Today starts the 17th Conference of the Parties (COP17) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), in Durban, South Africa. The starting point is to reach an agreement on tackling climate change. Facing the failure of... more

The delegation of the European Left has participated in the “System change, not climate change” demonstration that gathered 100,000 people on December 12th 2009 in Copenhagen in order to put pressure on the ruling classes. This demonstration... more

Besides the economic, financial and social crisis, there is another crisis we are living – the ecological one. The EL highlights that the ecological crisis already has a dramatic impact today which can and most probably will assume a catastrophic... more

Non-binding agreements to worldwide climate protection in Copenhagen will mutate into a disaster for international climate policy. Europe must not get involved in foolish gambling of international climate policy. The planet needs legally binding... more