by Patrick Bond The Mercury, ZNet, Links, Counterpunch, 29 August 2011 Will the host city for the November-December world climate summit, the COP17, clean up its act? Last Tuesday’s launch of a major Academy of Science of South Africa (Assaf) report, Towards a Low Carbon City: Focus on Durban [...]

Standard Podcast [57:00m]: Listen or Download Earthbeat Host and IPS Fellow Daphne Wysham conducted a special one-hour interview with Dr. James Hansen, NASA’s top climate scientist, as an Earth Day 40th anniversary special. In the interview, Dr. Hansen discusses the role of nuclear power in t [...]

Corner House Briefing 40 When Markets Are Poison Learning about Climate Policy from the Financial Crisis by Larry Lohmann FIRST PUBLISHED 18TH SEPTEMBER 2009 | PDF Close parallels can be drawn between the financial innovations behind the current economic crisis and the marketing innova [...]

Where the Trees are a Desert online photo-essay

Standard Podcast [57:00m]: Listen or Download Earthbeat Host and IPS Fellow Daphne Wysham conducted a special one-hour interview with Dr. James Hansen, NASA’s top climate scientist, as an Earth Day 40th anniversary special. In the interview, Dr. Hansen discusses the role of nuclear power in t [...]

[ Spanish ] [ Portuguese ] Please forward to your networks: Affiliates from the Durban Group for Climate Justice request urgent solidarity in a new statement rejecting schemes for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD). The REDD Statement reco [...]

Potential Impacts of Tree Plantation Projects under the CDM An African Case Study Our newest project, which is supported by the Siemenpuu Foundation in Finland, involves a study that will focus mainly on tree plantation carbon sinks in Tanzania, and in particular the planned tree plantation projec [...]

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