Tag: Climate Justice
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Indigenous peoples and other possible worlds
On 22 April, International Earth Day was once again commemorated. The United Nations (UN) website reflected it by pointing out the need to “make peace with nature”. It cited a scientific report that warns of climate change, mentions “development achievements” and stresses concern for the future. Paradoxically, the proposal comes from the same “rational thinking” […]
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Climate action: it’s time to change strategy
The last Conference of the Parties (COP) has come to an end, 26 long years of negotiations, compromises, dialogues but also deceptions, subterfuges, broken promises, and empty words. Yet the problem that our political representatives have found themselves facing is nothing new, it has been more than half a century since scientists started sounding the […]
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Governments chargeable with Ecocide
If any of us were found at the crime scene and there was clear evidence against him, he would be arrested, jailed and later taken to trial.This would happen to each of us… Why doesn’t it happen to the rulers (and consequently media and companies) who in recent years have become guilty of Ecocide? Simple, […]
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A historic verdict against Shell in favour of the Planet!
With a historic verdict, three days ago a court in the Netherlands ruled that the Dutch-British company Shell is responsible for damaging the planet’s climate. It is the first time that a large fossil fuel company has been held accountable for contributing to climate change and is required to reduce its carbon emissions. In 2019 […]