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Cancun: Cut through the nonsense for the sake of our planet

There seems to be something about the letter C and climate change.

Last year, it was Copenhagen. This week, it's Cancun. And in between it was Cochabamba. And it's not just the venues, but the outcomes. Copenhagen was all about political confrontation and the collapse of hope. This year we must wrest the conversation from the constrained voices of timid governments and change the terms of discussion. Doing so is vital to our very survival. Here is how that can be done.

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Christopher Majka

Passing gas: Peter Kent and Canada's bogus GHG emission targets

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Christopher Majka
| August 13, 2012

"If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary-wise; what it is it wouldn't be, and what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?" -- Alice in Wonderland

On August 8, 2012, in a speech at the Algonquin Centre for Construction Excellence in Ottawa, Environment Minister Peter Kent delivered some startling environmental news:

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#FAIL, says new report from Canada’s environment watchdog
May 14, 2012 |
The Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development provides further evidence the federal government is failing to protect the environment and not meeting its climate change commitments.
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NUPGE calls on members to support fourth Earth Hour celebration
March 25, 2011 |
As communities sit in darkness during Earth Hour, a message will be sent that, as citizens in homes and cities are pledging to reduce their emissions, national governments need to do so as well.
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What if wildlife had a day in court?

Photo: Desert Photo/Flickr

If a corporation has rights, such as freedom of speech, by law, is it such a stretch to extend them to a river or an orangutan?

A growing movement of environmentalists and social-justice activists say nature should have legally recognized rights. More than 100 communities in the United States have passed ordinances granting rights to nature, and Ecuador has included language that recognizes the rights of nature in its constitution.

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Sarah Laskow

Weekly Mulch: Was Cancun Climate Conference a success?

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Sarah Laskow
| December 17, 2010

The United Nations-led Climate Conference at Cancun was not a diplomatic disaster, but for climate activists and grassroots groups, it wasn’t a success either. Representatives sent from around the globe to hammer out an agreement on climate change were unresponsive to grassroots concerns about how to lower carbon emissions quickly, and how to ensure fairness in the process.

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Youth Delegation to the UN Conference on Climate Change
Youth Delegation to the UN Conference on Climate Change

Canadian Youth Delegation daily podcast from COP16-#10

December 10, 2010
| The issues regarding the form of a future international climate change agreement that have received so much focus here in Cancun, were beautifully contrasted today by Canadians at the conference.
Length: 07:17 minutes minutes (6.68 MB)
Youth Delegation to the UN Conference on Climate Change
Youth Delegation to the UN Conference on Climate Change

Canadian Youth Delegation daily podcast from COP16-#9

December 9, 2010
| In today's podcast, you'll be hearing about a meeting we had with Canadian Minister of the Environment John Baird.
Length: 06:36 minutes minutes (6.05 MB)
Sarah Laskow

Weekly Mulch: If Cancun Climate talks falter, blame the U.S.

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Sarah Laskow
| December 3, 2010

The most recent round of United Nations-led climate change negotiations began this week in Cancun, and although international expectations are muted this year, the stakes are still high. As Mother Jones' Kate Sheppard explains, "The 2010 meeting could make or break the future of global negotiations.”

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Velcrow Ripper

From Cochabamba to Cancun...the path forward

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Velcrow Ripper
| April 26, 2010

The  World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth is over, but the momemtum generated by this first initiative will create ripples that will continue for some time.   I am left with a feeling of tremendous hope, and a sense that this is just the beginning, that we are on our way to the formation of a global movement for climate justice, that there are  many, many people who care, who are prepared to devote their hearts, their minds, and their passion to slowing down and turning around the tragic trajectory that has been set by the industrial growth society.

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