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‘Nature is not for sale’: TNI's Interview with Pablo Solon
Pablo Solon is the current Executive Director of Focus on the Global Southby Robin van WechemHe wrote one of the most progressive laws for nature conservation. He organized the first international...
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The European “desmadre”: Uniting the struggles against the system
by Pablo Solón The overuse of a word can sometimes devalue it and make it lose its impact. The word “crisis”[1] no longer evokes fear or worry. Now, it is a word you hear almost everyday, and it has...
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Why are climate negotiations locked in a stalemate?
by Pablo Solon and Walden Bello*originally published in the BangkokPostThe Bangkok intersessional meeting of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is about to end, with no...
View ArticleClimate Change: We need to guarantee the right to not migrate
by Pablo SolonClimate related events have always been a cause for migration in the history of humanity. This was the story of Egypt, Mesopotamia and other ancient societies. But in modern times the...
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Strike Four in Climate Change: A “Climate Space” to rethink analysis and...
by Pablo SolonIn baseball, when you have 3 strikes, you are out. In the climate change negotiations we already have 4 strikes. Copenhagen, Cancun, Durban and now Doha. Four attempts and each of the...
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Climate Space: What went wrong in the Global Climate Negotiations?
By Pablo SolonIn the last 20 years, the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the world have, instead of declining, increased, by more than a third. In 1990, GHG emissions were 37 Gigatons (Gt) of CO2e[1]....
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Pablo Solon: everyone must accept binding climate commitments
by Pablo SolonThe United Nations climate negotiations in Bonn are more of the same and we are running out of time.Everybody recognizes that there is a “gap”, but there are no concrete proposals to...
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A Tree Born Crooked Will Never Straighten Its Trunk: Why One Cannot Turn the...
By Pablo SolonFocus on the Global SouthSince its establishment, there has always been a debate about the WTO amongst civil society organizations. Some saw it possible to reform the WTO and others saw...
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The changing geopolitics of trade: Old and New Players in Slowdown
When the WTO was created, the trade negotiations were mainly decided by the U.S., Europe, Japan and Canada, and their decisions were imposed on the rest of developing countries. At that time, China and...
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'Deglobalisation' Is the Way to Reduce Inequality
The race of globalisation is leaving the majority of the world’s population far behind. According to Unicef, the richest 20% of the population gets 83% of global income, while the poorest quintile has...
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Focus on the Global South Contributes to TNI's "Shifting Power" Reader
Focus on the Global South co-founder Walden Bello and staff members Pablo Solon, Afsar Jafri, Joseph Purugganan, and Dorothy Guerrero have contributed to a new reader from Transnational Institute (TNI)...
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Climate Change: Not Just Any Action Will Do
On Sunday, hundreds of thousands gathered in New York for one of the biggest marches against climate change.
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How Did Leaders Respond to the People’s Climate March?
About 400,000 people went to the streets on September 21st to ask for real actions to address climate change. It was the greatest climate march in history. The UN Climate Summit organized by Secretary...
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Notes for Understanding the Lima Outcome
Pablo SolónDecember 20, 2014The “Lima call for climate action” which came out of the recent UN climate talks, establishes a roadmap to a post-2020 agreement that will be weaker than the ongoing Cancun...
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Behind the climate negotiating text for COP21
The future lies in the past. What has happened will determine what will come. The idea that we can change everything and save the world at the last minute is exciting in movies but it does not work in...
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'Deglobalisation' Is the Way to Reduce Inequality
The race of globalisation is leaving the majority of the world’s population far behind. According to Unicef, the richest 20% of the population gets 83% of global income, while the poorest quintile has...
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Focus on the Global South Contributes to TNI's "Shifting Power" Reader
Focus on the Global South co-founder Walden Bello and staff members Pablo Solon, Afsar Jafri, Joseph Purugganan, and Dorothy Guerrero have contributed to a new reader from Transnational Institute (TNI)...
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Climate Change: Not Just Any Action Will Do
On Sunday, hundreds of thousands gathered in New York for one of the biggest marches against climate change.
View ArticleClik here to view.
How Did Leaders Respond to the People’s Climate March?
About 400,000 people went to the streets on September 21st to ask for real actions to address climate change. It was the greatest climate march in history. The UN Climate Summit organized by Secretary...
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Notes for Understanding the Lima Outcome
Pablo SolónDecember 20, 2014The “Lima call for climate action” which came out of the recent UN climate talks, establishes a roadmap to a post-2020 agreement that will be weaker than the ongoing Cancun...
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