Colour guide:
Green = cafe’s, restuarants and bars
Blue = cheap food takeaway or fresh food
Red = accomodation
Yellow = venue
Pink = Event
The Peoples Space will be hosted by UKZN, map of their facilities below. continue reading…
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Category: COP 17 Activist InfoClimate Justice is generally used as a term for viewing climate change as an ethical issue and considering how its causes and effects relate to concepts of justice, particularly social justice and environmental justice. For example examining issues such as equality, human rights and historical responsibility in relation to climate change. Many see recognition of the fact that those least responsible for climate change are currently experiencing (and will continue to experience) its greatest impacts as being central to climate justice.[1][2] The term is also used with reference to legal systems, where justice is achieved through application and development of law in the area of climate change.
This website is designed to provide logistical support for climate justice activists attending the COP17. With information on events, venues, actions, and essential activist advice on a cheap curry and decent beer after a long days changing the world.
COP 17 Durban – Information Sheet
downloadable pfd with basic cop17 relevant information for delegates and civil society. Fairly broad, and includes standard tourist infomation.
Eskom is the country’s largest emitter by far (over 200Mts/year); is building the third and fourth largest coal-fired plants in the world (for which it got the World Bank’s largest ever project loan last year); is charging the two biggest mining/metals houses – Anglo/BHP BIlliton – the world’s cheapest electricity rates ($0.02/kWh); is imposing 27% price increases on poor people year after year; and is a loyal member of Pretoria’s climate negotiating team! Thank goodness for the world’s finest cartoonist, Zapiro!
The University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) has been identified as the site of this year’s COP17 alternative space, known as the ‘People’s Space’, where national and international civil society will come together around the global issue of climate change.
The contract to utilise UKZN was signed on November 3, 2011, between the C17, a body mandated by over 80 South African civil society groups to coordinate civil society activities around COP17, and UKZN management, with the assistance of the university’s Centre for Society and School of Development Studies. continue reading…
CALL TO MASS ACTION AND MOBILIZATION
5th December 2011, Durban, South Africa
We call on all farmers’ movements and organizations, rural workers, landless people and all the food sovereignty movement to join us for an international day of mass action on the 5th of December 2011, during the COP 17 civil society mobilization in Durban, South Africa. continue reading…
GRASSROOTS GLOBAL JUSTICE ALLIANCE & LA VIA CAMPESINA NORTH AMERICA
GLOBAL WEEK OF ACTION
DECEMBER 3: 1000 DURBANS FOR CLIMATE JUSTICE
December 5: Via Campesina International Food Sovereignty Day to Cool Down the Earth
STOP THE 1% FROM PROFITING FROM POLLUTION!
LIFT UP COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS THAT COOL THE PLANET!
GGJ and La Vía Campesina are calling on all members and allies to mobilize on Saturday, December 3 under the banner of “1000 DURBANS FOR CLIMATE JUSTICE! STOP THE 1% FROM PROFITING FROM POLLUTION, LIFT UP COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS THAT COOL THE PLANET!” continue reading…
This ppt was presented at the Gandhi trust annual conference, focused on climate change. It details South Africa’s toxic legacy, inequitable energy access and polluting industries.
The “shared vision for long-term cooperative action” in climate change negotiations should not be
reduced to defining the limit on temperature increases and the concentration of greenhouse gases in the
atmosphere, but must also incorporate in a balanced and integral manner measures regarding capacity
building, production and consumption patterns, and other essential factors such as the acknowledging of
the Rights of Mother Earth to establish harmony with nature.
– People’s Agreement, April 2010, Cochabamba
This image, by the fantastic Vanessa and we’re using everywhere. Please distribute through your lists. Feel free to reproduce, but please credit the artist.
‘Keep the oil in the soil and the coal in the hole’. this message supporting supply side mitigation and against new and old frontiers in fossil fuel extraction is one all climate activists can get behind.