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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 British Columbia’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...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionThis should be Scotland’s rewilding electionLife is draining from our hills and glens. We must use the coming Holyrood election to change course, before it’s too late
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaWe're hiring: fellowship focused on the Brazilian AmazonApply to be part of openDemocracy's Latin American section and develop an investigative project on the Amazon and...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?National risk assessments: a political vaccine against the next disaster?How do we prevent and prepare for future disasters, natural or man-made? Introducing National Risk Assessments as a...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaEcuador’s pro-mining politics dealt a blow by Indigenous, green movementIn a historic referendum, more than 80% of the electorate in Cuenca, Ecuador’s third-largest city, voted to ban...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionOf course Cumbria’s proposed coal mine is popular locally. The government offers no green alternativeIn an area scarred by decades of deindustralisation and reeling from the economic fallout of COVID-19, the...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: Interview‘Barbarism or solidarity’ at stake at Ecuador elections, says indigenous presidential candidateYaku Pérez, the leader of indigenous party Pachakutik, is running on a green platform – but can he reach outside of...
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