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- As coal mines close, Silesia’s miners face an uncertain futurePoland has closed two-thirds of its mines over the last 30 years, reducing the number of jobs in the sector from 300,000 to 80,000. The energy transition raises both hopes and fears. While miners understand the need for change, they fear for [...]
- Olivier De Schutter: “A carbon tax is not the full answer to the climate crisis, but it’s part of it”According to the United Nations special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights Olivier De Schutter, it’s time for a new agricultural revolution. The key idea, he says, is to use nature as an ally and to work with it, rather than treating [...]
- Tara Peel and John Mark Mwanika on the effects of climate change on workers in Canada and UgandaTara Peel, political advisor at the Canadian Labour Congress, and John Mark Mwanika, programmes officer at Uganda’s Amalgamated Transport and General Workers’ Union, discuss the impacts of the climate crisis on workers in Uganda and [...]
- “Daughters of God”: life in India’s transgender communitiesThis photo essay is an immersive insight into the transgender communities of Pondicherry and Tamil Nadu in southern India, a testament to the day-to-day struggles and resilience of transgender [...]
- Saleemul Huq and Karl-Petter Thorwaldsson on the road to a post-fossil fuel economySaleemul Huq, the director of the International Centre for Climate Change and Development, and Swedish business minister Karl-Petter Thorwaldsson both believe that the transition to a low-carbon company should not leave fossil fuel workers [...]
- Providing support and rehabilitation for landmine victims in MaliSince the start of the armed conflict in Mali in 2012, mines and improvised explosive devices have claimed numerous lives every year. A rehabilitation centre in Bamako provides amputee survivors with custom-made prostheses and psychological [...]