Drax biomass led to disabling health conditions, say unions and workers
The UK's largest power plant is facing worker lawsuits after the national health and safety regulator dropped criminal charges over biomass dust in 2023, a Land and Climate Investigation can reveal.
A longstanding battle: Māori efforts to protect the Whanganui River
In an excerpt from their new book, Dana Zartner, Fabian Cardenas, and Mohammed Golam Sarwar reflect on the most famous case of nature being granted legal personhood.
How Exxon is using international law to sue the Dutch government
Exxon owes the people of Groningen millions in compensation for damage caused by gas extraction. Thanks to a legal instrument, it could be the residents of the province that end up compensating the fossil fuel giant.
“Shocking and sad”: how corporations use investment agreements to block decarbonisation in the Global South
Camille Corcoran talks to experts about investor-state dispute settlements, which allow fossil fuel companies to bring multi-billion dollar lawsuits against countries that pass green policies.
Drax-owned facilities broke environmental rules more than 11,000 times in the US
Drax “must be held accountable,” says US Senator for Maryland Chris Van Hollen, after The Times and Land and Climate Review reveal the bioenergy company violates US regulation an average of five times per day.
Drax fined again over pollution: “I’m afraid to go outside,” say residents
This month, the British power company has been issued another fine in Mississippi, with additional penalties expected in Louisiana. In collaboration with The Intercept, Land and Climate Review talk to experts and locals about Drax's operations in the US Southeast.
Why was organic policy blamed for Sri Lanka’s financial crisis?
Academic research offers a different story from news media on Sri Lanka's short-lived ban on agrochemicals. Bertie Harrison-Broninski explores what really happened, and whether there's a future for national-scale organic policy.
Polluted with waste and chemicals, and threatened by sprawling urbanisation, our rivers are dying. Some countries are giving them legal personhood for protection - will it work?
Ted Theisinger wades into two big new contributions to ‘river thought’. From the late, great James C. Scott and Colorado’s Ellen Wohl.
Opinion
The cryosphere is nearing irreversible tipping points – and the world is not prepared
BY
Letizia Tedesco, Josephine Z. Rapp and Petra Heil
Time is rapidly running out to prevent catastrophic climate impacts to the Earth’s polar ice sheets, glaciers and permafrost - decision-makers at COP30 must act now, say leading polar scientists.
Opinion
I helped convict my mother’s killers, but I know courts will not bring justice
BY
Bertha Zúñiga Cáceres
Female, Indigenous, and environmental activists are ruthlessly targeted in Honduras, warns Bertha Zúñiga Cáceres.
Opinion
Climate diplomacy must shift focus from markets to land rights
BY
Frederike Klümper and Joanna Trimble
Land tenure is key to climate goals, but carbon markets have had harrowing impacts on local communities. A new agenda on adaptation must succeed where decarbonisation has failed, say Frederike Klümper and Joanna Trimble.
Opinion
Effective climate policy targets economics, not emissions
BY
Jessica F. Green
Current Net Zero policies are unpopular and ineffective - it is time to dethrone fossil capital and forget emissions trading, says Jessica F. Green.
Opinion
Climate donors must address the gender funding gap
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Namnyak Sinandei Makko and Omaira Bolaños
Women are neglected by climate funding, despite their pivotal role in Indigenous land management and climate resilience, say Namnyak Sinandei Makko and Omaira Bolaños.
Opinion
The Global Plastics Treaty must include production reduction
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Punyathorn Jeungsmarn
After three years of negotiations, delegates must not compromise on their principles at the UN's final session to decide international legally binding rules on plastic pollution, says Punyathorn Jeungsmarn.
Opinion
Trump will leave climate science in smoking ruins – and the economy will suffer for it
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John Holdren
Donald Trump is dismantling all sources of independent opinion in the United States to increase the power of the presidency, says John Holdren, former Presidential Science Advisor to Barack Obama.
Opinion
Ecocide in Ukraine, and the meanings of bread
BY
Darya Tysmbalyuk
Darya Tsymbaluk explores how Russia’s attacks on Ukraine’s land and agriculture also target the nation’s cultural identity.
Opinion
Après moi, le deluge: how a fight over garbage challenged China’s growth model
BY
Ma Tianjie
Ma Tianjie explores how public resistance challenged waste management policies in China as overconsumption pushed pollution to the margins.
Opinion
Courts must not depoliticise climate protest
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Oscar Berglund
The criminalisation and repression of protest serves as a substitute for taking adequate climate action, says Dr Berglund of University of Bristol.
Opinion
The Cargill Playbook: how corn subsidies created America’s largest private company
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Austin Frerick
Austin Frerick describes how US farming policy created a grain monopoly, in an extract from his acclaimed 2024 book 'Barons: Money, Power, and the Corruption of America's Food Industry'.
Opinion
Europe must act urgently to protect its natural ecosystems
BY
Faustine Bas-Defossez
Biodiversity is under threat. The EU Nature Restoration law is crucial to protecting it, says Faustine Bas-Defossez.
Opinion
Is climate denial over? Not until behaviours change
BY
Tad DeLay
Society may recognise that climate change exists, but we are still dishonest about solutions. An economic reckoning is due, says Tad DeLay.
Opinion
Farmers’ protests are about more than green policies
BY
Thin Lei Win
Europe has lost 800 farmers a day since 2010 – the sector has real issues that need fixing. Backtracking on climate will only appease lobbyists, not protesters, says Thin Lei Win.
Opinion
Rejecting the EU’s due diligence law is a colossal mistake
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Steve Trent
Will this week mark the end for the EU's corporate responsibility bill? That would be a shameful legacy for Germany's FDP, says Environmental Justice Foundation CEO Steve Trent
Opinion
Without reform, the EU’s CBAM risks leaving developing countries behind
BY
Hugo Harvey
Not all countries stand to benefit from the EU's Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism, says Hugo Harvey
Opinion
Europe already has the tools it needs to end forced labour
BY
Steve Trent
The EU successfully regulated illegal fishing with a 'carding' system in 2010. It should take the same approach with the upcoming forced labour law, says the Environmental Justice Foundation's CEO.
Opinion
Texas pollution shows the danger in legal loopholes
BY
Hannah Storey and Alysha Khambay
The human impact of petrochemical plants along the Houston Ship Channel prove that Amnesty's recommendations to the EU are vital, say the authors of a new report.
Opinion
Contradictions abound in the EU’s Critical Raw Materials Act
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Edward Robinson
Europe's demand for lithium is set to soar to 60 times current levels, with cobalt and graphite 15 times higher. But how will proposals for new EU mining and refining interact with the EU's role as a champion of biodiversity and development?
Opinion
The EU’s due diligence law must protect farmers in the Global South
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Catarina Vieira
Ahead of a key vote in European Parliament on 1st June, Solidaridad's Catarina Vieira warns that the law risks cutting smallholder farmers out of European supply chains, forcing them into even less regulated markets.
Opinion
An IMF bailout will not help Sri Lanka. Debt-for-climate swaps would.
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Avishka Sendanayake
Debt-for-climate swaps are an effective mechanism to relieve poverty and help wealthy countries meet their climate finance obligations, says Avishka Sendanayake.
Opinion
The Green Equity Approach can help end coal finance, but it needs reform
BY
Kate Geary
The International Finance Corporation is trialling a new ‘green equity’ approach. Kate Geary from Recourse talks about why this is important, and what needs improving to phase out fossil fuel finance.
Opinion
To stop fossil fuel finance, The Equator Principles must change
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Hannah Greep
Following their new report, BankTrack's Hannah Greep discusses The Equator Principles' failure to mobilise climate finance or protect human and Indigenous rights.
Opinion
Reforming farm subsidies can restore nature to the British countryside
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Sam Hall
The Director of the UK’s Conservative Environment Network sets out his vision for sustainable farming in the UK.
Podcast
Adaptation, Culture, Politics & law
Can climate cause regime change?
Dr. Dagomar Degroot returns to talk to Alasdair about climate change’s role in societal collapse.
Bertie spoke to Professor Andrea Baronchelli and Dr. Max Falkenberg from The IRIS Academic Research Group about rising climate scepticism and denial online.
Lauren asks Mark Bould about his new book 'The Anthropocene Unconscious'.
They discuss whether fiction goes far enough in representing narratives of climate crisis, ranging from Jane Austen’s ‘Mansfield Park’ to the 'Fast & Furious' franchise.
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