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“For us, wealth is food, health and peace”: Indigenous leaders bring Amazon voices to Europe
“We are dying silently. Without knowing it, our mothers are feeding their babies with breast milk contaminated by mercury.”
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Multilateralism is alive: How global cooperation can help save us from plastic pollution and the climate crisis
Climate change and plastic pollution may look like separate issues. But they are, in fact, two sides of the same crisis.
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Climate change in MENA: 4 questions people ask across the Middle East and North Africa region
In the Middle East and North Africa, the climate crisis boils down to four urgent human questions: how to secure food, water, and energy, and how to survive extreme weather.
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Pride, memory and decolonisation: Rethinking the LGBTQ+ acronym from the Global South
Every year, specifically in June, Pride Month fills social media, streets and institutional spaces with flags, messages, speeches and celebrations. Important dates are commemorated, celebrating advances in LGBTQ+ rights and…
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Six radical ideas we need right now to end fossil fuel dependence and protect people from the war on Iran price shock
One hundred days after the US and Israel attacked Iran, tens of millions of people are still paying for a crisis they did not choose through higher fuel, food and transport costs. This chaos is the predictable result of fossil fuel dependency. Here are six bold ideas that could protect people now and help the…
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A mother’s plea: Tax billionaires to fund our children’s future
'We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.'
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World’s richest 0.01% estimated to have nearly US$1 trillion in annual climate debt – Greenpeace report
“We are learning that the climate impact of extreme wealth is far greater than previously understood. Yet governments often urge ordinary people to carry the burden of climate action while paying far less attention to those with the greatest climate debt"
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How Ukraine’s decentralised renewables can help end the global fossil fuel crisis cycle
From wartime Ukraine to the Iran energy shock, decentralised renewables are emerging as a real energy security solution. Community solar, local grids and gas‑free cities show how countries can protect households from fossil fuel price spikes, war‑fuelled crises and blackouts – while cutting emissions and ending the global fossil fuel crisis cycle.
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100 days after the attacks on Iran: who is paying, who is profiting, and what needs to happen
One hundred days after the US and Israel launched their war on Iran, families in Iran and across the Middle East are living with bombs, blackouts and water cuts, while people worldwide face higher fuel, food and transport costs. This crisis is not a shock from nowhere but the predictable result of fossil fuel dependency…
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500 metres through the heat: Who pays for the heatwave crisis?
The community heat mapping exercise was not just about measuring temperature. It was about understanding how people experience heat in their everyday lives and questioning why some neighbourhoods continue to remain more vulnerable to extreme heat than others.