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Published in: democraciaAbierta: OpinionOil exploitation is threatening the Ecuadorian rainforest – and the planet‘No to Block 28!’ Indigenous and peasant communities are fighting to protect nature and their way of life in a...
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Published in: Home: OpinionUS security analysts tackle shape-shifting threats with… more of the sameMilitary responses to varied societal crises are a proven failure, yet a key report fails to offer any new ideas or...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: FeatureEmbedded in the Amazon: new ways of narrating indigenous storiesThe Gabo Prize-winning series ‘Rainforest Defenders’ shows that deep empathy married with visual innovation can...
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Published in: ourEconomy: ReviewHow the story of modern Scotland is the story of Scottish coalIn compelling new book ‘Coal Country’, Ewan Gibbs explores how Scotland’s lost coalfields transformed the nation’s...
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Published in: ourEconomy: ExplainerIn 2008, we bailed out the banks. In 2021, we need to bail out the planet
The COVID-19 pandemic is not a random event. It is a symptom of a global economic system that is destroying the...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: InvestigationHow oil, cocaine and armed conflict threaten the survival of the Awá people'In our territories, the entry of different people and companies exploiting resources is advancing'
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: InvestigationTucupi, a spicy sauce to stop Amazon deforestationIn the Colombian Amazon, Indigenous women are planting chillies to end their communities' reliance on the cattle...
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Published in: ourEconomy: FeatureThe UK’s democratic deficit is escalating the climate crisisIn this long read, the direct cause of the current economic and environmental threats is shown to have been laid...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaIn the Menkragnoti Indigenous Land, we are resisting more than just COVIDWe depend on the forest and the river to survive, and will protect it from exploitation, says Pho Yre, an inhabitant...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: FeaturePatagonia is burning: the politics of fireIn Argentina, suspected arson is destroying land that Indigenous communities have long protected from miners and developers
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Published in: oDR: OpinionWhy hydroelectric power is not the solution in GeorgiaA controversial new dam project will not bring energy security or investment benefits, as the government claims....
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaIn the Colombian Amazon, Indigenous people resist threats to their territoryCommunities are trying to make their voices heard as mining companies and illegal prospectors eye up the region’s...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Submission to the Special Legislative Committee on reforming Canada’s Police Act: 1"My area of expertise is as a political philosopher. As such my role is less to provide answers than to ask often...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: FeatureThe Amazonian Indigenous communities fighting 'balsa wood fever' and COVIDThe extraction of balsa wood is a plague spreading through the Ecuadorian Amazon, and loggers have brought the...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Black, grey, blue, green: how serious can Boris Johnson be?A serious UK government, willing to put enough funding mechanisms in place, does have the agencies available to...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?'Tseuf tseuf' waiting to go: the English legislator and national disasterWhat does it take to make packed public transport, bars and football stadiums, perfectly compatible with clean air...
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Published in: ourEconomy: AnalysisAs COP26 nears, why is the UK giving a tax break to fossil fuel companies?The new ‘super deduction’ incentivises further extraction at a time when we should be pivoting away from fossil fuels
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: AnalysisA health check for democracy in Latin AmericaThis year’s election cycle will tell us whether political systems in the region can deal with social tensions made...
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionThis obscure energy treaty is the greatest threat to the planet you’ve never heard of
The Energy Charter Treaty allows fossil fuel companies to sue governments for taking action on climate change. It...
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Published in: Home: OpinionA century without war is needed to survive environmental threatsHuge military budgets will not protect us from extinction. Nations must redirect spending towards human security and...
