ECONOMY | ENVIRONMENT

FAIRER ECONOMIES, GREENER SOCIETIES

‘We shouldn’t even be discussing why civil society needs to have a seat in climate talks’

Ayisha Siddiqa | GLOBAL

ECONOMY | ENVIRONMENT

‘Civil society’s participation in COP27 is important because it represents the voices of communities’

Chibeze Ezekiel | GHANA

ECONOMY | ENVIRONMENT

‘We doubt that we will be able to mobilise as we did around COP26’

Sohanur Rahman | GLOBAL

ECONOMY | ENVIRONMENT

‘Climate justice requires debt cancellation, reparations and non-debt climate finance for small island developing states’

Tariq Al-Olaimy | BAHRAIN

ECONOMY | ENVIRONMENT

‘The main culprits of the current crisis are bank owners and their greed for profit’

Alaa Khorchid | LEBANON

ECONOMY | ENVIRONMENT

‘We were denied the right to give or refuse our consent, so we took Shell to court – and won’

Sinegugu Zukulu | SOUTH AFRICA

ECONOMY | ENVIRONMENT

SOUTHERN AFRICA

‘If Bolsonaro continues as president, it is a threat to the Amazon and therefore to humanity’

Daniela Silva | BRAZIL

ECONOMY | ENVIRONMENT

‘Civil society needs international support to monitor the implementation of the new land laws’

Berns Lebbie | SIERRA LEONE

ECONOMY | ENVIRONMENT

‘From now on, states should adopt a human rights approach to environmental regulation’

Victoria Lichet | GLOBAL

ECONOMY | ENVIRONMENT

‘Protests reflect structural inequalities and frustration at blatant corruption’

Eileen Ng Fábrega | PANAMA

ECONOMY | ENVIRONMENT

CENTRAL AMERICA