Annie Leonard, from the Story of Stuff project, explains how corporations like Exxon and Koch took over the democratic system in the US and how citizens can take back their power.
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The Story of Citizens United v. FEC
Posted in climate politics on March 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Wikileaks reveals how the USA blackmailed the world
Posted in climate politics on December 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The cables from the US embassies released by Wikileaks show how this country has used its diplomatic power to manipulate climate negotiations. Since the beggining of the current year that the Obama administration has been trying to make the world sign the Copenhagen Accord, the weak and non-binding agreement that the US presents as an [...]
Climate change performance – much less than what is needed
Posted in climate politics on December 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Germanwatch and Climate Action Network – Europe have released the Climate Change Performance Index for 2010 (link). Significantly, none of the sixty largest emitters deserves to be in the first three places, as none has a mitigation performance compatible with a 2oC temperature rise. Also significantly, the USA, China and Canada are among the worst performers when [...]
The good, the bad and the ugly in EU climate policy
Posted in climate politics on May 31, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The good: The European Commision is now backing stepping up EU’s emissions reductions target to 30% from 1990 levels by 2020 (BBC). This is a very important step, given that the supposedly green Obama administration is presenting as ambitious a plan to reduce US emissions by 4% in the same period. The bad: As usual, [...]
Bombing for peace, burning oil for the climate
Posted in climate politics on February 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The recent State of the Union Address by Obama was a remarkable display of doublespeak. The nobel peace prize talked of peace and nuclear disarmament while announcing a record high in military spending and a reinforcement of spending in nuclear weapons. The environmentalist talked of climate and energy reform, while announcing his support for nuclear [...]
Day 10 – Some important lessons from ALBA
Posted in climate politics, tagged cop-15 on December 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
For the first time in the last days, I went straight to the Klima Forum, as there was no demonstration today. There I saw a debate on livestock’s contribution to climate change organized by Compassion in World Farming. A FAO report, “Livestock’s long shadow”, estimated that about 18% of greenhouse gas emissions come from the [...]
The Milibands
Posted in climate politics on October 26, 2009 | 1 Comment »
This could be the name of a sitcom. Or, better yet, from a tragicomedy. David Miliband, Foreign Secretary, and Ed Miliband, Climate Secretary, joined forces and launched a website on climate change, with maps that show how the world will be like with a 4ºC rise in global temperature and a petition for a ambitious [...]
Going backwards
Posted in climate politics on October 12, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Back in 2007, George Monbiot denounced that the Bali Action Plan was a regression from the Kyoto Protocol (link). Now that we are preparing to witness the negotiation of a new climate deal in Copenhagen, this December, it seems that even the puny commitments made by developed countries to reduce emissions are going to be [...]
