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VIDEO: UN climate talks head Christiana Figueres chats with the Adopt a...
Yesterday, UNFCCC Executive Secretary Christiana Figueres took time out from the Cancun climate talks to chat with youth delegates from Adopt a Negotiator. OneClimate.TV shared this video of their...
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Deborah Phelan: Gender in Cancun
WDF Delegates assemble for training session. Photo by WDF For many women living in the Cook Islands, collecting yellow land snails to make jewelry and other handicrafts is their sole source of income....
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Care International: Women in REDD
Post by By Raja Jarrah – CARE International Climate Change Advisor (REDD) The word REDD is just asking for word play, isn´t it? We have already had REDD alert, we had REDD light, we had the little REDD...
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Tuulia Syvänen: Chief Operating Officer, Fairtrade International
Tuulia Syvanen, Chief Operating Officer of Fairtrade International Every two weeks the TckTckTck team proudly recognizes one of the 300 partner organizations that make up our global climate movement....
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New documentary examines climate impacts on women and families
Photo Credit: Weathering Change – Population Action International Weathering Change takes us to Ethiopia, Nepal and Peru to hear the stories of women as they struggle to care for their families, while...
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Brazil defends global climate change agreement at UN
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff said on Tuesday that her country defends a comprehensive, ambitious global agreement to face climate change within the UN framework. To this end, the countries need...
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Social Justice
Photo by Allan Lissner, COP 16, 2010 According to the WorldWatch Institute, the world’s richest 500 million people (roughly 7% of the population) are currently responsible for 50% of carbon dioxide...
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Women more at risk from climate change than men
Creative Commons: ENOUGH Project An Australian news source recently published a story that examined research conducted by United Nations, the Women’s Environment and Development Organization and the...
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Land and Power: Oxfam launches new report
Creative Commons: Oxfam Italia Oxfam recently published a report highlighting the detrimental effects that the growing pace of land deals brokered around the world is having on poor communities. This...
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Naomi Klein: The fight against climate change comes down to the 99%
Creative Commons: Nicolas Haeringer, 2008 If there is one thing I know, it’s that the 1% loves a crisis. When people are panicked and desperate, that is the ideal time to push through their wishlist...
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Countries must develop plan for climate refugees: Report
Creative Commons: United Nations Photo Service, 1999 The world’s governments and relief agencies need to plan now to resettle millions of people expected to be displaced by climate change, an...
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Youth climate action in Senegal, one tree at a time
Creative Commons: Trees for the Future, 2000 Mbemba Doucouré lives in Senegal, West Africa. Mbemba began his work as an environmental activist in 1992, driven by the need to address issues such as...
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Pro-Zuma Supporters Attack Civil Society at Durban Townhall Meeting
Press Release: Pro-Zuma Supporters Physically Attack Civil Society at Durban Townhall Meeting on Climate Change Issued by: groundWork, Earthlife Africa Jhb 8th of Dec. 2011 President Zuma watches as...
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UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon focused on climate action
Creative Commons: World Economic Forum, 2011 UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has identified sustainability as the key component of his second five-year term in office, which began on Sunday. Ban said...
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Island nations want to fight for their climate future in court
Creative Commons: Nick Lucey, 2007 Small island nations, whose very existence is threatened by the rising sea levelsbrought about by global warming, are seeking to take the issue of climate change...
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In India, reducing pollution will raise human rights
Creative Commons: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, 2010 Outside a village called Mau, in Uttar Pradesh, half a dozen chimneys rise from kilns into a colourless sky. These ovens, six among the...
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Our favourite climate videos this week
Every Friday we select our favourite videos from the climate movement to feature on Tck. This week our video picks focus on what you can do to take action for the climate. Let us know if you agree with...
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It’s time to take a human rights approach to climate change
Creative Commons: United Nations Information Service, 2011 Many of the countries that have contributed the least to greenhouse gas emissions will be the worst affected by global warming, a “climate...
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The Elders’ Alert calls for bold change
Creative Commons: Joe Shlabotnik, 2010 At the first landmark Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, world leaders committed themselves to promoting a new form of development – ‘sustainable...
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Innovations critical to addressing soaring population and climate change
Creative Commons: International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center, 2010 In flood-hit fields in the Philippines, farmers are testing a hardy new variety of rice that can survive completely submerged...
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New study predicts disaster losses to outpace economic growth
Creative Commons: Thomas Hawk, 2006 Disaster losses in many low-and middle-income countries are likely to rise faster than economic growth unless governments change their economic policy to take...
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New U.S. bill calls for the end to ‘pollutor welfare’
Memphis Power Plant- Creative Commons: Dave Barger, 2007 At a time when we have a more than $15 trillion national debt, U.S. taxpayers are set to give away roughly $110 billion to the oil, gas and coal...
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Nanette Braun: The future women want
Rio+Solutions works to provide solutions to challenges that will feature prominently at Rio+20, including jobs, cities, food, water, oceans, disasters, health, science and technology, and women’s...
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Neva Frecheville: Beyond 2015 – what’s the future for development and the...
Courtesy: Neva Frecheville, WWF UK I’m still reflecting on what came out of the recent ‘Beyond 2015′ conference. It’s time for us to be brave and start looking beyond aid, looking beyond development....
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Hanna Thomas: Connecting the dots between climate change and inequality
Courtesy: Hanna Thomas, 2012 Reposted with permission from TckTckTck’s Adopt a Negotiator project, where a team of ten youth trackers are following their country’s roles and profiling some of the...
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Kumi Naidoo: Towards an environment of gender balance
Courtesy: Bas Beentjes for Greenpeace, 2011 I was recently humbled to accept an invitation from UN Women Executive Director, Michelle Bachelet to join her Global Civil Society Advisory Group. In...
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Judith Rodin: For Rio+20, casting our sights at the future we want
Judith Rodin, Rockefeller Foundation As thousands arrive in Rio de Janeiro for the Rio+20 summit to mark the 20th anniversary of the 1992 Earth Summit, it will be a moment not only to assess...
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A failure or an opportunity? TckTckTck partners set the tone for Rio+20
Creative Commons: Mario Roberto Duran Ortiz, 2006 With the high-level segment of Rio+20 and the arrival of world leaders now less than a week away, now is the time for world governments to stop making...
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Amazon citizens occupy Belo Monte Dam site, restore river’s natural flow
Courtesy: Atossa Soltani / Amazon Watch / Spectral Q, 2012 Earlier today, three hundred indigenous people, small farmers, fisherfolk, and local residents occupied the Belo Monte Dam project, removing a...
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50,000 people on the march for concrete actions in Rio+20
Courtesy: ITUC, 2012 Yesterday 50,000 people marched through the streets of Rio de Janeiro demanding that the Heads of State and governments’ listen to civil society. The Rio+20 is going nowhere. The...
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VIDEO: Climate change strikes hard blow to Native Americans
Native Americans make up about one percent of the United States population, but they manage more than 95 million acres of land. Their reservations lie in some of the most diverse ecosystems in the...
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Floods kill 77 in Beijing, China
Creative Commons: Tricia Wang, 2008 At least 77 people were killed by heavy rain in Beijing at the weekend, more than double the number previously said to have died, Xinhua news agency says....
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700M in the dark after blackouts in Northern India
Creative Commons: NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Centre, 2011 More than 700 million people in India have been left without power in the world’s worst blackout of recent times, leading to fears that...
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India blackouts widen as 620 million people swelter without power
Creative Commons: NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Centre, 2011 India’s energy crisis cascaded over half the country Tuesday when three of its regional grids collapsed, leaving 620 million people without...
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Brazilian judge suspends construction at Belo Monte dam
Courtesy: Atossa Soltani, 2012 For several years, civil society and non government organizations around the world have rallied, protested and stood against the construction of the Belo Monte Dam in...
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Supreme court judge overturns suspension of Belo Monte Dam
Courtesy: Amazon Watch, 2012 The Brazilian Supreme Court has overturned the suspension of the Belo Monte Dam, caving to pressure from President Dilma Rousseff’s administration without giving...
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Bishop Theotonius Gomes: Let us be mindful of the poorest when the storms...
Courtesy: CIDSE, 2008 The eyes of the world were on New York as super-storm Sandy approached it at the end of October, leaving behind a trail of devastation along the Eastern Coasts of Central America...
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Coffee on vine photo
Coffee on vine in Darién, Colombia. Creative Commons : Neil Palmer, CIAT, 2010 Source: Flickr
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Indigenous Ecuadorians prepare to resist state-backed oil mining
Amazon Rainforest, Creative Commons: Sara y Tzunky, 2011 A tribe of indigenous people in Ecuador, numbering at around 400 people, is prepared to ‘die fighting’ to protect their land and their way of...
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Hunger and climate justice come together at international conference
A woman doing agricultural work, Creative Commons: Gates Foundation, 2010 World leaders and members of grassroots communities from 60 countries gathered in Dublin on April 15th and 16th to participate...
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Jennifer Morgan: Encouraging signs of progress from Bonn climate talks
Courtesy: World Resources Institute, 2012 Jennifer Morgan is the director of the Climate and Energy Programme at the World Resources Institute. Reposted from Trust.org. A slight breath of fresh air...
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Kelly Rigg: If we break the laws of nature, are we justified in breaking the...
Kelly Rigg participating in civil disobedience at a Virginia, USA chemical plant in the early 1980’s. Credit: Kelly Rigg, 2013 When an email from Tony Leiserowitz popped up on screen the other day, I...
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Join the ‘Get Free’ movement: keep oil out of your back yard
Demand for fossil fuels is leading to toxic drilling, mining and fracking right across the globe, and it has never been more important for New Zealand to defend its land and sea. Yet the government of...
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Kate Pumphrey: How development and climate hang together
Creative Commons: UN Photo, UNICEF, Marco-Dormino, 2010 Authored by Kate Pumphrey, re-posted from E3G Kate is a Researcher at E3G For many years, politics have aggravated the rupture between the...
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Multimillion Shell settlement rejected for deflecting from maintenance and...
The Niger Delta is among the most polluted regions in the world, with more than 7,000 oil spills between 1970 and 2000 that have yet to be cleaned up. Creative Commons: Terry Whalebone, 2007. Bodo...
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Tell Congress: End fossil fuel subsidies
Despite earning billions in profits, oil and gas companies continue to receive subsidies from the federal government. Creative Commons: 2011 Government programs that feed the hungry and heal the sick...
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Join the March for Real Climate Leadership in California
Image courtesy of marchforclimateleadership.org Are you ready to join the largest march for climate change in California history? On Saturday, February 7th, Californians from across the state will come...
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Indigenous communities face growing displacement through ‘land grabs’
Kogui indigenous group, Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia. Creative Commons: Sarahtz, 2014 In the last decade, an increasing number of aboriginal people have been displaced as large companies push...
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Sign the petition: Demand the release of ocean advocate Mohamed Nasheed
Maldives Underwater Cabinet Meeting. Mr Mohamed Nasheed, President of the Republic of the Maldives. Creative commons: Mohamed Seeneen, 2009 The Maldives’ ex-president, Mohamed Nasheed, is an...
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Peruvian farmer seeks claims from German company in landmark climate battle
Lake in Cordillera Blanca, Peru. Creative Commons: Happy Go Lucky Bazarov, 2010 A Peruvian farmer wants a European energy company to compensate him for the impacts caused by climate change that put his...
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