Around 60% of voters said oil reserves in the Yasuní National Park should be left in the ground in binding vote
The Energy Charter Treaty, which Spain is trying to leave, protects investments in fossil fuels and in renewables
The Green Climate Fund suspended a $117 million forest conservation project in Nicaragua over escalating violence against indigenous people.
An upcoming summit on protecting the Amazon has become the focus of a Indigenous and civil society-led campaign to set up an exclusion zone for fossil fuels
As Morocco faces increasingly extreme temperatures, indigenous communities in the country’s southeast suffer the brunt of the climate crisis
The Russian government has clamped down on environmental organisations who they say are a threat to their economic security
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The Council of Europe will discuss the right to a healthy environment at a “historic” upcoming leaders summit in Reykjavik
Four environmental groups are taking the EU Commission to the European Court of Justice over some gas plant’s inclusion in its green taxonomy
The European Court of Human Rights has heard its first two lawsuits on climate change, brought against the governments of Switzerland and France.
The United Nations has ordered the International Court of Justice to advise states on their legal responsibilities on climate change, following a global initiative led by Vanuatu
Indigenous people protect the forests but the organisation writing up a rule-book for high-quality carbon offsets has not adequately consulted them
The European court on Human Rights will rule on whether climate inaction breaches human rights and the case will have global implications
Being recognised as partiuclarly vulnerable can help countries access climate finance and plan adaptation strategies
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Indigenous people in Nicaragua have accused a Green Climate Fund project of exacerbating violence with settlers invading their land
Pressure is building on South Korea’s constitutional court to make a key climate change judgment, as the government prepares to publish its first carbon neutrality plan
The CEO of the Climate Investment Funds has been picked to head the Green Climate Fund as its board faces its first complaint case
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China’s Supreme People’s Court issued the first judicial document to encourage and guide case handling on carbon emissions