As Brazil prepares to host COP30, the world’s most critical annual climate talks, new analysis from Global Witness reveals ...

Climate protesters are being disproportionately charged following arrest, despite far-right protestors being more violent, ...

Peaceful climate protest in the UK is being policed much more heavily than far-right activism, with environmental activists ...

Analysis reveals one in 25 of COP30 participants represent the fossil fuel industry, with over 1,600 lobbyists given access, ...

Campaigners are hailing today’s COP30 launch of a new global initiative aimed at advancing the recognition, protection, and ...

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I could tell you that, around the world, three people are killed every week while trying to protect their land, their environment, from extractive forces. I could tell you that this has been going on ...

When TotalEnergies first visited Swalehe Nkungu’s remote Tanzanian village in 2018, he and his neighbours were promised favourable compensation in exchange for their land. Five years later, Swalehe ...

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Hundreds of land and environmental defenders are threatened, arrested and killed every year for their part in resisting environmental devastation. We record every name and honour their activism.

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