With 142 member nations already signed on, the new International Renewable Energy Agency is promoting a fast, global transition to clean, safe, and renewable energy. Read more »

PARTICIPATING COUNTRIES IN IRENA (137 nations)
http://www.irena.org/downloads/Foundconf/Signatory_States_20091006.pdf

COUNTRIES NOT YET SIGNATORY STATES OF IRENA, 11/09 (55 nations) Read more »

(Geneva, July 2009, 172pp)

Geneva, August 5, 2009. Tomorrow August 6 a whole range of actions will be organised around the world to mark the 64th anniversary of the destruction of Hiroshima by atomic weapons. For 64 years people from all walks of life in all parts of the planet have mobilised to bring about their elimination.  Nuclear weapons not only threaten massive destruction, but they also incur enormous costs. Read more »

Original Article: Counterpunch, July 14th, 2009

By ALICE SLATER

Although Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev pledged to work for a nuclear weapons free world this spring, they failed to take meaningful steps at their July summit to put the world on the proper path to nuclear abolition. Disappointingly, they only agreed to minor cuts in their respective weapons arsenals due to US unwillingness to cancel its plans to put missile and radar bases in Poland and the Czech Republic which Russia views as a threat to its security. Essentially we have come full circle to the 1986 Reagan-Gorbachev summit at Reykjavik, when negotiations for the total abolition of nuclear weapons tragically collapsed because Reagan wouldn’t give up U.S. plans for a Strategic Defense Initiative to dominate space. Read more »

A paper for the session on “What’s the connection between nuclear power and nuclear weapons? “ at the No Nukes Teach-In, Earth Sciences Building, University of Toronto, 14 March 2009.
Presented again at Voice of Women’s Conference 25 April 2009, Friends House, Lowther Avenue, Toronto Read more »

Following the ‘Four Former Horsemen of the Apocalypse’ in the USA led by Henry Kissinger, and similar initiatives in Europe, the Australian ‘group of 6′ has been published recently in Australia’s largest two daily broadsheets.

Led by former Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser, the opinion pieces were both published with accompanying articles in the papers. Read more »

Alice Slater | April 7, 2009

Editor: John Feffer
Foreign Policy In Focus
www.fpif.org

Committing the United States and Russia “to achieving a nuclear free world,” Presidents Obama and Medvedev issued a joint statement breathtaking in its positive tone. It marks an astonishing shift from the hostile policies of the Bush and Clinton administrations and offers new hope to a world weary of the endless nuclear arms race. Read more »

Publication date : 25 March 2009

The veterans of France’s nuclear testing, after years of futile approaches to military authorities and legal tribunals, all systematically dismissed or (if successful) referred to appeal by the ministry, have now won an apparently decisive victory. Read more »

Mise en ligne le : 24 mars 2009

Après des années de vaines démarches auprès de l’administration militaire et d’actions devant les tribunaux, systématiquement déboutées ou renvoyées en appel par le ministère lorsqu’elles étaient gagnantes, les vétérans des essais nucléaires français viennent de remporter une victoire apparemment décisive. Read more »