COP21

Climate Games Challenge Paris Protest Ban

December 12, 2015 Kate Aronoff, www.wagingnonviolence.org Resist! Climate Change, COP21

By Kate Aronoff for Waging Nonviolence - The 21st Conference of Parties, or COP21, has taken place under unusual circumstances, which is saying a lot given the history of international climate negotiations. Following the attacks on Paris on November 13, French President Francois Hollande declared a nationwide state of emergency that the French legislature then extended to three months. Relevant to COP21, that includes a wholesale ban on protests and “outside events.” Tomorrow, thousands in Paris are planning to defy it. At D12 — “D” standing for both December and disobedience — activists plan to form a massive “red line” with their bodies, symbolizing how they and others around the world will hold governments accountable to the climate commitments...

COP21: Technology For 100% Renewable Energy Future Already In Place

December 11, 2015 Staff, www.tidalenergytoday.com Create! COP21, Renewable Energy

By Staff of Tidal Energy Today - International renewable energy organisations have come together at COP21 in Paris to demonstrate that reliable 100% renewable energy is not only possible, but that systems already exist today with significant potential for expansion. The side event, organised by the REN Alliance, a partnership of organisations representing the solar, wind, geothermal, hydropower and bioenergy sectors, aimed to demonstrate the realities of 100% renewables at all scales. The event provided case studies of communities, cities, countries and regions where various high-penetration combinations of renewable energy technologies are working together.

Activists To Defy Protest Ban With Giant Civil Disobedience

December 11, 2015 Martin Lukacs, www.theguardian.com Resist! Civil Disobedience, COP21, Paris, Protests

By Martin Lukacs for The Guardian - As negotiators try to finalize a UN climate pact being hailed as dangerously insufficient, a network of groups will express their outrage and pledge continuing action in the new year with massive civil disobedience at an iconic French site. Organizers hope to send a message that leaders should not try to claim the agreement is a success - with industrialized countries refusing to commit to a fair share of emissions reductions, putting the world on a path toward a catastrophic 3 degrees of warming.

Indigenous Rights Taking Back Seat To Trade Investment

December 11, 2015 Brandi Morin, www.aptn.ca Resist! Climate Change, COP21, Indigenous Rights, Paris

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.

In And After Paris: A Climate Justice Agenda

December 11, 2015 Steve Breyman, www.popularresistance.org Strategize! Clean Power Plan, Climate Change, COP21, Energy

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.

False Solutions And Real Alternatives At The UN Climate Talks

December 10, 2015 Sam Lund-Harket, www.globaljustice.org.uk Resist! Climate Change, COP21

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.

Australians Shut Down Three Coal Ports Protesting COP21

December 10, 2015 Staff, www.frontlineaction.org Resist! Australia, COP21, Protests

By Staff of Frontline Action - Protestors shut down three East Coast coal ports as Paris talks fail to deliver climate justice. Protestors join call for global moratorium on coal mines. (SYDNEY)– In the last days of the landmark climate change summit in Paris, and with another global heat record broken this year, activists have today simultaneously shut down operations at three coal ports on the East Coast. Protestors are demanding Australia commit to a moratorium on new coal mines as part of its efforts to prevent dangerous levels of global warming and climate change.

The Agribiz Borg Tried To Assimilate Me At The COP 21 Climate Talks

December 10, 2015 Kevin Smith, www.globaljustice.org.uk Educate! COP21

By Kevin Smith for Global Justice Now - Have you seen Star Trek: First Contact? It’s the one where everyone’s favourite space-faring bald badass Jean-Luc Picard is fighting against the cybernetic Borg, who invade the Enterprise, and begin to assimilate its crew and modify the ship, planning to use it to attack and conquer Earth. Well that’s pretty much exactly what happened to me yesterday inside the UN climate talks conference centre when I came up against the forces of big agribusiness. I was sitting in a corporate side event that had been put on by the Global Alliance For Climate Smart Agriculture...

COP21 Ignores Indigenous; Prevents Environmental Resistance

December 10, 2015 Bennett Collins and Alison Watson, www.intercontinentalcry.org Resist! COP21, Environment, Indigenous Peoples

By Bennett Collins and Alison Watson for IC - As policymakers gather in Paris for climate change talks, it is difficult not to be cynical about how committed they are to actually creating the fundamental political change necessary to address the gathering environmental storm. Despite the factthat Indigenous Peoples either ‘own, occupy or manage up to 65 percent of the Earth’s land surface’ or that speakers at a pre-COP21 UNESCO conference declared Indigenous knowledge to be ‘indispensable’ in the fight to protect the planet, Indigenous Peoples have been largely ignored in national, and international, plans to address climate change.

100 Nation ‘High Ambition Coalition’ Goes Public For Climate Deal

December 9, 2015 Karl Mathiesen and Fiona Harvey, www.theguardian.com Resist! Climage Change, COP21

By Karl Mathiesen and Fiona Harvey for the Guardian. A coalition representing more than 100 countries, formed in secrecy six months ago, has emerged at key UN talks in Paris to push for a legally binding global and ambitious deal on climate change. The “high ambition coalition” speaks for the majority of the 195 countries at thecrunch conference and consists of 79 African, Caribbean and Pacific countries, the US and all of EU member states. But notable exceptions include major developing countries such as China and India. The group is focusing on at least four key issues. They want an agreement at Paris to be legally binding; to set a clear long-term goal on global warming that is in line with scientific advice; to introduce a mechanism for reviewing countries’ emissions commitments every five years; and create a unified system for tracking countries’ progress on meeting their carbon goals.

Call For Mass Protest At COP21 Despite Hollande Ban

December 9, 2015 Nadia Prupis, www.commondreams.org Resist! Climate Change, COP21

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 Resist! Climate Change, COP21, Indigenous Activist

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 Resist! Climate Change, COP21, Fracking, Oil and Gas

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 .

Bioenergy Carbon Neutrality Myth Is A Time Bomb

December 8, 2015 Staff, www.globalforestcoalition.org Educate! Biomass, Climate Change, COP21

By the Global Forest Coalition. Paris, France - The Global Forest Coalition [1] is launching a new report at the Paris climate talks today titled “Biomyths, the Costly Carbon Scam of Bioenergy”. [2] The report exposes how large-scale bioenergy is being promoted as a replacement to some fossil fuels, based on what it calls the myth of its “carbon neutrality”. “Accepting that large-scale bioenergy can be carbon neutral will permit power plants to go on pumping carbon emissions into the atmosphere whilst countries falsely claim that they are reducing emissions.” said Mary Lou Malig, Global Forest Coalition Campaigns Coordinator, who is currently attending the climate negotiations. “In combination with proposals like Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS), such claims turn any possible agreement that might come out of Paris into a fraudulent scam.”

Fossil Fuel Auction Delayed Under Pressure

December 8, 2015 Staff, www.popularresistance.org Resist! Climate Change, COP21, Fossil Fuels, Obama

By 350.org. Washington, DC — Under pressure from climate campaigners, the Obama Administration announced alast minute delay for a fossil fuel auction scheduled for this Thursday in Washington, D.C. 350.org Policy Director Jason Kowalski issued the following statement on the win: “Keeping fossil fuels in the ground has quickly become the new standard for climate leadership. The Obama administration clearly recognized that it couldn’t present itself as a climate leader in Paris if it was peddling fossil fuels at home. The win against the Keystone XL pipeline has energized a ‘keep it in the ground’ movement across the United States and around the world. You’ll see many more protests like this over the year ahead–especially that we now have such clear evidence that they work.

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