Posts Tagged ‘Climate Change’
From the G20 to COP29 and the IACHR: three spaces in which Dejusticia will urge the need for reforms to the financial architecture
Dejusticia will be participating, together with allied organizations, in advocacy activities in these three spaces in order to propose responses to the climate emergency.
Read MoreTen urgent actions to protect the Amazon promoted by colombian civil society organizations for COP16
As civil society members (The Escucha la Amazonía -ELA- Alliance), we urge the national governments of the Amazon region to establish agreements to combat factors that bring the Amazon closer to the tipping point, such as deforestation, inappropriate land use for activities like extensive cattle ranching, and illegal economies.
Read MoreA group of global activists will visit Colombia to discuss solutions to face the planetary crisis
34 researchers and global activists from the Atlantic Fellows community will meet for a week in Bogotá to discuss a just transition to address the world’s climate crisis. The week will have several key spaces to strengthen collective action and climate justice, as a prelude to COP16 in Cali, Colombia.
Read MoreEmerging debate inside drug policy: climate change and the right to a healthy environment
The UN system can no longer ignore calls to align its objectives on drug policy, climate change and the protection of the right to a healthy environment. Beyond building policies on “environment” or “climate change,” the focus should be on human rights, particularly the right to a healthy environment.
Read MoreClimate justice requires a development agenda from the South
COP 28 revealed the tensions between climate ambitions and actual actions. How to implement development and cooperation strategies in line with climate justice in the Global South?
Read MoreUnbearable Heat: Climate Displacement and Hardened Borders in the Americas
Instead of restrictive policies that further endanger people seeking asylum or refuge due to climate change and the violence unleashed by this phenomenon, governments in the Americas must establish pathways for displaced individuals, who often belong to marginalized communities, to find safety.
Read MoreEnergy transition and human rights in the Global South
The lack of a human rights and energy policy feeds the growing conflict in the territories. It will be hard to end all forms of violence associated with our reliance on fossil fuels at any cost until we decide to retrace our steps by focusing on a just transition.
Read MoreFrom Snow Angels to a Humanitarian Emergency
If States like Texas with ample means to tackle climate change fail to do so, the world as a whole fails given that the planet loses momentum in the collective effort to become more resilient against this phenomenon.
Read MoreClimate Change Research Coordinator, International Area
The Climate Change Research Coordinator will work with the International Research Team in developing Climate Change research and will also contribute to coordinate the work on Business and Human Rights (BHR) at the international level.
Read MoreLosing Ground: The Sixth Extinction and Development
The changes we have triggered on Earth shatter the distance and sense of remoteness that have governed our relationship with other species and the environment. This is a call to once again recognize our profound interdependence with our environment and protect it—if not for nature’s sake, then for our own.
Read MoreTwo fights in one: feminism and environmentalism
Only in as much as we coordinate the efforts will we be able to erradicate gender inequality and encounter a solution to the ecological crisis that we are experiencing.
Read MoreThe Colombian government has failed to fulfill the Supreme Court’s landmark order to protect the Amazon
One year ago, the Colombian Supreme Court declared the Colombian Amazon a subject of rights, ordering the government to take measures to preserve it by curbing deforestation. However, the government has not taken sufficient action; meanwhile, threats to the rainforest continue to grow.
Read MoreJoin our Petition in Change.org: We want zero deforestation in the Amazon
We, the 25 children and youth who won the first case in Latin America involving climate change and future generations, met with experts and civil society organizations in Colombia to ask our Congress, #LetsChangeTheGoal on deforestation that President Iván Duque proposed in the National Development Plan (NDP) 2018-2022.
Read More25 Voices Against Deforestation
From 17 cities around Colombia, these boys, girls, and young adults between the ages of 7 and 26 were the impetus for the First Lawsuit on Climate Change and the Future Generations of Latin America.
Read MoreInternational order is threatened
The
first days of the new U.S. government have produced commotion around the world.
What if we turn cities into centers to mitigate climate change?
Faced with the challenge of urbanization, the United Nations has convened Habitat III, where political leaders will meet in October in Ecuador to negotiate and promote commitments under the so-called New Urban Agenda.
Read MoreA Human Rights Based Approach to Climate Change in Latin America
We cannot forget to humanize climate change and remember that those who have contributed to the least to the problem are and will continue to be the most affected.
Read MoreA New Climate for Climate Change
Never before have governments committed to proposing and publishing precise goals regarding emission reductions.
Read MoreCow Farts, Climate Change, and Questions of Equity
Beef and cattle milk production alone account for over sixty percent of these agriculture-related emissions.
Read MoreHow Fracking and the Shale Gas Revolution Undermine Green Energy Development
The global South should avoid being drawn away from green clean energy sources by the false promises of natural gas and fracking.
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