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Organizations denounce Carbon Markets ahead of COP30

Submitted by Veronica Villa on Fri, 2025-10-31 12:11

55 movements and organizations from 14 Latin American and Caribbean countries published a powerful MANIFESTO rejecting carbon markets and defending territories against an avalanche of projects that are causing damage throughout the region

On October 29, 55 movements and organizations from 14 Latin American and Caribbean countries published a powerful MANIFESTO rejecting carbon markets and defending territories against an avalanche of projects that are causing damage throughout the region. This manifesto challenges COP30 of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), which will begin in the first week of November with high-level meetings.

Vacancy: Reports and Content Writer

Submitted by Ronnie Hall on Wed, 2025-10-29 05:46

Are you a versatile whizz with words? We are looking for someone to help craft our written communications in English.

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Communication is at the heart of our work. We have been producing and disseminating vital research for decades and are well-known and respected by policymakers and civil society allies. We want to improve our communications so that our research is published more frequently and is understood more easily by audiences old and new.

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Optimism is back! 3rd Nyeleni Global Forum update

Submitted by Ronnie Hall on Fri, 2025-09-12 09:01

Creating a new pathway to global systemic transformation from the ground up

As the 3rd Nyéléni Global Forum in Sri Lanka draws to a close, it’s exciting to reflect on the fact that this country - inhabited and loved by its people from coast to coast, and home to some of the world’s most biodiverse, verdant and abundant forests, rivers and wetlands - is also poised to become the birthplace of a new global meta-movement of social movements committed to bringing health and vitality back to the planet’s communities, countries and climate.

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Ditching techno-patriarchy and the ‘permacrisis’

Report cover art showing digital game console being used to manipulate small farms

A Future of Farms without Farmers?

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False Solutions Alert: Geoengineering in Climate Negotiations

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Hijacking food systems: technofix takeover at the FSS

Envisaging rice farming in 2045 under two very different food systems

A Long Food Movement: Transforming Food Systems by 2045

Forcing the Farm

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Briefings

Global South-washing

Submitted by Ronnie Hall on Thu, 2024-10-17 06:02

How The Degrees Initiative is imposing its solar geoengineering agenda onto climate research in the Global South

To read the whole briefing online or to download a pdf version please go to geoengineeringmonitor.org

The DEveloping country Governance REsearch and Evaluation for SRM (Degrees) Initiative’s stated aim is to facilitate the participation of countries in the Global South in research relating to the deployment and governance of solar geoengineering, referred to as Solar Radiation Management (SRM).

Protect coastal and marine biodiversity from geoengineering

Submitted by Ronnie Hall on Wed, 2024-05-08 08:48

Briefing for delegates at SBSTTA 26

In a wave of “blue carbon” hype, oceans and coastal areas are increasingly pitched as tools to fight global warming. Around the globe dozens of new projects are projected to increase the ocean's capacity to absorb CO2 with a view to selling the carbon credits generated commercially.