This is a compilation of Canada-specific material and developments related to the Durban UN Climate Summit 2011, held in Durban, South Africa, Nov. 28 - Dec. 11, 2011, and its aftermath which saw Canada's shameful withdrawal from the Kyoto Protocol. Also see our main post: Compilation: COP17 Durban UN Climate Summit 2011: Betrayal of life.

A brief summary will be added here as soon as we can get to it.

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Canada - Selected articles, blog posts, reports

• Post mortem
• Article - Canada: Climate criminal, Rex Weyler, Greenpeace
• Article - Ottawa drops the ball and Toronto lets it get away, Christopher Hume, Toronto Star
• Article - Canada's message: The world and its climate be damned, J. Simpson, Globe and Mail
• Article - Kyoto: The Conservative government's shameful action, John Bennett, Rabble.ca
• Post - Why aren't more of us losing it like Trudeau? Matt Price, Huffington Post Canada
• Post - Canada's Kyoto math doesn't add up, Matt Horne, Pembina Institute
• Post - Toronto's public library collects more fines than Canada's Environmental Protection Agency, Michael Graham Richard, Treehugger
• Article - Canada faces 'pattern of non-enforcement' of environmental law, Heather Scoffield, CP
• Article - No 'credible information' to support claims oil sands are green, says Environment Canada, Mike de Souza, Postmedia
• Post - Withdrawal from Kyoto: There must be a political price to be paid, Elizabeth May
• Article - May accuses Harper of breaking law over Kyoto, M. Fitzpatrick, CBC
• Release - Withdrawal from Kyoto appalling, Green Party of Canada
• Article - Canada's Kyoto withdrawal called 'act of sabotage', Reuters
• Post - Kent is lying, Andrea Harden-Donahue, Council of Canadians
• Article - Canada formally abandons Kyoto, B. Curry, S. McCarthy, Globe and Mail
• Opinion - Climate summit was a pathetic exercise in deceit, T. Homer-Dixon, Globe and Mail
• Post - Last thoughts on Durban package, Elizabeth May, Green Party of Canada
• Statement - Durban climate summit saves face at expense of future generations, CYD COP17
• Release - Durban climate summit saves face at expense of future generations, CYD COP17
• Article - Climate deal marks 'lowest common denominator', G. York, Globe and Mail
• Week 2
• Article - Nunavut youth accepts Canada's "Colossal Fossil" award in Durban, Nunatsiaqonline
• Post - U.S. and Canada (last 5 yrs) share 'Colossal Fossil' award, CAN Int'l
• Article - Canada, the grave-digger of Kyoto, Martin Lukacs, The Media Co-op
• Op-ed - Standing up for the planet, The 6 Canadian Youth Delegation members who protested Canadian Environment Minister Peter Kent's speech (and Canada's betrayal of life) at the COP17 Durban UN Climate Summit 2011 explain why, Matthew Chisholm, Sonia Grant, Brigette DePape, Meghan McCarthy, James Hutt and Karen Rooney, Toronto Star
• Post - Fossil fuel subsidies: What are they, how much are they worth? Danielle S'stelie, CYD
• Letter - Letter of support for Canadian youth: Suzuki, McKibben, Naidoo, Barlow, CYD
• Article - Canada wins few friends on climate, Richard Black, BBC
• Post - Amazing Grace, Mardi Tindal
• Release - Canadian youth who stood for people over polluters ejected from COP17, CYD
• Article - Low Durban profile relegates Canada to margins of negotiations, G. York, Globe & Mail
• Week 1
• Post - Come clean or go home, Amara Possian, CYD
• Post - Corporate influence root of inaction at COP17, Brigette DePape, CYD
• Post - Who's financing climate change? Banks and the coal industry, Sonia Grant, CYD
• Post - Searching for Canada's climate change action plan, Malkolm Boothroyd, CYD
• Post - In Durban, growing criticism of Canada's position on Kyoto and push for tar sands, Stephen Lacey, Climate Progress
• Post - On climate, Canada is a rogue state, Marc Lee, Progressive Economics Forum
• Post - Government of Canada's latest climate policy stance: RACISM, Robin Tress, CYD
• Post - A conference of polluters: The Canadian government's collusion with corporate lobbies comes under fire at climate negotiations, Amara Possian, Co-ordinator, CYD
• Article - Climate summit sees Canadian strike on Kyoto treaty, Richard Black, BBC
• Article - Green Party chief fears Tories will act as 'saboteurs' at climate talks, Globe and Mail
• Post - Fact check on Kyoto distortions, Elizabeth May, Green Party of Canada
• Article - UK secretly helping Canada push its oil sands project, D. Carrington, The Guardian
• Video/pics - Greenpeace brands Harper government a "Climate FAIL", Greenpeace Canada
• Lead up to conference
• Article - Canada to pull out of Kyoto Protocol next month, CTV
• Demands - 5 ways the Canadian government can stop defending the dirtiest oil in the world, and start defending people and the planet, Canadian Youth Delegation to COP17
• Report - Canadian gov't conspires with big polluters to prevent climate solutions, Greenpeace
• Article - Corporations spending billions to excert 'undue influence' to prevent global climate action, Greenpeace report, Mike De Souza, Vancouver Sun
• Article - Alberta looks to record year for gas, oil leases, Carrie Tait, Globe and Mail
• Article - Canada's obstructive approach to the negotiation of new emission-reduction targets has many international observers baffled, Amara Possian, Co-ordinator, CYD, The Mark
• Article - Amid dire warming warnings, Canada is MIA, Jeffrey Simpson, Globe and Mail
• Article - Weather harder to predict, Environment Canada warns, CBC
• Article - Tories bar opposition MPs from official delegatiion at climate talks, CP
• Article - Global warming in Canada NOW, permafrost melts, Elizabeth Payne, Ottawa Citizen
• Article - Canada cuts environment spending, Stephen Leahy, IPS, The Guardian
• Article - Canada's climate stance to spark controversy, CBC
• Article - Canada's climate change goals falling short, Meagan Fitzpatrick, CBC
• Report - 8 reasons why climate change could cost Canada billions by 2020, CBC
• Bonn talks and lead up - June, 2011
• Article - Postponing emissions cuts carries steep price-tag, Stephen Leahy, IPS
• Article - Bonn climate talks end with no agreement on key areas, John Vidal, The Guardian
• Article - UN climate talks make scant progress to save Kyoto, Alister Doyle, Reuters
• Article - Analysis: Hopes fading for climate agreement, Alister Doyle, Reuters
• Article - African agriculture and food supply at risk, Julio Godoy, IPS
• Article - UN climate chief calls on world leaders to step in, Arthur Max, AP
• Article - Developing countries pledge more emissions cuts than industrial north, S. Leahy, IPS
• Article - Grim tidings from Bonn, David Ritter, The Drum
• Article - Canada spurns Kyoto in favour of tar sands, Stephen Leahy, IPS
• Article - U.S. inaction on climate change a 'very serious hand brake' on world efforts, Charles J. Hanley, The Guardian
• Article - Canada's diplomatic spanking at hides deeper problems, K. Stewart, Greenpeace.ca
• Article - Harper government receives diplomatic spanking over climate policies, Mike de Souza, PostMedia News
• Article - Canada confirms it will reject new Kyoto Protocol, Gerard Wynn, Reuters
• Article - Canada's UN climate inventory report clashes with Environment Canada report by a difference of 10 times, Mike de Souza, PostMedia news
• Article - Climate talks will miss Kyoto deadline, Gerard Wynn, Reuters
• Article - Global warming crisis may mean world has to suck greenhouse gases from air, Fiona Harvey, The Guardian
• Article - UN Chief challenges world to agree tougher target for climate change +1.5C, not +2C, Fiona Harvey, The Guardian

Links to ecoSanity's most essential EMERGENCY info

• ecoSanity - 2009 Climate Change Human Impact report: Hundreds of millions suffering; 4 billion vulerable NOW
• ecoSanity - Models guiding climate policy 'dangerously optimistic'
• ecoSanity - 2007 IPCC reports: Dangerous, outdated underestimates of the present state and accelerating pace of global climate disruption
• ecoSanity - The supposed +2C danger threshold is bull**** (it's dangerous now at only +0.8C, and we're already committed to +2.4C)
• ecoSanity - Hansen: Re-thinking a "safe climate": Have we already gone too far? David Spratt
• ecoSanity - 2100: An unlivable world?
• ecoSanity - Compilation: +4C by 2060s or sooner (catastrophic)
• ecoSanity - Dire projections of +4°C–6°C temp rise by 2100 (deadly to most life) conservative, could be +10°C–12°C!
• ecoSanity - Met Office: +4C by 2060 "highly plausible", "catastrophic"
• ecoSanity - Race to survival or sprint to extinction? A summary of the March 2009 'Emergency' Climate Conference in Copenhagen (before the December 2009 debacle) that concludes the world is already committed to a near future +2.4C average temp increase)
• ecoSanity - Global carbon budget to avoid irriversible climate tipping points to be exceeded by 2021 or sooner!, David Spratt, George Monbiot
• ecoSanity - Compilation: Methane time bomb EMERGENCY (death spiral meltdown of arctic ice)
• ecoSanity - Compilation: Ocean acidification
• ecoSanity - GLOBAL EMERGENCY NOW: Mass base life die-off threatens the survival of most life on Earth -- Seriously!
• ecoSanity - Shocking Report Exposes Ocean EMERGENCY: Must Achieve Zero CO2 Emissions Within 20 Yrs, Remove Gasses From Air, Experts
• ecoSanity - Plan B 4.0: Months, not years to save civilization from climate change, L. Brown
• ecoSanity - Food / agriculture and climate emergency
• ecoSanity - Race 2 Survival (R2S) Campaign
• ecoSanity - Conservative energy agency (IEA) warning that 'lock in' to irreversible climate change is only 5 years away far too optimistic; reality even more dire
• ecoSanity - EMERGENCY: Instead of peak/reverse necessary to prevent runaway climate disruption, record 2010 emissions higher than 2007 IPCC's worst-case scenario(!)
• ecoSanity - Compilation: FEAR is a good thing and HOPE is not an action verb

General + Previous Summits

• General
• Website - 2011 UNFCCC Conference of the Parties (COP) 17, Durban, South Africa
• Website - United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
• Wikipedia - United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
• ecoSanity - Compilation: COP17 Durban UN Climate Summit 2011: Betrayal of Life
• ecoSanity - Compilation: COP16 UN Cancun Climate Summit 2010 (Soon)
• ecoSanity - 3 months later: Collected reflections on COP15
• ecoSanity - Compilation: Copenhagen UN Climate Summit 2009: First take post mortem
• ecoSanity - Category: UN Climate Summits
• ecoSanity - Category: Tar Sands
• ecoSanity - Compilation: Tar Sands Kill
• ecoSanity - Category: Keystone XL Pipeline
• ecoSanity - Compilation: Keystone XL Pipeline, Climate & Environmental Crimeline
• ecoSanity - Category: Election 2011 (Canada)
• ecoSanity - Canadian Election 2011: 7 charges against the Harper-led conservative regime
• ecoSanity - Category: Stephen Harper
• ecoSanity - Category: Peter Kent
• Previous Summits
• 2011 - COP 17, Durban, South Africa
• 2010 - COP 16, Cancun, Mexico
• 2010 - World People's Conference on Climate Change & the Rights of Mother Earth, Cochabamba, Bolivia
• 2009 - COP 15, Copenhagen, Denmark
• 2008 - COP 14, Poznań, Poland
• 2007 - COP 13 Bali, Indonesia
• 2006 - COP 12, Nairobi, Kenya
• 2005 - COP 11 Montreal, Canada
• 2004 - COP 10, Buenos Aires, Argentina
• 2003 - COP 9, Milan, Italy
• 2002 - COP 8, New Delhi, India
• 2001 - COP 7, Marrakech, Morocco
• 2001 - COP 6, (Continued) Bonn, Germany
• 2000 - COP 6, The Hague, Netherlands
• 1999 - COP 5, Bonn, Germany
• 1998 - COP 4, Buenos Aires, Argentina
• 1997 - COP 3, Kyoto, Japan, Kyoto Protocol
• 1996 - COP 2, Geneva, Switzerland
• 1995 - COP 1, The Berlin Mandate
• 1994 -
• 1993 -
• 1992 - UNFCCC, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
• 1991 -
• 1990 - International climate negotiations began
• 1989 -
• 1988 - NASA's James Hansen warns US Congress of global warming threat