Topic: Environment
The meaning of the Green New Deal
Article / 4th March 2019The Green New Deal strongly affirms the need for more equity and social justice, and the fact that these principles are being presented and endorsed by leading politicians suggests a realignment of political forces in the United States, writes Philippe Gauthier
New UN report reveals that hunger in Africa continues to rise
News / 21st February 2019Hunger in Africa continues to rise after many years of decline, threatening the continent's hunger eradication efforts to meet the Malabo Goals 2025 and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, particularly the Sustainable Development Goal 2 (SDG2).
Managing without growth. Slower by design, not disaster
Article / 21st February 2019It took homo sapiens some 200,000 years to reach the first billion by about 1800. In just the 10 years separating the first and second edition of Managing without Growth: Slower by Design, not Disaster, the human population increased by the same amount putting increased pressure on an already crowded planet.
This is a crisis: Facing up to the age of environmental breakdown
Report / 13th February 2019Environmental breakdown is a fundamental issue of justice, and calls for overall socioeconomic transformations that bring human activity to within environmentally sustainable limits while tackling inequalities and providing a high quality life to all, according to a new study by the Institute for Public Policy Research.
Irreverent musings from COP24
Blog / 8th February 2019At the latest climate talks in Poland, there was no soothing balm when it came to addressing issues of international equity and climate change, writes Kevin Anderson for The Ecologist.
After Paris: countries are not paying their fair share
Report / 14th December 2018A review of climate targets and commitments by each country has been released during the UN climate conference in Poland.
The people’s demands for COP24
Article / 5th December 2018These are the People’s Demands, our call to government delegates, grounded in people’s movements from every continent, that demand with one voice what is our birthright: climate justice.
Our food systems are collapsing and the alternative of agroecology has become a survival imperative
Report / 5th December 2018Dr. Vandana Shiva presents in the report The Future of Our Daily Bread: Regeneration or Collapse new evidence on the imminent collapse of our food systems if we continue on the path of industrial agriculture.
10 demands for an energy system based on people power and justice
Report / 5th December 2018Friends of the Earth International’s People Power Now manifesto sets out positive measures that will accelerate the transition towards a climate just world.
Global food system is broken, say world’s science academies
Report / 29th November 2018The global food system is broken, leaving billions of people either underfed or overweight and driving the planet towards climate catastrophe, according to 130 national academies of science and medicine across the world.