Article By Kanya D'Almeida
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WASHINGTON, Dec 3, 2011 (IPS) - The United States' delegation at the 17th annual Conference of the Parties (COP) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UN FCC) in Durban, South Africa has come under heavy fire from civil society leaders and activists around the globe for standing in the way of real solutions to climate change.

From the Indigenous Environmental Network
November 30, 2011

Photos by Jeff Conant/GJEP

Durban, South Africa–In Canada and the United Kingdom, Indigenous activists and their supporters targeted Shell today for violating agreements made with Indigenous communities in Canada. In Durban, site of the ongoing UN climate talks, activists from Canada joined activists from Africa to denounce Shell and their repeated violations of human rights and environmental regulations. Appearing outside a Shell refinery, a number of Indigenous activists joined with youth from Canada and Africa to support the community of Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation (ACFN), who recently announced their lawsuit against Shell.

5th December 2011, Durban, South Africa

We call on all farmers’ movements and organizations, rural workers, landless people and all the food sovereignty movement to join us for an international day of mass action on the 5th of December 2011, during the COP 17 civil society mobilization in Durban, South Africa.

The 17th Conference of Parties (COP 17) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) will take place from November 28-December 9 2011 in Durban, South Africa. While the U.S. State Department delegation will be pushing a corporate agenda that benefits the 1% while commodifying land, water and forests, social movement delegations will be gathering to advance community-based climate justice solutions that benefits the majority of the people and the planet.

http://www.c17.org.za/
http://durbanclimatejustice.wordpress.com/

By Emma Lui | December 5, 2010

Brent, Leticia and I attended the opening ceremony for 'Foro Global Por La Vida La Justicia Ambiental Y Social' (Global Forum for Life and Environmental and Social Justice) today. The forum, one of three alternative spaces to the UN climate change conference, is organized by La Via Campesina. The ceremony was held in a open-air sports stadium. The atmoshere was one of excitement, activity and solidarity.

Meena Menon

Alternative Global Forum for Life, Environmental and Social Justice gets under way in Cancun

CANCUN: Very different from the Arctic temperatures at Moon Palace, where the United Nations climate change conference is under way, a large open-air gymnasium and basketball court is the venue for the alternative Global Forum for Life, Environmental and Social Justice, which began here on Saturday.

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While climate negotiators, NGOs and delegates gather at the walled-off U.N. Climate Change Conference at the plush Moon Palace Hotel in Cancún, Mexico, those who were not invited have organized their own meetings. The international small farmers movement La Via Campesina and other grassroots organizations are holding the alternative Global Forum for Life and Environmental and Social Justice, with participants attending from across Latin America.

A descarrilar los mercados de carbono, convoca La Vía Campesina en Cancún

Equipo de comunicación Cloc/Vía Campesina / Minga Informativa de Movimientos Sociales

(Cancún, 5 de diciembre de 2010) Una idea campeó durante la apertura y el desarrollo de los trabajos durante el primer día del Foro Global “Por la Vida y la Justicia Ambiental y Social” que La Vía Campesina y organizaciones aliadas realizan en su campamento en Cancún: es necesario descarrilar los mercados de carbono y el programa REDD que los gobiernos pretenden legitimar en la COP16.