The First Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels was held in April in Santa Marta, Colombia. More than 60 countries participated in this international event organised by the host country and the Netherlands. In the days leading up to the conference, civil society organisations and social movements convened the People’s Summit for a Fossil Free Future, where they led…
The debate over what kind of energy transition we want is more urgent today than ever. We are living in a moment marked by the rise of the far right, escalating wars, genocide, militarism, blockades, and new forms of colonialism that seek to secure control over territories, energy sources and the commons. In this context, major powers and corporations are…
The accountability mechanism of the International Finance Corporation (IFC) decided to close a formal complaint against the Tata Mundra coal-fired power plant in India, financed by the IFC, despite confirming the continuing serious impacts of the plant over the last 12 years. The Compliance Advisor Ombudsman (CAO) of the IFC (body of the World Bank for the private sector) confirmed…
More than 1,000 people from all continents came together in Kandy, Sri Lanka, with a specific goal: to plan joint actions to overcome the multiple global crises we are currently experiencing. These crises are the result of a system that organises life and distributes resources unfairly, placing capital above life, profits above nature, and business before care. The 3rd Nyéléni…
“This is a state of war. The Governments and corporations declared war against people and the planet and their favourite weapon of mass destruction currently is called climate crisis. This is a deliberate act of violence,” said Sinan Eden, activist of Climáximo, in a roundtable interview with Real World Radio. Sinan was interviewed together with Fadhel Kaboub, Associate Professor of…
After the right-wing administration led by Daniel Noboa in Ecuador eliminated the diesel subsidies through decree 126 of 12 September, the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE) decided to call for a general strike and mobilisations. Ever since, the government's repression and persecution of mobilised social organisations and human rights abuses have continued unabated. The decision to call for…
The first Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention on Climate Change, signed in 1992 in Rio, Brazil, was held in 1995. Its 30th edition, better known as the COP30, will be held in November this year. It will be a special edition because it will take place in Latin America, the Amazon specifically, and also because social movements…
The debates presented below were part of a training cycle on feminist economy and environmental justice. Organized by the World March of Women (WMW) in Brazil, in collaboration with Friends of the Earth International’s (FOEI) gender justice and dismantling patriarchy working group, the training was aimed at members of the federation from all regions of the world. Capire and Real World…
On this episode of Voices are Action, we discuss three central issues: 1) From 12 to 16 November, the Peoples' Summit will be held in the Brazilian city of Belém, in the state of Pará, in the Amazon. This summit is the response of social movements around the world to a new edition of the UN Climate Change Conference -COP30-,…
These are the headlines of our fourth episode of Voices are Action, our new podcast series. 1. Argentina – Mendoza: The Assembly for Water of Uspallata, a town in Argentina located at the head of the Mendoza River basin, is currently threatened by the actions of the San Jorge open pit mining project, in a context of public power grabbing…
