People’s movements and organizations gathered together on November 17-18, 2023 for a Climate Justice Assembly with the theme “Advancing Peoples’ Action Towards Just and Equitable Transition in Bangladesh.” The Assembly is participated by more than 700 community leaders and representatives from the fishers, farmers, workers, women, indigenous peoples, and theContinue Reading
SUPPORT NEEDED! Climate and energy campaigners led by the Pakistan Kissan Rabita Committee (PKRC) call for China’s support in the rapid development of more renewable energy projects in the country instead of coal and gas. GREEN THUMBS UP! The Bangladesh Waterkeepers Alliance and its partner CSOs urge China to doContinue Reading
Rather than delivering long-overdue and much-needed finance for climate action, the US government has repeatedly denied liability for reparations, continually funded fossil fuels, advanced unjust climate finance arrangements, and kept its climate finance pledges unfulfilled. This coming Second Pledging Conference of the Green Climate Fund on October 5, and 4thContinue Reading
The Asian Peoples’ Movement on Debt and Development (APMDD) calls on the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) to hold the Global North to their commitments to solve the world’s most pressing, interrelated challenges. We likewise call on them to place justice for Global South countries at the center of newContinue Reading
More than twenty thousand people took to the streets today in 10 Asian countries to demand a rapid, just and equitable end to fossil fuels. The Asian mobilizations kicked off historic climate marches happening around the world this week. Millions are expected to join more than 650 climate marches andContinue Reading
On the first day of the Paris Summit for a New Global Financing Pact protests were held by peoples movements and in seven major cities in Asia. Protesters gathered in city landmarks and in front of the French embassy in Dhaka, New Delhi, Jakarta, Lahore, Kathmandu, Colombo and Manila. Peoples’Continue Reading