Waste Picker Events in Tianjin, China
Wastepickers and allies are currently in Tianjin, China for the United Nations Climate Change Conference running from 4 to 9 October 2010. Their agenda includes the following eve...
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O lixo no meio do redemoinho
A recent article in O Tempo on the issues surrounding the implementation of Brazil’s new National Policy on Solid Waste features a quote from and an interview with WIEGO̵...
BONN III: CRÓNICA DE UN IMPASSE
La Conferencia de Bonn (2-6 de agosto de 2010) empezó de manera bastante desconcertante: a pesar de que la actualidad mundial rebosa ejemplos claros de alteraciones en el clima -R...
GAIA Interventions at the CDM’s 55th Exective Board Meeting
Bonn, Germany, 30 July 2010 Webcast My name is Mariel Vilella and I represent the Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives, a worldwide network of more than 600 organizations i...
GAIA Interventions at CDM’s 55th Executive Board Meeting
Bonn, Germany, 30 July 2010 Webcast My name is Neil Tangri, with the Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives. We work closely with the wastepicker groups that some of you met ...
Bureaucrats respond to an emergency
Mariel and I came to Bonn last week to see what a bureaucracy in crisis looks like. The bureaucracy in question is the Clean Development Mechanism, the UN agency in charge of award...
Actualización de GAIA sobre la campaña de desechos y el clima
Hola amigos, Me dirijo a ustedes para darles una actualización sobre lo que GAIA ha estado trabajando y otros desarrollos en el mundo de los residuos y la política climática en ...
GAIA update on the waste and climate campaign
Here is an update on what GAIA has been up to and other developments in the world of waste and climate policy over the last three months. INTERNATIONAL NEGOTIATIONS: Since the Cope...
New Attention to CDM Projects
Interesting news coming out of the CDM these days. The Executive Board is cracking down hard on projects that are of dubious “additionality” – meaning that they proba...
KKPKP at NOW’10 (New Options for the World)
On Jan 29th, 2010, members of the Kagad Kach Patra Kashtakari Panchayat (KKPKP) were invited to speak at NOW’10 (New Options for the World) – a three-day seminar series at ...
Conferencia Mundial de los Pueblos sobre Cambio Climático y Derechos de la Madre Tierra
Registration now open for Peoples’ World Conference on Climate Change and Mother Earth Rights More than 10,000 people are expected to attend the summit, to be held in Cochaba...
Mohan Nanavare and Baby Mohite on TV in Pune
I don’t speak the language but I love this clip! Baby Mohite and Mohan Nanavare speaking about why they went to Copenhagen. (Cameo appearance by Poornima Chikarmane.) www.you...
Jairam Ramesh Doesn’t Get It
“So far, most of the negotiation has focused on mitigation. Because mitigation means technology, you see, and adaptation involves people.” That was the statement of India’s M...
Teaching COP15 Delegates How to Recycle
[this is a translation into English of an earlier post from Lucia about the recyclers action in the Bella Center] Among so many suits, ties and Colgate smiles, as if nothing was ha...
entre el microfono y la penumbra*: nuestro evento paralelo y la solidaridad con los detenidos
El dia de ayer 12/12 comenzo con una soleada jornada de evaluacion matinal sobre toda la semana de trabajo intenso que la delegacion global de recicladores realizo de sabado a saba...
naciones unidas se vistio de carton-los recicladores enseñaron a separar los residuos!
Entre tanto traje, corbata, sonrisa kolynos como si nada pasara y el mundo tuviera todavia otro mundo remplazable que lo estuviese aguardando, los recicladores de india y america l...
As Seen on TV: Something Rotten in the State of Denmark
Our friends in one of the organizing groups told us they were not expecting any trouble. Saturday’s march for a fair, ambitious and binding (“FAB!”) climate chang...
Baby Mohite Interview
Organisation: KKPKP The rains that were supposed to come in the month of June now come in the month of November. The weather and the seasons are changing. The developed countries p...