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https://www.devex.com/news/bridgetown-agenda-author-rejects-idea-of-climate-reparations-105911?
Devex
Bridgetown Agenda author rejects idea of climate reparations
Economist Avinash Persaud said loss and damage was about “global solidarity” and helping countries rebuild after climate shocks rather than making amends for burning fossil fuels in the past.
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Ever heard of colonial / fortress conservation?
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KlD1v6aP_YZRJ0RNrPNhzJ7yOeH2qyGLe9bcAoIu2FA/edit?usp=sharing
Google Docs
Evidence of abuses by WWF (this is a copy)
Cases of recent evictions and human rights abuses of indigenous communities linked to WWF These abuses are inevitable in a model premised on removing indigenous and local people in order to conserve the land they have been preserving for centuries. …
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Forwarded from Atlas Sarrafoğlu
The Barça Campus is proud to be a model of sustainability, but does FC Barcelona know the stadium’s construction company Limak is responsible for deforestation and committing ecocide in Turkey, happening now?
Please check post of today and yesterday as well to learn more about the destruction

https://www.instagram.com/p/CvSgwAnNIiF/?img_index=1
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https://www.solargeoeng.org/the-global-south-must-rally-to-delegitimize-solar-geoengineering-technologies/
Solar Geoengineering Non-Use Agreement
The Global South Must Rally to Delegitimize Solar Geoengineering Technologies - Solar Geoengineering Non-Use Agreement
The gradual legitimization of solar geoengineering technologies in the discourses on global climate governance is a dangerous trend. As the climate crisis worsens, and the world witnesses increasingly deadly disasters, a section of the scientific and policy…
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https://climatechangenews.com/2023/08/04/gas-fossil-fuel-africa-ghana-debt-pollution-emissions/
Climate Home News
Gas lock-in: Debt-laden Ghana gambles on LNG imports
Ghana's bet on fossil fuel as an economic recovery measure, a strategy that poses the risk of compounding Hhrdships.
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https://docs.google.com/document/d/1innkYKEUKRwhsin4657nL7SSEL_ieBeg/edit#heading=h.30j0zll
Google Docs
Decolonisation Resources.docx
Please note: this is a crowdsourced list of accessible reads to educate ourselves on decolonial and anti-racist thought and practise. Feel free to suggest more. Especially by authors with lived experience. For more info feel free to email me at amierasawas@gmail.com…
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https://www.vice.com/en/article/wx5xgx/in-nigeria-gas-giants-get-rich-as-women-sink-into-poverty
VICE
In Nigeria, Gas Giants Get Rich As Women Sink into Poverty
Women in Niger Delta say gas flaring is destroying their land and livelihoods while international gas companies like Eni and Shell make millions of dollars.
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https://africanarguments.org/2023/08/africa-climate-summit-must-dare-to-speak-the-unspeakable-fossil-fuels/?
African Arguments
The Africa Climate Summit must dare speak the unspeakable | African Arguments
Despite being by far the biggest source of greenhouse gas emissions, leaders skirt around talk of fossil fuels in favour of false solutions.
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What should solidarity look like?
https://agrowingculture.substack.com/p/reimagining-solidarity
Substack
Reimagining Solidarity
Moving towards a culture of shared growth
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https://grist.org/international/locusts-pesticides-kenya-united-nations/
Grist
How a UN-led fight against locusts took a toxic toll on Kenyan farmers
Internal United Nations documents show widespread problems with its distribution of pesticides after a 2020 locust outbreak in Kenya.
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https://www.guernicamag.com/solidarity-rising-sahrawis-know-a-lot-about-the-world-even-though-the-world-doesnt-know-about-them/
Guernica
Solidarity Rising: “Sahrawis know a lot about the world, even though the world doesn’t know about them”
A look at the war for independence in Africa’s last colony
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New report by Powershift africa on the african carbon markets initiative: a wolf in sheeps clothing
https://www.powershiftafrica.org/storage/publications/The%20Africa%20Carbon%20Markets%20Initiative%20Wolf%20in%20Sheep's%20Clothing_1693903765.pdf
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https://www.thecanary.co/global/2023/09/04/global-north-voices-dominate-the-africa-climate-summit-in-a-win-for-big-agribusiness/
Canary
Global North voices dominate the Africa Climate Summit in a win for big Agribusiness
At Africa’s Climate Summit, agents of big agribusiness have co-opted the agenda to promote climate solutions that line their pockets
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https://nation.africa/kenya/blogs-opinion/blogs/abandon-the-disastrous-green-revolution-model-4359106
Nation
Abandon the disastrous green revolution model
From 2021 to 2022, the prevalence of undernourishment on the continent increased from 19.4 per cent to 19.7 per cent.
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https://www.climatechangenews.com/2023/09/07/africa-carbon-markets-initiative/
Climate Home News
A wolf in sheep’s clothing: why Africa should shun carbon markets
Turning Africa, into a source of carbon credits, as proposed by the Africa Carbon Markets Initiative, will benefit polluters and middlemen
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https://theconversation.com/climate-scientists-concept-of-net-zero-is-a-dangerous-trap-157368
The Conversation
Climate scientists: concept of net zero is a dangerous trap
Prominent academics, including a former IPCC chair, round on governments worldwide for using the concept of net zero emissions to ‘greenwash’ their lack of commitment to solving global warming.
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https://m.thewire.in/article/world/rich-countries-proposal-can-block-india-pakistan-from-accessing-loss-and-damage-fund
The Wire
Rich Countries' Proposal Can Block India, Pakistan From Accessing Loss and Damage Fund
Climate conference last year had managed to set up a loss and damage fund for climate vulnerable countries. But for the first time since COP27, a pitched battle has emerged as to who exactly is eligible to use this fund
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https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2023/9/4/feeding-big-agribusiness-starving-africans
Al Jazeera
Feeding big agribusiness, starving Africans
Industrial agriculture has failed to eliminate food insecurity in Africa. It is time for a radically different approach.
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https://views-voices.oxfam.org.uk/2023/09/clean-energy-minerals-fuelling-conflict-sahel/
Views & Voices
The rush for clean-energy minerals risks fuelling conflict in the Sahel – and that has to be on the climate agenda - Views & Voices
The upcoming COP28 must pay attention to how the clean-energy transition may drive further conflict and instability in West and Central Africa.
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/sep/15/rainforest-carbon-credit-schemes-misleading-and-ineffective-finds-report?
the Guardian
Rainforest carbon credit schemes misleading and ineffective, finds report
System not fit for carbon offsetting, puts Indigenous communities at risk and should be replaced with new approach, say researchers
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https://beautifultrouble.org/
Beautiful Trouble
Creative tools for a more just world.
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