Rome, July 7th 2022. In the Chapter House of the Cloister of the Convent of Santa Maria sopra Minerva, was presented the 2022 Report on Land Grabbing: "The Owners of the Earth. Report on land grabbing 2022: consequences on...
By Dawn Clancy for PASSBLUE
In the waning days of 2021, roughly two months before its invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, Russia agreed to contribute $14 million to the United Nations Development Program for climate-related projects in Europe and...
By Lasse Bruun and Milena Bernal Rubio (*) – Newsweek
The aspiration of inter-regionalism is to ease access for companies to regulated markets by giving them more legal protection, better geographical access and lower investment costs. However, integration projects and...
By Natasha Lennard - The Intercept_
A panel of three Trump-appointed judges this week upheld an excessive eight-year prison sentence handed down to climate activist Jessica Reznicek, ruling that a terrorism enhancement attached to her sentence was “harmless.”
The terror enhancement, which dramatically...
By our director, Raffaele Crocco.
By now we have learned to expect it: it always comes early. This year the Earth Overshoot Day will come on 28 July: the day from which we will again be, officially, in debt to...
Human activities are causing changes to the climate on a planetary scale in the land, ocean and atmosphere, with damaging and lasting ramifications for sustainable development and ecosystems. This is what emerges from the latest report of the World...
By Anna Bisignano
“Our Land, Our Resources: stop the Plundering of Natural Resources in Western Sahara", this is the Manifesto published by the international campaign “Western Sahara is Not for Sale” (WSNS).
The occupation of Western Sahara by Morocco has lasted...
By Alice Pistolesi
The situation in the Horn of Africa has now become dramatic. Due to the lack of rainfall in three consecutive seasons, four countries in the region are facing one of the worst droughts in forty years. The...
More and more energy is being consumed, the costs of raw materials are rising, and so are the investments of the large oil and gas industries. This dossier takes stock of how much energy is consumed in the world,...
By Anna Molinari
It took me a while to decide whether or not to write this piece. With just a few weeks stretching an infinite amount of time since the war began, I still don't know if I should. Because...
