About Blog post on the switch to renewable energy and the need for large-scale mining coming along with it.
Keywords Energy; Mining; Fossil Fuels; Renewable energy;
About Blog-post: At BP’s AGM today, the company will be under fire from shareholders over how its plans square with the Paris climate goals of limiting global warming to avoid climate breakdown. In its response, BP’s line is that its current strategy is already consistent with the Paris climate goals. But this is spectacularly far-fetched – in reality BP’s plans are a recipe for climate disaster.
Keywords Corporate; Britist Petrol; Fossil Fuels; Climate Emergency; Corporate responsibility
About News piece on: New scientific report that provides powerful evidence of the critical role of local community-led initiatives in bringing effective solutions to the global threats of climate and ecological breakdown
Keywords Community-led Action; Climate Change; Ecological breakdown; Europe; Sustainability
About Investigative journalism: Article on Global Witness - Mr Odey, founder of Mayfair-based Odey Asset Management, is one of the most high profile hedge funders in the UK. In March, the Guardian revealed his company held a “sizeable stake” in the Brazilian firm SLC Agricola. The producer of soy, cotton and corn has cleared at least 30,000 hectares of the Cerrado, a forested savannah region equal in size to Spain, France, Germany, Italy and the UK combined.
Keywords Agribusiness; deforestation; corporation; extractivism; investments; Brazil; due diligence; biodiversity; investigative journalism
About Article of investigative journalism: More than 300 banks and investors back six of the world’s most harmful agribusinesses to the tune of $44bn
Keywords Banks; Investment; deforestation; environmental destruction; climate emergency; Amazon; forest fires; fossil fuels; Agribusiness;
About This article is a transcription of a talk – given by a former CFGN staff member in Rojava – recorded in Rojava for the Green Earth Awakening and the DSEI anti-arms trade mobilisation, which both took place in England. The aim of the talk was to highlight the role of ecology in the Rojava revolution, and share lessons that can help build the movement in the UK. It was published by Komun Academy on 17 November, 2019.
Keywords Rojava; democracy; sovereignty
About Article: Against Colonial Violence and Land Theft,' Indigenous Activists and Allies Target Mining Industry Convention in Toronto
Keywords Mining; colonization; resistance; Canada; extractivism;
About Media release: PSA: Xinka Parliament and Breaking the Silence stand in solidarity with Wet’suwet’en land defenders
Keywords Solidarity; mining; environment; resistance
About News piece on a published report: Five of the biggest financial institutions in the world invested a combined $6 billion in oil extraction projects in the western Amazon between 2017 and 2019, according to a study recently published by the NGO Amazon Watch.
Keywords Oil; Amazon; fossil fuels; investment
About News piece: Amazon Deforestation Soars as Pandemic Hobbles Enforcement. A rise in illegal deforestation heightens the risk of fires in the Brazilian rainforest even more destructive than those that drew global outrage last year
Keywords Deforestation; Amazon; Covid19; pandemic; Brazil; logging
About Briefing from Global Witness & Client Earth: Strengthening Corporate Responsibility: The case formandatory due diligence to tackle the UK’s global deforestation footprint
Keywords Corporate Responsibility; UK; deforestation;
About News article on research contribution studying Underwater Permafrost Thaw, Finding Area of the Arctic Ocean 'Boiling With Methane Bubbles'
Keywords Permafrost; Climate Emergency; Research; Ocean; Underwater permafrost; Arctic
About News piece on call for a global strike on 20 September. Disrupting our normal lives is the only way to secure our future
Keywords Climate Emergency; Strike; Climate Action; Climate Movement; activism;
About News article: In an open letter, over 340 civil society organisations are demanding that the European Union immediately halt free trade agreement negotiations with the Mercosur bloc (Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay) on the grounds of deteriorating human rights and environmental conditions in Brazil. The letter is addressed to presidents of the EU institutions ahead of the ministerial-level meeting next week in Brussels where EU and Mercosur foreign ministers aim to finalise the negotiations.
Keywords Climate Emergency; Trade;
About Article: To limit global warming in 2100 to below 1.5C above pre-industrial levels, many scientists assume that the large-scale use of negative emissions in the latter half of the 21st century will be needed. Negative emissions “suck” CO2 out of the atmosphere, allowing a more gradual reduction of emissions in the near-term. Against Colonial Violence and Land Theft,' Indigenous Activists and Allies Target Mining Industry Convention in Toronto
Keywords Climate Emergency; BECCS; IAM; Carbon Capture
About New UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration offers unparalleled opportunity for job creation, food security and addressing climate change
Keywords Climate Emergency; UN; Ecosystem; Biodiversity;
About A new report from the International Campaign for Tibet (ICT) reveals the construction of dams and infrastructure in Tibet that will potentially force the relocation of thousands of local people. The report also explains how the dams may impact the biodiverse area of Tibet known as the “Three Parallel Rivers,” which is under UNESCO protection.
Keywords Tibet; Dam; Water Energy; UNESCO; Displacement
About Article on: Global organisations raise the alarm for environmental defenders at the Skoll World Forum
Keywords Activism; Climate Emergency; Environmental Activism; Brazil; Nigeria
About Article: Extinction Rebellion Scotland blocked Glasgow’s Trongate using a 25-foot-long purple boat as part of the group’s UK-wide ‘Summer Uprising’, which demands action from the UK and Scottish governments to combat climate change.
Keywords Extinction Rebellion; Climate Activism; Climate Emergency; Activism; Climate Movement
About Article on a call for action to mobilise to fight climate emergency
Keywords Climate Emergency; Climate Movement; Activism;
About Article on threats and attacks on human rights defenders and the role of development financiers
Keywords Environmental Activism; Human Rights; Violence; Defenders
About A statement on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Special Report on Climate Change and Land from Indigenous Peoples and local communities* from 42 countries spanning 76% of the world’s tropical forests
Keywords Indigenous peoples; protection of land; human rights; Environmental degradation; IPCC
About News article: #PrayForAmazonia Goes Viral as Twitter Users Call Attention to 'International Emergency' of Fires Devastating Brazil's Rainforest
Keywords Amazon; Forest Fires; Social Media; Activism;
About News article on deforestation in Brasilian amazon under Bolsonaro erat
Keywords Brazil; Deforestation; Amazon; Bolsonaro;
About News article on US oil and gas production and how US Set to Blow Other Countries Away With 'Staggering' Scale of New Oil and Gas Production
Keywords Fossil Fuels; Climate Emergency; US; Energy Production; Climate Emergency
About Photo compilation of Global Climate Strike on September 20th 2019
Keywords Climate action; climate emergency; climate strike; activism; photos
About News article on finding strength from climate action
Keywords Climate emergency; climate adaptation; climate action;
About Article on how just three of the world’s 10 biggest banks agreed to join a coalition of 130 global financial firms which have agreed to reshape their business to align with international efforts to address climate change and other environmental issues according to Bloomberg.
Keywords Climate Emergency; Banking; Banks;
About News article: Brazilians Blast Bolsonaro's UN Speech Denying Amazon Devastation as a Total 'Scam'. Critics of his environmental agenda warn that "Bolsonaro's policies bring an immediate risk to all humankind."
Keywords Brazil; Climate Emergency; UN; Amazon; Environmental Politics; Activism; Environmental Movement
About News article on Global Climate Strike in 2019
Keywords Climate Action; Climate Emergency; Activism; Environmental Movement
About Article: Over 200 civil society groups this week voiced their firm opposition to a recently-inked agreement between the United Nations and World Economic Forum that stands to further entrench transnational corporations and their interests in global governance.
Keywords Environmental Movement; World Economic Forum; WEF; UN; Climate Emergency; Climate Action
About Article on the continuation of deforestation in Brazilian Amazon after forest fires
Keywords Deforestation; Amazon; Brazil; logging
About Article: The Climate Crisis (and Other Crises) Require the Transformation of the Basic Cultural Structure of the Modern World (Part 2)
Keywords Climate emergency; climate crisis; climate solutions; alternatives; tranformations;
About Article on "defending the sacred", finding new economic equality and fighting for gender equality and solidarity
Keywords Ecological democracy, New Economy, New Politics; Women; Gender; equality; liberation; inequality
About Article: Rojava: The radical eco-anarchist experiment betrayed by the West, and bludgeoned by Turkey
Keywords Rojava; democracy; sovereignty; eco-anarchy;
About News article: Maori-leader takes OMV oil boss to International Criminal Court
Keywords Indigenous; criminal court; justice; fossil fuels; corporation; New Zealand; Maori; Climate Emergency
About News article on The IPCC’s report on 1.5°C and the risks of overinvestment in oil and gas
Keywords Oil; Gas; Mining; Climate emergency; fossil fuels; IPCC; Investment
About News article on Global finance still destroying the world's biggest rainforests
Keywords Climate emergency; rainforests; deforestation; finance; investment; environmental crisis
About News article: Three Critical Consequences Of The Amazon Fires: Biodiversity Loss, Climate Change and Health
Keywords Climate emrgency; amazon; forest fires; brazil; wildfires; environmental crisis
About News article: Labour’s new election manifesto will aim to reboot British industry, while tackling climate change and wealth inequality, with the creation of one million new green jobs.
Keywords UK; Climate emergency; green jobs; employement; environmental crisis; climate action
About News article: Explosive Report Shows Coal Industry Was Aware of Climate Threat as Far Back as 1966
Keywords Fossil Fuels; industry; coal; oil; climate emergency; climate crisis; climate denialism
About Article: Over 700 Scientists Endorse Mass Civil Disobedience to Fight Climate Crisis
Keywords Climate Emergency; Scientists; Climate Action; Activism;
About Article: The new Production Gap Report — produced by SEI, IISD, ODI, CICERO, Climate Analytics and the UN Environment Programme — shows that the world is on track to produce 120% more fossil fuels than can be burned under 1.5°C warming.
Keywords Climate emergency; climate policy; fossil fuels; energy
About Article: Unless the world begins to rapidly reduce greenhouse gas emissions the 1.5C goal of the Paris Agreement “will slip out of reach,” according to the latest UN Environment Programme (UNEP) emissions gap report.
Keywords Climate emergency; climate policy; carbon emissions; UN
About News article; The biochar process is ingenious, turning green waste into heat before returning it to the soil as an agricultural nutrient. No wonder it’s turning a profit.
Keywords Climate emergency; climate solution; nature based solutions; biowaste; bioenergy
About Article: Frontline communities are showing the way to a 'post-extractive' renewable energy transition that is socially just and ecologically viable.
Keywords Post-extractivism; climate justice; environmental justice; resource use; extractivism; social justice
About Article on a Zero Carbon Britain model/policy: 'Zero Carbon Britain: Rising to the Climate Emergency' models a technically robust endpoint where we have achieved net zero greenhouse gas emissions.
Keywords UK; zero carbon; carbon emissions; climate emergency; climate crisis; climate policy;
About Post about transversalism as a new notion for the post-globalist era
Keywords Transversalism; transversal cosmopolitanism