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Los Mitos del Mercado de Carbono

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Resulta evidente el fracaso que en cada reunión oficial de la convención marco para el cambio climático de la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para llegar a acuerdos vinculantes en materia de medidas de mitigación y adaptación al cambio climático, es un fortalecimiento de las corporaciones transnacionales y las Instituciones Financieras Internacionales en los acuerdos sobre los mecanismos del

mercado de carbono y el precio de estos ante el negocio que representa la crisis climática, tanto para dichas corporaciones como para los gobiernos en el norte y sur global.

Para la descarga del folleto dar click aquí: Los mitos del mercado de carbono.

Publications

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Rising Tide produces several publications annually. Topics range from climate education and direct action tactics to  in-depth analysis of the climate movement. We also publish a newsletter and the widely distributed comprehensive guide to climate change’s “false solutions” Hoodwinked in the Hothouse.

Australia: 73 arrests, 8 hour blockade of coal transport!

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Hundreds of people gathered near Australia’s single largest source of carbon pollution – The Bayswater power station – for Climate Camp NSW over the last week.

Climate Camp culminated in a day of mass action where 130 campers pushed over a fence and for eight hours occupied the train tracks adjacent the power station. 110 people remained on the tracks. 73 arrests were made and 12 people locked-on, in protest of the NSW Government’s approval of ‘Bayswater B’ an additional coal-fired power station building built on the site as part of Australian Government plans to build another 12 coal-fired power stations nationally (“The Dirty Dozen”).

By all accounts (apart from perhaps the Police ;), the day was a huge success. The Camp represented a diverse range of grassroots organisations including local climate action groups, Rising Tide Newcastle, Friends of the Earth Sydney, members of the Christian movement, students, senior citizens, medical professionals, farmers, scientists, teachers and many more.

One of the major highlights was when Police arrested Bill, and 89 year old Korean War veteran who was occupying the tracks – this is his fourth arrest.

more information at Climate Camp NSW website HERE

“Thousand Cancúns” action comes to the UN Climate Conference

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“Thousand Cancúns” action comes to the UN Climate Conference

All Photos by Orin Langelle/ Global Justice Ecology Project – Global Forest Coalition
(the Global Justice Ecology Project is a Rising Tide affiliate and ally)

Cancún, Mexico, December 7, 2010-the “Day of 1,000 Cancuns” actions.  A press conference hosted by Global Justice Ecology Project and organized by La Via Campesina, Indigenous Environmental Network and Friends of the Earth turned into a spontaneous action as speakers expressed anger over the direction of the climate talks in Cancún. Following the press conference, activists from Youth 4 Climate Justice led the protest out of the climate talks.
To view the photos, click here