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CBD COP15 needs to reinforce precaution against geoengineering to protect biodiversity and communities
The United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) took a groundbreaking decision by addressing geoengineering and its potential impacts on biodiversity and people early on. In a laudable example of foresight and precaution, the CBD has made highly relevant global consensus decisions on geoengineering at several COP and SBSTTA...
Climate Funds And The Colombian Amazon: Function, Territorial Distribution, Citizen Information, And Monitoring And Evaluation
Resources to finance efforts against climate change in the Colombian Amazon come from different sources. An important part comes from and/or is channeled through...
Realizing the pledge: How can we make it a reality for IPLCs?
At COP26, governments and private foundations pledged $1.7bn to support indigenous and local communities in the fight against climate change. But only a small...
A deadly decade for land and environmental activists – with a killing every two days
A Decade of Defiance: Ten years of reporting land and environmental activism worldwide’ - report from Global Witness highlights the increasing urgency to...
The road to COP27: Youth voices for climate justice
Although the climate crisis is a global problem, its effects vary significantly among countries and populations. The climate crisis disproportionately affects people in already...
Peasant’s hands seek to conserve the Amazon
Despite being labelled as the biggest forest deforesters, farmers in Cartagena del Chairá are proposing alternatives to stop deforestation. Many people want to...
The struggle of indigenous and Afro American people to protect a river from oil pollution
The communities not only demand prior consultation, but also reject oil exploration and extraction operations due to the impact on their ways of life.
Especially...
Official Cop26 Side Event On Net Zero Climate Law & Governance: Advancing Ambition & Action For Paris Agreement Nationally Determined Contributions & National Adaptation...
Interactive, online roundtable highlighting net zero climate law & governance innovations to strengthen Paris Agreement ambition, markets, transparency & compliance, celebrate new research, capacity...
The Position Of Indigenous Peoples On Article 6
8th November 2021 | COP26 Glasgow
The International Indigenous Peoples Forum on Climate Change (IIPFCC) collectively request parties to support the following language and positions...
Glasgow Leaders’ Declaration On Forests And Land Use
Un Climate Change Conference UK 2021
We, the leaders of the countries identified below:
Emphasise the critical and interdependent roles of forests of all types, biodiversity...
COP26: Document leak reveals nations lobbying to change key climate report
BBC News A huge leak of documents seen by BBC News shows how countries are trying to change a crucial scientific report on how to...
The human right to a safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment
The Human Rights Council,
Guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations,
Reaffirming the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the...
Contextualization of the situation of environmental defenders in Colombia
Author: Eugenia Ponce de León Chaux
“The defense of human rights in Colombia continues to be a high-risk activity"
Human rights defenders2 have seen their own rights...