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The general workings of gravity are nothing new: What goes up must come down. Over the past decade, scientists have been pursuing a new approach to this force of nature, exploring how it can generate carbon-free electricity through what?s been dubbed as ?

The 2022 Fridays for Future (FFF) International Meeting held in  Turin, Italy,  ended today with a climate strike. Among the demands for urgent climate action from young Indigenous leaders are calls for greater inclusion of Indigenous peoples and local communities (IPLCs) in climate solutions. Climate activist Greta Thunberg attended the meeting remotely, but said that […]

Most investors focus their climate efforts solely on reducing emissions. But achieving the Paris Agreement means they should also tackle adaptation and a just transition.

Indigenous lands in the Brazilian Amazon are under constant pressure, and deforestation of these areas has accelerated in recent years. Some of them, such as Apyterewa Indigenous Territory in Pará state, are particularly affected, endangering Brazil's ability to meet the targets to which it is committed internationally in terms of combating deforestation and mitigating the impact of climate change.

Our food practices put a heavy burden of carbon emissions on the Earth. A change in diet is needed, but it won’t come easy

Coverage around the world on Indigenous issues for the week ending April 3, 2022

Current pledges to cut emissions won’t be enough to slow climate change, according to a new report from the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres said this report, which focuses on the mitigation of human-caused global warming, catalogs “a litany of broken climate promises.” “We are on a fast […]

A new report that shows how important Indigenous territories are to preventing the worst impacts of the climate crisis, especially in four countries that store about 28 percent of the carbon currently sequestered in Indigenous lands — Brazil, Colombia, Mexico and Peru.

A new report by the Forest Declaration Assessment says that fulfilling the Paris Agreement won’t be possible without acknowledging and supporting the crucial role of Indigenous peoples and local communities’ (IPLCs) restored and protected lands. Titled “Sink or swim”, the authors of the report, Climate Focus and the World Resources Institute (WRI), focus on the […]

Bangladesh, Egypt, Senegal and United States show the ways as food crisis deepens triggered by war