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What’s missing from the climate talks? Justice!
Foto: Ben Powless, IENBALI (INDONESIA), 14 December 2007 – Peoples from social organizations and movements from across the globe brought the fight for social, ecological and gender justice into the negotiating rooms and onto the streets
during the UN climate summit in Bali. [1]

Foto: Ben Powless, IEN

Inside and outside the convention centre, activists demanded alternative policies and practices that protect livelihoods and the environment.
In dozens of side events, reports, impromptu protests and press conferences, the false solutions to climate change – such as carbon offsetting, carbon trading for forests, agrofuels, trade liberalization and privatization pushed by governments, financial institutions and multinational corporations – have been exposed.
Last Updated ( 17 December 2007 )
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Keep Oil Underground
The only way to Fight Climate Change.

Download the on the Ecuadorian proposal to keep crude oil underground.
Keep_oil_underground.pdf Keep_oil_underground.pdf (6.72 MB)
Guardar_el_crudo_en_el_subsuelo.pdf Guardar_el_crudo_en_el_subsuelo.pdf (7.01 MB)
Last Updated ( 20 February 2008 )
Resistance Bulletin 65: Instruments of pressure
THE OIL INDUSTRY AND ITS INSTRUMENTS OF PRESSURE AGAINST THE GOVERNMENTS OF THE SOUTH
In this issue, we will summarize the different ways oil companies pressure their governments to reach their objectives.
  1. Military intervention
  2. Corruption
  3. International arbitrations
  4. Green wash
Last Updated ( 22 June 2007 )
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Consumption, Enery and the Future. Is there any hope?

Hope

Documentary made by Oilwatch Mesoamerica - Costa Rica about the society based on oil, its impacts, and the road to a sutainable post-petroleum civilization
Duration: 18 minutes
Spanish spoken, English subtitles
Last Updated ( 14 May 2007 )
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Meeting of Southamerican Nations on Energy
The Presidents of South America held the Second Summit on Energy, in Isla Margarita, Venezuela, between the 16th and 18th of April. Oilwatch South America launched regionaly a position document regarding our vision of what kind of integration we want, we need and we support.
Certainly, it is not based on the same fossil fuels dependence and biofuels expansion, neither without respect for the collective and environmental rights of the southamerican peoples.

Read the full document in Spanish.
Last Updated ( 19 April 2007 )
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Climate change: the challenge to sustainable development
Declaration to the Commission on sustainable development CSD-15 
30 April and 11 May 2007,UN Headquarters in New York
Climate change has gone from the realm of debate into the realm of accepted reality. This is proved by the tornados, the hurricanes, the floods and the melting of the polar icecaps. All types of evidence exist about the consequences, and the certainty that actions to solve the problem can not be delayed. Climate change stopped being a scientific question and has moved entirely to the political an obviously also economical scene.

We agree that the Oscar Award received by the ex- vice president of the United States, Al Gore, stimulated a lot of media attention and debate on the issue of Climate Change. However, his film and his Oscar should be understood as part of a media campaign to start what is really at stake: a new market, the emissions market. In other words, the film is key for the stimulation of the new and fictive carbon market.

It is a market for whom the central question isn't avoiding the impacts, nor helping the millions of persons who already suffer from the impacts, but where the aim is to increase profits and to increase even more the ecological debt which the north has towards the south of the world. It is a market which transfers the impacts of global warming to the poorest countries of our planet.

Last Updated ( 05 April 2007 )
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