Rio Tinto's legacy in Bougainville

Two short video productions provide background and update For background to this story, see https://londonminingnetwork.org/?s=Bougainville. See recent video at Panguna Mine, Bougainville, at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rg6q7AGhmo8; some background to this video is...

Clean Coal? It's an illusion!

“Carbon capture and storage” (CCS) is one of the prime “end of pipe” solutions being peddled around the world, supposedly to cope with the egregious impacts of burning coal. However “clean” may be a consignment of coal before...

Carbon Trading: how it works and why it fails

Report from Carbon Trade Watch Carbon trading lies at the centre of global climate policy and is projected to become one of the world’s largest commodities markets, yet it has a disastrous track record since its adoption as part of the Kyoto Protocol. Carbon Trading:...

Nuclear power no solution to climate change

Helen Caldicott Slams Environmental Groups on Climate Bill, Nuclear Concessions Dr. Helen Caldicott, the pioneering Australian antinuclear activist and pediatrician who spearheaded the global nuclear freeze movement of the 1980s and co-founded Physicians for Social...

Reflections on the Copenhagen climate talks

Copenhagen Accord: A Bad Deal Waiting to Happen Center for Environmental Concerns-Philippines, Inc. (CEC), Kalikasan-PNE Statement, 20 December 2009 The climate negotiation in the Fifteenth Conference of Parties (COP 15) in Copenhagen has come to a sour end. The...

Why 'Black Economic Empowerment' should be abolished – Mbeki

Moeletsi Mbeki, brother of former South African president Thabo Mbeki, is no stranger to the critique of BEE (Black Economic Empowerment). Five years ago, he dubbed BEE ” a device for white-dominated corporations to build bridges with the ANC elite … It...