Ecology and Environment

Global Warming (“GW”) is winning, and it is gaining. Obstacles to hotter temperatures are falling to the wayside, allowing GW to go for more intense heatwaves along with much, much higher sea levels. Alas, the greenest of green countries are…

Geneva, Switzerland– Demonstrating strong unity, Global South Member States and Civil Society called for ambitious, legally binding global measures to curb plastic production, in a media briefing on the closing day of the second part of the fifth session of…

The future is not in pipes; it is in sovereignty. And Chile has yet to take control. How much is green hydrogen worth and who controls it? Green hydrogen is not just an energy solution. It is a global financial…

Communities and advocates rally against policies that would lock Asia into polluting energy projects and deepen climate inequities   Mandaluyong City, Philippines – 14 August 2025 – Today, environmental advocates and community members gathered outside the Asian Development Bank (ADB) headquarters…

Negotiators are Trading Away our Health and our Future Generations in Favour of an Easy Path to a Weak Treaty 11 August 2025, Geneva, Switzerland – The negotiation towards a global plastics treaty to end plastic pollution reaches a point…

First it was nitrate, then lithium. Today, green hydrogen. And history threatens to repeat itself. The history we did not learn Chile lost its nitrate and did not even grieve. It was taken away in the name of progress, exploited…

Geneva, Switzerland – Midway through the Plastics Treaty negotiations scheduled to end this Thursday August 14, IPEN notes that concerns for the threats to human health from toxic plastic chemicals are widely shared by delegates as momentum grows for a…

Member States and Chair Fail to Act in Stocktake Plenary  Geneva, Switzerland – Plastic pollution is accumulating in our water, air, food, and bodies while the majority of Member States continue to allow themselves to be bullied by a small group…

by Jason Weiner, Executive & Legal Director, Bank Climate Advocates & Nazareth Del Pilar, Just Transitions Advocacy Officer, NGO Forum on ADB Asian Development Bank (ADB) calls itself the “climate bank of Asia and the Pacific.” But with its proposed…

San Felipe, Zambales – With beaches vanishing, resorts collapsing, and livelihoods lost, coastal communities in Zambales are issuing an urgent appeal to President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.: immediately suspend all dredging and sand mining activities across the province. The call comes after a devastating…