The Escazú Agreement is a legal instrument for environmental protection, but it is also a human rights treaty. Its main beneficiaries are the people of the...
The intensity and visibility of wartime environmental damage in Ukraine has helped focus attention on who is collecting data, and for what purpose. On the...
Natural resources play an important role for growth and development in Latin America and the Caribbean. The region is home to extensive reserves of metals and...
Perhaps more than any other area of climate and environmental issues, reaching a binding global commitment to forests has remained elusive. As a result, the...
WATCH: This panel discussion entitled 'Peace Processes and Climate Change: How Should the European Union and Civil Society Co-operate for Sustainable Mediation...
WATCH: This event launched and discussed the findings of the first report connecting conflict dynamics, environmental degradation, and climate change in the...
WATCH: Colombia’s longstanding internal conflict and the country’s contribution to climate change share one common root cause: land concentration. Policies to...
In 2010, the Honduran company Desarrollos Energeticos S.A. (DESA) initiated construction of the Agua Zarca dam on indigenous Lenca territory in western Honduras...
This primer explains the current situation concerning the United Kingdom’s food supply and how this is likely to change in the medium and long term as a result...
WATCH: Dawid Danilo Bartelt, book author and Director of the Heinrich Böll Foundation in Mexico, explains in an interview with ECC the unprecedented level of...
WATCH: Dawid Danilo Bartelt, book author and Director of the Heinrich Böll Foundation in Mexico, addresses the constraints of businesses and the potential of...
There has been a surge in international migration in recent years, reaching a total of 244 million individuals in 2015. Forced displacement has also reached a...
This publication sheds light on the multitude of international cooperative initiatives (ICIs) which are underway outside the formal UNFCCC negotiating process.
WATCH: Latin America is a region that has been both cursed and blessed by natural resource abundance. Competition over control and management of natural...
This case study illustrates the drivers behind Russia's grain export ban as an example for the policy dynamics of a major grain exporter and the consequences...
In 2000, privatisation of the drinking water in Cochabamba incurred violent protests and escalated into the so-called Water War of Cochabamba, which killed at...
To cope with logging and illegal logging, and the obstruction of access to water sources by the owners of haciendas in Montaña Las Granadillas, located in the...
The “El Tambor” mining project, also known as “Progreso VII”, operates through the Exploraciones Mineras de Guatemala S.A. Company (Exmigua), a subsidiary of...
Marlin mine, owned by the Montana Exploradora de Guatemala S.A. company, a subsidiary of Goldcorp Inc. of Vancouver, Canada, is located on Guatemala's western...