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Indigenous Rights Taking Back Seat To Trade Investment

December 11, 2015 Brandi Morin, www.aptn.ca , , ,
By Brandi Morin for APTN - Indigenous delegates at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP21) conference are left waiting outside negotiating rooms in Paris to learn the fate of their rights currently on the cutting board. Those rights related to climate change are in the hands of delegates and trade experts whose main interests lie in economic initiatives expected to be birthed following the signing of an international treaty to prevent dangerous levels of global warming. Negotiations are heading into the final stages at COP21 with the aim of creating a Paris Agreement to replace the failed Kyoto Accord.

Whose Lives Matter? Crisis Of Solidarity At Climate Talks

December 11, 2015 David Ciplet, www.truth-out.org ,
By David Ciplet for Truthout - The medical anthropologist Paul Farmer once wrote that "the idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that is wrong with the world." For many in the United Nations climate negotiations in Paris this week, this idea is at the heart of disagreement on a pathway forward. Those least responsible for causing climate change are suffering first and worst from its impacts. Climate change is not primarily an institutional, technological or scientific problem; it is a crisis of solidarity between nations and peoples globally.

In And After Paris: A Climate Justice Agenda

December 11, 2015 Steve Breyman, www.popularresistance.org , , ,
By Steve Breyman for Popular Resistance. Paris, France - Cultural pessimists don’t see much they like at the Paris climate talks. Skepticism at times like these is nearly always justified. At the same time, it may be that Paris was a minute improvement — on some issues — upon the previous gatherings of elected officials, diplomats, corporate hacks, activists, celebrities, and media that constitute these annual circuses. And it’s likely that the angry and energized climate justice movement is primed to pressure the big polluters like never before. No, the glass is not half full. Delegates will not agree to emissions reductions necessary to meet even their own inadequate target of 2 degrees C increase in global temperature. It’s thus possible to see the draft treaty as a step backward.

Paris And The Crisis In The Climate Justice Movement

December 10, 2015 Belinda Rodriguez and Ben Case, www.roarmag.org , ,
By Belinda Rodriguez and Ben Case for ROAR - In the wake of ISIS’ attacks on Paris, French authorities jumped on the opportunity to revoke permits for the Global Climate March, a well-planned series of demonstrations scheduled to coincide with international climate talks. After speculation around the fate of the demonstrations, several prominent groups including 350.org and Avaaz gave in and announced that the march was canceled, while key grassroots groups announced they would take to the streets despite the ban.

Civil Society Urges Ministers To Up Game In Final Push

December 10, 2015 Rvoorhaar, www.climatenetwork.org ,
By Rvoorhaar for Climate Action Network - A new streamlined draft agreement for a comprehensive climate deal has been released in Paris, with the French presidency urging for the finalisation of the deal by tomorrow. Members of the Climate Action Network (CAN) have called on countries to choose the strongest possible options in the final hours of the Paris Climate Summit in order to better protect vulnerable communities and speed up the transition to renewable energy.

Protection Of Human Rights From Climate Change

December 10, 2015 Staff, www.greenpeace.org ,
By Staff of Greenpeace International - Climate change is a human rights issue. Already today many people around the world have their rights to life, water, food, health, housing and other rights impacted by climate impacts. It is in our hands to stop making this situation worse. Governments must speed up this change here in Paris to phase-out of fossil fuels by 2050 through a just transition towards 100% renewable energy, as well as the protection and restoration of forests and other ecosystems.

False Solutions And Real Alternatives At The UN Climate Talks

December 10, 2015 Sam Lund-Harket, www.globaljustice.org.uk ,
By Sam Lund-Harket for Global Justice Now - It reminded me of a drawing I’d seen. It was a line drawing showing a young woman emerging from a London underground station right in to the middle of an English woodland. It felt very much like that arriving in the village of alternatives during the Paris climate talksthis weekend. You arrived out of the Metro and into the middle of a Parisian square which seemed so different from the rest of Paris. It was a space that was filled with things being done in a different way, in very much the way they should be.

What America Won’t Admit About Climate Change

December 10, 2015 Robert Hennelly, www.commondreams.org ,
By Robert Hennelly for Salon - With the Paris final talks entering their final week, it is worth noting the surreal disconnect between all the international handwringing over the abstract global warming accord and the reality that the U.S., Britain, France and Russia are bombing Syria’s oil fields into the stone age. Even while the leaders of these nations pose as green stewards of the planet, making carbon reduction promises not even legally binding a generation from now, their bombers are pounding a country that with every additional air sortie becomes more of an oil soaked dead zone.

No EU Solution To Climate Change As Long As TTIP Exists

December 9, 2015 John Hilary, www.dnainfo.com ,
By John Hilary for Independent - The European Union has been caught trying to undermine any meaningful outcome from the UN climate talks in Paris by instructing its representatives to block discussion of two key mechanisms that could help combat the effects of global warming: the introduction of measures to curb the negative environmental impacts of global trade, and the transfer of technology to help poorer countries in their fight against climate change. As the COP21 negotiations enter their final week, a leaked internal EU document published today reveals that European governments have instructed their representatives to block any discussion of measures to combat climate change...

Call For Mass Protest At COP21 Despite Hollande Ban

December 9, 2015 Nadia Prupis, www.commondreams.org ,
By Nadia Prupis for Common Dreams - In Paris on Monday, a panel of activists, including author Naomi Klein and UK Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn, spoke to a packed crowd on the role of the global labor sector in the climate justice movement and called for mass civil disobedience to break French President François Hollande's ban on demonstrations during the COP21 summit. Klein spoke candidly about the global climate agreement being hammered out by world leaders this month, stating, "The deal that will be unveiled in less than a week will not be enough to keep us safe. In fact, it will be extraordinarily dangerous."

Indigenous Activists Stage Coup Denouncing REDD At COP21

December 9, 2015 Ayse Gursoz, www.indigenousrising.org , ,
By Ayse Gursoz for Indigenous Rising - Inside the COP21 Solutions Concert, The Indigenous Environmental Network staged an action in coordination with Xiuhtezcatl Tonatiuh, denouncing the false solutions being peddled by corporations in Paris during the COP21. Xiuhtezcatl, who received the Community Service Award from President Obama in 2013 and is the youngest of 24 national changemakers chosen to serve on the President’s youth council, was invited to perform with Earth Guardians at Solutions COP21.

US Fracking Opponents Disrupt Leaders In Paris Talks

December 9, 2015 Christian O'Rourke, www.sustainus.org , , ,
By Christian O'Rourke of Sustain US. Paris, France - In the first major interruption at the location of the Paris negotiations, fracked gas opponents repeatedly interrupted a panel featuring “local climate leaders” today to draw attention to the fact that many of the panelists support fracking projects. Panelists included Gov. Peter Shumlin of Vermont, Secretary Matt Rodriquez of California EPA, and Chris Davis, senior advisor to the Office of Gov. Jay Inslee of Washington State. Constituents of the politicians attended the panel to speak out against the various states’ natural gas fracking projects, which is incompatible with the renewable energy .

Does The US Government Actually Regulate Pipelines?

December 9, 2015 Dahr Jamail, www.truth-out.org , ,
By Dahr Jamail for Truthout - While global leaders meet in Paris at the COP21 climate talks in an effort to rein in global greenhouse gas emissions, the fossil fuel industry continues with business as usual. In far west Texas, that means a proposal for a controversial high-pressure natural gas transmission pipeline in a state that already boasts 431,997 miles of pipelines - enough to stretch to the moon and most of the way back to earth. The additional 143-mile-long, 42-inch-diameter Trans-Pecos pipeline will be built right through the heart of Texas' starkly beautiful and remote Chihuahuan Desert, asTruthout previously reported. The aim of the pipeline is purportedly to deliver natural gas from Texas to Mexico, where it is, in theory, in high demand.

Apocalyptic Capitalism

December 8, 2015 Chris Hedges, www.truthdig.com , ,
By Chris Hedges for Truth Dig - The charade of the 21st United Nations climate summit will end, as past climate summits have ended, with lofty rhetoric and ineffectual cosmetic reforms. Since the first summit more than 20 years ago, carbon dioxide emissions have soared. Placing faith in our political and economic elites, who have mastered the arts of duplicity and propaganda on behalf of corporate power, is the triumph of hope over experience. There are only a few ways left to deal honestly with climate change: sustained civil disobedience that disrupts the machinery of exploitation...

We Will Draw Our Red Lines In Paris

December 8, 2015 Joe Solomon, www.commondreams.org , ,
By Joe Solomon for Common Dreams - Even as you take your first first few steps inside the climate summit in Paris, it’s easy to get a bad feeling about things. First, you notice that there are nearly 200 concrete pillars lined up in rows in front the center, each wrapped in flags of the world’s nations. You wander among them, realizing many of the pillars are taller than the Island Nations they represent, wondering who will be the first to be wiped out by the scythes of rising seas and maddening cyclones.
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