Daniele Codato News Today

This story is the second in a three-part mini-series surveying the range of impacts by the fossil fuel industry on the global environment. Part one and part two review harm done to the nine planetary boundaries, while part three looks at circular economy solutions. In 2020, the worst drought in 40 years hit East Africa, […]

On June 28 & 29, 2023 the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence for Climate Justice will host its fifth International Conference on Climate Justice. This years conference topic is Beyond the emergency and features speakers from around the globe who all have been invited to give short presentations related to mutual and transformative practices for change.

In 2007, Ecuador’s then-president, Rafael Correa, announced an ambitious plan to prevent oil drilling in Yasuní National Park, one of the world’s most biodiverse areas and home to the Indigenous Waorani people, 4,000 plant species, and 300 mammal species, several of them threatened. Correa called on other countries to help Ecuador keep the area intact, […]