• 15 December 2009 | Interviews | COP 15

  

  The keys to the capitalist model

  Interview with Hildebrando Velez, co-coordinator of the Friends of the Earth Climate Justice and Energy Program.

  What they are doing at the COP 15 on Climate Change is mainly business, said one of the coordinators of the Climate Justice and Energy Program of Friends of the Earth International, Hildebrando Vélez. Read more

• 15 December 2009 | Interviews | COP 15

  

  Present

  Movie of people affected by climate change in Brazil launched at the Klimaforum

  The film “Voices of climate” shot in Brazil with native communities of the different regions of the country (Amazonia, Atlantic forest, Cerrado (tropical savanna) and Wetland) was launched at the Klimaforum being held in Copenhagen in parallel to the UN COP 15 on Climate Change. Read more

• 15 December 2009 | Interviews | COP 15

  

  Free trade avoids solutions to the climate crisis

  Interview with Mary Lou Malig of Focus on the Global South

  Under free trade the environment does not matter, because what matters is how much profits you get, if you can get them by investing little money, it does not matter whether your industry is extremely dirty, if it displaces local communities or ruins an entire forest. Read more

• 14 December 2009 | News | COP 15

  

  “Our countryside is in crisis, it seems to have been abandoned”

  Interview with representative of La Via Campesina Mexico, Alberto Gómez

  An action to expose an intensive industrial production model – from soy and transport to meat exporting- was organized on Sunday midday by La Via Campesina outside the headquarters of the Danish Meat and Cattle Council in Copenhagen. There, peasant representatives from different countries spoke in front of hundreds of people who participated in the demonstration as part of the parallel mobilizations to the COP 15 on Climate Change that is taking place in that city. Read more

• 14 December 2009 | Interviews | COP 15

  

  Power to the People

  Friends of the Earth International chair Nnimmo Bassey, celebrated the “Flood for Climate Justice”

  Five thousand people participated on Saturday in a demonstration called “The Flood for Climate Justice” organized by Friends of the Earth International in the streets of Copenhagen, where the official negotiations of the COP 15 on Climate Change are taking place. Read more

• 14 December 2009 | Interviews | COP 15

  

  Links between climate and trade

  Interview with researcher from the Global Forest Coalition, Ronnie Hall

  Real World Radio interviewed Ronnie Hall, from the Global Forest Coalition in Copenhagen. She said the increase of international trade through the intensive use of oil, with mining activities and activities of the wood industry, might worsen the climate crisis even more. The process of trade liberalization impoverishes the countries and peoples that are already poor and makes them more vulnerable to climate change. Read more

• 11 December 2009 | Interviews | COP 15

  

  Together and Strong

  Naomi Klein at the Klimaforum in Copenhagen

  “Here in Copenhagen, the Nobel –which was awarded in part because of Obama’s reengagement with the climate change negotiations– carries a special set of ironies”, wrote Naomi Klein, renowned Canadian activist, on her blog on Wednesday. That day US President travelled to Oslo, Norway to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. Read more

• 11 December 2009 | Interviews | COP 15

  

  We know what they are doing

  Meena Raman, member of Friends of the Earth Malaysia, exposes industrialized nations at the COP 15.

  Live simply, so that others can simply live, urged former Chair of Friends of the Earth International, Meena Raman, at the Klimaforum in Copenhagen. Read more

• 11 December 2009 | Interviews | COP 15

  

  Women Together

  Women make their voices be heard at the COP 15 in Copenhagen.

  Under the title “Feminists against climate change”, a press conference was carried out on Thursday at the Klimaforum, the event parallel to the COP 15 of the UN on Climate Change, which exposed the link between feminism and environmentalism and the challenges the official negotiations pose for women. Read more

• 10 December 2009 | Interviews | COP 15

  

  Age is Just a Number

  Interview with Annelies Roose, from Young Friends of the Earth

  With a demonstration to demand Europe a 40 per cent emission reduction by 2020 compared with the 1990 levels, Young Friends of the Earth celebrated on Thursday the Youth and Future Generations Day, in the framework of the COP 15 on Climate Change that is being held at Bella Center in Copenhagen. Read more

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