Regional dispatch – IBON Africa The effects of climate change on Africa have been significant, despite the continent contributing only a small percentage of global emissions. According to the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), Africa is the most vulnerable region to climate change due to its lower adaptive capacity and low levels of technology. This…
From June 5 to 15, the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) held the 58th Meetings of the Subsidiary Bodies (SB58) at the World Conference Centre in Bonn, Germany. Its outcomes will be crucial in determining the direction of the 28th Conference of Parties (COP28) this December. Climate talks in Bonn were on the…
Days ago, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the foremost scientific body of the UN on climate change, released the Synthesis Report of its sixth assessment cycle (AR6). The report issues a strong rebuke: we are not doing enough. At present, even if countries curb their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions consistent with their Nationally…
In November 2022, representatives from over 190 countries trooped to Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt for the 27th Conference of Parties (COP27) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Despite the annual talks being hounded by issues of corporate greenwashing, civil society continued to make waves to assert their central role in climate…
Communities in the Global South have long been struggling with the realities of climate change, and as a result, have been taking measures into their own hands. Local organizations from the Global South play a key role not just in raising awareness of the threats posed and the ongoing damage caused by climate change, but…
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)…
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