China in their hands: hundreds in Yunnan province protest against a refinery.Photo: AP / Press Association Images

China's climate transition

Is the world's most populous country a climate villain or an environmental leader? Sam Geall investigates.

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NI 487 - Paris climate summit - November, 2015
Hitting home: Philippines negotiator Yeb Saño challenges governments after a typhoon wrecked his hometown.Photo: Kacper Pempel / Reuters

Views from inside the climate talks

Activist experiences of previous UN climate talks.

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NI 487 - Paris climate summit - November, 2015

Fossil fuel reserves - the facts

What we have, and what we can afford to burn.

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NI 487 - Paris climate summit - November, 2015
You Shell not pass: First Nations activist and singer Audrey Siegl confronts the oil giant’s drilling rig on its way to the Arctic.Photo: Emily Hunter / Greenpeace

Forget Paris?

While politicians drag their feet at climate summits, Jess Worth and Danny Chivers find hope in unexpected places.

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NI 487 - Paris climate summit - November, 2015
Divestment glory in Norway

Divestment glory in Norway

Good news from Scandinavia, but the fossil-free fight continues, says Hazel Healy.

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NI 484 - Capitalism is spinning out of control - July, 2015
Illustration: Volker Straeter

Eco-divide: this changes everything

The environmental crisis is proving not only a challenge to capitalism but forcing resistance movements to rethink their politics.

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NI 484 - Capitalism is spinning out of control - July, 2015
YES: Anne Hendrixson is the Director of PopDev, a centre for critical thinking, learning and advocacy on peace, population and the environment at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts, US.Anne Hendrixson

Argument: If you care about climate change, should you have children?

Professor Anne Hendrixson and journalist Erica Gies go head to head.

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NI 480 - The great green energy grab - March, 2015
Australia’s Knitting Nannas: tackling climate change one stitch at a time.Photo: Jeremy Buckingham under a CC Licence

Seniors take on climate change

Cristiana Moisescu looks at the rise in global 'grey activism'.

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NI 479 - Democracy in the digital era - January, 2015
Photo: Tommy Japan under a CC Licence

Citizen activism marches on

Mark Engler draws lessons from marches past and present.

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NI 477 - Big oil RIP? - November, 2014
Naomi Klein.Photo: Suzanne DeChillo/The New York Times/Redux

Rocking the boat

Graeme Green talks to author and activist Naomi Klein about why global warming is a political issue.

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NI 477 - Big oil RIP? - November, 2014
Sinking homeland

Sinking homeland

Amy Hall reports on a man's battle to become the world's first climate-change refugee.

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NI 468 - Fracking - the gathering storm - December, 2013
Under water: a New York street in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy.Pamela Andrade under a CC Licence

Provoking an American climate crisis

The US government deserves to have a political crisis brought to its door, argues Mark Engler.

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NI 463 - Argentina's challenge - June, 2013
What price a gliding treefrog in the costing of 'eco-system services' that the Rio+20 process seems to be heading towards?Stockphoto

Big business goes to Rio

With the Earth Summit just days away, Danny Chivers chronicles the urgent battle to stop corporates from hijacking the green agenda.

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NI 453 - Protection racket - June, 2012

Ready or not: can Bangladesh cope with climate change?

New Internationalist co-editor Hazel Healy travelled there to find out how people are adapting to a warming world.

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NI 451 - Adapt or die - April, 2012
Young Mexicans demand solar power.Eliana Aporte / Reuters

Is the Green New Deal a dead duck?

Four years ago it was hailed as the cure for our
economic and environmental woes. So what’s
happened? Zoe Cormier investigates.

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NI 450 - Time for a fair economy - March, 2012
The Kyoto protocol is in grave danger

The Kyoto protocol is in grave danger

African negotiators told not to ‘waste  time’ calling for developed nations to cut CO2, reports Nnimmo Bassey.

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NI 448 - The arms trade - December, 2011

Articles in this category displayed as a table:

Article title From magazine Publication date
Paris climate summit November, 2015
Paris climate summit November, 2015
Paris climate summit November, 2015
Paris climate summit November, 2015
Capitalism is spinning out of control July, 2015
Capitalism is spinning out of control July, 2015
The great green energy grab March, 2015
Democracy in the digital era January, 2015
Big oil RIP? November, 2014
Big oil RIP? November, 2014
Feminism fights back July, 2014
Organ trafficking May, 2014
Commodities - the pitfalls of resource wealth March, 2014
Fracking - the gathering storm December, 2013
Time to rethink disability November, 2013
Argentina's challenge June, 2013
Protection racket June, 2012
Adapt or die April, 2012
Time for a fair economy March, 2012
The arms trade December, 2011
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