28 May 2015 | Interviews | Victims of climate change | Eduardo Galeano
The World Peoples Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth that took place in April 19-22, 2010, in Cochabamba, Bolivia, became a historical moment for social movements and organizations that struggle for fair solutions to face the climate crisis. Read more
6 May 2015 | Interviews | Victims of climate change | Seeding Climate Justice
Friends of the Earth International demanded on May 1st that developed nations provide the Green Climate Fund (GCF) with the resources they pledged in 2014, warning that the contributions made so far are alarmingly low. Read more
29 April 2015 | Interviews | Victims of climate change | Seeding Climate Justice
“This meeting is basically to bring together different types of people to talk about an issue which has serious concerns for all of us. In Mozambique we will be facing, (are) already facing the impacts of climate change on the most poorest and on the most vulnerable people of this country”, said to Real World Radio the Climate Justice and Energy Program’s coordinator of Friends of the Earth International, Dipti Bhatnagar, before the end of the climate justice conference held in the Kaya Kwanga Complex in Maputo, Mozambique, during April 21-23. Read more
23 April 2015 | Photo Galleries | Victims of climate change | Seeding Climate Justice
Thursday was the last days of activities in the framework of the conference “Seeding Climate Justice – Maputo Meeting on Real Solutions to the Climate Crisis”, taking place in Maputo, Mozambique. See gallery
22 April 2015 | Interviews | Victims of climate change | Seeding Climate Justice
The conference “Seeding Climate Justice – Maputo Meeting on Real Solutions to the Climate Crisis” started on Tuesday, in Maputo, capital of Mozambique. It is organized by Justiça Ambiental - Friends of the Earth Mozambique. On the first day of activities, approximately 200 representatives of social movements and organizations, communities, environmental groups, networks of women and young people, among other actors from several African countries and international guests focused on the role of social groups in the fight for climate justice. The conference will come to an end on Thursday. Read more
22 April 2015 | Interviews | Victims of climate change | Seeding Climate Justice
This was the name of the section led on Tuesday by South African environmental activist Bobby Peek, of groundWork-Friends of the Earth South Africa, in the framework of the conference “Seeding Climate Justice – Maputo Meeting on Real Solutions to the Climate Crisis”, in Mozambique. Read more
19 December 2014 | Special reports | Victims of climate change | Financialization of nature | Land grabbing | COP 20 - Lima
While the UN congratulates itself for having “successfully” concluded the 20th Conference of the Parties on Climate Change (COP 20) with a “draft agreement and concrete advances”, the majority of the social movements demanding climate justice in Lima expressed their deep concern over the results of the two weeks of official talks, not due to the lack of advance, but because of the fact that the talks advanced in the opposite direction of the necessary solutions proposed by the movements. Many reasons can explain these fateful outcomes, but two of them are very clear: the corporate capture of the UN and the lack of attention provided by this space to the proposals and demands of the social movements that every year demand strong actions to change a system that among other things is generating the climate crisis. Read more
10 December 2014 | Special reports | Victims of climate change | Financialization of nature | COP 20 - Lima
The Peoples´ Summit started on Monday, December 8, in parallel to the 20th Conference of the Parties to Climate Change taking place in Peru´s capital city, Lima, with representatives of social movements and organizations of over 30 countries around the world and over 160 planned activities. Read more
22 November 2014 | Special reports | Victims of climate change | Social activists at risk
The territorial problems derived from the transnational mining exploitation are central in the agenda of conflicts and fights of Latin America, and in this regard the campesino movement develops its own experiences, making alliances and coordinating with the affected communities “in the first person”. Read more
27 October 2014 | Interviews | Victims of climate change | Social activists at risk
The Inter American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) called a hearing for next week about “Forced Displacements and Development Projects” as part of the 153rd period of sessions to be held from October 23rd to November 7th in Washington. Read more
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