Over 100 civil society organizations from Africa and around the world sent a letter earlier this week to African negotiators attending the UN global climate talks in Durban, calling for them to reject efforts to place agricultural soils within a carbon market. Countries in Durban will consider whether to advance a separate agriculture work program within the global climate … [Read more...]
Peak Poison
Governments and corporations will gather in Bali, Indonesia, in December 2007, to plot a way forward on climate change. Peoples' movements, and even main stream civil society organisations, are increasingly sceptical that they have the political will, imagination or wisdom to put people and the future of the planet ahead of corporate profits and economic growth. People's … [Read more...]
