
Free Trade or Just Green Trade?
Corporations are using trade and investment treaties to handcuff global and national efforts to save the planet.
Corporations are using trade and investment treaties to handcuff global and national efforts to save the planet.
“Es urgente la necesidad de impedir que la búsqueda de justicia ante abusos de multinacionales, daños y pasivos socioambientales, laborales, financiación del paramilitarismo, amenazas o asesinato de líderes sindicales se vea saboteada por este sistema.”
The groups urge the Colombian government to withdraw from treaties that enable transnational corporations to sue the country in tribunals designed to favor their interests.
The international community has so far failed to made a dent in the climate crisis. Is the problem all about governance?
The groups stand together against the abusive practices of one of the world’s major global mining corporations, OceanaGold, and issue an urgent appeal to the governments of the Philippines, Aotearoa New Zealand, El Salvador, the United States, Canada, and Australia calling for them to halt, shut down, or support or uphold bans impacting OceanaGold mines in their respective countries.
Following derailments across the country, rail workers have a solution to the nation’s rail crisis: public ownership.
The oil and gas industry and its government backers are taking over this year’s global climate talks, with US backing.
Environmental activists have made some important strides in confronting the Australian mining company Lynas.
In a new analysis for Costs of War, IPS Associate Fellow Miriam Pemberton lays out a case for a transition from a militarized to a decarbonized economy.
There are several reasons to be optimistic, from repairing the ozone layer to combating COVID.
IPS will host a critical virtual press conference highlighting key findings from a new report and featuring the insight and perspectives of key New Mexican environmental justice and Indigenous leaders.
The five detainees include leaders of the campaign that won the world’s first metals mining ban in 2017 — a ban the cash-strapped government may be moving to overturn.
IPS joins an international coalition condemning the assassination of environmental leaders in Honduras.
How community-led energy solutions can benefit the Land of Enchantment — and the country.
The report features insights from New Mexican researchers and community leaders on how community-led energy solutions would benefit the state.