Oct 31, 2016 | Bioenergy, Climate Justice, Featured, Forests, Geoengineering, Social Media News, UN Climate Blog, UN Climate COPs
From Friends of the Earth: BERLIN/AECHEN – One week ahead of the coming-into-force of the Paris Climate Agreement, the German Catholic Bishops’ Organisation for Development Cooperation (MISEREOR), Friends of the Earth Germany (BUND), and the Heinrich Böll...
Oct 11, 2016 | Featured, Protests & Resistance, Social Media News, UN Climate Blog, UN Climate COPs
Via Cca-glasgow.com: The Paris climate talks in December 2015 were a con. Despite agreeing a commitment to keep global warming to 1.5°C, the actual plans set forward by governments point to warming of between 2.4°C and 3.7°C – which will mean disaster for the planet....
Aug 31, 2016 | Featured, Social Media News, UN Climate Blog, UN Climate COPs, Videos
Note: For more critiques on the failures of the COP 21 Paris Accord, visit GJEP’s Paris Blog Via NotWithoutUs.com: Not Without Us follows seven multi-generational, grassroots activists from around the world as they head to Paris for the 21st session of United...
Apr 15, 2016 | Featured, Protests & Resistance, Social Media News, UN Climate Blog, UN Climate COPs, Videos
In the follow-up of the COP21 held in Paris last year, activists blocked the International Oil & Gas Deepwater Summit (MCE Deepwater Development Summit) held in Pau, France this week with civil disobedience and direct actions. Total, Shell, Exxon, Repsol, BP, and...
Apr 5, 2016 | Carbon Markets / Carbon Offsets, Deforestation, Forests, Rainforest, REDD, Social Media News, UN Climate COPs
By Chris Lang Originally Published at Redd-Monitor.org For the past 10 years, Kevin Conrad has been working to push a carbon trading mechanism called REDD through the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. Last year, he turned his attention to the massively...
