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The holding of the climate conference in South Africa has left its traces: promoted by international NGOs, foundations and other donors, local organisations for the first time worked specifically on the issue of 'climate'. It can be constituted that the framing of climate issues has changed after the conference: while organisations focused on mobilising protests and the conference as an occasion for protest before and during the conference, they have been more concerned with locally anchoring the subject climate since the beginning of 2012. In so doing, they link ecologic with social issues. Adapted from the source document

Civil society contributed to the fact that the climate conference in Copenhagen turned into a media circus. For years, & without demonstrations, NGO's have had access to international climate negotiations. Using Chile as example, the article shows how NGO's through professional lobbying strengthen their position in political processes. They find themselves in an area of tension between cooperation & exploitation by political decision makers. E. Sanchez

In summer 2013, the Working Group was established 'Social Movements in Africa', an informal grouping of researchers from different disciplines that deal with social movements on the African continent. We communicate via a mailing list and organize at regular intervals discussions and meetings. Among other things, we deal with the question of whether the approaches of the movement research, primarily in the context of social struggles in the so-called Global North (ie Europe and North America) have emerged for the study of empirical phenomena in the Global South is helpful. Below we present the results of our recent debates. Adapted from the source document