Category Archives: Green Economy
Rio+20: Guide Document on Convergence Plenary and People’s Assembly
Note: Here is a statement from the organizers of the alternative Peoples’ Summit that will occur in Rio around the time of the official UN Rio+20 (corporate sell-out) Summit. People from around the world are coming together to talk about … Continue reading
Unclean Hands at the Gill Tract?
UC Berkeley researchers say they have nothing to do with Big Agribusiness, but records show that companies like Monsanto profit from their work. By Darwin BondGraham, cross-posted from the East Bay Express The battle over the future of Albany’s Gill Tract … Continue reading
Report from the International Joint People’s Summit for Social and Environmental Justice in Rio
For the unity and mobilization of the people in defense of life and the common good, social justice and environmental against the commodification of nature and “green economy” Rio de Janeiro, May 12, 2012 A month before the UN Conference … Continue reading
Why the Green Economy is a wrong path to restore the equilibrium with nature, and what alternatives do we have?
By Pablo Solon, from Focus on the Global South Twenty years after the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 1992, the environmental crisis continues to worsen. The unsustainable development model that gained dominance in the … Continue reading
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No more evictions! Indigenous Peoples in Guatemala in defense of nature, lands and territories.
Note: Evictions of community farmers from UC Berkeley land, peasants thrown off of their land all over the world for agrofuel feedstock production, deforestation, forest “protection,” large-scale hydroelectric projects, etc. It’s time for the end of neoliberalism, private property and … Continue reading
Mother Earth Should Not Be “Owned, Privatised and Exploited” : Interview with Tom Goldtooth
In this report from IPS, Aline Jenckel interviews, TOM B.K. GOLDTOOTH, executive director of the Indigenous Environmental Network. Tom Goldtooth, an activist for social change in Native American communities and is the executive director of Indigenous Environmental Network. Credit:Courtsey of … Continue reading
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How Your College Is Selling Out to Big Ag
NOTE: Here at Climate Connections, we’ve been participating in, and closely following the Occupy the Farm action, where local community activists are working to tak We’ve written several pieces about it, here and here. One of the frontlines of food sovereignty … Continue reading
‘UN Global Compact turns a blind eye to corporate malpractices’ Civil Society Statement raises concerns in run up to Rio Conference
Note: Global Justice Ecology Project will be attending the UN Rio+20 conference and the alternative Peoples’ Summit this June. We will feature daily coverage of events both inside the UN talks and outside at the alternative forum from June 15th … Continue reading
Global Corporations Undermining Democracy Worldwide
Note: Those of us who railed against the North American Free Trade Agreement, the Free Trade Area of the Americas, the World Trade Organization, GATT, etc warned about this. So called “free trade,” also known as neoliberalism, has exponentially exacerbated … Continue reading
Filed under Climate Change, Climate Justice, Corporate Globalization, Green Economy, Land Grabs, Rio+20
Brazil: Peoples’ Alternative Summit to Boycott Gov’t “Dialogues” prior to Rio+20 Summit
Note: Climate Connections will be in Rio in June to cover the activities inside and outside of the Rio+20 Summit and the Peoples’ Alternative Summit. Against the Green Economy and the Commodification of Nature! –The GJEP Team The Summit will … Continue reading
Filed under Climate Change, Corporate Globalization, Green Economy, Greenwashing, Rio+20
