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Carbon & Climate
Who is responsible for Nepal’s tragedy?
The devastating floods in Nepal demonstrate what happens when reckless development puts climate-vulnerable communities in harm’s way. They also highlight a climate-finance system that is unable to provide the funds countries need in the immediate aftermath of such disasters.
Climate change is increasingly driving displacement, raising urgent questions about development models that foster unequal growth while exacerbating ecological risk.
Policy & Finance
Beyond green extractivism: Asean’s security depends on justice
The 48th Asean Summit in Cebu closed last week vowing “just” energy transition yet fossil fuel dependence and “green extractivism” deepen inequalities.
Policy & Finance
A message from Islamabad to New York: The demand for tax justice is an unstoppable global tide
On 27 January, a landmark ruling on high-earning individuals and large corporations by Pakistan's newly-established Federal Constitutional Court provided a "powerful blueprint" in seeking an overhaul of the international tax system.
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17 November 2025
Policy & Finance
Business unusual: UN must push for private sector accountability
15 November 2025
Policy & Finance
Governments are failing environmental defenders. COP30 must act
Policy & Finance
Indigenous women leaders at COP30: Listen to us as equals
3 October 2025
30 September 2025
Carbon & Climate
Earth’s life support is failing. Will we act?
16 September 2025
25 August 2025
19 August 2025
22 July 2025
Policy & Finance
Ahead of COP30, environmentalists risk freedom to defend nature
9 July 2025
Policy & Finance
Global rollback of women's rights puts SDGs at risk
20 June 2025
Carbon & Climate
In defence of science: Let’s tell the truth on climate and health
Policy & Finance
Green crime goes global
30 May 2025
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Policy & Finance
Street vendors are workers – they should have workers’ rights
30 April 2025
Policy & Finance
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