“The Future We Want,” the text being discussed by governments for Rio+20, promotes rhetoric of empowering women but in reality, it not only disempowers them further, it also gives more rights and access to corporations. The basic step towards achieving women...
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Durban COP17: failures in the making | by Patrick Bond
The failure of Durban’s COP17 – a veritable “Conference of Polluters” – is certain, but the nuance and spin are also important. Binding emissions-cut commitments under the Kyoto Protocol are impossible given Washington’s push for an alternate architecture that is also...
Carbon trading in Africa: Who will benefit? | by Wally Menne
History is littered with the fallout from failed financial schemes that have resulted in massive losses for ordinary people and private institutions, whose investments were plundered by unscrupulous consultants and bankers. Such economic crimes have commonly been...
Sugar vs. reason in Uganda: Democracy unplugged | by Patrick Hoenig
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni won the presidential elections in February 2011 by a landslide, cementing his two-and-a-half-decade-long hold on power.[1] Just when he could have sailed into his fifth term as Ugandan president on a comfortable mandate, Museveni...
Climate-crisis capitalism, global environmental governance and geopolitical competition in emissions laxity | by Patrick Bond
Presented to the International Labour Rights Information Group Globalization School on Capitalism and the Environment, 3 October 2011 AbstractThe recent rounds of world climate negotiations reveal severe flaws in the character of global capitalism, the role of leading...
