For Unity and Mobilization of peoples For Life and Commons, social and environmental Justice Against Commodification of Nature and « Green economy One month before the United Nations Conference Rio+20, peoples of the world don’t see any positive advances in the...
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The UN’s `Green Economy’ plan is a destructive illusion | by Pablo Solon
Focus on the Global South Pablo Solon was chief negotiator for climate change and United Nations Ambassador of the Plurinational State of Bolivia from 2009 to June 2011. Twenty years after the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro,...
Q & A A Green Economy Without a Pricetag on Nature?
Manipadma Jena interviews Achim Steiner, executive director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Achim Steiner, executive director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). YEOSU, South Korea, May 26, 2012 (IPS) - As thousands gear up for the...
Statement: A JUST TRANSITION NOW – NO TO ”GREEN ECONOMY”
To The Swedish Government and all participants at the Rio +20 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in June 2012. From the Gothenburg Conference: Celebrate! Resist! Transform! for environmental justice and just transition 18th to 20th of May 2012 A JUST TRANSITION NOW – NO...
Behind the ‘Green Economy’ – A new drive to commodify nature by Christophe
Faced with an even more complex and deeper crisis, capitalism is launching a fresh attack that combines the old austerity measures with an offensive to create new sources of profit and growth through the “Green Economy” agenda. No to the Green Economy I. A New Phase...
‘Green Capitalism’ Bolivia’s warning to Rio+20 Brazil | by Brenda Norrell
Indigenous Peoples will gather in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, during June for Rio+20, the UN Conference on Sustainable Development, June 13 --22, 2012. In the struggle to uphold the Rights of Mother Earth, Bolivia warns of the commercialized "green economy" that seeks to...
Contesting a ‘just transition to a low carbon economy’ | by Jacklyn Cock
The ‘transition to a low carbon or green economy has massive implications for labour.’ Jacklyn Cock takes a look at the Congress of South African Trade Unions’ response. INTRODUCTION Recently, the South African labour federation, the Congress of South African Trade...
Reclaiming Rights at Rio: CSO Consultation to the African Agenda in the Rio+20 Summit Context
We, representatives of organizations from more than 15 countries in Africa comprised of small farmers, youth groups, fisherfolk, indigenous peoples, women, labour, environmentalists, faith-based organizations, local authorities and NGOs from African Civil Society met...
Rio + 20: Here we go again | by John Bellamy Foster
What prospects for labour and a just transition? Briefing Paper for Workshop on Labour Input for Rio+20 By the end of the twentieth century capitalism had evolved into a system that was if anything more geared to rapacious accumulation than ever before, reletavily...
