Hello from Cochabamba Bolivia at the Evo Morales’ Climate conference where a delegation of Argentines and International journalists traveled more than 52 hours by bus to participate in an event that promises to change the dialogue over climate change. I organized the bus and one of the journalists published this piece about the journey and the participants and fellow travelers in the UK Guardian.
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Editorial: Yes we know the British don’t really live in Europe, rather Europe lives off the British coastline, but wait I digress. Back to the negotiations in Copenhagen and now in Bonn… Are the UN negotiations really negotiations at all? Continue reading Negotiation or Dictate
Part one of three Pablo Solon, Bolivia’s ambassador to the UN, at a press conference during UNFCCC negotiations in Bonn on 10 April condemned continued attempts by some developed countries to impose a deeply flawed Copenhagen Accord as the basis for future negotiations: “The only way to get negotiations back on track not just for Bolivia or other countries, but for all of life, biodiversity, our Mother Earth is to put civil society back into the process.” Continue reading Media Advisory: Bolivia launches World Peoples’ Climate Summit at UNFCCC talks in Bonn The Structural Causes of Climate Change What follows is a discussion of structural problems in the relationship between national economies and Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). The emphasis is on the role of transnational capital itself, independent of national political economics.
It is argued that in order to prevent further environmental degradation, pollution and climate change, the power relationship between states and multinational investment needs to be rebalanced to improve environmental, social, and financial stability.
The inconvenient truth faced by governments worldwide is that the neoliberal globalization of capital over the last two decades has intentionally weakened their ability to protect the environment by subordinating national economic controls to “the market” i.e. to the financial interests behind multinational corporations. This is the real reason that Copenhagen never had a chance.
One solution suggested is an adjustment to the current global financial system (a carbon tax) along with various command and control interventions to re-orient investment for the benefit of the environment. Continue reading Editor’s submission to Evo’s conference Editor’s note:
Tadzio Müller is a political scientist, an editor of Turbulence and a spokeperson for the ‘Climate Justice Action’ network. Continue reading C.J.A. Interview Tadzio Müller / C.J.A. & Cochabamba etc. Changes within the energy sector are speeding up dramatically. A combination of ecological, political, economic and financial factors are converging to ensure that energy production and consumption are set to become central to global political, economic and financial dynamics. This is true of energy in general and the globally expanding renewable energy sector in particular. The way in which the world’s energy system evolves in the years ahead will be intimately intertwined with different possible ways out of the world-financial-economic crisis (which is also increasingly becoming a political crisis). Look out for Kolya’s new book at AK Press Copenhagen, Kingdom of Denmark, Wednesday, December 16th, 2009 Mr. President, ladies and gentlemen, Excellencies, friends, I promise that I will not talk more than most have spoken this afternoon. Allow me an initial comment which I would have liked to make as part of the previous point which was expressed by the delegations of Brazil, China, India, and Bolivia. We were there asking to speak but it was not possible. Bolivia’s representative said, my salute of course to Comrade President Evo Morales, who is there, President of the Republic of Bolivia. Continue reading Venezuelan President’s Speech on Climate Change |
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