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Policy & Finance
How to improve global mineral governance
The race to secure critical minerals has intensified at the same time as the international community has recognised the need for more sustainable and responsible mining practices. Translating the resulting frameworks and guidelines into concrete action will require consolidating Global South policy and advocacy networks.
Connecting communities that protect their coasts can yield huge benefits but funding is not flowing to the right places.
If development programmes are serious about long-term change, they have to create real pathways towards paid, respected roles within the communities women already belong to.
Food & Agriculture
How mountain terraces have helped Indigenous peoples live with climate uncertainty
From the Ifugao highlands to Morocco’s Anti-Atlas Mountains, Indigenous terrace farming illustrates how long-standing, locally adapted practices capture water, conserve soil and diversify crops to withstand intensifying climate extremes.
All #Indigenous peoples Opinion
24 December 2025
Carbon & Climate
‘They invite us to speak, but not to decide’
18 December 2025
Policy & Finance
India’s climate diplomacy must account for domestic inequalities
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17 November 2025
Carbon & Climate
COP30 must do good, not just avoid harm
15 November 2025
Policy & Finance
Indigenous women leaders at COP30: Listen to us as equals
13 November 2025
Carbon & Climate
Climate justice is no longer an aspiration but a legal duty
11 November 2025
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22 July 2025
Policy & Finance
Ahead of COP30, environmentalists risk freedom to defend nature
20 June 2025
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Green crime goes global
19 June 2025
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Indigenous knowledge is a living science, stop stealing it
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Policy & Finance
Indigenous forest peoples can finally control nature finance
20 February 2025
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How Indigenous communities in Malaysia stopped the chop
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The false promise of 'responsible mining'
12 December 2024
Policy & Finance
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