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This article has been revised since it was first posted. It consists of a list of useful sources providing ongoing coverage of, and initial post-conference reactions to, the COP21 conference and mobilizations in response to it. Please suggest any other helpful sources and links in the “Comments.” (Previously suggested links have been added and the comments removed.) 

Originally published: Dec. 3. Last (& probably final) revision: Dec. 16

 

Updates on the conference

COP21 Live: http://www.cop21.gouv.fr/en/follow-the-cop21-live/

On-demand webcasts from the conference: http://unfccc6.meta-fusion.com/cop21/

UNFCCC Newsroom: http://newsroom.unfccc.int/

Global Call for Climate Action: http://tcktcktck.org/

350.org: http://350.org/paris/ and http://350.org/paris-live-blog/

Grist: http://grist.org/series/the-paris-climate-talks-yes-oui-can/

Deconstructing Paris: http://paristext2015.com/

New Internationalist: http://newint.org/live/2015/10/27/cop21/

Democracy Now: http://www.democracynow.org/topics/paris_climate_summit_2015

The Guardian: http://www.theguardian.com/environment/cop-21-un-climate-change-conference-paris

The New York Times:  http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/cp/climate/2015-paris-climate-talks

The Transition Network’s Rob Hopkins: http://www.transitionnetwork.org/blogs/rob-hopkins/2015-12/rob-reports-cop21-paris-day-five

Global Justice Ecology Project: http://globaljusticeecology.org/category/paris-climate-cop/

NRDC blog: http://switchboard.nrdc.org/

Albert Bates’s The Great Change: http://peaksurfer.blogspot.com/

Resilience: http://www.resilience.org/news-archive

It Takes Roots to Weather the Storm (grassroots and indigenous alliance): http://ittakesroots.org/

ClimateTalksLive: https://climatetalkslive.org/

Nature (magazine): http://parisclimatetalks2015.tumblr.com/

Nature Conservancy: http://www.nature.org/ourinitiatives/urgentissues/global-warming-climate-change/cop21-blog/index.htm

Climate Progress: http://thinkprogress.org/climate/issue/

VICE News: https://news.vice.com/topic/climate-change

Andy Revkin’s Dot Earth: http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/

#ClimateJustice: http://twitter.com/hashtag/climatejustice

#COP21: http://twitter.com/hashtag/COP21

 

Activist mobilizations

Upcoming BillionPeopleMarch (December 19) event: http://www.billionpeoplemarch.org/

Climate Games awards: https://www.climategames.net/en/awards

“Activists have the last word”: http://grist.org/climate-energy/activists-on-the-street-have-the-last-word-in-paris/

Democracy Now on Paris protests: http://www.democracynow.org/2015/12/14/protest_in_paris_climate_justice_activists

T. J. Demos on activist art in Paris: http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/34006-playful-protesters-use-art-to-draw-attention-to-inadequacy-of-paris-climate-talks

Climate Art in Paris: http://grist.org/climate-energy/check-out-these-9-climate-art-projects-that-are-wowing-people-in-paris/

ANTICOP21.org: http://anticop21.org/-cop2015-?lang=en

On the ZAC (Zone d’Action Climat/Climate Action Zone, planned for Dec. 7-11): http://coalitionclimat21.org/en/come-bring-zac-life

On the December 12 events: http://d12.paris/

Climate Games latest reports list: https://www.climategames.net/en/reports#list-tab

Place to B: http://www.placetob.org/blog/

350.org December 12 action guide: http://350.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/D12-Actions-%E2%80%93-The-Final-Word-on-Paris-and-COP21.pdf

Brandalism pre-conference actions:

• http://www.brandalism.org.uk/
• http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2015/11/brandalism-fake-ads-paris/
• http://www.takepart.com/article/2015/12/1/see-how-artists-striking-back-corporate-greenwashing-paris

 

Reactions, critiques, & other worthy reads

Robeinson Meyer’s (Atlantic) analysis of the agreement: http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2015/12/a-readers-guide-to-the-paris-agreement/420345/

David Roberts on the treaty’s conceptual breakthrough: http://www.vox.com/2015/12/15/10172238/paris-climate-treaty-conceptual-breakthrough

NGO reactions: http://www.climatechangenews.com/2015/12/12/cop21-ngos-react-to-prospective-un-paris-climate-deal/

Harald Winkler, Energy Research Centre: http://www.ercblogs.co.za/2015/paris-agreement-after-climbing-a-great-hill-many-more-to-climb/

New Internationalist’s verdict: “Epic Fail on a Planetary Scale”: http://newint.org/features/web-exclusive/2015/12/12/cop21-paris-deal-epi-fail-on-planetary-scale/

World Resources Institute summary: http://www.wri.org/blog/2015/12/paris-agreement-turning-point-climate-solution

Grist’s Ben Adler’s summary of the final agreement: http://grist.org/climate-energy/heres-what-you-need-to-know-about-the-new-paris-climate-agreement/

Naomi Klein, “We Are Out of Time: We Need to Take a Leap”: http://billmoyers.com/story/we-are-out-of-time-we-need-to-take-a-leap/

Climate Tracker’s analysis of Dec. 10 draft document: http://climatetracker.org/we-evaluate-final-text-infographic/

Good summary of the negotiations as of Dec. 10: http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2015/12/what-does-the-paris-agreement-say/419577/

Democracy Now interview with climatologist Kevin Anderson: http://www.democracynow.org/2015/12/8/top_climate_expert_crisis_is_worse

Lobby Planet Paris: A Guide to Corporate COP21: http://corporateeurope.org/environment/2015/11/lobby-planet-paris-guide-corporate-cop21

Rebecca Solnit writing from Paris in Harper’s: http://harpers.org/blog/2015/12/calculated-risk/, http://harpers.org/blog/2015/12/the-end-of-the-worlds-fair/, http://harpers.org/archive/2015/12/power-in-paris/

LINGO (Leave it in the Ground) Initiative: http://leave-it-in-the-ground.org/  See their “Paris Mirage“, Extraction Resistance list, and other materials

Trade unions and climate change (Naomi Klein and Jeremy Corbyn conversation): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwkB0ofzGEY

Paths Beyond Paris: Movements, Action, and Solidarity Towards Climate Justice: http://www.carbontradewatch.org/downloads/publications/PathsBeyondParis-EN.pdf

Andy Revkin’s piece on “Views and News Out of Paris”: http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/11/30/tracking-views-and-news-out-of-the-paris-climate-change-talks/

Indigenous Peoples and the Paris Climate Talks: https://intercontinentalcry.org/indigenous-peoples-and-the-paris-climate-talks/

http://wire.novaramedia.com/2015/11/coping-out-what-will-it-take-to-overcome-the-environmental-movements-impasse/

New Internationalist on police crack down in Paris: Undercover police crack down on freedom of speech in Paris

Emma Merchant’s “How the Environmental Movement Has Changed”: https://newrepublic.com/article/124647/environmental-movement-changed

John Richardson, “When the End of Human Civilization is Your Day Job”: http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a36228/ballad-of-the-sad-climatologists-0815/