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FAIRER ECONOMIES, GREENER SOCIETIES

Climate change gets its day in court

International Court of Justice to issue advisory opinion on states’ climate obligations

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The Netherlands: climate action faces backlash

Climate protesters criminalised as anti-environmental politics rises

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The plastic crisis: a race against the clock

Negotiations on a UN Treaty on Plastic Pollution need to listen to civil society rather than the plastics industry

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France: pensions deadlock puts democracy under strain

Security force violence raises renewed questions about impunity

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The Escazú Agreement: from paper to reality?

Progress is being made, but several ratifications are missing and a long road to implementation lies ahead

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Tax justice: a civil society struggle

United Nations tax resolution offers crucial first step

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As difficult as it is necessary: the process towards a binding business and human rights treaty

Challenges mount as unofficial deadline for completion approaches

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Australia: still silencing the climate alarm

Government says it takes the climate crisis seriously but instead restricts the right to peaceful protest

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Global Biodiversity Framework: from words to action?

Major agreement to reverse ecosystem destruction now needs to be funded and implemented

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COP27: too little, too late

Summit takes first step to make rich states pay for climate harm – but does little to stop them causing further damage

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