice advocates from around the world will be arriving in Mexico over the next week, many joining the three caravans set to depart Acapulco, El Salto (Guadalajara) and San Luis Potosí, arrive in Mexico City and then travel on to Cancun, arriving December 3rd.
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Posted by Carleen Pickard in Campaign for Climate Equity, Cancun / COP 16 on 25th October, 2010 | No Comments
The international peasant movement, Via Campesina, is hosting caravans to Cancun in the lead up to the COP 16 meetings and the grassroots forums planned for early December in Cancún. Find out more about the caravans and how to join one.
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Posted by Zarah Patriana in Campaign for Climate Equity, Featured on 11th October, 2010 | No Comments
Planet and People First — a short (13 minute) film from the World People’s Climate Conference in Cochabamba, Bolivia this spring is a must-see film for you and your community on the vital work of Global Exchange and communities around the world to end addiction to oil and ensure real action is taken globally towards climate equity. Also be sure to read our top ten list of ways to save the climate.
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Posted by Reede Stockton in Campaign for Climate Equity, Climate Negotiation Series, Copenhagen / COP15, Featured on 29th January, 2010 | 4 Comments
“Owning the Story… and the Future” placed in context the clamor for a streamlined climate negotiation process deemphasizing the United Nations, exposing the underlying disdain for democracy and bias against developing nations, the roots of dissatisfaction with the United Nations in U.S. climate negotiation strategy, and the apparent lack of global support for significant change »
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Posted by Reede Stockton in Campaign for Climate Equity, Climate Negotiation Series, Copenhagen / COP15 on 20th January, 2010 | 1 Comment
The U.N. Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen drew to a close on Saturday, December 19th, but the effort to control the outcome of the conference has just begun. The United States is at the center of a major push, currently underway, to own the story of Copenhagen and thereby to hopefully drive the course of »
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Posted by Antonia Juhasz in Campaign for Climate Equity on 19th January, 2010 | 1 Comment
NOTE – in February, The Chevron Program at Global Exchange will launch The Chevron Program blog. Today, Chevron announced that it is shrinking its refining business, including laying off workers. It did not say where or which refinery or refineries would be affected. It will announce the change in March. Over the past several weeks, »
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Posted by Reede Stockton in Campaign for Climate Equity on 23rd December, 2009 | 2 Comments
The following statement was released by the Climate Justice Now! network on Wednesday, December 23, 2009. It represents the view of a broad coalition of environmental and social justice groups from the Global South and Global North, working in partnership for climate justice. Call for “system change not climate change” unites global movement Corrupt Copenhagen »
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