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…)

It’s great to be writing my first entry as a guest writer for the People and Planet blog. I have been involved with P&P since my first year at York in 1998, and was behind the development of the Go Green campaign back in the autumn of 2003, after I completed my MSc in environmental impact assessment, auditing and management systems. I have kept a hand in the campaign, and university environmental management, ever since. (more…)