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PAMBAZUKA NEWS 555: DURBAN CLIMATE CHANGE CONFERENCE: AFRICA DEMANDS EQUITY AND JUSTICE The authoritative electronic weekly newsletter and platform for social justice in Africa Pambazuka News (English edition): ISSN 1753-6839 CONTENTS: 1. Features, 2. Announcements /\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\ 1 Features DURBAN MUST DELIVER EQUITY Tetteh Hormeku The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference of the Parties (COP 17) takes place in Durban in late November. At stake is whether the world can agree to a global deal that will tackle climate change. Introducing this joint special issue of African Agenda, a publication of Third World Network-Africa, and Pambazuka News, Tetteh Hormeku from TWN-Africa calls for a set of decisions that address issues of equity and justice. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/77604 ****** CLIMATE CHANGE NEGOTIATIONS: DURBAN, A CRITICAL BATTLEGROUND Kwesi W. Obeng The build-up to the final United Nations Convention on Climate Change meeting in 2011 has been fractious and combative even as many countries grapple with negative impacts of climate change. Durban may not save the world, writes Kwesi W. Obeng. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/77626 ****** COP17: INSPIRING THE GLOBAL CLIMATE JUSTICE MOVEMENT Nnimmo Bassey It’s unlikely we’ll get ‘an equitable outcome’ from COP17, but it will be ‘a great moment to intensify campaigns against the business-as-usual manner’ in which climate negotiations have been conducted so far, writes Nnimmo Bassey. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/77627 ****** CLIMATE CHANGE, THE SCIENCE AND CLIMATE JUSTICE: DEFINING ISSUES OF THE CENTURY Hewa Nzuri Climate change is already exacting a toll on populations and species around the world. Responses to the phenomenon must, however, be based not solely on economics but also science and the equity issue, writes Hewa Nzuri. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/77600 ****** THE CLIMATE JUSTICE APPROACH AND THE POLITICS OF CLIMATE CHANGE Lim Li Lin As the world heads for the next climate change meeting, the politics around climate change negotiations is getting more complex and murky as rich countries dig in their heels to preserve their economic competitiveness, writes Lim Li Lin. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/77596 ****** FROM COPENHAGEN TO CANCUN TO DURBAN Behind the politics of climate change Hewa Nzuri The next major global climate change negotiations will take place in Durban, South Africa between November and December 2011, but the politics that sidelines developing regions of the world from shaping final agreements remains unchanged, writes Hewa Nzuri. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/77597 ****** UNDERSTANDING THE CLIMATE CHANGE NEGOTIATIONS Lim Li Lin As the international climate change negotiations intensify in the run up to the Durban, South Africa COP 17, developed countries are pushing hard to destroy some of the UN processes and measures that could save the Earth from the brink, writes Lim Li Lin. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/77599 ****** POLITICS OF RESOURCE EXTRACTION AND CLIMATE CHANGE IN AFRICA Godwin Uyi Ojo Climate change is set to intensify, resulting in a rising number of conflicts around the extraction and export of Africa’s natural resources to feed the industries of the historically biggest polluters in the industrialised north, writes Godwin Uyi Ojo. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/77601 ****** JOBS, WORKERS RIGHTS AND CLIMATE CHANGE Yahya Msangi Talks on climate change had reckoned without labour and labour related issues until now. But as Yahya Msangi points out, climate change ought to take account of labour. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/77642 ****** THE PEOPLES AGREEMENT On the rights of Mother Earth The World People's Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth took place in April 2010 in the Bolivian city of Cochabamba after the 15th United Nations Conference of Parties (COP15) climate meetings in Copenhagen during December 2009. The event was attended by around 30,000 people from over 100 countries and issued the The Peoples Agreement, an extract of which is reproduced below. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/77631 ****** ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE: PUTTING THE POOR FIRST Brian K. Murphy ‘To take seriously the cause of the environment, including the issue of climate change, requires that we first take seriously the cause of justice itself,’ argues Brian K. Murphy. ****** KLEPTOCRATIC CAPITALISM, CLIMATE FINANCE, AND THE GREEN ECONOMY IN AFRICA[1] Yash Tandon Africa remains at the mercy of a self-interested international ruling class interested purely in maximising profit at all costs and consolidating its position, writes Yash Tandon. As the continent faces up to the enormous challenge of climate change and the creation of a sustainable ‘green economy’, it must look inwards and draw upon its own expertise and resources and resist the temptation to rely on compromised external ‘experts’, Tandon stresses. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/77603 ****** THE NEW LAND GRAB IN AFRICA An alarming scramble for the continent is on Agazit Abate Multinational corporations are buying enormous tracts of land in Africa to the detriment of local communities. Agazit Abate warns that the land grab puts countries on the path to increased food insecurity, environmental degradation, increased reliance on aid and marginalisation of farming and pastoralist communities. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/77641 ****** TO COOK A CONTINENT Destructive extraction and the climate crisis in Africa Nnimmo Bassey In an extract from his forthcoming book, Nnimmo Bassey provides a glimpse into the links between exploitative natural resource extraction, ecological destruction and conflict in Africa. ‘What can Africa do? And once our peoples decide, can the rest of the world act in solidarity?’ Bassey asks. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/77629 ****** ‘EARTH GRAB’: FALSE CLIMATE SOLUTIONS EXPOSED Pambazuka Press In the run-up to the UN’s Rio+20 meeting next year and the Durban Conference of the Parties in November, ETC Group’s new book reveals ‘information that the large corporations who profit from climate change do not want the public to know.’ http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/77628 ****** /\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\ 2 Announcements THE SOUTH AFRICAN ANARCHIST BOOK FAIR Date: Saturday 5 November 2011 Venue: Café Ganesh, Observatory (corner Trill Road & Lower Main Road). Cape Town, South Africa. Time: From 10am to 6pm Free entry http://www.anarchistbookfair.co.za Remember, remember, the fifth of November, as this is the date when South Africa will play host to its first ever Anarchist Book Fair, taking place in Observatory, Cape Town, at Café Ganesh (corner Trill Road and Lower Main Road). Comrades, armchair anarchists, committed revolutionaries and book lovers are invited to come and learn about this exciting philosophy and its proud history of resistance. You can swing by any time between 10am and 6pm to check out a wide range of radical literature, music, movies, talks and more. There will be over 12 stalls and collectives taking part including –The Missing Shelf, Zabalaza Anarchist Communist Front, CrimethInc South Africa, Intsangu Clothes, Amandla! Magazine, Soundz of the South, Feminist Alternatives and Botsotso. The Sympony Way Pavement Dwellers will also be there showcasing their extraordinary book "No Land! No House! 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