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Policy & Finance
Governments are failing environmental defenders. COP30 must act
COP30 in Belém, Brazil, must boost action on the Escazú Agreement to protect nature’s last line of defence.
Carbon & Climate
Climate justice is no longer an aspiration but a legal duty
This year’s advisory opinions from two prominent international courts mark a turning point, write two environmental law experts.
Policy & Finance
Environmental crime worth billions is climate fight’s blind spot
Despite generating billions of dollars in illegal revenue a year, environmental crime in the Amazon still isn't a priority at UN climate summits.
The arrests of activists, the influence of algorithms, and the surge of public frustration are revealing how social media is actively fueling Indonesia’s ongoing democratic reckoning.
All #crime Opinion
20 June 2025
Policy & Finance
Green crime goes global
6 May 2025
Policy & Finance
Street vendors are workers – they should have workers’ rights
26 March 2025
Policy & Finance
Shake it up, don’t shoot it down: the case for reforming US aid
8 February 2022
Policy & Finance
End the pandemic of violence against women
25 June 2021
29 April 2021
Policy & Finance
Getting to zero deforestation in the Amazon by 2030
21 August 2020
17 June 2020
Policy & Finance
Firm priorities for fragile states
8 May 2020
14 January 2020
Carbon & Climate
Hotter temperatures will lead to more deaths from injury
17 October 2019
15 March 2019
Policy & Finance
Fighting climate change means fighting organised crime
21 November 2018
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Carbon & Climate
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