News Archive

Global Activists Coordinate Actions to Tax Speculators
May 20, 2010 - Sarah Anderson, Institute for Policy Studies
From Australia to Canada, activists are taking to the streets in cities around the world this week to hold the financial sector accountable for the costs of the global crisis.  Go...

Two Views on Kerry Lieberman Energy and Climate Bill
May 20, 2010
No 1: President, Congress Must Lead on Comprehensive Clean Energy and Climate Policy, Leading Groups Say;

No.2: Kerry-Lieberman Dirty Energy Bill Is No Solution to Climate Crisis  Go...

Climate battle moves to Bolivia
April 25, 2010 - Martin Khor, The Star Online (Malaysia)
In Cochabamba in the Andean mountains, whose glaciers are melting, a people’s climate conference was held last week that invigorated the spirit of social and political leaders to intensify the battle against climate change.  Go...

BOLIVIA - "Living Well" in Harmony with the Environment
April 20, 2010 - Franz Chávez, Inter Press Service (IPS)
COCHABAMBA, Bolivia - The philosophy of "Living Well" enshrined in Bolivia's new constitution is being put forward by the government as the basis for a global movement against consumerism, depredation of natural resources for profit, and current models of development.  Go...

Blog Highlight: TripleCrisis - Global Perspectives on Finance, Development, and Environment
April 22, 2010
Economists engaged in global dialogue around how crises in these three areas interact, and how they can collectively be solved.  Go...

Would the real IMF please stand up?
April 21, 2010 - Kevin Gallagher, ft.com/economistsforum
Clear and consistent proposals toward crisis recovery and prevention are needed at the International Monetary Fund upcoming annual meetings. Unfortunately, the IMF has been sending mixed messages over the past two months on the subject of capital controls.  Go...

Beyond Bonn: The Road to Cochabamba
April 16, 2010 - Gail Whiteman and Michael K. Dorsey, Reuters
The close of the recent climate negotiations in Bonn did not catalyze governments to urgently retake the climate negotiations after their dismal collapse at December's Copenhagen Summit.  Go...

EU climate chief: 'No climate deal likely before 2012'
February 25, 2010 - LEIGH PHILLIPS, EUOBSERVER
BRUSSELS - Global divisions on climate are so acute that a binding UN deal is unlikely for almost another two years, Europe's new climate commissioner believes.  Go...

Join a Funders Delegation to USSF 2010
February 11, 2010
Inspired by the World Social Forum process, the US Social Forum is a unique space within which grassroots networks are building a powerful multi-racial, multi-sectoral, inter-generational, diverse, inclusive, internationalist movement, seeking solutions to the economic and ecological crises that confront us. The forum is not a conference but rather a remarkable event within an extraordinary process of building political consciousness for a progressive way forward. Funders concerned with issues as diverse as human rights, equity, the environment, poverty, community development, economic justice, immigration and social movement organizing are invited to participate in our delegation to this important gathering.  Go...

After Copenhagen, the Way Forward
February 11, 2010 - Martin Khor, South Centre
Martin Khor The UNFCCC Copenhagen Conference in December 2009 ended in some disarray and confusion because of a clash between two processes taking place.  Go...

Stop private firms exploiting poor states
February 5, 2010 - Kevin Gallagher, The Guardian
A Cafta provision means a mining corporation can sue El Salvador for its gold. Obama can stop this from happening again.  Go...

The Quiet Revolution
February 2, 2010 - John B. Judis, The New Republic
Obama has reinvented the state in more ways than you can imagine.  Go...

Defending Mother Earth in Cochabamba
February 1, 2010
A report from Porto Alegre on the Bolivian climate change initiative  Go...

Save the Dates! US Social Forum 2010
January 25, 2010
Save the Dates! Join Funders "Accompanying" the US Social Forum process - Participate in monthly funder discussions, starting on Tuesday, January 26 - Join FNTG's delegation to Detroit from June 21-26  Go...

Obama’s “Copenhagen Accord” – UNFCCC turns to WTO?
January 4, 2010 - Victor Menotti, International Forum on Globalization
President Obama’s proposed “Copenhagen Accord” aims to shift from developed to developing countries the balance of “common but differentiated responsibilities” that have been bedrock principles of equity in the United Nations’ Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), reaffirmed in the 2007 Bali Action Plan’s carefully constructed negotiating mandate for the Copenhagen conference.  Go...

Copenhagen Is Not Just About Climate Change -- It's About the What Kind of People We Want to Be
December 15, 2009 - George Monbiot, Monbiot.com
This is the moment at which we turn and face ourselves. Here, in the plastic corridors and crowded stalls, among impenetrable texts and withering procedures, humankind decides what it is and what it will become. It chooses whether to continue living as it has done, until it must make a wasteland of its home, or to stop and redefine itself. This is about much more than climate change. This is about us.  Go...

TWN Copenhagen News Update No.25
December 21, 2009 - Meena Raman, Third World Network
This document describes attempts to make the Copenhagen Accord a “plurilateral agreement”  Go...

No Danish text, small drafting groups to meet
December 17, 2009 - Meena Raman, Third World Network
The basis of negotiations at the climate conference would be texts that are outcomes of the Working Groups that had worked until Wednesday and not any texts prepared by the Danish Presidency.  Go...

PRESS RELEASE: President Evo Morales of Bolivia to arrive at Copenhagen Conference
December 15, 2009
President Evo Morales Ayma of the Plurinational State of Bolivia will arrive in Copenhagen tonight, Tuesday 15 December, to join the UN conference on climate change.  Go...

Informal plenary on Kyoto Protocol discusses issue of the US not being a Party
December 15, 2009 - Meena Raman, Third World Network
The informal meeting commenced around 7 pm and was closed to observers. According to sources, the German minister said that all developing countries want the Kyoto Protocol to continue.  Go...

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