The threat of climate change and global warming, fueled by relentless commercialization and excessive consumption, has turned into a fighting ground for both policymakers and concerned citizens. The coming decade is set to determine not only a collective response to reducing carbon emissions, but the entire future direction for international development and the global justice movement.
Market mechanisms are unsuited in principle to the tasks
involved in combatting climate change - so why are markets set to become the backbone of world action against global
warming, asks Renfrey Clarke.
Time is fast running out to stop irreversible climate change, a group
of global warming experts warn - and we have only 100 months to avoid
disaster, explains Andrew Simms.
There is no single "right way" to implement Plan B, but the
following list of 12 steps would go a long way towards insuring that we and our
children will have a world worth living in, writes Matthew Stein.
In the face of the looming specter of climate change, the ongoing World Trade Organization talks in Geneva amount to arguing over the arrangement of deck chairs
while the Titanic is sinking, argues Walden Bello.
The benign post-summit headlines conceal the G8's retreat from
leadership on climate change. It's time for a global civil-society
initiative, says Andrew Pendleton.
The G8 climate communique showed that it is trying hard to
avoid the necessary radical controls on growth, consumption, profits, and
the market that a viable strategy to stave off the looming climate
catastrophe will necessitate, writes Walden Bello.