The impacts of climate change are intensifying. The range of impacts include sea-level rise, increased temperatures, changing precipitation patterns, and increased frequency of extreme weather events such as droughts or floods. For instance, the last eight years have seen the highest temperatures on record. The catastrophic effects of the climate crisis are most visible in…
The 27th Conference of Parties (COP27) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is expected to focus on whether developed nations that have emitted most of the carbon dioxide historically should compensate for ‘loss and damage’ to developing countries that have not contributed significantly to the problem and are the least prepared…
Published: June 10, 2022 IBON International Executive Director, Jennifer del Rosario-Malonzo, delivered the following intervention at “Wellbeing Economies: A new economic approach for human and planetary health,” a Stockholm+50 official side-event. Stockholm+50, a meeting held fifty years after the 1972 UN Conference on the Human Environment, took place at the Swedish capital last June 2…
Published: June 10, 2022 IBON International joins social movements and civil society in the Philippines in condemning the violent and illegal arrest of ninety-two (92) peasants and advocates in Hacienda Tinang, Tarlac province in the Philippines yesterday, June 9. We join Philippine social movements’ calls for their immediate release. The police, without providing a warrant,…
Climate activism has been reinvigorated, with new, young leaders taking the lead in organizing mass actions against fossil-fuel capitalism. Published: October 16, 2019
Published: September 4, 2019 The climate crisis has drastically increased the occurrence of weather-related disasters, affecting millions of families especially those in the global South and causing billions in losses and damages annually. Institutions and actors are forced to reevaluate accustomed frameworks of development, and incorporate sustainability and environmental policies. However, civil society organizations (CSOs)…
IBON International welcomes the opportunity to give comments and recommendations to the United Nations Environmental Programme’s Draft Medium-Term Strategy for 2022 – 2025, particularly on the theme on climate action. We are engaging the UNEP in the shaping of this landmark document in the hopes of contributing to the development of rights-based, gender-just, and people-centered…
An estimated 50,000 CSOs, students and academe, youth organizations, green groups, trade unions and concerned citizens in Belgium marched in Brussels on 10 October 2021 in the biggest climate action in more than 1.5 years. The participants called for ambitious and coherent measures to tackle climate change that do not pit sectors of society against…
Government representatives attending the 25th Conference of Parties of the UNFCCC (COP25) to decide on a few unfinished agenda as well as discussions to agree on the rules for the implementation of Paris Agreement following the decisions adopted in Katowice, Poland in 2018. Published: December 12, 2019
Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change will be meeting in Glasgow, Scotland for the 26th Conference of Parties following the IPCC reports on global warming limit. Published: October 27, 2021
