Environment

Activists from US and Canada recently organized a three-day series of gatherings, marches, and rallies in defense of the Salish Sea, waterways extending from Washington state to British Columbia.

To ensure that small-scale producers participate fully in meeting urban food demand, policy measures are needed that foster the adoption of environmentally sustainable approaches.

Storms do not discriminate, but they make landfall on societies that do. The global warming we fail to reduce needs to be compensated by an equivalent reduction of injustice. Political agendas need to prioritize solutions that advance ecological safety and dissolve socio-economic vulnerability.

A new investigation by Oxfam reveals how the world’s top ten food and beverage companies are failing to protect environmental and human rights defenders caught in the companies' supply chains.

The most impacted continent by climate change and weather induced disasters – Africa, which contributes only 4 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions – is now experiencing back-to-back droughts that have left at least 8.5 million people in Ethiopia in dire need of food aid. At the same time, severe drought has deepened in Somalia with the risk of famine looming for about half the population.

Imagine a world with as many as one billion people facing harsh climate change impacts such as devastating droughts or floods, extreme weather, destruction of land and natural resources, and the consequences of famine and starvation. The speed with which climate change has been taking place might lead to such a scenario by 2050. If so, 1 in 9 human beings would be on the move by then.