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As a founder member of the Durban Group for Climate Justice in 2004, CCS’s Environmental Justice Project supports the new Climate Justice Now! South Africa chapter honours local eco-justice leader Sajida Khan (1952-2007) for her fight against Bisasar Road emissions trading links SA climate damage to electricity overconsumption by SA’s minerals-energy complex promotes higher and cheaper electricity consumption by low-income people, especially women works with the South Durban Community Environmental Alliance against local emitters researches trends in climate change and carbon markets reports regularly on local/national/global campaigns by civil society against greenhouse gas emissions and planetary destruction, and explores alternative Climate Justice strategies to mitigate emissions and finance adaptationProject membersPatrick Bond Rehana DadaOliver MethTrevor NgwaneKhadija SharifeDudu KhumaloOrlean NaidooSimphiwe NojiyezaLong articles and books on carbon tradingClimate Change, Carbon Trading and Civil Society: Negative Returns on South African Investments co-edited by Patrick Bond, Rehana Dada and Graham Erion, Second edition, Amsterdam, Rozenberg Publishers, and Pietermaritzburg, University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, November 2008 (208 pp).The State of the Carbon Trading Debate, by Patrick Bond, Capitalism Nature Socialism, 19, 4, 2008, pp.1-18Privatization of the Air turns Lethal: Pay to Pollute’ Principle Kills South African Activist Sajida Khan, by Patrick Bond, Capitalism Nature Socialism, 18, 4, 2007, pp.6-37.Trouble in the Air: Global Warming and the Privatised Atmosphere, co-edited by Patrick Bond and Rehana Dada, Durban, UKZN Centre for Civil Society and Amsterdam, Transnational Institute, October 2005 (225 pp).South African Carbon Trading: A Counterproductive Climate Change Strategy, by Patrick Bond and Graham Erion, in D.McDonald (Ed), Electric Capitalism, Pretoria, Human Sciences Research Council, 2008, pp.338-358.Bond climate articles July-Oct 2009The Durban Declaration on Carbon Trading October 2004Interview with Trevor Ngwane by Trevor Ngwane, New Left Review, July-August 2003Repaying Africa for Climate Crisis: Ecological Debt as Development Finance Alternative to Carbon Trading, by Patrick Bond, forthcoming in S. Böhm and S. Dabhi (Eds), Upsetting the Offset: The Political Economy of Carbon Markets, London, MayFlyBooks, 2009.Work in ProgressClimate Crisis and Contested Geographies of Carbon Trading, by Patrick Bond, forthcoming in Antipode, 2010.Community Resistance to Energy Privatization in South Africa, by Patrick Bond and Trevor Ngwane, forthcoming in K.Abramsky (Ed), Emancipating Energy? Global Struggles over the Transition to Renewable Energy, San Francisco, AK Press, 2010.Short articles: Carbon trading: Colonising the atmospheric commons, by Khadija Sharife, Pambazuka, 5 November 2009, When the climate change center cannot hold, by Patrick Bond, ZNet, 25 October 2009, Seattle’ Copenhagen call, as Africans demand reparations, by Patrick Bond, ZNet, 6 September 2009, A climate-poverty challenge in South Durban, by Vanessa Black, Patrick Bond, Rehana Dada and Desmond D’Sa, Mercury, 19 August 2009 Shell on trial while Nigerians are slaughtered, by Khadija Sharife and Patrick Bond, ZNet, 25 May 2009, Ecological debt and our center’s survival, By Dennis Brutus and Patrick Bond, ZNet, 22 August 2008, From False to Real Solutions for Climate Change, by Patrick Bond, ZNet, 6 January 2008, Who killed Sajida Khan?, by Patrick Bond, ZNet, 18 July 2007 Rearranging deck chairs on the climate change Titanic, ZNet, 29 November 2005, World Bankers and oil barons loot Africa, by Patrick Bond, ZNet, 4 October 2005, South Africa: Durban’s perfume rods, plastic covers and sweet-smelling toxic dump, by Trusha Reddy, Pambazuka, 24 February 2005, Putting a price on fresh air, by Patrick Bond and Rehana Dada, Mail & Guardian, 17 January 2005, Fake Forests, Extractive Industries And Elusive Aids Medicines, by Patrick Bond, ZNet, 1 March 2004, Sparks in the Townships, by Trevor Ngwane, New Left Review, July-August 2003, Commodification: Kyoto threatens, WSF inspires resistance, by Patrick Bond, ZNet, 5 March 2003, Sustainable’ South Africa?, by Patrick Bond, ZNet, 12 July 2001, Online Video Patrick Bond debates Chicago Climate Exchange founder Richard Sandor (Al-Jazeera, March 2009): http://www.youtube.comPatrick Bond lecture (7 parts) on climate justice and carbon trading (March 2008)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ds2NSOaI-ro&feature=relatedhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lvVqMgtPBAhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOGm4B7HG_chttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lno01CZIL3Qhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijpl5aa6kTUhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2X4zzRsBifwhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JX3hErQclYwPatrick Bond short and simple on carbon trading (November 2006)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRU4g9DsmdAIndaba yesixazululo ngesimo sezuluNgu Annie LeonardNgiyajabula ukuthi umhlaba usuyahlangana mayelana nokubhekelwa kokushintsha kwesimo sezulu. Ngenkathi ngiqala ukuzwa ukuthi abaholi bethu bayahlangana ukukhuluma ngezixazululo, ngaphefumula kakhulu. Awuzange wena?Ngase ngithi, awuthi ngime kancane. Ngabe bahlelani ngalenkinga? Ngase ngiyabheka. Futhi kufanele ngikutshele, akuzozonke izixazululo abazenzayo engingazibiza ngezixazululo. Empeleni, isixazululo esihamba phambili, esaziwa njengokuhwebelana ngomsizi, isona esiyinkinga enkulu.Manje ngiyazi ukuthi lokhu engizokutshela kona into yokugcina ofune ukuyizwa, kodwa ikusasa lomkhathi wethu lisenkingeni enkulu, ngakho-ke kufanele sibe nesikhathi ukuze sazi ukuthi kwenzekani la.Kulungile, ake sihlangane nalamadoda enhlizweni yalokhu abakubiza ngesixazululo. Bahlanganyele namadoda aqhamuka kwiEnron abaqhamuka nesu lokuhweba ngamandla, futhi abezimali bakuWall Street njengoGoldman Sachs ibona abadala insambatheka yezikweletu zomhlaba.Umsebenzi wabo ukuqhamuka namasu amasha okuthengisa ezimakethe. Bathatha izingxenye ezinkulu zenzuzo bese kuthi uma wonke umuntu kanye nogogo babo sebefuna ukuba yingxenye, bese bethatha izimali ezinkulu ngenkathi imakethe isikhula ngamandla bese iyafadalala.Isu labo lokugcina liye lafadalala manje sebenesu elisha lezimakethe – ukuhwebelana ngomsizi ongcolisa umoya emkhathini. Basemkhankaseni wokuqala isu elizodla izigidigidi ezibalelwa kumabhiliyoni amathathu amadola, kodwa uma lilisu lingasaphumeleli, ngeke nje lihambe nokonga kwakho kweminyaka, kodwa lizohamba nakho konke!Ngakho-ke lwenzeka kanjano loluhwebo?Empeleni, bonke ocwepheshe bezesayensi bavumelana ngokuthi kufanele sehlise izinga lokungcola emkhathini esibalweni esingu350ppm uma sifuna ukugwema isimo esibi kakhulu sezulu. EMelika, kusho ukwehlisa ukukhipha umsizi ongcolisa umoya emkhathini ngamaphesenti angamashumi ayisishagalombili – mhlawumbe futhi kakhulu kunalokho – ngonyaka ka2050. Amashumi ayisishagalombili!Manje ukuthi inkinga yethu umnotho wethu womhlaba uhambe phezu kokukushiswa kwezimila zemvelo, ekhiqiza umsizi: izimboni ezenza yonke lemikhiqizo, imikhumbi kanye namatrukhi ahambisa lemikhiqizo emhlabeni wonke, izimoto zethu kanye namabhilidi kanye nezimpahla esizisebenzisayo, cishe ukuba yonke into.Ngakho-ke sizolehlisa kanjani izinga lomsizi ngamaphesenti angamashumi ayaisishagalombili singaphindeli ekuhlaleni njengezinjinga?Labasungulu baloluhwebo bathi indlela yemakethe entsha yokudayisa ngomsizi iyona ndlela ephambili engasombulula lokhu.Igxathu lokuqala kungaba ukwenza ohulumeni emhlabeni jikelele ukuvuma ukuba nesikalo esithile sokukhiqiza umsizi ongcolisa umoya emkhathini njalo ngonyaka. Lokho ngikubona kuyisu elihle kakhulu.Ngakho-ke bazoqinisekisa kanjani ukuthi ukukhiqizwa komsizi ongcolisa umoya emkhathini kuhlala ngaphansi kwalesosikalo? Bathi ohulumeni bayosabalalisa izimvume eziyisibalo esithile zokungcolisa umkhathi. Unyaka nonyaka kuyoba nezimvume ezimbalwa uma silandela lelisu labo ukuze sifinyelele emgomeni wethuIzinkampani ezinombono nazo zizohlanganyela ezinhlelweni zokuhlanzwa nokuqhubekela phambili okuhlelekile. Ngenkathi izimvume sezincipha, zizobiza kakhulu, ngakho-ke, izinkampani ezinezimvume eziningi ziyozidayisela ezinye izinkampani ezisazidinga.Ilapho-ke kungena khona ukuhwebelana.Umqondo ukuthi uma sihambisana nalelisu, akuzubaluleka ukuthi ubani ongcolisa umkhathi noma onombono. Sizohlangabezana nokuhlanzwa kwesimo sezulu, sivimbe insambatheka. Futhi lamadoda athatha izigidi ngenkathi eqhamuka nalelisu lokuhlanzwa kokugcoliswa komkhathi, ngisho phela imakethe.Asiphephise umkhathi, sithole imali, yini engeke siyithande, ngempela? Abanye abangani bami bayaqikelela ngaloluhwebo. Iningi lezinhlangano elimele umkhathi ohlanzekile engizihloniphayo ziyakholelwa kulokhu. Bayazi ukuthi akusona isixazululo esingungqaphambili futhi abathandi ukuthi ikusasa lomkhathi wethu libe sezandleni zalamadoda, kodwa babona ukuthi igxathu elibalulekile futhi kungcono kakhulu kunokuba kungenziwa lutho. Angikaqiniseki ngalokho.Futhi akumina ngendwa. Iningi lochwepheshe lososayensi, abafundi, abalimi, kanye nabahwebi abanombono bathi “akumiwe kancane”!Empeleni ngisho nchwepheshe bezokuhweba abaqhamuka nalelisu bathi lokhu kungase kungasizi ukushintsha isimo sezulu. Yilokhu okwenza ngicabange ukuthi baqinisile.Uma kuziwa ebugebengwini bezimali, njengesubprime mortgages njengamasu oBernie Madoff’, kuhlale kunobuhumusha. Futhi maningi amahumusha ahambisana nalelisu.Usathane wokuqala ukuthi kunikezwe izimvume zamahala, yingakho abanye abantu lelisu belibiza ngendlela yokunikelwa. Kulenqubo, izimboni ezinkulu ezenza umsizi ongcolisa umoya wasemkhathini ziyothola izimvume eziningi ezibizayo mahala. Mahala!Ngenkathi zingcolisa kakhulu umoya wasemkhathini, ziyothola kakhulu futhi izimvume.Kungathi siyababonga futhi ngokudala lenkinga kwasekuqaleni.Emazweni aseNyakatho, bake bazama ukunikezela lezizimvume mahala. Inani lezimvume lagxuma kakhulu, inani lamandla lagxuma kakhulu kubathengi, futhi uyazi kwenzekalani?Ukukhiqizwa komsizi ongcolisa umoya emkhathini kwakhuphuka kakhulu! Ingxenye eyenzeka ukuthi abangcolisi bomoya womkhathi benza inzuzo yezigidigidi zamadola. Ochwepheshe bezokuhweba baseMIT bathi leyonto ingenzeka futhi lapha eMelika.Lezozigidigidi ziqhamuka EMAPHAKETHENI ETHU. Isixazululo sangempela singafaka leyomali ekumiseni isimo esibi sezulu.Esikhundleni sokunika izimvume kubakhiqizi bomsizi ongcolisa umoya womkhathi, singazidayisa futhi sisebenzise imali uku: ukwakha umnotho wamandla ohlanzekile noma sinike izakhamuzi izimali zokukhokhela amafutha abizayo ngenkathi silungiselela ukungena ohlelweni lomnotho wamandla ahlanzekile noma sisizane nalabo abahlaseleka kakhulu ngenxa yokugcola komoya womkhathi. Abanye bakubiza lokhu ngokukhokha izikweletu zokubulala okwemveloNjengoba thina mazwe ayizigwili kakhulu singabangcolisi kakhulu bomoya wasemkhathini amakhulu eminyaka, futhi saphila izimpilo eziphambili kakhulu, ngabe asinawo umbono wokuthi sisize labo abahlaseleke kakhulu?Kufana nokuthi senze umcimbi omkhulu, sangabamema omakhelwane bathu sase sibanika ukuthi bakhokhela umcimbi wethu. Lokho akukuhle neze.Uyazi ukuthi ekhulwini lweminyaka ezayo, ngenxa yokushintsha kwesimo sezulu, iziqhingi eziningi zingagcina ziminzile futhi iNhlangano Yomhlaba ithi abalimi abayisishagalolunye kwabayishumi bangalahlekelwa indlela lokumilisa ukudla.Ngabe isixazululo sangempela ngeke senze labantu bazuze kunalabo abangcolisa umoya womkhathi?Usathane wesibili ubizwa ngokuHolela.Izimvume zokuholeleka (offsetting) zidaleka ngenkathi inkampani yehlisa noma inciphisa ukukhiqiza umsizo ongcolisa umoya emkhathini. Bese bethola imvume abangayidayisela omunye umngcolisi womoya womkhathi odinga imvume yokukhiqiza omunye umoya ongcolile. Empeleni , ukwenza kokukodwa kuholela kokunye. Ingozi ekuholeleni ukuthi kunzima ukuqinisekisa ukuthi umoya ongcolile emkhathini ususiwe ukuze kwenzeke imvume. Kodwa futhi lezizimvume zibiza imali enkuluLokhu kudala indlela eyingozi eyenza kube khona ukuholeleka enkohlisweni – kokwenza inkohliso.Kwezinye izingqinamba inkohliso akuyona umphelandaba, kodwa kuloludaba kuyikhona. Futhi kunenkohliso eningi eyenzekayo.NjengaseIndonesia, imboni iSinar Mas igawule amahlathi okuzimilela, yadala ukumosheka kwemvelo namasiko. Bathe besuka babethatha umhlaba osumoshekile batshala izihlahla zamafutha epalm.Qagela ukuthi batholani ngalokho? Yebo, izimvume zokuholeleka.Ngabe umsizi ongcolisa umoya emkhathini uyaphuma? Cha umsizi ongcolisa umoya emkhathini uvele uyangena? Ngingakufungela lokho.Izinkampani ziyaholeleka ngaphandle kokwenza lutho.Njengabezimboni ezingcolisa umoya emkhathini ezithi bezihlele ukuzinweba ngamakhulu amabili amaphesenti kodwa behlisa izinhlelo zabo ngekhulu lamaphesenti. Ngokusho kanjalo okungenalusizo, bathola izimvume zokuholeleka – izimvume abangazidayisela abanye ukuze nabo bangcolise kakhulu umoya wasemkhathini! Lokhu kungubuphukuphuku!Isibalo somkhonyovu siningi futhi emibi kakhulu yenzeka emazweni aseNingizimu ahluphekayo lapho izimboni ezinkulu zenza noma yini eziyithandayo, kunoma ubani ezifuna ukwenza kuyena. Bese kuthi nemithetho exegayo yenza baqhubeke nokuthola izimvume zokuholeleka ukwenza noma yini.Usathane wokuqala kanti okwesibili, ukunikelela kanye nokuholeleka, kwenza lesisimo sibe ngesingenabo ubulungiswa futhi esingenamthelela osizayo. Kodwa usathane wokugcina, engimbiza ngokubheka eceleni, ukwenza kube yingozi kakhulu.Masibheka nje, zikhona ngempela izixazululo, kodwa lendlela entsha yokuhweba enokuxega kanye nezithembiso zabanemali yenze abantu abaningi bakhohlwe ngezixazululo zangempela.Asikasondeli nakancane ngesivumelwano somhlaba wonke ngokuhweba ngomsizi uma siqala sibheka, futhi lokhu ikhona okumayelana nokuhweba. Kodwa esikhundleni sokugcizelela ngendlela enobulungiswa, sigijimela ukuhweba kanye nokuholeleka.Mayelana nazozonke iznhlobo zokuholeleka ezingamanga, kanye nokunikelela kwabangcolisa umkhathi, kanye nokwehluleka ukubhekana nokungabikhona kobulungiswa mayelana nokushintsha kwesimo sezulu ucabanga ukuthi amazwe aseNingizimu angakwazi ukuhlanganyela nathi emhlabeni wonke? Ngiyakungabaza lokho. Umangabe izincomo zokuhweba zisimisa ukuthi sivale umsizi, lokhu kungukubheka eceleni okunobungozi kakhulu.Asidingi ukuthi lamadoda aqhamuke nezindlela ezintsha zezixazululo. Thina – kanye nohulumeni bethu – singenza imithetho sizenzele thina.Ezweni lakithi, sesinawo umthetho – Umthetho Womoya oHlanzekile (Clean Air Act) – oqinisekisa ukuthi umsizi ongcolisa umoya wasemkhathini futhi inhlangano emelene nokuhlanzwa kwemvelo ekufanele iwuvale. Ngakho-ke silindeni? Phambili ngeEPA phambili! Valani lomsizi!Empeleni . umthetho waseMelika mayelana nokuvalwa kanye nokuhweba owathulwa ngo2009 ibukela phansi iClean Air Act, bese ishiyela abezimakethe ukulungisa lenkinga. Uma ukuvala kanye nokuhweba kwenza buthakathaka ukuthi senze imithetho eqinile, lokhu kungukubheka eceleni.Izakhamuzi zomhlaba ezinakekelayo ngalenkinga kufanele ziphumele obala futhi ziphoqe ukuthi kwenziwe kabusha iminotho ezosiyekisa ukusebenzisa izimpahla zemvelo. Kodwa ukuvala kanye nokuhweba kwenza izakhamuzi zicabange ukuthi yonke into izolunga uma sishayela kancane, sishintsha amalambu kamandla kagesi bese kuthi lamadoda aqhubeke nokunye. Uma ukuvala kudala intuthuko engamanga, indlela eyingozi le yokubheka eceleni.Lezizincomo zokuvala nokuhweba indlela nje yokuqhubeka nezamabhizinisi.Njengamanje, iMelika ixhasa amandla ezimpahla zemvelo kakhulu kunezimpahla eziphindwa zisetshenziswe. Ini! Akufanele ngabe sixhasa izimpahla zamandla emvelo nhlobo!Lamadoda ungathi awaboni ukuthi indlela elula ukugcina umsizi uphephile emhlabathini.Isikhulu sezombusazwe saseMelika,uRick Boucher, ongumngani omkhulu wezimboni zamalahle yena uvotela ukuvala nokuhweba. Uthi lokhu “kuqinisekisa izimboni ukuthi ziqhubeke nokusebenzisa amalahle”.Akukho mthetho oncoma ukusetshenziswa kwamalahle ongavimba ukushintsha kwesimo sezulu. Nhlobo.Ukuvala, imithetho eqinile, ukusukuma kwezakhamuzi, kanye nezimali zomsizi ukuze sikhokhe izikweletu zokungcolisa imvelo kanye nokudala kabusha ezinye izindlela zomnotho wamandla ahlanzekile, ilokhu okungenza sisindise ikusasa lethu.Uma ngesikhathi esizayo kukhona othi ukuvala nokuhweba ikona okungcono kakhulu, ungabakholwa neze. Empeleni okungcono ukhulume nabo. Ngoba kungase kwenzeke ukuthi nabo bafuna ikusasa elivikelekile mayelana nokushintsha kwesimo sezulu. Mhlawumbe sebekhohliwe-nje ukuthi awukwazi ukuthengisa ngesixazululo esingeke sabasebenzela.Ngiyazi ukuthi sonke ngeke sathanda ukunikela ngalutho, ukuvikela umkhathi futhi sibe izigwili sisenza lokho. Lena inkinga enkulu abantu basemhlabeni aseke bakhekana nayo.Angeke siyiguqule nglowomqondo – ngomqondo wabo- osifake kulenkinga kwasekuqaleni. Sidinga okusha.Ngeke kube lula, kodwa isikhathi sokuthi sibe namaphupho amakhulu. Isikhathi sokuqhamuka nesixazululo sokushintsha kwesimo sezulu okuzosebenza ngempela.Climate Protest PhotosCJN activistcl London 5 Dec 1London 5 Dec 2cl London 5 Dec 3cl London 5 Deccl Manila 7 DecClimate protest news part 1Climate protest news part 2Free Web Counters Back