Opinion / #Indigenous peoples
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.
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3 September 2025
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Policy & Finance
Ahead of COP30, environmentalists risk freedom to defend nature
20 June 2025
Policy & Finance
Green crime goes global
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
20 February 2025
Carbon & Climate
How Indigenous communities in Malaysia stopped the chop
26 December 2024
Carbon & Climate
The false promise of 'responsible mining'
12 December 2024
Policy & Finance
‘No-Go’ mining zones can protect nature as renewable energy surges
11 December 2024
27 November 2024
21 November 2024
Food & Agriculture
Plantations are not forests
11 November 2024
Carbon & Climate
What the loss and damage fund means for Indigenous communities
23 September 2024
Carbon & Climate
Women leading the green charge
10 September 2024
19 August 2024
Corporate Responsibility
Business and human rights: reimagining a new human rights-friendly Malaysia
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