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Rise for climate: powerful global mobilisation concludes demanding real climate leadership
News / 10th September 2018This weekend over 250,000 people took part in more than 900 actions in 95 countries. The Rise for Climate mobilizations demanded political action to keep fossil fuels in the ground and deliver a swift and just transition to 100% renewable energy for all.
An estimated 100 million people are homeless worldwide
Report / 6th September 2018In an effort to shed light on the complex challenges and scale of homelessness worldwide, the Homeless World Cup have compiled statistics in the countries in which their street football partners operate.
The climate crisis is here – and time to act is running out
Blog / 5th September 2018To unlock the needed ambition at the latest climate negotiations in Bangkok, each country must undertake its fair share of action – based on both their share of the responsibility for the crisis and their capacity to act – if the planet is to meet its collective climate goals, writes Adriano Campolina.
200 stars urge 'serious' action on climate change in letter to Le Monde
News / 4th September 2018Two hundred of the world’s most prominent artists and scientists signed an open letter in French daily Le Monde on Monday calling for urgent political action to address the “global catastrophe” facing mankind and other species.
Systemic alternatives: A book compilation edited by Pabo Solón
Report / 31st August 2018Complementarities between Vivir Bien, degrowth, the commons, deglobalisation and other proposals are fundamental to advance in the process of constructing systemic alternatives, according to a book compilation edited by Pabo Solón and published by Fundación Solón, Attac France and Focus on the Global South.
A sufficiency vision for an ecologically constrained world
Article / 29th August 2018Owing to the limits of eco-efficiency and the need to liberate environmental space for the global poor, new policy instruments should be designed to bring about ecological fair sharing between countries and a new economy based on the concept of sufficiency.
Evidence to UN highlights extreme poverty in UK
News / 23rd August 2018The international human rights lawyer Philip Alston is investigating extreme poverty in the UK, following his similar visit to the US earlier this year. He will examine if the right to an adequate standard of living, enshrined in UN conventions, is being breached across the country.
Changing track: putting people before corporations
Report / 23rd August 2018Every year, governments are diverting $1 trillion dollars away from people and public services into the hands of big companies, whilst across the world, hundreds of millions of people are denied their basic rights.
Declaration on the rights of peasants awaiting final voting and adoption
News / 17th August 2018After ten long years of negotiations in Geneva, a ‘United Nations Declaration on Rights of Peasants and other People Working in Rural Areas’ is now at the point of being finalised.
Dying of consumption while guzzling snake oil: the environment crisis requires overhauling our corporate industrial civilization
Article / 17th August 2018We cannot count on our government officials to offer real solutions—only we can make the necessary large-scale changes in production and consumption on both the individual and systemic levels. What these changes amount to most of all is living simply, personally and collectively. This is the true #resistance, writes Kristine Mattis in Common Dreams.