Friday, September 29, 2023

Global South Campaigns, Events & Actions

IMPACTS OF AGROCHEMICALS ON CLIMATE CHANGE

Promoting agroecology as a viable alternative to agrochemicals and industrial monocultures.The current way of producing food based on the use of agrochemicals, heavy machinery and other oil-dependent agricultural technologies, excess packaging, processing, refrigeration and...

ART FOR OCEANS INDONESIA

A unique community project combining coral reef regeneration and the arts. The Marine Foundation is an eco-arts organisation with a new approach to marine conservation where creativity is at the center and the catalyst for...

STRENGTHENING COMMUNITY FOREST GOVERNANCE

Fighting for land rights and community control over forests in Sub-Himalayan Bengal, India.Though the historic FRA (Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers Recognition of Forest Rights Act 2006, better known as Forest Rights...

MINE WATCH SOUTH AMERICA

Stopping territorial expansion of social and environmental high impact industries, such as mining and oil extraction.The project “Open pit mining and conventional and unconventional hydrocarbon extraction: public policies watch and local communities support” aims...

CALIFORNIA-CHIAPAS CLIMATE JUSTICE PROJECT

Exposing the social costs of market-based carbon offset schemes On March 16th, the Global Justice Ecology Project sent a team to Chiapas, Mexico to investigate the impacts of a California-Chiapas climate deal that relies on...

SEA PLEDGE

A crusade to save the oceans in the face of climate change In this project, students of the South East African Climate Consortium Student Forum will travel to coastal towns of South Africa to encourage...

NEPALASE YOUTH CLIMATE ACTION

Nepalese youth leader visits COP16 to draw attention to the effects of climate change in the HimalayasCOP 16 was different from COP 15 in that, although it had lesser number of youth participants and...

AN AFRICAN STORY

Responding to climate change from the grassrootsThe overall project aims are to raise awareness on the crucial roles that rural women and their communities, trees and forestry play – in Africa, the UK, and...

CLIMATE JUSTICE IN PERSPECTIVE

To encourage knowledge-sharing and information exchange with active participants in key international 'climate justice' networksPhoto shows the Opening Ceremony of the World People's Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth in...

AFRICA ACTION

Addressing and adapting to climate change in the Kilimanjaro Region of TanzaniaKilimanjaro is a region in Tanzania that is highly vulnerable to climate change impacts. Incidences of unpredictable rainfall, uncertainty over cropping patterns, forest...