Environment / Sustainability

Joining his neighbours one evening, Dan Baron Cohen finds himself immersed in a spontaneous conversation about culture, justice and sustainability that would be rare inside the halls of academe.

Latin American countries are seeing unprecedented growth in clean, cheap solar power writes Emily Earnshaw.

Fighting climate change requires organization rather than individual actions, founder of 350.org Bill McKibben told this year’s Greenbelt festival's audience. Joe Ware reports.

Corporations that care? Don’t believe the spin, writes Dale Lately.

Sustainable forestry may be an oxymoron. Chris Lang finds some holes in the system.

The world’s last great woodlands are fast disappearing – with untold consequences for the environment and for us. Time to stop the destruction, argues Wayne Ellwood.

Recognition of global warming is one thing; taking genuine action is another, writes Nnimmo Bassey.

Though the deal was a dud, this was no Copenhagen, argue Jess Worth and Danny Chivers.

Avaaz is triumphant, but the Paris Agreement promotes the kind of policies that have failed us so far, write Marienna Pope-Weidemann and Samir Dathi.

The Paris Agreement shows how powerful nations have imposed their will at the climate negotiations, writes Clemente Bautista.

La Via Campesina’s agro-ecology and food sovereignty offers one possible path toward climate justice, writes Marienna Pope-Weidemann in part one of this two part series.

A brief illustrated history of the climate negotiations by cartoonist Kate Evans.

The Paris Agreement is being hailed as a great success. But will it deliver climate justice? Danny Chivers and Jess Worth put it to the test.

Millions of hectares of forest are threatened by coal mining, warns Saskia Ozinga.

This New Internationalist photo gallery presents events from frontline struggles against climate change during the Paris climate talks.

Activists in Paris are laying out inspiring visions for a fair and sustainable future – with the help of 196 stolen bank chairs, writes Samir Dathi.

As rich countries declare ‘ambition’ while racing to weaken the text, some climate justice campaigners are turning their backs on the COP21 negotiations and looking elsewhere for hope, reports Morgan Curtis.

Naomi Klein speaks with Frank Barat about the limits of the Paris climate talks.

An extraordinary gathering of frontline communities in Paris has been presenting evidence of crimes against nature. Nigerian poet and activist Nnimmo Bassey reports.

Yet another draft Paris agreement was released Wednesday, and was immediately renounced by civil society, Adam Greenberg reports.

Today, hundreds protested against oil sponsorship at the Louvre and ten were arrested. Jess Worth was in the thick of the action.

The ‘high ambition coalition’ is really about undermining developing world groups, argues Nick Dearden.

Justin Kenrick meets with Sengwer community's Yator Kiptum and Milka Chepkorir about the meaning of climate justice.

There is a diplomatic silence over carbon trading at COP21, but a Paris climate agreement could offer a lifeline to carbon ‘offsetting’ schemes, while new rules could help build a global carbon market, writes Oscar Reyes.