The 57th Session on the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) – boasting the largest participation of any event at UN Headquarters This week, thousands of women, plus a few men, from all over the world and of all ages are gathered at the 57th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) in New York. For two weeks governments are set to negotiate a draft document dealing with the status of women worldwide, this year with …
8 March International Women’s Day Feminists Confronting Unsustainable Development’ during the 57th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women, CSW57, talk about the experiences of women and…
Eleven International NGO´s file complaint to UN Human Rights Council about Stora Enso’s land acquisitions. UN Global Compact requires Stora Enso to respond to allegations by 11 April. Human rights violations in…
By S.Faizi (cross-posted from Countercurrents.org) Surplus income of some countries and under-employed experts when combined together can create global havocs. The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES)…
(cross-posted from CarbonTradeWatch) Brussels, 18 February 2013 A growing group of civil society organisations is calling on the EU to abolish its Emission Trading System (ETS) to open space for…
The EU Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) is in trouble – big time. That much most analysts, policy makers, politicians, carbon traders, industrial polluters and NGOs agree. When it comes to…
We present the 42nd version of the Global Forest Coalition’s newsletter in intergovernmental forest-related policy processes: Forest Cover no.42. In the editorial you can read about REDD+ developments and other fairy tales in Doha…
por Diego Rodríguez Panqueva (CENSAT-Agua Viva, GFC Latin American Focal Point) Recurrentes imágenes empresariales en alusión a lo ambiental y la preocupación por el futuro de la humanidad son el reflejo de…
Police enters our village, beat women and children, arrested villagers and cuts trees Dear Friends, In the wee hours today (at around 4 am) the police has entered into our…
Dr. Manmohan Singh Prime Minister of India Government of India New Delhi Jan 24, 2013 Subject: Concerns on possible dilution of MOEF’s circular of July 2009 on compliance of Forest…
Ecological Society Green Salvation has started collecting signatures under a petition for protection of Kok-Jailau. Kok-Jailau valley is located on the territory of Ile-Alatau National Park. Akimat (Mayor’s Office) of…
Foreword: Sweden’s environmental policy is based on sixteen environmental quality objectives adopted by the Swedish Parliament in 1999. The objectives and its precisions are very ambitious in regards to the…
Biofuelwatch has completed a new report on yet another technology that requires massive quantities of biomass, “BECCS”, or “Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Sequestration. The idea behind BECCS is that…
(Cross-posted) – WOODLAND LEAGUE PRESS RELEASE DECEMBER 18 2012. It is almost ironic that as we put up our Christmas trees , Coillte the State forestry board tasked with managing…
Press statement by GenderCC–Women for Climate Justice – Doha, December 8th, 2012 The UNFCCC talks again failed to deliver an adequate response on the climate challenge. However, often unnoticed by the…
Doha, Qatar – As negotiations failed to finalise an agreement on a controversial forest policy called REDD+ [1] during the ongoing UN Framework Convention on Climate Change talks in Doha,…
4 December 2012 For Immediate Release Doha, Qatar: Women and Gender NGOs at COP 18 representing hundreds of women’s organizations and women environmental leaders around the world are calling on…
