More critical reflections on climate justice
We just had the pleasure to read the article “Point of Reference for a counter hegemony or nebulous empty phrase?” offering critical reflections on climate justice. Two elements made the article - a summary of discussion ongoing within the BUKO working group on social ecology - particularly interesting (to us): its emphasis on the discursive [...]
A Jubilee for Climate Justice as a Roadmap into the Age of Re-embodiments
Ruth Thomas-Pellicer introduces this Eco Pax Mundi kernel with the following words: “In the wake of Copenhagen’s foretold failure, what is urgently required is a vision. This kernel aims at proposing in firm the Age of Re-embodiments as the Mecca to attain the twin climatic and social justice and thus exit the ecocidal mode of [...]
Measures to Steadily Enter the Age of Re-embodiments
There is some urgency for us to engage in an Age of Re-embodiments. Such an age exacts the re-embodiment of human tread on the Planet in ecocycles and biorythems alike. This is in particular necessary for the technologically-sillily-developed West.
A global process of re-embodiment is incompatible with carbon markets. Karl Polanyi’s political economy is [...]
The Ethics of Carbon Trading: Learn to Stand On Your Own Two Feet and Be Brave
At the beginning of 2009 Clive Spash wrote a paper, The Brave New World of Carbon Trading, that was critical of carbon emissions trading schemes and argued redesign would not address the concerns raised. He was employed at the time by the Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Research Organization (CSIRO), which endeavoured to prevent the paper [...]
‘10 Years Later: Challenges and proposals for another possible world’
World Social Forum 2010 starts with great event in the Greater Porto Alegre - Brazil
Celebrating its tenth year of existence, the World Social Forum (WSF), will take place in 2010 in a decentralized manner, with at least 27 regional, national and local events throughout the world over the next period (see agenda on the WSF [...]
“Mother is not Violated, Mother is Sacred” are Bolivia’s President Evo Morales’ Hopeful Words for Climate Justice
“Defense of the rights of Mother Earth. The earth is our life. Nature is our home, our house. Happily, the United Nations have declared a Mother Earth Day. If the mother is recognized as Mother Earth, it’s something that can’t be sold, it’s something that can’t be—it can’t be violated, something sacred. This is nature. [...]
Peoples’ World Conference on Climate Justice and Mother Earth’s Rights
The Peoples’ World Conference on Climate Change and Mother Earth’s Rights has as objectives:
1) To analyze the structural and systemic causes that drive climate change and to propose radical measures to ensure the well-being of all humanity in harmony with nature
2) To discuss and agree on the project of [...]
In The Wake of Copenhagen’s Foretold Failure, Popular Referendum for Climate Justice
In view of the profound differences found between presidents and continents in the Copenhagen climate summit, Bolivia’s President Evo Morales proposes to conduct a referendum with the peoples of the world for an agreement that could save Mother Earth from the abuses of capitalism.
“Because we have deep differences from president to president, lets ask the [...]
Climate justice and a critique of carbon trading
A new book has been just launched to coincide with COP15 at Copenhagen: Upsetting the Offset: The Political Economy of Carbon Markets, a collection of papers edited by Steffen Böhm and Siddhartha Dabhi, of University of Essex. For those of you in or around Copenhagen, the book will be presented at Lund University, Sweden [...]
Civil Society Declaration on Technology and Precaution at COP15 in Copenhagen
Technology transfer is one of the four key topics being discussed under negotiations on Long-Term Cooperative Actions in Copenhagen (the others are mitigation, adaptation and financing). The inter-governmental negotiating text that is under discussion contemplates various measures for accelerating the diffusion of technologies. It will most likely create an ʻAction Planʼ as well as a [...]
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