In a move that threatens to undermine years of progress toward environmental transparency, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has recently decided to withdraw the much-anticipated Green Claims Directive. This directive, which aimed to hold corporations accountable for misleading sustainability claims, was an essential step toward ensuring that companies align their actions with the urgent need to protect our planet.
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Climate and Environmental Justice International participants from La Via Campesina and allied organizations from ten countries gathered to build solidarity, share ancestral knowledge and unite struggles for food sovereignty and agroecology. Through self-determined agroecological action and mutual support among peasants, the they sought to strengthen Puerto Rico’s struggle against US colonialism and imperialism and embolden efforts to build international solidarity and resistance to capital’s climate crisis.
A United Nations expert is calling for an urgent shift away from fossil fuels by the global economy, including a ban on advertisements or promotions, and the criminalization of misinformation from the industry. Elisa Morgera, the U. N. special rapporteur on human rights and climate change, who presented her 23-page report at the U. N.
How can the necessary relocalisation of food systems be reconciled with a need for exchange based on mutual aid, complementarity, and reciprocity? Can local biodiversity support territorially grounded agricultural economies while also nurturing the emergence of spaces for innovation and cooperation across diverse realities?
Across Europe, trade unions have a long history of making political demands for universal health care and benefits. The unique brutality of the US capitalist class bred a labor movement that has often limited itself to being a private insurance provider.
As Russian strikes intensify against Ukrainian cities, Washington has just suspended the delivery of several strategic weapons to Kyiv. The decision confirms refocusing of U. S. imperialism on the Middle East and Asia.
“Drought is a silent killer. It creeps in, drains resources and devastates lives in slow motion, ” said Ibrahim Thiaw, executive secretary of the U. N. Convention to Combat Desertification. “Its scars run deep.
From New York to Chicago, American politicians are pushing state-owned grocery shops as a way to make food cheaper, writes James Meadway. Meanwhile, our leaders continue scratching their heads.