People from the Waoraní Indigenous community attend an event promoting a ‘yes’ vote in a referendum on not extracting oil in Quito, Ecuador, on Monday 14 August 2023.Photo: AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa/Alamy

Temperature Check

‘A victory for life over capitalism’. How the people of Ecuador beat the oil giants and saved Yasuní National Park, by Danny Chivers.

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NI 546 - Spying on dissent - November, 2023
Mahammoud Traore, 75, supports a family of 21 people through farming in Dougouninkoro, Mali, but new weather patterns mean they can no longer harvest enough for their food stores to last the whole year.Photo: Jake Lyell/Alamy

Climate coups

Abdoulie Ceesay, Gambian representative to the COP28 climate summit, argues if the West wants to address the wave of coups in Africa, it must take real climate action – rather than pursuing further failed militarization.

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NI 546 - Spying on dissent - November, 2023
People queue to cross the La Digue River in Petit Goave, Haiti, following the collapse of a bridge during Hurricane Matthew which hit the island on 4 October 2016 and killed over 1,000 people.Photo: Andrew Mcconnell/Panos Pictures

Get up, pay up

Carlos Edill Berríos Polanco reports on the growing movement to get the Global North to cough up for its climate debt.

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NI 545 - Decolonize now - September, 2023
Illustration: Emma Peer

Agony Uncle

Ethical and political dilemmas abound these days. This month: Income vs ethics.

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NI 542 - A world to win - March, 2023
Hundreds of billboards and bus stops – like this one in Brighton, England – have been hacked by activists across Europe as part of the call to #BanFossilAds and stop greenwashing.Design: Noel Douglas. Installation: Brandalism

Temperature Check

Can we banish polluters from our billboards? Words by Danny Chivers.

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NI 537 - How we stop big oil - May, 2022
Banners wave at the opening ceremony of the People’s World Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth near Cochabamba, Bolivia, April 2010. The People’s Agreement signed at the conference called for the Global North to repay a ‘climate debt’ to the Majority World.Photo: Aizar Raldes/AFP via Getty Images

A global just transition

How can we phase out fossil fuels in a way that works for people everywhere? The historic Cochabamba People’s Agreement offers a way forward, argues Max Ajl.

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NI 537 - How we stop big oil - May, 2022
Fighting on all fronts. Samela, a 23-year-old activist from the Association of the Satere-Mawe Indigenous Women in Manaus, Amazonas in Brazil, co-ordinates the production of protective face masks.Photo: Raphael Alves/IMF/Creative Commons

Temperature check

Want to restore and protect the world’s forests? Then uphold the rights of the people who live in them, says Danny Chivers.

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NI 531 - Vaccine equality - May, 2021
Illustration: Andy Carter

What if…

What if we got real about sustainability? It might reverse the UN’s order of holiness, Vanessa Baird finds.

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NI 529 - The biodiversity emergency - January, 2021
Heavyweight battle

Heavyweight battle

Update on the Los Cedros Protected Forest by Jan Goodey.

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NI 527 - Covid-19 lessons from the pandemic - September, 2020
A man sells ice cream from an Ola cart in Bloubergstrand, South Africa. Ola is owned by Unilever. Rather than giving transnational corporations more power, a Global Green New Deal could be partly financed through climate reparations.Photo: Louis Smit/Unsplash

Green and just

How to finance a Green New Deal that is truly global? Fadhel Kaboub has a proposal that builds in colonial and climate reparations.

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NI 527 - Covid-19 lessons from the pandemic - September, 2020
Children protest against climate impacts of fast fashion in Montreal on Black Friday, November 2019.Photo: Lucy EJ Woods

Young climate heroes

Skipping meals to talk to the media, aiming to get arrested – and still making it to your hockey game. These are just some of the tasks found on the to-do lists of campaigners in Canada who are putting everything on the line to fight for a liveable, just future. Lucy EJ Woods went to meet them.

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NI 524 - How we make poverty - March, 2020
Illustration: Emma Peer

Agony Uncle

During climate crisis, is flying still acceptable? Ethical and political dilemmas abound these days. Seems like we’re all in need of a New Internationalist perspective. Enter stage: Agony Uncle.

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NI 523 - Borders - Freedom to move, for everyone - January, 2020
Has Extinction Rebellion got the right tactics?

Has Extinction Rebellion got the right tactics?

Few argue that the mass movement to combat inertia on the climate crisis has a point. But is it going about it the right way? Chay Harwood and Marc Hudson, both environmental campaigners, go head to head.

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NI 523 - Borders - Freedom to move, for everyone - January, 2020

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Article title From magazine Publication date
Spying on dissent November, 2023
Spying on dissent November, 2023
Decolonize now September, 2023
A world to win March, 2023
How we stop big oil May, 2022
How we stop big oil May, 2022
Vaccine equality May, 2021
The biodiversity emergency January, 2021
Covid-19 lessons from the pandemic September, 2020
Covid-19 lessons from the pandemic September, 2020
How we make poverty March, 2020
Borders - Freedom to move, for everyone January, 2020
Borders - Freedom to move, for everyone January, 2020
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