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COP30: Belém Delivered, Rich Nations Did Not

: Analysis 24.11.2025

A UN climate conference of inconsistencies and deception

COP30: Fighting for Climate Justice in Belém

: Analysis 03.11.2025

This year’s UN Climate Conference is both a challenge and an opportunity — especially for social…

Global Turmoil and the Climate Crisis

: Analysis 11.06.2025

How right-wing authoritarianism is threatening already fragile climate finance agreements

A Death Sentence for the Climate

: Comment 27.11.2024

The outcome of the COP29 summit in Baku is a major blow to climate justice efforts everywhere

Will It Be Business as Usual in Baku?

: Analysis 07.11.2024

A look at what’s at stake during the COP29 climate negotiations in Azerbaijan

Hypocrisy and Dystopia in Bonn

: Comment 25.06.2024

Climate finance and global conflicts will dominate climate policy in the coming months

Two Years to Save the World from Climate Breakdown?

: Comment 25.04.2024

Why we won’t find salvation in the World Bank and IMF

Loopholes, False Solutions, and Empty Promises

: Comment 15.12.2023

The consensus reached at COP28 satisfied no one — except for the big polluters

The Debt and Climate Crises Intersected in Marrakesh

: Comment 02.11.2023

The 2023 IMF-WBG Annual Meetings showed how environmental and economic questions are intertwined

A Tale of Two COPs

: Comment 06.12.2022

There were both historic wins as well as serious failures at this year’s UN climate conference

No Chance of Romance without Climate Finance

: Analysis 02.11.2022

Main polluters of the climate crisis do not pay enough for compensation of damages and losses

Only People Power Can Save the Climate

: Comment 07.06.2022

If COP27 is to deliver what our planet needs, the capitalist agenda must be disrupted

An Exercise in Smoke and Mirrors?

: Analysis 22.03.2022

A climate justice perspective on the outcomes of COP26

More Than Hot Air?

: Comment 19.11.2021

An initial assessment of the outcomes at COP26

Climate Justice, not False Solutions!

: Comment 01.11.2021

The last 25 years of international climate negotiations have been 25 years of missed opportunities.

Understanding Adaptation and “Loss and Damage” in the Climate Negotiations

: Comment 29.10.2021

With a 1.5-degree temperature rise locked in, COP26 must do more to address its impact on the…

Dangerous Distractions

: Essay 18.01.2021

“Climate Action” will not lead to climate justice on its own

Imperfect, But Essential

: Interview 14.12.2020

Stefano Prato on the limits and possibilities of the United Nations at 75

A Year Without a COP

: News 05.11.2020

There will be no climate change conference in 2020—but our future is nevertheless being negotiated

The Sustainable Development Agenda Five Years On

: Interview 17.08.2020

Insufficient progress or growth just for some?

“Recover Better, Together”

: Interview 14.07.2020

An interview with Leonida Odongo of Haki Nawiri Afrika about how agro-ecological solutions can lead…

Reclaiming Our Common Humanity for a New Internationalism

: Interview 24.06.2020

Victoria Tauli-Corpuz on the links between human rights and global solidarity

International Climate Diplomacy and the Corona Crisis

: Analysis 19.06.2020

UNFCCC’s “June Momentum” showed that climate action is not on a “pandemic break”

Can Multilateralism Deliver on an Equitable Post-Pandemic Future?

: Interview 18.06.2020

Perspectives from Bolivia

Rooms That Are Important

: Essay 18.05.2020

True confessions of a reluctant negotiation junkie (or why I persist in climate activism anywhere,…

Global Sustainable Development and COVID-19

: Interview 15.05.2020

How can multilateralism deliver on an equitable post-pandemic future?

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

: Comment 16.04.2020

Climate justice and the pandemic

MV Kapital Is Sinking

: Analysis 06.04.2020

Despite COVID-19, we are not all “in the same boat”

The United Nations @ 75

: Analysis 02.04.2020

Still a diamond in the rough?

Como en otro planeta

: Comment 19.12.2019

Las negociaciones de la cumbre climática nunca habían estado tan lejos de las exigencias de las…

On Another Planet

: Comment 12.12.2019

Never before have negotiations at a climate summit been so at odds with the demands of people all…

#WeWillRise

: Comment 20.11.2019

Our commentary on COP25

#NosAlzaremos

: Comment 19.11.2019

Nuestro comentario para el lanzamiento de la cumbre climática de la ONU en Madrid

The climate crisis leads to loss, damage and displacement

: Comment 13.11.2019

Will COP25 act on the emergency?

United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

: Comment 04.07.2019

Denialism gains foothold amidst declarations of climate emergency