In Paris, 22,000 pairs of shoes – including that of Pope Francis and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, were placed at Place de la Republique, on behalf of the 400,000 people who were ex-pected...
Luisa Emilia Reyes Zúñiga is Programme Director of Equality and Sustainable Development Policies and Budgets, with the Mexican NGO Equidad de Género (Gender Equity). An expert on gender-responsive...
World leaders will be in Paris today for the official opening of COP 21 – the United Nations Conference on Climate Change—to lay out their plans to tackle climate change and cut greenhouse gas...
Tunisia’s 3,000-year history of olive farming is under threat with warnings that production is at risk of halving by 2030 because of the extremes of climate change, from floods to droughts....
On the eve of the Paris Climate Summit, over 570,000 people around the world took to the streets over the weekend for the record-breaking Global Climate March to urge leaders to scale up action on...
Organisers today revealed that over 570,000 people have marched in 2,300 events in 175 countries across the world, making it the biggest set of global marches in history, two times last year’s...
Hundreds of thousands of people have marched worldwide to demand action to stop climate change, the day before a UN summit starts in Paris. One campaign group says more than 570,000 protesters took...