Judit Szemán has grown strawberries, tomatoes and cucumbers on her small, organic farm just outside Hungary’s second-biggest city, Debrecen, for many years. She never imagined living anywhere else.Then, two years…
COP30 host Brazil has distanced itself from the most ambitious proposals at UN talks on ending plastic pollution held in Geneva this week, including a ban on some plastic products,…
The COP30 climate summit will take place in the Amazon city of Belém as planned, despite a shortage of affordable rooms, the Brazilian organisers have told concerned governments which fear…
Environmental campaigners have called on governments to “stop hiding behind consensus” at the UN plastics treaty talks and instead opt for a vote which they hope would win enough backing…
Six South Korean farmers have announced plans to sue the country’s state-owned utility company, arguing that its burning of fossil fuels has contributed to climate change and damaged their crops.The…
As talks on finalising a global plastics pact remain deadlocked, calls are growing for ambitious countries not to settle for a “bad” deal that fails to tackle the growing production…
Green activists have warned that changes made by Brazil’s president to a bill that would allow the government to push through energy and infrastructure projects are not strong enough to…
Cleodie Rickard is trade campaign manager at Global Justice Now, a UK-based organisation working for a global economy where people come before profit. “Critical minerals” is a buzzword in discussions about…
The European Union has advised the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) not to allow oil drilling in a huge stretch of land spanning nature-rich rainforests and peatlands which the EU…
