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Report: Conference on Water Privatization: Learning from India and International Experiences

On behalf of the organisers of the Conference on Water Privatisation: Learning from India and International Experiences, held on 19th March 2013 in New Delhi, we are grateful to each of you for attending and participating in this conference. We appreciate you for taking the time and effort to be here. We also thank you for your participation as well as sharing your ideas and expertise. 

We are also happy to share with you the detailed report of this conference. Please do let us know if you have any comment or suggestion.

Report
Campaigns & Programmes: 
Land, Water and Forest
Country Programmes: 
India
Author: 
Afsar Jafri
Report- Conference on Water Privatization on March 19, 2013_N.Delhi_Final.pdf

California Cap-and-Trade Scheme Could Endanger Rainforest Peoples

SACRAMENTO, Calif.--(ENEWSPF)--May 6 - Under California’s new cap-and-trade program, the state is considering allowing a controversial form of carbon credits that have been rejected by the European Union as ineffective and potentially harmful to rainforests in developing countries. Now an international coalition of environmental groups including Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace and Sierra Club California is urging Gov. Jerry Brown to reject the so-called REDD credits, which could endanger the lives and livelihoods of indigenous forest peoples.

Pablo Solon: everyone must accept binding climate commitments

by Pablo Solon

The United Nations climate negotiations in Bonn are more of the same and we are running out of time.

Everybody recognizes that there is a “gap”, but there are no concrete proposals to solve the “gap”. Most delegations prefer not to put a number on the “gap” to avoid the embarrassment of what all countries had agreed to in Doha last December 2012.

Author: 
Pablo Solon

Call to Action: Deal a decisive blow to Neoliberalism. End the WTO and Stop the new wave of Free Trade Agreements. The time is now for Economic Justice!

The capitalist system is in a deep crisis. Since the 2008 financial crisis where the system nearly imploded, it has yet to fully recover. And instead, the crisis has spread and has deepened the food, economic, energy and climate crises. The deep systemic crisis is crystal clear evidence that the neoliberal regime must come to an end.

Confronting the Hard Questions at the Climate Space

The Climate Space in the World Social Forum 2013 in Tunisia, March 26 to 30, will do what the recent negotiations have failed to do: tackle the hard questions, because “we have lost too many important battles in the fight for climate justice that there is little time left for us to stop Mother Earth and humanity from falling off the precipice and into a future too dire to imagine.”

 The organizers of Climate Space have already raised some of these critical questions in the lead up to the Forum:

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