Today will prove monumental not simply in the history of climate negotiations, or of civil disobedience, or even of global politics - it will prove truly historic in an unprecedented way: it demonstrated conclusively that climate change is a social justice issue, and not just a scientific or ‘environmental’ concern. (more…)

It isn’t on the bargaining table in Copenhagen this week, but the world is facing a crisis of a different sort that affects (and is affected by) climate change and greenhouse gas emissions: water scarcity. (more…)

The Climate Justice movement has finally burst onto the scene at the UN climate summit in Copenhagen.

This morning, thousands of activists from South and North marched to the Bella Centre and tried to get in, to express their disgust with the way the talks are selling us all out, and to hold a Peoples’ Assembly for Climate Justice instead. (more…)

Here’s a report by Jess Worth on Monday’s Tar Sands action - and some photos, by Orin Langelle and Daygot Leeyos.

About 200 of us gathered outside the Canadian Embassy in Copenhagen to protest at the way Canada is blocking progress on binding, ambitious climate emissions reductions - because it’s committed to expanding the most destructive project on earth: the Tar Sands. (more…)