Climate Change

When women’s rights, voices and priorities are missing from plans, policies address only part of the risk and opportunities, funding bypasses the people who could use it best, and solutions do not match how communities actually adapt. Gender-responsive approaches matter because they help everyone adapt.

If you read the headlines in the western media over the weekend, you’d be forgiven for thinking COP30 was meant to be about getting an agreement on fossil fuels – but that wasn’t even on the agenda for COP30 – so what was COP30 all about?

Securing supplies of critical minerals is becoming an urgent priority for the UK . But this drive comes with significant risks to human rights and the environment. Are critical minerals a new ‘resource curse’?

Advocates and organisers from low and middle-income countries discuss how global development can be reimagined through a justice-led lens. Lena Bheeroo tells us more.

The dust has settled on COP29, leaving behind a hard-won climate finance deal which aims to distribute the benefits of climate action more equitably worldwide. This is a crucial step toward climate justice, but is progress really being made?