Features

Over twenty years have passed since governments within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) began to discuss the impending climate crisis.

Reducing emissions of greenhouse gases has been widely publicized as the formula for alleviating the global climate crisis.

Climate change, the biggest threat to the planet, appears to be amplifying, as the “financialization of nature” through carbon markets resumes in earnest.

I attended my first UN Climate Conference in 2004 in Buenos Aires, and my last in 2011 when I was permanently banned from the UN Climate Conferences following a direct action occupation at the Climate COP in Durban, South Africa.

Over recent years, and especially since the financial crisis of 2008, the term Green Economy has become a hub around which the hegemonic discourse is reorganizing.

Most people will associate renewable energy targets with wind turbines and solar panels – yet at least in the EU and US, a power station smokestack might be a more representative image.

I was in the midst of a lovely concert at the Stade Mamadou Konate organized and sponsored by Orange (a French telecom provider) here in one of France’s former colonies, Mali, when the news of the Paris attacks surfaced.

INTRODUCTION

Tanzania’s general elections were held on 25 October 2015 after about two months of electioneering. The ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) emerged victorious in the Union elections with 58.49% of the presidential vote and a parliamentary majority.

The gruesome terrorist attacks in Paris have left the world shaken. Not only were the attacks carried out with the precision of a surgeon, they occurred in one of the world’s most loved and safest cities.