Via Campesina Declaration of COP16

Members of La Vía Campesina from more than thirty countries from all over the world united our thousands of struggles in Cancun to demand environmental and social justice, and respect for Mother Earth at the UN Conference on Climate Change (COP 16). […]

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COP-16 Deflates, Snitch Found

COP-16 After Mexican President Calderon proclaimed that the failure of COP-16 in Cancun would be a “tragedy,” it was revealed that neither Brazilian President Luis Inácio Lula da Silva nor British Prime Minister David Cameron are even going to show up, raising […]

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COP-16 in Cancún: Day 1

From infoshop.org Entering the city of Cancún—site of the United Nations Framework on Climate Change’s sixteenth Conference of Parties (COP-16), which began today—one is struck immediately by the number of ‘areas de revision’—checkpoints, effectively—maintained by the Mexican police, with the support of […]

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