2015 Special Broadcasts / Seeding Climate Justice
On April 21-23, Justiça Ambiental - Friends of the Earth Mozambique will organize in Maputo, capital of the country, the conference “Seeding Climate Justice – Maputo Meeting on Real Solutions to the Climate Crisis”. Local Mozambican and Southern African community members, African and international climate justice activists, Mozambican civil society organizations and Mozambican government officials will participate in the event. Some of the issues that will be dealt with at the conference, in the road towards the COP 21 to take place in Paris in December, include: equity and historical responsibility; the framing of energy, food and justice; the opposition to carbon markets & false solutions; and the urgent need for energy transformation in Mozambique, Africa & beyond. Real World Radio will be present at the conference and will host a special coverage of the event.
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19 May 2015 | Interviews | Seeding Climate Justice
Critical situation in Durban: interview with 2014 Goldman Environmental Prize winner, Desmond D’Sa
In 2011, Real World Radio (RWR) participated in a “Toxic Tour” in the South Durban industrial basin, in South Africa, where giant oil transnational corporations were causing an environmental disaster, with dangerous consequences for the health of the people. More than three years later, the situation seems to be even worse, according to an interview with the coordinator of the South Durban Community Environmental Alliance, Desmond D'Sa. Read more
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6 May 2015 | Interviews | Victims of climate change | Seeding Climate Justice
Green Climate Fund´s Civil Society Active Observer, Meena Raman, has the floor
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
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29 April 2015 | Interviews | Victims of climate change | Seeding Climate Justice
Interview with Dipti Bhatnagar, FoEI Climate Justice Program Coordinator
“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
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23 April 2015 | Photo Galleries | Victims of climate change | Seeding Climate Justice
Maputo Climate Justice Conference in pictures
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
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22 April 2015 | Interviews | Victims of climate change | Seeding Climate Justice
Planetary Crisis: Meena Raman from FOE Malaysia and Third World Network explains the urgency for action on climate change
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
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22 April 2015 | Interviews | Victims of climate change | Seeding Climate Justice
“Why is an Energy Transformation crucial to stopping the Climate Crisis”
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
