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THIRD WORLD RESURGENCE

Issue No. 269/270 (Jan/Feb 2013)


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COVER: After the Doha climate change conference…. A push for market-based solutions?

A 'low ambition' outcome in Doha
The developed nations failed to commit to the necessary level of carbon emission reductions and to the level of financial support required by developing countries.
By Martin Khor

Doha outcome on loss and damage opens door for new mechanism
The issue of 'loss and damage' caused by climate change has now been brought onto the agenda of the UN climate talks.
By Doreen Stabinsky

Divergent views over 'vision' of outcome under Durban Platform
At Doha, discussions were held to consider the broad framework of parties developing a new legal arrangement by 2015 which would embody emission reduction commitments after 2020.
By Meena Raman

Durban Platform: Way forward on pre-2020 ambition
Discussions were also held on climate mitigation efforts to be undertaken for the period before 2020.
By Fauwaz Abdul Aziz and Meena Raman

Doha concludes work on long-term cooperative action on climate change
The negotiations on establishing long-term mechanisms to combat climate change finally concluded in Doha.
By Hilary Chiew and Meena Raman

Negotiators buy more time for agriculture discussions
The discussions on agriculture at Doha were inconclusive and the issue will be taken up at this year's negotiations.
By Doreen Stabinsky

BASIC ministers disappointed over North's low ambition
The BASIC group of countries expressed their disappointment on the lack of commitment by the developed countries to tackle climate change.
By Meena Raman

Twisted logic: no money for adaptation unless the rich can emit more and profit from it
The Adaptation Fund has now been made dependent on carbon markets which in effect free the rich countries from their obligations to meet their emission reduction commitments.
By Nathan Thanki

The World Bank and 'market readiness': A 'carbon bible' for Southern countries
While Southern countries are urged to advance legislation for assuring the provision of carbon credits, carbon markets have had devastating social and environmental consequences.
By Joanna Cabello

Carbon markets cannot deliver, say researchers
A recent report charges that the move to establish carbon markets under the Clean Development Mechanism in Africa has failed and is hurting the most vulnerable populations.
By Nick Meynen and Khadija Sharife

NGOs call on EU to abolish its emissions trading system
Moves to salvage the EU’s Emissions Trading Scheme have provoked protests from civil society groups who want it scrapped altogether.
By Kanaga Raja

Democracy is the solution to the climate crisis
A healthy planet can only thrive in a healthy democracy.
By Maude Barlow

Killer heatwaves and floods linked to climate change
Killer heatwaves, floods and storms are increasingly caused by climate change, new research reveals.
By Stephen Leahy

HEALTH & SAFETY

The UN and healthcare in Haiti in the time of cholera
The Haitian people have paid a terrible price for the absence of a proper healthcare infrastructure.
By Sokari Ekine

ECONOMICS

Transfer of technology and IPRs: A development perspective
Transnational corporations and rich countries have sought to erect a wall of intellectual property rights to prevent any real technology transfer.
By KM Gopakumar

Argentina's hedge funds case threatens sovereign debt restructuring
The ongoing legal battle between hedge funds and Argentina over the nation's 2001 debt default is an urgent reminder of the need for a sovereign debt workout regime.
By Bhumika Muchhala

Global trade war over local-content requirements
Efforts to regulate foreign investment with a view to promoting domestic manufacturing and employment have now come under challenge.
By Burghard Ilge and Kavaljit Singh


WORLD AFFAIRS

Honduras: War on the peasants
Honduras’ 'War on Peasants' is being fuelled by the US 'War on Drugs'.
By Eric Holt-Gimenez and Tanya Kerssen


HUMAN RIGHTS

India undercuts tribal rights
The Indian government has recently moved to remove a key provision in forestry legislation which was designed to protect tribal peoples from major infrastructural projects.
By Ed McKenna


WOMEN

Senegal growing up over marriage
Senegal is progressing, albeit slowly, in its campaign to eradicate child marriage.
By Issa Sikiti da Silva


MEDIA

South America: A panorama of media democratisation
The moves by a number of Latin American governments to democratise the media have resulted in the redefinition of media as a people's right.
By Alexandra Hall


VIEWPOINT

'Culture' as a camouflage of reality
'Culture' has now become the buzzword to explain the failings of an intractable social and economic reality.
By Jeremy Seabrook

Argo as Orientalism and why it upsets Iranians
Oscar-winning film, Argo, functions as American propaganda and a sort of neo-Orientalism.
By Juan Cole


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