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...
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...
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 Decade of Defiance: Ten years of reporting land and environmental activism worldwide’ - report from Global Witness highlights the increasing urgency to...
Although the climate crisis is a global problem, its effects vary significantly among countries and populations. The climate crisis disproportionately affects people in already...
Despite being labelled as the biggest forest deforesters, farmers in Cartagena del Chairá are proposing alternatives to stop deforestation. Many people want to...
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...
Interactive, online roundtable highlighting net zero climate law & governance innovations to strengthen Paris Agreement ambition, markets, transparency & compliance, celebrate new research, capacity...
8th November 2021 | COP26 Glasgow
The International Indigenous Peoples Forum on Climate Change (IIPFCC) collectively request parties to support the following language and positions...
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...
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...
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...