Updates on COP17 – More Business As Usual
Posted by horatio on Monday Dec 12, 2011 Under environmental politics, news, political analysis 
By most activist accounts, COP17–which just ended in Durban, SA this weekend–has been yet one more long, official failure to reach any real climate agreements or GHG reduction targets. And like in the past, no binding agreements were set and any real work on climate change reform was pushed back into the indefinite future. Here’s what Climate Justice Now had to say in their press release on the negotiations–”COP17 Succumbs to Climate Apartheid.”
Decisions resulting from the UN COP17 climate summit in Durban constitute a crime against humanity, according to Climate Justice Now! a broad coalition of social movements and civil society. Here in South Africa, where the world was inspired by the liberation struggle of the country’s black majority, the richest nations have cynically created a new regime of climate apartheid. Read More
