Development and
Cooperation

Digital monthly 3/2023

Climate justice

Indigenous peoples

Fighting “green colonialism”

Environmental activist Joan Carling explains what climate justice means for indigenous peoples

Legal knowledge

Useful e-learning courses on the UNEP website

LEAP stands for Law and Environmental Assistance Platform and is a trustworthy source of information

Environmental law

Humankind needs more stringent environmental regulations

Online courses on the UNEP website help to get a deeper understanding of international law

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Empowerment

Women take on environmentally destructive ‘development’ projects

The African civil-society organisation WoMin mobilises women to resist land grabbing and environmental destruction

Disaster control

How to manage global risks effectively

Due to the climate crisis, disasters happen more frequently and with greater damage. We need better communication and information to deal with them

Impact investing

SDG financing: how billions become trillions

To mobilise private funds, the business environment must be appropriate

Kenya

How Kenya is affected by climate injustice

African countries are least responsible for the climate crisis, but are hit hardest by its effects. In Kenya, the impacts are devastating

Women’s empowerment

Climate justice requires gender justice

The impacts of global heating are not gender neutral, so the response cannot be gender neutral either

Reducing emissions

OECD assesses carbon pricing internationally

Experts warn that fuel subsidies are harmful

Global governance

Global decline in human development

The latest Human Development Report warns that in 2020 and 2021, progress made towards the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has been reversed

Governance

Social disparities thwart climate justice

Environmental burdens must be shared fairly – within world regions and between them

Climate lawsuit

The first climate lawsuits celebrate wins

In the Netherlands, environmental organisations defeated the Shell oil company. The victory inspired additional climate lawsuits all over the world

Ground-breaking lawsuit

Andes farmer takes on conglomerate

In Peru, a farmer is calling on a German company to take responsibility for glacier melt in a ground-breaking lawsuit

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Renewable energy

Facilitating the transition away from coal

Many low-income countries face the challenge of phasing out coal in a just way, which also takes into account affected workers and their communities

Social protection

Togo’s temporary basic income by text message

Innovative social-protection scheme in small west African country during Covid-19-Pandemic