Debates
After Glasgow COP26:build the global movement
Alan Thornett What happened in Glasgow – and where do we go from here? Many on the radical left have concluded thatGlasgow was an unmitigated disaster. That COP is dead. That […]
Year: 2021
Analyses
Blah, blah, blah, yay: Another epic fail for the COP, but seeds of growth for our movements
John Foran originally published by Resilience.org Introduction As COP 26 began, Greta Thunberg summed up the whole thing quite succinctly using just one word, three times: Blah blah blah. And as […]
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Rede Brasileira Ecosocialista
Name Rede Brasileira Ecosocialista Country Brazil Website http://www.alternativaterrazul.org.br/
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POISON RAIN NEVER AGAIN!
Subverta Coletivo, Brazil reports BRAZIL’S SUPREME FEDERAL COURT MAY OVERRIDE LAW THAT PROHIBITS OVERHEAD SPRAYING OF PESTICIDES The Supreme Federal Court (STF), the highest court of Brazilian justice, has started the judgment of the Direct […]
Analyses
Neoliberal apotheosis: COP26 creates the global fire market and offers it to capitalist arsonists, at the expense of the people
Daniel Tanuro The Glasgow Conference (COP26) should have given priority to 1) making good on the promise of the “developed” countries to contribute to the Green Climate Fund, from 2020 onwards, at least one […]
Analyses
WHAT DO WE DO AFTER THE COP?
Jonathan Neale The COP26 United Nations climate conference in Glasgow is the third key moment in the history of the talks. At the Copenhagen COP in 2009 the movement was defeated, and we […]
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Révolution écosocialiste
Name Révolution écosocialiste Country Canada Website https://ecosocialisme.ca/
Analyses
Zero carbon by 2050 is far too late!
Alan Thornett If dire warnings resolved the environmental crisis we would be heading for victory. Boris Johnson tells us that we are heading for a new dark ages, which indeed we […]
Analyses
COP26: Enough blah blah, only struggle pays off
Daniel Tanuro The increasing number of climate disasters around the world is the result of a warming of “only” 1.1° to 1.2° Celsius above the pre-industrial era. From reading the IPCC’s special 1.5°C […]
Analyses
What to expect from COP26: climate action, climate justice or greenwashing?
Eve Croeser This article was first published in International Socialism Journal 172 http://isj.org.uk/what-to-expect-from-cop26/ If Karl Marx and Frederick Engels were writing the Communist Manifesto today, it is not inconceivable that they would begin with the sentence: […]