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African civil society organizations are outraged by the Degrees Global Forum being hosted in South Africa next week, calling it an act of climate colonialism effort to co-opt the African climate movement, academics, and youth that will threaten the sovereignty, ecosystems, and futures of African peoples.
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February 2025
The unchecked power of the Broligarchy—a handful of Silicon Valley firms operating in sync with current US government leadership—signals a broader global threat to the international rules-based system, human rights, peace, sustainable development, and ecological justice.
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The Indian Fisherwomen Assembly took place in Thiruvananthapuram 5-6 November. It was the culmination of a series of workshops organised by the National Fishworkers Forum (NFF), along with other fisher people's unions, in an effort to implement the 2017 World Forum of Fisher Peoples’ (WFFP) General Assembly’s decision to have more women’s representation in fishworkers’ unions.
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More information and detail: background briefing about geoengineering at COP 16
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by Linda Schneider (Heinrich Boëll Foundation) and Silvia Ribeiro (ETC)
Analysis: UNFCCC negotiations on Article 6 of the Paris Agreement risk legitimising dangerous Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) schemes and undermining precautionary work being undertaken in other UN fora.
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Submitted by Ronnie Hall on
Submitted by Ronnie Hall on
by Kavya Chowdhry, ETC Group & Coraina de la Plaza, Hands Off Mother Earth! (HOME) Alliance
(See below: "Reinforcing precaution against geoengineering to protect biodiversity and communities", a briefing for COP 16 delegates, from members of the HOME Alliance)
This article was published 28 October, in ECO 70(6), the magazine of the CBD Alliance. It concludes with recommendations for governments negotiating at the CBD’s COP 16, in Cali, Colombia.
Submitted by Ronnie Hall on
(New York, 20 September 2024) The looming environmental dangers of massive deployment of digitalization and unleashing AI are being effectively ignored by the UN Summit of the Future taking place in New York on 22-23 September 2024 [1]. Giant technology companies are using the summit to position themselves as the tech saviours who will solve the world crises, with final versions of the text concealing the stark impact of their activities on the planet’s environment.
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Even though the earth is burning, investors are being allowed to promote profit-generating climate projects in the UN – even projects that are unlikely to generate, and could even prevent, the reductions in carbon emissions that the world so urgently needs.
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March 18, 2024 – Opposed by ETC Group since its inception in 2015, the SCoPEx project, which was Harvard’s flagship solar geoengineering experiment has closed down.
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