Opinion

Perspectives from our guest writers around the world.

Hanna Hindström and Ana Celestial
  • Opinion

Mining boom in the Philippines threatens environmental defenders

Since 2010 the country has lost forest cover three times the size of New York City in mining zones for critical minerals, stripping away the country’s resilience to climate-related catastrophes, including typhoons and floods. 
D. Raghunandan
  • Opinion

Privatising space will make emissions soar

Space travel comes with atmospheric risks – and if corporations take over the world beyond our orbit, who will regulate extraterrestrial waste and mining?
Oscar Berglund
  • Opinion

Courts must not depoliticise climate protest

The criminalisation and repression of protest serves as a substitute for taking adequate climate action, says Dr Berglund of University of Bristol.
Anne Helen Toomey
  • Opinion

Notes from a disappearing island

A small US town will soon be submerged by rising sea levels, but its residents' views have been mocked and dismissed on national TV. In an extract from her new book, Anne Helen Toomey explores failings in climate communication.
Ståle Holgersen
  • Opinion

Destroying nature will aways be profitable

In an extract from his new book, Ståle Holgersen questions the idea that climate change presents an economic threat, arguing that capitalism is flexible enough to make money from both destroying and saving the planet - all at the same time.
María Arango
  • Opinion

Sugar cane is eroding Colombian biodiversity  

Biofuels are the latest driver of plantation monocultures eroding biodiversity and Afro-Colombian culture in the Cauca Valley, says María Arango, following a new report.
Steve Trent
  • Opinion

Europe already has the tools it needs to end forced labour

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.
Faustine Wheeler
  • Opinion

Greenhouse gas removals urgently need good governance

Governments are not doing enough to shape and regulate this newly burgeoning industry. The UK should lead the way with a new regulatory body, says Green Alliance's Faustine Wheeler.
Hannah Storey and Alysha Khambay
  • Opinion

Texas pollution shows the danger in legal loopholes

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.
Thomas Marois
  • Opinion

Time for a World Climate Bank

The World Bank prioritises private investors over justice and the climate - a new institution is needed, says Professor Thomas Marois
Sarah Katz-Lavigne
  • Opinion

Is artisanal mining really worse than industrial mining?

Artisanal mining has been demonised by big industry, and oversimplified in the press - in reality miners, large corporations, and government are all intertwined in the DRC, says Dr. Sarah Katz-Lavigne in an interview with Lauren Sneade.
Edward Robinson
  • Opinion

Contradictions abound in the EU’s Critical Raw Materials Act

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?
Jessica Battle
  • Opinion

Experts agree – deep sea mining is not worth the risk

Deep sea mining could trigger a multitude of environmental, climatic, and social justice issues - there are better means of sourcing minerals, says Jessica Battle, who leads WWF’s 'No Deep Seabed Mining Initiative'.
Meabh Byrne
  • Opinion

Electric cars are drying up the desert

Indigenous communities in the Atacama Desert are paying the price for lithium extraction for electric vehicles, says Meabh Byrne
Amann Thorben
  • Opinion

Enhanced weathering will not work without EU research funds

Too many uncertainties exist around enhanced weathering for it to be implemented, despite significant potential. The EU must be less frugal with R&D or the private sector will step in and transparency will suffer, says Amann Thorben.
A. Karim Ahmed and Jeffrey D. Tamucci
  • Opinion

What is the financial cost of loss and damage from climate change?

Even conservative estimates show the climate crisis has cost poor countries more than half a trillion dollars already - it is past time to define and fund loss and damage, say A. Karim Ahmed and Jeffrey D. Tamucci
Bruce King
  • Opinion

Build Beyond Zero

Could we go beyond removing CO2 from the atmosphere and actually use it in the building blocks of the future?
Climate Reparations
A. Karim Ahmed
  • Opinion

Why we need a Global Climate Reparations Fund

Loss and damage from climate change has already cost hundreds of billions of dollars. Professors A. Karim Ahmed and Audrey Chapman propose a mechanism to address the moral and financial debt owed by highly industrialised nations.
  • Materials
How is mining in Sweden affecting Indigenous Saami communities?
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  • Agriculture
Have monopolies broken agricultural markets? 
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  • Markets
Why are foreign companies suing governments that decarbonise?
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  • Policymaking
What does space privatisation mean for climate?
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