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New Net Zero Briefing From Amazon Watch
The Amazon Rainforest-Sized Loophole in Net Zero Amazon Watch July 2021 Trading forest protection for continued greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) presents a false and dangerous "solution" to the climate crisis. Instead, emissions must be drastically reduced, forests must...
First Nation’s court victory sets precedent for equitable compensation
First Nation’s court victory sets precedent for equitable compensation National Observer 21 July 2021 John Woodside More than 90 years after the Lac Seul First Nation’s reserve land was flooded to build a hydroelectric dam, Chief Clifford Bull says his people may...
False Solutions to Climate Change with Dr. Rachel Smolker
In this episode of Breaking Green, GJEP's new podcast, we talk with biologist Dr. Rachel Smolker about false solutions to climate change. The ravages of Global Climate Change are becoming more apparent every day, and people...
Earth Watch: Francisca Stuardo On Land & Water Defenders In Chile & Honduras
Francisca Stuardo is a Santiago-based consultant for the international climate advocacy group Global Witness. She works on their land and environmental defenders campaign, which highlights threats against activists and pushes businesses, financiers and governments to...
Earth Minute: Heat Wave & Climate Change
Sojourner Truth with Margaret Prescod · Earth Minute: Heat Wave & Climate Change A record-breaking heatwave struck the United States Pacific Northwest last week resulting in nearly 200 deaths. In Oregon, health authorities reported 116 deaths, while Washington...
July 2021 Update From Global Justice Ecology Project
Global Justice Ecology Project July Update Please support GJEP’s work to protect forests, advance climate justice & build alliances for systemic change! Photo of the Month Indigenous environmental defenders continue to have some of the most dangerous jobs in the...
Earth Minute: Byhalia Pipeline
Sojourner Truth with Margaret Prescod · Earth Minute: Byhalia Pipeline Pipeline developers in Tennessee have announced they are pulling the plug on the Byhalia Pipeline, a proposed pipeline that would have gone through communities across the South to transport crude...
¡Berta Caceres Presente!
Note: More than five years after we first reported on the assassination of Berta Caceres, an ally in our work to defend the rights and lands of Indigenous Peoples in Central America, finally some justice has been won with the conviction of the man who masterminded her...
Fears for Chilean Indigenous Leader’s Safety After Police Shooting
Note--In late 2019, GJEP's Orin Langelle and Anne Petermann were in Chile with Gary Hughes of Biofuelwatch and Alejandra Parra of RADA to document and support the peoples' uprising there. While in Temuco, Chile following work to document a Mapuche reoccupation of...