 BALI (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 –
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Last Updated ( 17 December 2007 )
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The only way to Fight Climate Change.
Download the on the Ecuadorian proposal to keep crude oil underground.
 Keep_oil_underground.pdf (6.72 MB)
Guardar_el_crudo_en_el_subsuelo.pdf (7.01 MB)
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Last Updated ( 20 February 2008 )
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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.
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Military intervention
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Corruption
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International
arbitrations
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Green wash
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Last Updated ( 22 June 2007 )
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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
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Last Updated ( 14 May 2007 )
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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.
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Last Updated ( 19 April 2007 )
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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.
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Last Updated ( 05 April 2007 )
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