La politique financière luxembourgeoise en matière de climat est-elle le conte de fées qu’elle prétend être ? Les contributions nationales au Fonds vert pour le climat sont-elles à la hauteur de la responsabilité du pays dans l’architecture financière internationale de l’ONU ? Quelques réflexions sur les chiffres et l’éthique d’un petit pays qui veut souvent …

Asymmetrical Free Trade Agreements (FTA) use pesticides as new colonial goods. The population of the Mercosur countries suffers greatly from chemical violence, as shown by the large number of people who have already been poisoned by substances developed and often sold by countries of the European Union. But trade between South American countries and the …

Climate justice is not only a matter of international cooperation, but first of all of social equality and shared responsibility The latest IPCC report (AR6) from 2022 provides policymakers with specific adaptations and mitigations solutions to face the climate crisis which are effective, feasible, and, they continue to emphasis, „conform to principles of justice“. What …

Rather than raising binding commitments to cut greenhouse gas emissions to a new and higher level, COP26 increased the massive inequality gap between the countries of the Global North and South. According to an assessment made by the Indian Center for Science and Environment (CSE), of the eight topics on the Glasgow agenda – climate …

More and more environmental lawsuits reveal a lack of access to justice for individuals and organizations in national and international courts. Citizens have to fight in court for what multinational corporations have been handed on a silver platter by numerous Free Trade Agreements: the possibility to sue for economic damages caused by climate change impacts. …

We are aware of the dramatically intensifying attacks on social movements and human rights defenders in the Philippines under the Duterte administration. We have also learnt that the coronavirus pandemic is being used to repress civil society. Could you give us a brief update on the latest developments and describe the various means of repression? …

In December 2019, around 20 years after its development, the Philippine Ministry of Agriculture classified the genetically modified Golden Rice as a safe food and granted permission for its direct use as food, feed and for further processing, despite decades of resistance from farmers and consumers, as well as campaigns by civil society. The MASIPAG …