• 17 December 2009 | Rising Voices | Victims of climate change | COP 15

  Rising Voices - 27th Edition

  On this week's show we had a live contact with our correspondent in Copenhagen. He told us about the situation of the negotiations in the UN COP 15 on Climate Change and the brutal police repression in the demonstrations of the civil society. We interviewed Ronnie Hall, from the Global Forest Coalition, who is also in Copenhagen. She explained the links between trade an climate change. And finally we talked about the Flood, where nearly 100.000 people marched for climate justice on Saturday. Read more

• 16 December 2009 | Interviews | COP 15

  

  Action for Agriculture

  Interview with Josie Riffaud, member of Via Campesina France

  On Tuesday, several activities took place in Copenhagen in the framework of the Agriculture Action Day, parallel to the official negotiations of the COP 15 on Climate Change in the Danish capital city. Their aim was to raise awareness on the links between climate change and agriculture, and demand climate justice and food sovereignty. Read more

• 16 December 2009 | News | COP 15

  

  Dirty Negotiation

  African and ALBA countries state their demands at the COP 15 on Climate Change

  The African Group that is participating in the COP 15 on Climate Change in Copenhagen accused industrialized countries of wanting to kill the Kyoto Protocol, and withdrew from the negotiations. This put the official summit at a standstill for several hours. African representatives made clear that their aim was not to boycott the COP, but to show their dissatisfaction with the attitude of the rich countries and to highlight the importance of the Kyoto Protocol for Africa. Read more

• 15 December 2009 | News | COP 15

  

  Don’t tell me it’s cold

  The fight for climate justice “flooded” Copenhagen

  In an unbearable cold weather and the first time the sun shined in Copenhagen since the COP 15 on Climate Change began, nearly 100,000 people marched on Saturday from the Parliament Square to the area of the Bella Center Hotel, where the official negotiations are taking place, to demand “Climate Justice Now”. Read more

• 15 December 2009 | Interviews | COP 15

  

  The keys to the capitalist model

  Interview with Hildebrando Velez, co-coordinator of the Friends of the Earth Climate Justice and Energy Program.

  What they are doing at the COP 15 on Climate Change is mainly business, said one of the coordinators of the Climate Justice and Energy Program of Friends of the Earth International, Hildebrando Vélez. Read more

• 15 December 2009 | Interviews | COP 15

  

  Present

  Movie of people affected by climate change in Brazil launched at the Klimaforum

  The film “Voices of climate” shot in Brazil with native communities of the different regions of the country (Amazonia, Atlantic forest, Cerrado (tropical savanna) and Wetland) was launched at the Klimaforum being held in Copenhagen in parallel to the UN COP 15 on Climate Change. Read more

• 15 December 2009 | Interviews | COP 15

  

  Free trade avoids solutions to the climate crisis

  Interview with Mary Lou Malig of Focus on the Global South

  Under free trade the environment does not matter, because what matters is how much profits you get, if you can get them by investing little money, it does not matter whether your industry is extremely dirty, if it displaces local communities or ruins an entire forest. Read more

• 14 December 2009 | News | COP 15

  

  “Our countryside is in crisis, it seems to have been abandoned”

  Interview with representative of La Via Campesina Mexico, Alberto Gómez

  An action to expose an intensive industrial production model – from soy and transport to meat exporting- was organized on Sunday midday by La Via Campesina outside the headquarters of the Danish Meat and Cattle Council in Copenhagen. There, peasant representatives from different countries spoke in front of hundreds of people who participated in the demonstration as part of the parallel mobilizations to the COP 15 on Climate Change that is taking place in that city. Read more

• 14 December 2009 | Interviews | COP 15

  

  Power to the People

  Friends of the Earth International chair Nnimmo Bassey, celebrated the “Flood for Climate Justice”

  Five thousand people participated on Saturday in a demonstration called “The Flood for Climate Justice” organized by Friends of the Earth International in the streets of Copenhagen, where the official negotiations of the COP 15 on Climate Change are taking place. Read more

• 14 December 2009 | Interviews | COP 15

  

  Links between climate and trade

  Interview with researcher from the Global Forest Coalition, Ronnie Hall

  Real World Radio interviewed Ronnie Hall, from the Global Forest Coalition in Copenhagen. She said the increase of international trade through the intensive use of oil, with mining activities and activities of the wood industry, might worsen the climate crisis even more. The process of trade liberalization impoverishes the countries and peoples that are already poor and makes them more vulnerable to climate change. Read more

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