Mexico: Anti-Capitalist Mobilization to Cop 16 needs support - Infoshop News
The 16th Conference of the Parties (COP-16) on climate change convened by the United Nations will take place this year between the 29th of November and the 10th of December in Cancun, Mexico. The predecessor to this meeting was the COP15 in Copenhagen where talks failed due to the lack of agreement between countries on the mater of climate politics for the reduction of greenhouse gasses.
Before these summits, and especially leading up to the COP15 in Copenhagen, an enormous mobilization process was generated, further strengthening and articulating an comprehensive movement for environmental justice all over the world, comprised of a range of diverse organizations, amongst which are those that have come-out against market-driven solutions governments would like to implement, such as carbon exchanges or clean development mechanisms. Much of these voices have called for system change not climate change. Furthermore, as demonstrated by governments, climate change is seen as a terrain for accumulation and the marketing of life, not as an impetus to change the model of production and consumption whose unsustainability and unviability for the reproduction of human and non-human life has become more and more evident.
Following Mexico’s acceptance to host the COP16, at the beginning of 2010, diverse organizations have been in search of modes of coordination to generate a comprehensive organizing and mobilizing process for the summit.
Amongst the diverse spaces on route to Cancun is the International Anti-C@P Space (Anti-Capitalist/Anti-COP) (anticapcop.wordpress.com), formed in August of 2010 as a convergence of collectives, organizations and social-environmental struggles working to shape a movement for climate justice and in search for just and effective solutions to the climate crisis. A university organizing space has also been initiated since September which has been convened principally by student collectives from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).
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