Development and
Cooperation

Digital monthly 3/2023

Climate justice

Due to oil-extraction pollution, some places are dangerously contaminated in the Niger Delta.
Empowerment

Women take on environmentally destructive ‘development’ projects

The African civil-society organisation WoMin mobilises women to resist land grabbing and environmental destruction

Indigenous people fight for the protection of their land and the environment in the Philippines.
Indigenous peoples

Fighting “green colonialism”

Environmental activist Joan Carling explains what climate justice means for indigenous peoples

Young people’s outlook is darkening: dead livestock is a daily visible impact of the climate crisis in Kenya.
Kenya

How Kenya is affected by climate injustice

African countries are least responsible for the climate crisis, but are hit hardest by its effects. In Kenya, the impacts are devastating

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Coal barges in Indonesia, 2019.
Renewable energy

Facilitating the transition away from coal

Many low-income countries face the challenge of phasing out coal in a just way, which also takes into account affected workers and their communities

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Legal knowledge

Useful e-learning courses on the UNEP website

LEAP stands for Law and Environmental Assistance Platform and is a trustworthy source of information

Successful activism: protestors from the Dongria Kondh community arriving at a rally against bauxite mining in the Indian state of Odisha in 2018.
Environmental law

Humankind needs more stringent environmental regulations

Online courses on the UNEP website help to get a deeper understanding of international law

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In the summer of 2021, the German river Ahr burst its banks in many places and swept away entire villages. More than 130 people died.
Disaster control

How to manage global risks effectively

Due to the climate crisis, disasters happen more frequently and with greater damage. We need better communication and information to deal with them

Golomoti is the first commercially operated solar-power plant in Malawi. It is a public-private partnership between Canadian independent power producer JCM Power, investment company InfraCo Africa, the Malawian government and the state-owned Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi.
Impact investing

SDG financing: how billions become trillions

To mobilise private funds, the business environment must be appropriate

Rising flood waters all too often affect household work.
Women’s empowerment

Climate justice requires gender justice

The impacts of global heating are not gender neutral, so the response cannot be gender neutral either

Germany’s fuel taxes are back at the previous level after temporary reduction in 2022.
Reducing emissions

OECD assesses carbon pricing internationally

Experts warn that fuel subsidies are harmful

Title of the Human Development Report.
Global governance

Global decline in human development

The latest Human Development Report warns that in 2020 and 2021, progress made towards the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has been reversed

Residents wade through flood water caused by typhoon Noru in Bulacan province, Philippines, 2022.
Governance

Social disparities thwart climate justice

Environmental burdens must be shared fairly – within world regions and between them

Dutch students protest against Shell.
Climate lawsuit

The first climate lawsuits celebrate wins

In the Netherlands, environmental organisations defeated the Shell oil company. The victory inspired additional climate lawsuits all over the world

Plaintiff Saúl Luciano Lliuya by Lake Palcacocha, a glacier lake.
Ground-breaking lawsuit

Andes farmer takes on conglomerate

In Peru, a farmer is calling on a German company to take responsibility for glacier melt in a ground-breaking lawsuit

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Street vendor in Lomé: Togo temporarily offered informal workers social protection.
Social protection

Togo’s temporary basic income by text message

Innovative social-protection scheme in small west African country during Covid-19-Pandemic