Environmental Policy

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A change of course. On the road to a climate-just world

Published: 26 November 2024
Is it utopian to insist on a good life for all in the face of the climate crisis? No more unrealistic than the utopia of endless growth on a finite planet on the backs of the weakest. On the road to a climate-just world” describes ways to create a sustainable world worth living in for everyone - and exposes false hopes and dangerous false solutions.
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Transformation by design, not by disaster!

Transformation by design, not by disaster

Published: 18 August 2023
Report
Four areas of application show: Our current consumption of raw materials is globally and socially unjust and ecologically unsustainable. We need a raw material transition towards truly circular and sustainable producttion and consumption patterns.
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Downstream due diligence

Published: 20 March 2023
Policy Brief
Together with the Supply Chain Law Initiative, SOMO, Swedwatch and Germanwatch, we show in this short position paper why due diligence in downstream value chains is necessary and how it can be implemented. We also make key recommendations fort he EU supply chain law.
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Combatting Global Plastic Pollution

Published: 14 March 2023
Infobrief
A critical look at the entire plastics cycle is also of crucial importance from a feminist perspective, because the plastic problem cannot simply be reduced to consumer use patterns or to harmful microplastics in cosmetic products. On the contrary, every stage of the plastics cycle reflects different gender-specific experiences and exposures.
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12 Arguments for a Raw Materials Transition

Published: 8 February 2021
In this paper, eight environmental, human rights, climate and development organisations explain with facts and figures why we need a paradigm shift.
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A Societal Transformation Scenario for Staying Below 1.5°C

Published: 9 December 2020
The „Societal Transfomation Scenario“ is a global 1.5°C mitigation scenario, which challenges  the notion of perpetual global economic growth and its compatibility with ambitious climate goals like the 1.5°C limit. It shows how through a reduction of production and consumption in the Global North, we can stay below 1.5°C without resorting to high-risk technologies like CCS, geoengineering and nuclear, while also avoiding temperature overshoot.
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Towards a Contemporary Vision for the Global Seafloor

Published: 8 November 2019
The present study, authored by scientists from different backgrounds, makes the eloquent case for such a reflection, pause, and reassessment. The publication is recommended to any reader concerned about our oceans' future.
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Plastic & Climate: The Hidden Costs of a Plastic Planet

Published: 31 May 2019
The plastic pollution crisis is a significant and growing threat to the Earth’s climate. Greenhouse gas emissions from the plastic lifecycle threaten the ability of the global community to keep global temperature rise below 1.5°C.
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Fuel to the Fire

Published: 14 February 2019
The present report investigates the early, ongoing, and often surprising role of the fossil fuel industry in developing, patenting, and promoting key geoengineering technologies. 
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Economic Growth in mitigation scenarios: A blind spot in climate science

Published: 4 December 2018
E-Paper
Climate change mitigation scenarios are important instruments for developing pathways towards a climate-friendly world. This short study shows that neither the use of CDR technologies is as indispensable as shown in the scenarios, nor is an overshoot unavoidable.
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Radical Realism for Climate Justice

Published: 18 September 2018
Limiting global warming to 1.5°C above pre-industrial is feasible. This publication is a civil society response to the challenge of limiting global warming to 1.5°C while also paving the way for climate justice.
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Not A Silver Bullet

Published: 30 August 2018
Why the focus on insurance to address loss and damage is a distraction from real solutions.
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A Crack in the Shell: New Documents Expose a Hidden Climate History

Published: 25 April 2018
Oil Giant Royal Dutch Shell has known about climate risks of fossil fuel production for six decades. As early as the 1980s Shell knew about their accountability for 4 % of global carbon emissions. Still, while pragmatically protecting their own offshore oil rigs from the dangers of sea level rise, Shell massively promoted climate denial and climate obstruction as the CIEL report shows.
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Smoke and Fumes

Published: 24 November 2017
Oil industry actors had early knowledge of climate risks and important opportunities to act on those risks, but repeatedly failed to do so. Those failures give raise to potential legal responsibilities under an array of legal theories.
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Climate change, smoke and mirrors - A civil society briefing on Geoengineering

Published: 9 October 2017
For the past decade, a small but growing group of governments and scientists, the majority from the most powerful and most climate-polluting countries in the world, has been pushing for political consideration of geoengineering, the deliberate large-scale technological manipulation of the climate.
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Riding the GeoStorm - A briefing from civil society on Geoengineering Governance

Published: 6 October 2017
The prospect of controlling global temperatures raises serious questions of power and justice: Who gets to control the Earth’s thermostat and adjust the climate for their own interests? Who will make the decision to deploy if such drastic measures are considered technically feasible, and whose interests will be left out?
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Ocean Atlas: Understanding the threats to our marine ecosystems

Published: 2 June 2017
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Without the ocean there would be no life on our planet. But the future of this unique ecosystem faces a grave threat today. The Ocean Atlas 2017 delivers with its 18 contributions and 50 graphics the relevant facts and figures about the ocean.
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Stopping Global Plastic Pollution

Published: 3 April 2017
The massive use of plastics has created an enormous global problem with environmental, economic, social, and health repercussions. The only viable solution to the problem would therefore be to stop plastic waste from entering the oceans in the first place. The authors of this paper propose to launch negotiations on a plastics convention and begin to end this irresponsible disaster.
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