Land & Environment

President Yoweri Museveni’s disparaging reference to the inaugural presidential debate as nothing more than a speech competition is such an absurdity.

He will curse until he has had enough for the day. There is now complete silence where, just a few months back, it used to be a beehive of activities at those structures that made up Boseto Mine.

Did world leaders at the 21st Conference of Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change agree to the recommended carbon emissions target of 1.5 degrees Celcius?

But because the latest version of the annual United Nations climate talks has three kinds of spin-doctors, the extent of damage may not be well understood.

If most of the delegates to COP 21 were women, they might come to an obvious conclusion about how to slow climate change. Unfortunately, with mainly men making the decisions, this conclusion may escape the scientists and politicians.

Some pieces in this booklet describe the unjust distribution of the effects of climate change. Others analyze injustices committed in the name of climate change “mitigation” and “adaptation”. This chapter is a bit different.

From the COP1 in Berlin in 1995 to the COP20 in Lima, 20 years have passed. Under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), countless formal meetings have taken place.

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

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.