International Environmental Policy

Climate change, biodiversity loss, plastic pollution: We are working on the major environmental crises of our time and are arguing for a socio-ecological transformation based on climate and resource justice. This requires a very rapid exit from coal, oil and gas, an end to the exploitation of nature and man and a critical and precautionary use of technologies.

Recent articles

Aufmacherbild zu Erklärfilm: Ein Technofix für das Klima? Land-basiertes Geoengineering (BECCS)

Delay, Distract and Deceive: an Overview of BECCS Developments in South America, Africa and Asia and their Impacts on Real Climate Solutions

Commentary

Bioenergy Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS) technologies are among the most problematic in carbon removal geoengineering. This two-part series analyses the status of BECCS in South America, Africa, and Asia and shows that BECCS is far from being the silver bullet to climate change that some actors portray it to be.

By Coraina de la Plaza, Kwami Kpondzo and Souparna Lahiri

The Future of Climate Finance Provision is at the Center of COP28 Negotiations

Analysis

When COP28 starts on November 30 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, no less than the future of climate finance provision will be front and center throughout negotiations.

By Liane Schalatek

A huge coal mine with excavators looking small

COP 28: Why global carbon pricing and trading platforms are false solutions

Analysis

Article 6 of the Paris Agreement proposes global carbon pricing and offset mechanisms that will expand carbon trading to an unprecedented scale and jeopardize life on the planet.

By Tamra Gilbertson and Tom BK Goldtooth

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Topics

50 Years of International Environmental Policy

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) - 6th Assessment Report

Climate

Geoengineering

Biodiversity

New Economy of Nature

Inside the Green Economy

Plastic

Luftaufnahme einer kleinen Mine in der Nähe von Mt. Isa Queensland.

Resource Politics

Publications

Cover of the E-Paper, background image: a huge mine.

Value Addition in the Context of Mineral Processing

Study

This report takes a look at metal processing on the basis of six exemplary metals, which are essential to achieve decarbonisation.

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Southeast Asian Perspectives on the Operationalization of the Loss & Damage Fund

Policy Brief

For Southeast Asian countries, the Loss & Damage Fund should be a standalone Fund, easily accessible to local communities, and open to innovative financing.

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Transformation by design, not by disaster

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

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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