“Those who polluted the most – and profited the most – must do far more to repair the damage they caused. Polluters must pay. And to the leaders, cities, civil society and citizens working to hold them accountable: you are on the right side of history. Keep going.” said UN Secretary-General António Guterres.
With hundreds of people evacuated and thousands without power due to wildfires in Türkiye’s Antalya – the Mediterranean coastal province where world leaders will gather for COP31 – 350.org said that the blazes are a reminder that a hotter, drier climate will continue to exact its toll on ordinary people unless leaders act urgently to phase out fossil fuels.
ClientEarth, together with ASEAN Working Group on Social Forestry (AWG-SF) and RECOFTC Indonesia, organised a Regional Knowledge Sharing of ASEAN Guiding Principles for Effective Social Forestry Legal Frameworks (AGP) workshop in Jakarta on 4-5 August. Hosted by Indonesia's Ministry of Forestry, the event aimed to improve the effectiveness, transparency, and inclusiveness of social forestry governance across ASEAN Member States.
As a strong El Niño develops on top of already record global temperatures, leading climate scientists and policy experts warned today that media coverage attributing extreme weather primarily to El Niño is missing the real story, and that the mounting cost of climate disasters is falling hardest on the people least responsible for causing them.
The U.S. Embassy in Jakarta and the Republic of Indonesia’s Ministry of Environment and Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources concluded a highly productive nine-day technical exchange program focused on water quality and environmental monitoring in mining operations.
As London Climate Action Week unfolded against the backdrop of one of the UK’s most extreme heatwaves, journalists, frontline voices and campaigners gathered for a landmark Make Polluters Pay event highlighting the growing political, legal and public momentum to hold fossil fuel companies accountable for climate damage.
