Topic: Environment
Overshoot Day: Countries still burning through Earth’s resources like we have a spare planet, study finds
News / 3rd August 2023People are continuing to burn through the planet like we have one to spare, according to new research from the Global Footprint Network.
Cancel the debt now to deliver climate justice
Blog / 27th June 2023Global South countries spend 5 times more on repaying debt than addressing the climate crisis. With 160 days to go before COP28, activists are calling on rich countries to 'Cancel The Debt for Climate Justice'.
Global North governments can redirect trillions in fossil, debt, and super-rich harms to fix global crises
Article / 20th June 2023A letter from policy experts calls on Global North leaders to put real global financial system transformation on the agenda, starting by redirecting funds from fossil fuels, unfair colonial debts, and the super-rich.
NGOs call out climate injustice and urge global donors to fully fund the humanitarian response in the Horn of Africa now
Article / 9th June 2023Aid agencies call on global donors to address the impact of climate change by making financial pledges required to fully fund the humanitarian response in the Sahel region.
UN urges global cooperation as quarter of humanity lacks safe drinking water
News / 24th March 2023Amid a lack of global cooperation, the world is far off-track in achieving universal access to clean drinking water by 2030, according to a United Nations report released as officials marked World Water Day.
World on ‘thin ice’ as UN climate report gives stark warning
News / 21st March 2023Humanity still has a chance, close to the last one, to prevent the worst of climate change’s future harms, a top United Nations panel of scientists report.
The ghost of Hugo Grotius: The UN high seas treaty
Article / 13th March 2023While campaigners hail a triumph of multilateralism, the new UN treaty has far from declared the high seas to be the 'Common Heritage of Mankind' and it has yet to agree any mechanisms for sharing ocean resources, explains Binoy Kampmark.
UN high seas treaty finally agreed to protect vast swathes of planet's oceans
News / 6th March 2023After 15 years of disagreement, failures and stalled formal and informal talks, there is finally a UN high seas treaty that will help to protect vast swathes of the planet's oceans.
COP15: ‘historic’ biodiversity deal has loopholes
Blog / 21st December 2022A lack of financial resources was a major sticking point at the talks, as well as vague commitments on reducing consumption and production. Report by Catherine Early for The Ecologist.
The message of COP27: It’s time for continuous worldwide protest
Article / 6th December 2022The 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.