Posts Tagged ‘ climate justice ’

Our world leaders went to Copenhagen, and all we got was this lousy climate agreement

Jan 7th, 2010 | By Chris | Category: Agra Watch Blog Posts, Food Justice Blog Posts, Trade Justice Blog Posts

The Council of Parties 15 (COP15) UN Climate Change Conference was reminiscent of many alphabet soup economic summits: World Heads of State came together in a mid-sized city to discuss pressing issues of the day, a clamoring from marginalized civil society organizations for a stronger voice (or from being barred entry), met with mass demonstrations [...]



Climate Justice or Climate Chaos?

Oct 1st, 2009 | By Chris | Category: Trade Justice Blog Posts

So read a circular banner on a locked-down street in San Francisco on Sept. 21st.  Organized by the Mobilization for Climate Justice West, a coalition of groups calling for urgent, direct action in response to climate change, the action comes as a part of a week of activity around the G20 meetings in Pittsburgh.  There, [...]