Climate Change

INTERVIEW WITH GJEP CO-DIRECTOR ANNE PETERMANN ON KPFA RADIO:
Anne spoke with KPFA radio about the Copenhagen mobilization and its significance in terms of climate change. Download the KPFA interview from 10 November, 2008 to hear more.

A CALL TO CLIMATE ACTION: 2009 UN CLIMATE CONFERENCE, COPENHAGEN

In September of this year, over 100 activists from 21 countries came together to begin planning a major international mobilization against climate change to coincide with the 2009 UN Climate Conference in Copenhagen, where world leaders will create the international climate agreement that will take effect when the Kyoto Protocol expires in 2012. Read the Call To Action to get involved!

You can read our critique of the 2007 UN Climate Conference that was published in Z Magazine here

OPPOSE FALSE SOLUTIONS TO CLIMATE CHANGE

Global Justice Ecology Project also works to end false solutions to climate change such as large-scale production of agrofuels (biofuels), carbon trading, and carbon offset forestry. We instead support real solutions to climate change including a vast reduction in the consumption of fossil fuels and wood-based products by industrialized countries, while also promoting small-scale, local solutions to climate change. We are also founding members of the Durban Group for Climate Justice.

Download our new report The True Cost of Agrofuels: Impacts on Food, Forests, Peoples and the Climate , produced jointly by Global Justice Ecology Project and Global Forest Coalition with the Institute for Social Ecology (16 May, 2008).

How False Solutions to Climate Change Will Worsen Global Warming

"Biofuel is worse for the planet than petroleum." - George Monbiot

False solutions to global warming include large-scale production of biofuels, carbon trading, monoculture plantations of genetically engineered crops or trees, and carbon offset forestry.

These industrial schemes are being touted as "solutions" to climate change by cynical corporations as a way to cash in on the rising public concern about global warming. These false solutions will not only have no positive effect on the climate, they will in fact worsen the on-coming climate catastrophe. (for more on the corporate global warming profit making strategy, read "The Corporate Climate Coup" see link at bottom)

False solutions to exacerbate climate change in two fundamental ways:

~ They are designed to lull the public into a false sense of security, believing that the problem of climate change is being addressed, thereby impeding the identification of true solutions to climate catastrophe (such as reducing carbon emissions at their source).

~ They will directly contribute to climate change by destroying native forests, implementing greenhouse gas-releasing agricultural activities, and by allowing burning of fossil fuels to continue unabated.

It's time now for some real action to stop global warming.

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Publications

GJEP on What Really Happened in Copenhagen
2/17/2010 3:12 am

Annual Report 2008
1/18/2010 1:31 pm