Opinion / #inclusion
Carbon & Climate
COP30 must do good, not just avoid harm
As the host of this year's UN Climate Change Conference, Brazil seeks to make COP30 the “COP of implementation.” Translating commitments into robust action should include providing indigenous peoples with direct access to predictable and sustainable finance, and treating them as equal partners, rather than as beneficiaries.
Policy & Finance
Indigenous women leaders at COP30: Listen to us as equals
Major activists from Ecuador's Amazon rainforest, Chad and Indonesia demand a larger role at the UN summit in Belém, Brazil.
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.
As the world gathers in the Amazon, political headwinds and fading ambition test the limits of global climate cooperation.
All #inclusion Opinion
10 November 2025
Policy & Finance
What COP30 must do
6 October 2025
29 September 2025
Food & Agriculture
Reimagining agriculture for young people
12 September 2025
25 August 2025
Policy & Finance
Climate finance is held back by rules from the financial crash
5 August 2025
25 July 2025
Policy & Finance
Asian universities rise in global sustainability leadership rankings
22 July 2025
Policy & Finance
Financing for development must account for women
Policy & Finance
India’s digital divide and the consequent welfare bias
Policy & Finance
Ahead of COP30, environmentalists risk freedom to defend nature
19 June 2025
Policy & Finance
Indigenous knowledge is a living science, stop stealing it
6 May 2025
Policy & Finance
Indigenous forest peoples can finally control nature finance
Policy & Finance
Street vendors are workers – they should have workers’ rights
16 April 2025
Policy & Finance
Philanthropy in an era of declining development aid
8 April 2025
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