A human rights-based approach to climate action is imperative to ensure a just transition for workers and communities. In order to effectively mobilise resources to enable a transition to low-carbon climate resilient societies, just transition needs to be a recognised as a human [...]

It is the second most used resource after water and, like water, it could soon be in short supply. Sand is essential to the society we live in. But current demand is so high that it is being used faster than it can be replenished.

“A striking parallel between both stories of the new capital cities is how both projects only reinforce a colonial state, in spite of their promoters claiming the opposite. Both projects dominate and destroy the life spaces and territories of forest communities for economic and political [...]

Gabon’s timber industry, which employs nearly 7 per cent of the country’s working population, is struggling to adapt to often burdensome environmental policies adopted by the international community.

By re-irrigating agricultural land facing drought – due to climate change and Turkey preventing the flow of water – a women’s project in northern Syria is helping to revitalise local communities from the roots upwards.

Rural farmers in Jharkhand, one of the most vulnerable states to climate change in India, are making the shift from conventional farming to innovative, organic farming practices – with positive results.

Long confined to media appearances and signature gathering, members of the scientific community have been ignored by political leaders despite the urgency of the issues at stake. Many feel that they have no choice left but to leave their laboratories and take to the [...]

“Success or failure with regards to the future of the world’s land and its ability to sustain life is one determining factor: soil health. The earth beneath our feet is so ubiquitous that it is easy to take it for granted, but it literally provides the building bricks of [...]

“This extractivist industry doesn’t benefit the region. It’s unsustainable, and it relies on the exploitation of migrant labour.”

In Montenegro, a single coal-fired power plant provides almost half the country’s electricity needs, but it may be forced to close if the country wants to meet its climate commitments.