Canadian Peace Alliance: Time to wage war against carbon emissions

Copenhagen. Cancun. Durban. Another year, another collective disappointment for people all over the world looking to the UN climate talks to produce the urgently
needed international action addressing the emergency of climate change. (For updates as negotiations wrap-up tonight or this weekend.
Luckily, even while the big polluters and obstructionists like the Harper government keep the world fiddling, there are grassroots movements and indigenous communities leading the struggle for climate action and climate justice. In April 2010, they convened in Bolivia and gave the world the Cochabamba People's Agreement. It's worth re-reading today, especially if you are feeling despair about the talks at Durban.

THREAT TO HUMANITY

Threats to humanity loom as climate change talks start in Durban

Durban - The Summit on Climate Change starts today in Durban, South Africa, aiming to reform the global energy system and to negotiate the renewal of the Kyoto Protocol until 2020; the possibility of failure to reach a significant agreement looms.

The XVII Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention on Climate Change and the Seventh Conference of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol began today in the South African city of Durban. Some 20,000 delegates and observers from 194 countries and regional blocs will meet until December 9 to address the problems associated with climate change.