- Militarism as Cause & Consequence of Climate Change Dec 12th, 2010 in Featured Articles, Press Releases PRESS RELEASE: Dec 10, 2010 Militarism as Cause and Consequence of Climate Change Expulsion of Organizer from COP16 Leads to Cancellation of Press Conference from Climate SOS, Biofuel Watch, and Global Compliance Research Project (Cancun, Dec 10, 2010): As climate negotiations in Cancun become increasingly chaotic and the outcomes uncertain, over 70 diverse environmental, peace and social justice organizations declare...
- WAR = CLIMATE CHANGE = WAR = CLIMATE CHANGE…TIME TO BREAK THE CYCLE! Nov 24th, 2010 in Featured Articles, Newswire (See 1 page pdf file of this statement, for printing) We, the undersigned, declare the following: There can be no solution to the climate crisis and no “climate justice” so long as the US military and its allies continue to pollute unabated, and to squander lives and resources. Likewise, there will be no end to war so long as global warming continues to accelerate. It’s time to break the cycle and end the death...
- Good news! UN Agrees Moratorium on Geoengineering Experiments Oct 28th, 2010 in Featured Articles, In the News, Newswire Nagoya, Japan: News Release | 29 October 2010 | www.etcgroup.org Geoengineering Moratorium at UN Ministerial in Japan Risky Climate Techno-fixes Blocked NAGOYA, Japan – In a landmark consensus decision, the 193-member UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) will close its tenth biennial meeting with a de facto moratorium on geoengineering projects and experiments. “Any private or public experimentation or...
PROMINENT CLIMATE SCIENTIST JAMES HANSEN ENDORSES CLIMATE SOS CAMPAIGN
Aug 19th, 2009 in Featured Articles, Newswire Prominent climate scientist James Hansen, who has called cap-and-trade schemes a “Temple of Doom”, has personally endorsed our Climate SOS campaign to kill a cap-and-trade bill in the United States Senate. Occupying offices of key senators and Nonviolent Civil Disobedience will be among peaceful tactics used by our group. Climate SOS will kick off our national “Green Bill or No Bill” tour on September 8 in Bismarck, North Dakota. “Days of Occupation” on the West Coast and the East Coast will be triggered by other Midwest tour stops in Indianapolis (September 11), Little Rock, Arkansas...No deal is better than a deal that pretends to be one!
Aug 18th, 2009 in Featured Articles, Newswire NOT JUST ANY OLD CLIMATE BILL WILL DO! GLOBAL WARMING IS HAPPENING FASTER THAN ANYONE PREDICTED. In December 2008, a major Climate Science Congress, attended by over 2,000 scientists, concluded: “the worst-case IPCC scenario trajectories (or even worse) are being realized.” We are receiving daily reports on the alarming rate of Arctic ice melting. Climate change is now recognized as likely the most serious threat to national security, because it threatens to inundate low lying areas, sending waves of refugees scattering, disrupt agriculture leading to widespread famines, spreading...
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