Insecure land rights of indigenous peoples and investor risk, social conflict, climate change
The Nature Conservancy and the International Indigenous Peoples’ Forum on Climate change will host a panel a5 15:30 at the Global Landscape Forum concerning land rights of indigenous peoples...
Greenpeace on climate talks: “optimistic about the process, less so about the content.”
Commenting on developments at the UN climate summit in Paris, Martin Kaiser of Greenpeace said: “At this point in Copenhagen we were dealing with a 300 page text and a pervasive sense of despair. In...
Arab Civil society calls Arab Countries to go 100% Renewable Energy
2015, December 4th , activists gathered infront of the main plenary of the negotiations to express their frustration toward the current Saudi Position & how the rest of Arab Group countries are...
UNEP Releases Full Version of Emissions Gap Report
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has released the full version of the 2015 Emissions Gap Report, which found that the world was around halfway toward the emissions cuts needed to...
First Week of Paris Climate Talks: “A matter of survival”
On Thursday, 3 December, the ADP 2-12 contact group continued consideration of the negotiating text of the agreement and associated decisions. Spin-off groups and informal informals under the ADP...
Greenpeace Director: ‘India could play an heroic role at the Paris talks.’
Kumi Naidoo, the Greenpeace International Executive Director, has published an open letter to Prime Minister Modi expressing sympathy with those affected by the floods in Chennai, and saying the...
Paris COP21 climate conference a test of commitment to the SDGs
With the Climate Change Conference underway in France, CIVICUS speaks to Wael Hmaidan of the Climate Action Network on what the outcomes of the conference will mean. Climate Action Network is an...
