Posted by Admin in Campaign for Climate Equity on 28th February, 2011 | No Comments
While debate about whether climate change is real or not continues in the US, the world’s leading producer of CO2 emissions per capita, those already living with the effects, like Jose Domingo Cruz in El Salvador, don’t have time to debate.
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Posted by Admin in Campaign for Climate Equity, Cancun / COP 16 on 11th December, 2010 | No Comments
Reflecting on the close of the UNFCCC climate talks, Medea Benjamin, co-founder of CODEPINK and Global Exchange, writes of her experience on the ground in Cancun.
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Posted by tex in Campaign for Climate Equity, Climate Action, Our Work on 9th December, 2010 | No Comments
A team of us here at Global Exchange got together to figure out a way to offer new Global Exchange members this holiday season a little something extra beyond the standard membership benefits, in exchange for their support. Here’s what we came up with:
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Posted by Carleen Pickard in Campaign for Climate Equity, Cancun / COP 16 on 4th December, 2010 | No Comments
As the final leg of the caravan rolled towards Mexico City the final stop was around the sacred land of Chichén Itzá.
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Posted by Jeff Conant in Campaign for Climate Equity, Cancun / COP 16 on 4th December, 2010 | 4 Comments
On the ground in Cancun, Jeff Conant, writes for Global Exchange and is collaborating media outreach with the Global Justice Ecology Project and the Indigenous Environmental Network during COP 16. He writes, “Between the armored vehicles patrolling the outside and the labyrinthine and exhausting process to get anywhere near the inside, a clear attempt has been made to marginalize civil society, if not to neutralize it altogether.”
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Posted by Admin in Campaign for Climate Equity, Cancun / COP 16 on 3rd December, 2010 | 19 Comments
Shannon Biggs, Global Exchange’s Director of the Community Rights Program, is credentialed as a NGO observer to the UNFCCC. She writes, “There’s something unsettling about the juxtaposition of negotiating the fate of the climate in the middle of the tequila-shooting, beach-clad dancing frenzy that is Cancun.”
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Posted by Carleen Pickard in Campaign for Climate Equity, Cancun / COP 16 on 30th November, 2010 | No Comments
The first leg(s) of the Via Campesina caravans are over – the three delegations arrived from Guadalajara, San Luis Potosi and Acapulco. Two thousand, five hundred join the International March For Life and Social and Environmental Justice and march through Mexico City.
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Posted by Carleen Pickard in Campaign for Climate Equity, Cancun / COP 16 on 29th November, 2010 | 4 Comments
On the second day of the Via Campesina caravan from Acapulco to Mexico City, we hear from the community of Alpuyeca and march through the streets of Cuernavaca.
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Posted by Carleen Pickard in Cancun / COP 16, Climate Action, Climate Negotiation Series, Featured on 29th November, 2010 | 3 Comments
On the road to COP 16, La Via Campesina caravan delegation member Irene Florez reports:
Traveling with the Via Campesina caravan from Guadalajara to Cancun, our delegation is now picking up about 20 additional climate activists at every stop. Converging through rallies, marches, and civil disobedience actions, the Via Campesina caravan members are meeting with allies in various towns and cities and alerting local populations about the Cancun summit, picking additional passengers up along the way.
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Posted by Carleen Pickard in Campaign for Climate Equity, Cancun / COP 16, Climate Action, Climate Negotiation Series, Featured on 28th November, 2010 | 3 Comments
The Via Campesina caravan left from Acapulco today – international and Mexican activists and independent media journalists heard from communities in Guerrero – disputing their forcible expulsion from their homes and fighting a mega dam project called La Parota.
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