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    30 November 2015

    Scientists and experts say that if climate change continues on its current trajectory we will experience more extreme weather events that will cause famines, droughts, mass migrations, and could lead to violent conflicts.

World leaders gather in Paris Nov. 30-Dec. 11 for the COP21 climate talks. Activists and civil society hope the result is not another 'COP out' like the nonbinding, watered down agreement which came out of the 2009 Copenhagen talks.

As ALBA countries pointed out in a joint statement after the Copenhagen conference, the climate crisis is the result of the “imposition of an absolutely predatory model of development on the rest of the world” and that developing nations are “victims of a problem that we didn’t cause.” That’s why social movements and global south governments are also pushing for a deal that recognizes historically unequal contributions to climate change through the framework of climate justice.

World Leaders Signed a 'Death Warrant for the Planet' at COP21

By Marion Deschamps and Cyril Mychalejko

“What they have done in terms of (Saturday’s) agreement is really signed what we are calling a death warrant for the planet,” Cindy Weisner, national coordinator for Grassroots Global Justice Alliance, told teleSUR English. “I think for people it's a slow death that they are prescribing.”  READ MORE

How to Avoid a ‘COP Out’ in Paris

By Max Ajl

A meaningful and just climate agreement must address climate debt, differentiated responsibility, and the right to development for developing nations. The Venezuelan Minister of Foreign Affairs, Delcy Rodriguez, explains that there is a “historic debt and ecological debt from the rich countries, to the poor ones.”  READ MORE

The Challenges of Gender Equality and Climate Change

By Gladys Vila Pihue

Although common sense indicates that it is no longer possible to address climate change only from an environmental approach, separated from human rights, women's rights are facing the same exclusion, even within our own national Indigenous organizations. READ MORE

Time to Drop the Climate War Talk

By Betsy Hartmann and Jan Selby

The climate war drums first started beating loudly in 2007 and environmentalists have proven too eager to turn climate change into a national security threat. READ MORE

5 Things You Need to Know About COP21

As world leaders gather in Paris for the two-week COP21 climate summit, here are five things you should know about the talks and what they mean for the climate. READ MORE

'Corporate Environmentalism' at COP21

By Nate Singham

While corporate influence looks to undermine COP21 climate talks, Latin American leaders put forth grassroots, radical solutions to climate change. READ MORE

New Draft COP21 Agreement Falls Short of a Just Climate Deal

World leaders are one step closer to reaching a final climate deal at COP21, but critics say the text is still weak on key issues. “This is not near what we had hoped for,” Alyssa Johl, Senior Attorney with the Washington-based Center for International Environmental Law, told teleSUR.

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US is 'Major Obstacle' to Climate Change

teleSUR speaks to Manuel Criollo, the director of organizing at the U.S.-based Labor rights and environmental campaign group The Strategy Center about the possible failure of nations to reach an agreement in COP21 climate change talks and what any forthcoming pact could mean for Latin America. READ MORE

Video: Latin American Context

Palm Oil: Green-Washing a Dirty Industry

by Heather Gies

As world leaders try to reach a climate agreement at the Paris COP21 talks, teleSUR unmasks the dirty, unsustainable truth about oil palm plantations. READ MORE

Will the NSA Spy on COP21?

According to NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, the U.S. agency spied on foreign climate negotiators at the 2009 Copenhagen climate talks and funneled the information to U.S. delegates. READ MORE

Why Migration Should Be Central to COP21

By Harsha Walia

A proposal to support climate refugees was dropped from the U.N. COP21 climate talks in Paris. Meanwhile, millions of people are treated as expendable as the land, air and water that elites and their corporate friends are digging up and polluting. READ MORE

UN: COP21 'Must Mark Decisive Turning Point'

“Paris must mark a decisive turning point,” said U.N. Secretary-General Ban ki-Moon Monday as the COP21 climate summit kicked off. “We need to go much faster, much further if we are to limit the global temperature rise to below 2 degrees Celsius.” READ MORE

Activists Targeted Under State of Emergency

Ahead of the COP21, environmental and human rights groups have warned against the country’s state-of-emergency, arguing that the recent Paris terror attacks are being used to repress the actions of environmentalists due to fears that mass-mobilizations could disturb the summit. READ MORE

TPP Dooms World to Climate Crisis

The TPP free trade deal is “a panoply of threats to our climate and environment.” It could also undermine climate change agreements made at the Paris COP21 talks. READ MORE

Why Justice in Paris is Unlikely

By Preeti Kaur

If we continue on our current path of consumption and production without control, we face mass species extinction, famine, displacement, and conflict over basic resources. We’re in this danger as a result of an economic system that has prioritized profit and economic growth over people and the environment. READ MORE

Missing on the COP21 Agenda: Grieving

By Robert Jensen

Grieving is not surrender but an acceptance of what can’t be changed and a commitment to what can be accomplished, within limits the ecosphere sets. READ MORE

640 Environmentalists Murdered Since 2009

At least 640 land and environmental defenders have been killed for their activism in the past six years since the 2009 world climate negotiations in Copenhagen. READ MORE

Climate Change: ExxonMobil Probed for Lying

While the oil company acknowledged the rise of global warming since the 1980s, it launched a multimillion dollar campaign in the 1990s to "emphasize the uncertainty." READ MORE

 

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