Climate Justice Chronicle Newspaper Issue #2

9th Dec:

The Climate justice newspaper is produced every two days during the Copenhagen climate talks, reporting and decoding what is going on both inside and outside the climate negotiations. Find out what is really going on behind the media headlines.

Printed copies are available in Copenhagen at the KlimaForum and the Bella Center.

Climate Chronicle is a co-publication of Transnational Institute's Carbon Trade Watch, Earthlife Africa and the Institute for Security Studies.

http://www.tni.org/briefing/newspaper-climate-chronicle

 

Selected articles:

* Copenhagen Plan B: "protect the rich"
A leaked text of the political declaration that could conclude the Copenhagen conference reveals back-room dealings that offer little to the Majority World, writes Oscar Reyes.

* Copenhagen: Where Africa Took On Obama
Respected author Naomi Klein spoke at the opening of the KlimaForum on Monday night, where she also found time to interview Nnimmo Bassey, the much celebrated Nigerian human rights activist of Environmental Rights Action.

* Sasol & CDM: The Developed World Pays Sasol to Increase its Carbon Emissions
South African based multinational, Sasol, is nominated for the Angry Mermaid Award for its national and international lobbying campaign to promote Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) as a clean solution to the dirty business of producing liquid fuels from coal and gas. Tristen Taylor of Earthlife Africa Johannesburg tells the story of its many attempts to benefit from carbon trading.

 

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