Topic: Environment
The People’s Declaration for a Rapid, Equitable, and Just Transition for a Fossil-Free Future
Article / 20th May 2026Global movements united in Santa Marta to launch The People’s Summit for a Fossil Free Future, the civil society counterpart to the historic First International Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels.
LSE Festival 2026: How to save the planet
Event / 13th May 2026The LSE Festival 2026: How to save the planet will be exploring the impact of our major global challenges and how individuals, communities, organisations, corporations, and those with political power should be tackling them.
Earth’s climate more unbalanced than ever, WMO warns
Blog / 24th March 2026The world's oceans have broken heat records for nine straight years, glaciers are retreating and extreme weather is killing thousands. The only way to avoid the worst is to urgently ditch fossil fuels.
UK to cut climate aid to developing countries by 14% to £2bn a year in ‘refocus’
News / 19th March 2026Climate aid to developing countries from the UK will be cut by about 14% to roughly £2bn a year under government plans, in a move critics said would put national security and lives overseas at risk.
Global economy must move past GDP to avoid planetary disaster, warns UN chief
News / 10th February 2026The global economy must be radically transformed to stop it rewarding pollution and waste, UN secretary general António Guterres has warned.
World’s richest 1% have brown through their fair share of carbon emissions for 2026 in just 10 days
Report / 13th January 2026The world’s richest 1% have exhausted their annual carbon budget – the amount of CO2 that can be emitted while staying within 1.5 degrees of warming – only ten days into the year, according to new analysis from Oxfam.
Trump sinks to new low by announcing US withdrawal from 66 international organizations, including UNFCCC and IPCC
News / 9th January 2026Statements from the Union of Concerned Scientists denounce America's withdrawal from the global climate convention, citing the U.S. president's 'cruel indifference' to science and international law.
In search of hope after COP30
Article / 9th December 2025The continued failures of COP27 only reinforces the need for vastly scaled-up civil society movements, as STWR has advocated since the Paris Agreement was signed in 2015.
Unpacking COP30’s politically charged Belém package
Article / 24th November 2025Following tense, nightlong negotiations and bitter rows between more than 190 country delegations, a “politically charged Belém package” was finally forged at COP30—so named because of the highly contentious and difficult-to-negotiate issues within the climate talks.
COP30 delivers limited but crucial wins despite the Global North obstruction and finance evasion
Article / 24th November 2025Civil society made hard-fought gains on a 'Just Transition' at COP30 in the face of the Global North’s obstruction and push for false solutions, reports the DCJ.