Data Centre Investments Bad Deals
Opposition to data centres (DCs) has been rapidly spreading internationally due to their fast-growing resource demands. DCs have been proliferating quickly, ...
The Time for a Decade of Island Resilience is Now
As biodiversity loss including ocean degradation, pollution and climate change threaten our planet, islands, and particularly global small island nations, of...
The Dangers of Green Mining
Even amidst the regressive resistance of the current U.S. administration, the world is shifting toward a green energy future. As governments pledge to phase ...
New Climate Goal: To Quadruple Sustainable Fuels
Quadrupling the production and use of sustainable fuels by 2035 is the goal of a new international initiative to drive energy transition and mitigate the cli...
Guiding Disaster Risk-Reduction Investments Through AI-Po...
The theme of this year’s International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction, “Fund Resilience, Not Disasters,” called for the urgent need to shift from reactive s...
Moldova’s Democratic Defiance
Democracy was the winner and Russia the loser in Moldova’s 28 September election. The incumbent pro-Europe Party of Action and Solidarity (PAS) won a parliam...
No African Development from Western Trade Policies
The World Bank’s 1981 Berg Report provided the blueprint for structural adjustment, including economic liberalisation in Africa. Urging trade liberalisation,...
From Storm to Strength: Odisha’s “Zero Casualty” Model fo...
South Asia is home to nearly two billion people and ranks among the most disaster-prone subregions in Asia and the Pacific. Every year, millions face exposur...
Are Youth-led Revolutions in South Asia a Cause for Conc...
In the Global South, where people under the age of 18 comprise more than 50 percent of the population, youth activism is increasing rapidly. Youngsters are m...
It’s Past Time to Make Polluters Pay
I was 16 years old when Super-Typhoon Haiyan tore through my community in Eastern Samar in the Philippines. It remains one of the deadliest storms in history...
An Overdose of Renewables, New Energy Risk in Brazil
Wind and solar power sources, essential for the energy transition to mitigate the climate crisis, have become a risk of power outages in Brazil. It is a reme...
UN80 – Is it time for the Re-emergence of the Global Mini...
“We shall have to do more with less” was the summary message from a meeting in Oslo, Norway, this spring (2025), where the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Nor...
Frontline of a Planetary Emergency: Africa Demands Climat...
The room at the Swiss Inn Nexus Hotel in Bole was silent but tense as Sunita Narain, one of the world’s most influential environmental voices, fixed her gaze...
Better Use of the World’s Expertise in Navigating the Pol...
Other articles in this series on clustering conventions that are addressed by the Triple Environmental Crisis of pollution (Stanley-Jones), biodiversity (Sch...
Mexico Experiments With Residential Solar Panels, But The...
Over the past four months, Mexican researcher Nicolás Velázquez has paid around US$23 for electricity, thanks to the photovoltaic system installed in his hom...
‘Angola produces large quantities of oil and diamonds, ye...
  CIVICUS discusses recent protests in Angola with Florindo Chivucute, founder and executive director of Friends of Angola, a US-based civil society org...
The Debacle of the Global Plastics Treaty Negotiations –&...
The debacle that was the latest round of negotiations for a global treaty on plastics (including in the marine environment); known as “INC 5.2” has already b...
Chile Aims to Become a Latin American Hub for Data Storag...
Chile wants to be a hub in Latin America in data storage and transmission by developing data centers, leveraging its wealth of renewable energy, and its opti...
UN 80 – Clustering the Climate Conventions
The international governance of environmental challenges has progressively evolved over the past decades, transitioning from isolated treaties addressing spe...
Togo’s Young Generation Challenges Six Decades of Dynasti...
In late June, thousands flooded the streets of Lomé, Togo’s capital, presenting the ruling dynasty with its biggest challenge in decades. The catalyst was co...
Toward Enhanced Synergies among Biodiversity Related MEAs...
The governance of nature and biodiversity has evolved from early 20th-century treaties on hunting and migratory species to today’s complex web of multilatera...
Green Jobs on the Rise in the Arab Region
In the Arab region, a thought-to-be oil oasis, green jobs constitute 29 percent of energy sector roles, and 23 percent of the oil and gas sector. These numbe...
Plastics Treaty Talks End in ‘Abject Failure’ as US, Othe...
Negotiators in Geneva adjourned what was expected to be the final round of plastics treaty negotiations on Friday without reaching an agreement, a failure th...
Are Negotiators Turning the Plastics Treaty into a Death ...
The future plastics treaty is being sold as potentially an environmental breakthrough. But in its current form during this week’s negotiations, it contains a...
Inequality Worsens Planetary Heating
The accumulation of still growing greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) in an increasingly unequal world is accelerating planetary heating. It is also worsening dis...
From Conflict to Climate Crusade, Refugees Lead the Charg...
For 18-year-old Lionel Ngukusenge, a refugee from Burundi, where he was forced into hiding because of a repressive regime, he has found another foe to conten...
Solar-Powered Fish Farming Feeds Indigenous Communities i...
“Our organization is showing that it is indeed possible to move toward energy transition and not depend on oil,” said Elaina Shajian, president o...
Biogas to Wipe Out Poultry Industry Pollution in El Salva...
El Granjero, the second-largest egg producer in El Salvador, invested US$2.5 million in 2017 to build a biogas plant, proving that there is a solution to the...
The Missing Link in Africa’s Climate Plans: Animal Health
One would expect that this year’s wetter than average rainy season in parts of Africa would be viewed with relief, not fear. Yet many areas in the region sit...
Belem City Limits: How to Host a Successful Climate COP
There is no question that most climate activists and governments were delighted when Brazil offered to host the 2025 UN Climate Conference taking place this ...
Climate Reparations are Necessary but Not Sufficient: Wor...
While recent heat waves were causing thousands of deaths, the Trump administration was busy dismantling policies that regulate greenhouse gases on the theory...
Historic Inter-American Court Ruling: A Game-Changer for ...
The Inter-American Court of Human Rights has issued one of the most progressive climate justice decisions of our time. Its historic Advisory Opinion on the c...
‘After Decades of Making Huge Profits, Companies Shouldn’...
  CIVICUS speaks with Matthew Renshaw, a partner at a UK law firm that represents Nigerian communities taking legal action against Shell over environmen...
Forests, Fossil Fuels, and the Fight for the Future: DRC’...
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) stands on the precipice of a profound environmental and social crisis, as the government prepares to auction 55 new oi...
Bullying Southeast Asia with Tariff Threats
US President Trump has successfully used tariff threats to achieve economic, political and even personal goals. These threats, reminiscent of colonialism, ha...
Why the world needs more oil, not less – Al Ghais
Vienna, Austria, 31 August 2023--OPEC Secretary General, HE Haitham Al Ghais, stated that the world would continue to witness rising oil demand amidst g...
OPEC Secretary General to participate in G20 meeting in I...
Vienna, Austria, 21 July 2023--OPEC Secretary General, HE Haitham Al Ghais, will participate at the G20 Energy Ministerial Meeting in Goa, India, on 22 July.
Maximum energy, minimum emissions: OPEC commentary for th...
Vienna, Austria, 17 May 2023--OPEC Secretary General, HE Haitham Al Ghais, has contributed to the publication for the G7 Summit that will take plac...
OPEC and the City of Vienna to host the Vienna Energy Sch...
Vienna, Austria, 2 May 2023--The OPEC Secretariat and the City of Vienna will host the Third Vienna Energy Scholar Programme (VESP) from 4 to 9 September 202...
OPEC to host the Fourth OPEC-OPEC Fund Annual Legal Works...
Vienna, Austria, 17 October 2022--The OPEC Secretariat will host the Fourth OPEC-OPEC Fund Annual Legal Workshop on regulatory issues related to the ene...
OPEC and the City of Vienna to host the Vienna Energy Sch...
Vienna, Austria, 8 September 2022--The OPEC Secretariat and the City of Vienna will host the Second Vienna Energy Scholar Programme (VESP) from 19 to 23 Sept...
You have indeed been a worthy ambassador of our country, ...
Abuja, Nigeria, 5 July 2022--President Muhammadu Buhari Tuesday in Abuja expressed the nation’s gratitude to the outgoing Secretary General of the Organizati...
OPEC takes part in Nigeria Oil and Gas Conference and Exh...
Abuja, Nigeria, 5 July 2022--The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) participated in the 21st edition of Nigeria Oil and Gas (NOG) Confe...
OPEC Secretary General congratulates Minister Al-Rumhy on...
Vienna, Austria, 17 June 2022--OPEC Secretary General, HE Mohammad Sanusi Barkindo, congratulated HE Dr Mohammed Bin Hamad Al-Rumhy on completing his tenure ...
OPEC’s 21st Coordination Meeting on Climate Change takes ...
Vienna, Austria, 31 May 2022--The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) held the 21st Coordination Meeting on Climate Change via videoconf...
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