Against the backdrop of an intensifying climate crisis that affects the most marginalised and the proliferation of market-based climate solutions, peoples and communities in the Global South are increasingly taking matters into their own hands. Collective actions from grassroots sectors—such as workers, farmers, women, youth, indigenous peoples, urban and rural poor, and others—are at the…
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In May 2016, former President Uhuru Kenyatta introduced the Climate Change Act, the first of its kind in Africa. It was designed not only to establish mechanisms and strategies for achieving low-carbon climate development, but also to mainstream climate change as a central agenda in the development process. The legislation was enacted as a response…
IBON International COP28 Update #1 Dubai, UAE, December 10 – The first week of the 28th Conference of the Parties (COP28) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change saw mixed outcomes, including the adoption of the funding mechanisms to respond to climate impacts, but with major setbacks in other key areas due to developed…
December 10, 2023 13:15 – 14:45 Side Event Room 6 (Bldg. 85) In 2013, Typhoon Haiyan hit countries in the Pacific, such as the Philippines. Said to be one of the most powerful typhoons ever recorded, it claimed more than 6,000 lives, left millions homeless, and cost an estimated USD 12.9 billion in damages. Ten…
The 28th Conference of the Parties (COP28) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Dubai, UAE is taking place against the background of a world on the edge of irreversible planetary catastrophe. Millions of poor people who have done the least damage to the environment and climate contend with worsening weather extremes…
NEWS RELEASE Nairobi, Kenya – African countries are among the hardest hit by the climate crisis which continues to exacerbate protracted conflicts, perennial hunger and drought, and widening inequalities as well as external debt, among others. In a region that has been faced with increasing climate challenges and complex trade dynamics, conversations on the nexus…
‘Decolonize to Decarbonize’ or D2D is a campaign call that aims to bring to attention how imperialist countries in the global North and their corporations are using the climate crisis to co-opt peoples’ demands to transition away from fossil fuels to further colonise global South frontiers for resource grabbing and exploitation. This briefer contains the…
IBON International denounces the outcomes of the 5th meeting of the Transitional Committee (TC5) of the Loss and Damage Fund (LDF). The recommendations that came out of an almost year-long discussion by the committee demonstrate the disinterest of developed countries such as the United States (US) in building an LDF capable of delivering climate justice…
Last September 17, IBON International and its allied organisations and networks trooped to New York City to join the “March to End Fossil Fuels.” This was in time for the Climate Ambition Summit, where government leaders presented updated ambitions on emissions reduction and renewable energy targets. Bannering the call, “Decolonize to Decarbonize,” IBON International launched…
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September 22, 20231PM UTC / 10AM Sao Paulo / 2PM London / 4PM Nairobi / 5PM Dubai / 9PM Manila(check your local time here)via Zoom The dominance of global North countries and corporations in climate spaces means they have every opportunity to greenwash themselves, undermine the global response to climate change, and continue with the…
