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Wangari Maathai: activist, environmentalist and mother to a movement
… class=right, size=m, caption=At a special ceremony at the climate change talks in Copenhagen - Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon … aged 71. She has been a great champion of why environment matters for people across the planet, and especially for women and poor groups … of thousands of new actors with a thirst for environmental and social justice. So, while mourning her loss, we salute the next …
Insight, 27 September 2011
Man cutting a cacao fruit from the tree
Promoting producer agency in food systems – might new global guidelines offer any hope?
… sustainability and nutrition of our food and get food systems right for all, we need more than technocratic policies for efficiency; efforts … have to some degree drawn on the voices of producer organisations and social movements, informed by years of consultations and guided by the reports …
Insight, 10 December 2020
Prime Minister David Cameron has helped the UK provide global leadership on addressing climate change. But he has decided to resign after the European Union referendum vote, and there are fears that the UK will become more insular (Photo: Russell Watkins/DFID, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Ten ways the UK can maintain international leadership on climate change
… on membership of the European Union (EU) on our purpose to promote social and environmental justice on a global scale. As Andrew Norton … Figueres pointed out on Tuesday that the Paris Agreement on climate change is a reminder of how much countries can achieve when … can be proud of its role in promoting an ambitious long-term vision for Europe – working pragmatically to drive action and build …
Insight, 01 July 2016
Market Analysis and Development training course participants (Photo: Duncan Macqueen/IIED)
Bolivia's indigenous peoples drive forest farm innovation to benefit Mother Earth
… passed a 2012 Framework Law of Mother Earth and Holistic Development for Living Well – quite a mouthful! But behind the rhetoric is some … mechanisms' is not just talk. Through the Forest and Lands Audit and Social Control Authority (ABT), the government of Evo Morales has … the 38 indigenous peoples within the country. This oversees three new climate change mechanisms covering: Joint mitigation and adaptation …
Insight, 25 November 2014
Negotiations went long into the night at COP20 in Lima, Peru, but the road to dignity seems no clearer (Photo: Ministro de Relaciones Exteriores Gonzalo Gutiérrez Reinel, via Creative Commons)
Can the road to Paris lead to the road to dignity?
Insight, 15 December 2014
COP20 chair Manuel Pulgar Vidal, centre, was highly praised for his efforts to produce the Lima Call for Climate Action
The long and winding road to Paris
News, 19 December 2014