COP26

Omicron, Climate Change and Socialism

November 29, 2021 UNAC Editor Capitalism, Environment, Public Health, Socialism

by Joe Lombardo, November 28, 2021 So now we learn that there is a new variant of the virus called Omicron. This, they say may be more transmittable and may be resistant to the vaccines that have been developed. This, of course, was predictable. They horded the vaccines for the rich countries, which meant the virus was allowed to run[…]

COP26: Greenwashing and Plutocratic Misadventures

November 21, 2021 UNAC Editor Capitalism, Climate Change, Global Economics, Resistance

by Ajamu Baraka, published on Black Agenda Report, November 17, 2021 For all the policy failures of COP26 it may actually be an inflection point in history — a point where social and political conditions force a transformation of consciousness and politics that can usher in epochal change. COP 26 reaffirmed what has been obvious from the beginning: the Northern[…]

Climate Diplomacy Must Take Africa Into Account

November 13, 2021 UNAC Editor Africa, Climate Change, Colonialism

by Howard W. French, published on World Politics Review, November 10, 2021 The standard, “flirting with apocalypse” narrative that dominates U.S. media coverage and political debates regarding climate change goes something like this: China, which is the world’s biggest carbon emitter, and India, which is lightly industrialized and still quite substantially poor, currently represent the biggest threats to saving the[…]

The Greenwash Con at Glasgow’s COP26

November 11, 2021 UNAC Editor Climate Change, Environment

by Jeff Mackler, November 10, 2021 Literally hours before President Joseph Biden arrived in Glasgow for the COP26 United Nations climate conference, he addressed the G20 richest nations on earth in Rome demanding that the 24 OPEC+ oil-exporting nations dramatically increase their fossil fuel production in order to reduce the monopolized skyrocketing price of gasoline in the U.S., today, approaching[…]

COP 26: Can a Singing, Dancing Rebellion Save the World?

November 3, 2021 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Climate Change, petroleum

by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J.S. Davies, October 3, 2021 COP Twenty-six! That is how many times the UN has assembled world leaders to try to tackle the climate crisis. But the United States is producing more oil and natural gas than ever; the amount of greenhouse gases (GHG) in the atmosphere and global temperatures are both still rising; and[…]

Glasgow Climate Talks Are, in Many Ways, ‘Harder Than Paris’

November 2, 2021 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Environment, US Hypocrisy

by Bob Berwyn, published on Inside Climate News, November 1, 2021 Success of the two-week negotiations rides on wealthy nations committing to fast emissions cuts and paying promised aid to poor countries most threatened by global warming, the COP26 president says. To many following the decades-long journey of the United Nations climate negotiations, the 26th Conference of the Parties beginning[…]