"Corporate Conquistadors": New Report Exposes How Multinationals Drive,...
AMY GOODMAN: Before that, you heard Pascoe Sabido of the Corporate Europe Observatory. Pascoe joins us here live right now. We’re broadcasting from Lima, Peru. We are inside the COP 20, as it’s called,...
View Article"They Have Destroyed Our Livelihood": Activists Protest Shell and Chevron at...
AMY GOODMAN: We’re broadcasting live from Lima, Peru, at the COP 20, the U.N. Climate Change Conference. Yes, it’s known as the COP 20, the 20th annual Conference of the Parties to the 1992 United...
View ArticlePablo Solón on COP 20 and Carbon Markets: This is a New Mechanism to...
"The carbon market is a mechanism to keep polluting if you’re able to pay," says Pablo Solón of the global agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions under negotiation at the United Nations Climate...
View ArticleFrom South America to Africa, "Capitalist" Solutions to Climate Change Seen...
AMY GOODMAN: Peruvian musicians who performed yesterday at the opening ceremony of the U.N. climate summit. They were just practicing in the walkways here in Pentagonito. That is the site, the very...
View ArticleAs U.N. Summit Enters High-Level Talks, Protesters Gather for Historic...
AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org, The War and Peace Report. I’m Amy Goodman in Lima, Peru. As we end today’s show, protesters are gathering, downtown Lima, for what organizers hope...
View ArticleBrazilian Indigenous Leader: Carbon Trading Scheme "REDD" a False Solution to...
AMY GOODMAN: We turn right now to the controversial carbon trading that [Nnimmo Bassey] was talking about, known as REDD—again, Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation, R-E-D-D,...
View ArticlePeru's Deadly Environment: Host Nation of U.N. Summit is Among Most Dangerous...
AMY GOODMAN: We’re broadcasting from Lima, Peru, where the United Nations Climate Change Conference is underway. The protests against the summit on Wednesday fell on International Human Rights Day,...
View ArticlePeruvian Protester: My Brother Was Disappeared in 1993 at El Pentagonito, the...
AMY GOODMAN: Yes, we are broadcasting from the COP 20. The summit is being held at the Peruvian army headquarters, known as "El Pentagonito." It’s a site with a dark history. It was built in 1975 by...
View ArticleFrom the Streets to the Suites, Protesters Call for Climate Justice at...
AMY GOODMAN: We’re broadcasting from Lima, Peru, at the United Nations Climate Change Conference, known as COP 20. After the main march of thousands on Wednesday, hundreds headed across town to protest...
View ArticlePutting People Before Profit: Thousands March in Peruvian People's Climate...
AMY GOODMAN: Thousands of people did march in Lima, Peru, here on Wednesday, demanding urgent action on climate change. Democracy Now!’s Deena Guzder and Nermeen Shaikh spoke to some of them....
View Article"We Are Like the Walking Dead": Latin American Indigenous Groups Decry...
AMY GOODMAN: We’re broadcasting from COP 20, the United Nations climate conference in Lima, Peru, where Secretary of State John Kerry is due to arrive today as the talks enter their final two days. The...
View ArticleFighting for the Climate in the Heart of the World
By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan Lima, the capital of Peru, has become a city of gustatory renown, attracting foodies from the world over to sample dishes from its famous ceviche to favorites from...
View ArticleActivists: Climate Talks Have Done Nothing to Avert Catastrophe, But Hope...
AMY GOODMAN: We are broadcasting from Lima, Peru, at COP 20, the United Nations climate conference, where negotiators are hours away, or maybe days away, from the formal talks, unless they’re extended...
View ArticlePipe Dreams? Labor Researchers Say Keystone XL Project May Kill More Jobs...
AMY GOODMAN: We’re broadcasting from the [U.N.] Climate Change Conference here in Lima, Peru. We’re broadcasting from Peru, which is the first time a COP, the Conference of Parties, this U.N. climate...
View ArticleAs Fossil Fuel Divestment Movement Grows, U.N. Negotiators Consider a "Zero...
AMY GOODMAN: Jamie, talk about what those decisions are and what you see as something that has changed, for example, in the text in the agreement that may soon come out. JAMIE HENN: One of the most...
View ArticleSilencing Dissent: U.N. Bars Climate Protesters from Putting...
AMY GOODMAN: But I did find someone who would answer my questions, one of the organizers of a small protest after Kerry’s speech, a protest against the Keystone XL pipeline. She explains how difficult...
View ArticleFormer VP Al Gore Urges Obama to Reject Keystone XL as Kerry, Top U.S....
AMY GOODMAN: Just before Kerry spoke, I had a chance to briefly interview former Vice President Al Gore, who won the Nobel Peace Prize for his work on climate change. AMY GOODMAN: Vice President? Hi,...
View Article"We are on a Course Leading to Tragedy": At U.N. Talks, Kerry Delivers Urgent...
AMY GOODMAN: We’re broadcasting from COP 20, the United Nations Climate Change Conference here in Lima, Peru. The talks have entered their final scheduled day as deep divisions remain between wealthy...
View ArticleEmissions-Cutting Deal Reached at COP 20 Lima, But Will It Help Prevent...
AMY GOODMAN: After more than 30 hours of extended talks, a global agreement on climate change was reached over the weekend in Lima, Peru, at the United Nations climate conference. The talks were...
View ArticleU.N. Climate Summit in Lima, Peru
From December 8-12, Democracy Now! broadcast from the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Lima, Peru. The country is home to the largest area of Amazon rainforest after Brazil, and faces both...
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