sustainable energy
Connecting struggles between North and SouthClimate change is rising as a global threat for the environment with already devastating effects on the most vulnerable populations at the national and international scale. It is now understood that only a drastic change in energy policies combined with a systemic climate action globally can mitigate those disastrous environmental and social effects. At the same time the gas industry, extracting and transporting an extremely harmful fossil fuel for the climate and communities, is pushing for more infrastructures in Europe as...
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Connecting struggles between North and SouthWho, What & Why
In March 2019, members of the Beyond Gas community met in Brussels to share, connect and strategize together. This comes after Beyond Gas conferences in 2016 and 2017, and an online conference in 2018 organised by the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation and other NGOs. The Beyond Gas network brings together activists from around the world who fight the global push for new gas projects. As a way to hold onto their power, and capitalise from the climate crisis, the fossil fuel industry is promoting gas as a climate ...
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Why the world needs to go renewable and how this can workThe impact of methane on the climate, possible consequences of fracking on Aquifer systems and strong civil society movements who are resisting the extraction of fossil fuels.
Here is why the world needs to go renewable immediately and how this can work.
We have interviewed the following speakers for this video:
Robert HowarthCornell University, New York, Board of Directors for Food & Water WatchLorena RiffoTierra para Vivir, Universidad National de Comahue, ArgentinaHamza ...
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Statement of Anti-fracking groups at the Cupula Dos PovosGathered in Rio de Janeiro on Thursday 22nd June 2012 during the Peoples’ Summit, groups of activists have made a declaration against fracking activities worldwide. Fracking, short for "hydraulic fracturing", is an environmentally damaging mining method, a combination of wellbores and pressurized fluids, that is among others applied in France, Poland and Bulgaria.For a Future without Fracking! Statement of Anti-fracking groups at the Cupula Dos PovosGathered in Rio de Janeiro on Thursday 22nd June 2012 ...
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