Tag: climate change

Is it fascism or not?, reflections on freedom within the environmental struggle

COA Admin December 2, 2010 0 Comments
by Moisés Flores Baca In my History of Filmmaking class this past Fall term we got the opportunity to look at various films that are considered propagandistic, including a few by the famous german filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl, who worked during Hitler's regime being one of his favorite people. When we think of the Nazi regime normally nothing positive comes to mind. This is why it came as a big...

Kyoto Must Die!

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by Jane I. P. Nurse It's the third day of the negotiations and there are dark clouds hovering over the Kyoto Protocol. Japan has shocked us all with an aggressive up-start at the beginning of this week. By proclaiming that it won't sign on to a second commitment period after the Kyoto protocol runs out in 2012, it basically backstabs everybody trying to push for further emission reduction...

True Love Needs Commitment: the Unstable Relationship Between Japan and the Kyoto Protocol

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by Tara Allen The negotiations started off on the wrong foot Monday afternoon during the fifteenth meeting of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Further Commitments for Annex I Parties under the Kyoto Protocol (AWG-KP 15). Japan, the home country of the Kyoto Protocol, stated that it would never, ever sign on to a second commitment period of the document, as initially planned when KP was adopted by the...

COA’s booth at Youth and Future Generations action day.

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by Moisés Flores Baca Today is the Youth and Future Generations day and the YOUNGO, or Youth Constituency, is organizing a big series of various events to make the youth's voices be heard. One of these events will be the "Market of our Futures" at which the different NGO's that form the constituency will present different items for sale that symbolize the fact that our future is being sold...

The irony behind having the Climate Change negotiations be in Cancun.

COA Admin December 1, 2010 0 Comments
by Moisés Flores Baca "Cancun is the best example of ecosystems predation..." reads the first line of the cartoon above, published today by the left-wing newspaper "LaJornada", "The fact that it is the place where the environmental summit meant to save the planet is happening there seems to be a joke", reads the line in the middle. It is fair to acknowledge that LaJornada normally goes way over...