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Opinion / #Indigenous peoples

Climate_Inequality_Crosswalk_India

Policy & Finance

India’s climate diplomacy must account for domestic inequalities

Economic liberalisation in India has shifted the emissions burden from more equal and developed states to less equal ones. This needs to change.
COP30_Negotiations_President

Policy & Finance

This year’s climate talks saw real progress – just not on fossil fuels

COP30 delivered gains on climate finance and forests but stalled on fossil fuel phaseout – exposing both the limits of consensus talks and the growing role of action outside negotiations.
COP30_Opening_Plenary

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.
COP30_Indigenouse_Women_Inclusiong_Justice

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.

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13 November 2025

COP30_Action_Global_Warming_Belem

Carbon & Climate

Climate justice is no longer an aspiration but a legal duty

11 November 2025

COP30_Belem_Amazon_Talks_Around_Venue

Carbon & Climate

Geopolitics, backsliding and progress: What to expect at COP30 climate talks

3 September 2025

Sea_Level_Rise_Tuvalu

Carbon & Climate

What will happen to the legal status of ‘sinking’ nations when their land is gone?

5 August 2025

Indonesians gather to see the Garuda palace at Nusantara, East Kalimantan

Cities

Does Indonesia’s new capital city, Nusantara, fit into the president’s long-term vision?

22 July 2025

Brasil_Pavillion_COP29

Policy & Finance

Ahead of COP30, environmentalists risk freedom to defend nature

20 June 2025

Pangolin_Rescue_USAID

Policy & Finance

Green crime goes global

19 June 2025

Indigenous_Women_COP30

Policy & Finance

Indigenous knowledge is a living science, stop stealing it

6 May 2025

Indigenous_Woman_Weaving_Cotabato

Policy & Finance

Indigenous forest peoples can finally control nature finance

20 February 2025

'Stop the chop': Demonstrators rally against deforestation in Sarawak, Malaysia

Carbon & Climate

How Indigenous communities in Malaysia stopped the chop

26 December 2024

Land use of Australian coal mines

Carbon & Climate

The false promise of 'responsible mining'

12 December 2024

Indigenous_Community_Man_Cambodia

Policy & Finance

‘No-Go’ mining zones can protect nature as renewable energy surges

11 December 2024

Resilience_Typhoon_Pepito_Philippines

Carbon & Climate

Redefine the romanticised narrative of the 'resilient Filipino' for broader climate policy transformation

27 November 2024

single use plastic protest philippines

Waste

From COP16 to INC-5: Will Asean champion the fight against plastic pollution?

21 November 2024

Samling deforestation

Food & Agriculture

Plantations are not forests

11 November 2024

Knasaimos women in the customary forests

Carbon & Climate

What the loss and damage fund means for Indigenous communities

23 September 2024

women climate march

Carbon & Climate

Women leading the green charge

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