Behind the climate negotiating text for COP21
The future lies in the past. What has happened will determine what will come. The idea that we can...
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Author (Category): Pablo Solon
Notes for Understanding the Lima Outcome
Pablo SolónDecember 20, 2014The “Lima call for climate action” which came out of the recent UN...
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How Did Leaders Respond to the People’s Climate March?
About 400,000 people went to the streets on September 21st to ask for real actions to address...
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Climate Change: Not Just Any Action Will Do
On Sunday, hundreds of thousands gathered in New York for one of the biggest marches against...
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Focus on the Global South Contributes to TNI’s “Shifting Power” Reader
Focus on the Global South co-founder Walden Bello and staff members Pablo Solon, Afsar Jafri,...
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‘Deglobalisation’ Is the Way to Reduce Inequality
The race of globalisation is leaving the majority of the world’s population far behind. According...
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The changing geopolitics of trade: Old and New Players in Slowdown
When the WTO was created, the trade negotiations were mainly decided by the U.S., Europe, Japan...
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A Tree Born Crooked Will Never Straighten Its Trunk: Why One Cannot Turn the WTO Around
By Pablo SolonFocus on the Global SouthSince its establishment, there has always been a debate...
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Pablo Solon: everyone must accept binding climate commitments
by Pablo SolonThe United Nations climate negotiations in Bonn are more of the same and we are...
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Climate Space: What went wrong in the Global Climate Negotiations?
By Pablo SolonIn the last 20 years, the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the world have, instead...
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Strike Four in Climate Change: A “Climate Space” to rethink analysis and strategies
by Pablo SolonIn baseball, when you have 3 strikes, you are out. In the climate change...
Read MoreClimate Change: We need to guarantee the right to not migrate
by Pablo SolonClimate related events have always been a cause for migration in the history of humanity. This was the story of Egypt, Mesopotamia and other ancient societies. But in modern times the scale has been unprecedented....
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Why are climate negotiations locked in a stalemate?
by Pablo Solon and Walden Bello*originally published in the BangkokPostThe Bangkok intersessional...
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The European “desmadre”: Uniting the struggles against the system
by Pablo Solón The overuse of a word can sometimes devalue it and make it lose its...
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‘Nature is not for sale’: TNI’s Interview with Pablo Solon
Pablo Solon is the current Executive Director of Focus on the Global Southby Robin van Wechem...
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