Opinion

‘Education is freedom’ – turning the rhetoric of inclusion into action

Paulo Freire is often quoted as saying education is freedom. Education in general has changed drastically in the 100 years since he was born, yet questions remain as to whether these changes are moving us all closer to the freedom that Freire envisaged or whether some people continue to be left...

Stephen Thompson

PASTRES at COP26

Ian Scoones

The World Bank and IMF are using flawed logic in their quest to do away with the informal sector

Max Gallien & 2 others

COP26: why a more sophisticated debate on livestock and the climate is needed

Ian Scoones

COP26: Let’s talk about social assistance in protracted crises

If the global pandemic has taught us anything, it is that crises will hit the most vulnerable the hardest. This is no truer than in the context of climate change. As global leaders take part in the COP26 Global Climate Summit, finance, energy transitions, burden-sharing, and resilience are some...

Lars Otto Naess

Carolina Holland-Szyp

Policing environmental injustice – embracing abolition

Environmental justice (EJ) is a central concept to much community organising against destructive extractive and infrastructure projects and polluting industries. In recent years, abolitionist campaigns that seek to reduce or eliminate policing and related institutions and practices have become...

An uncomfortable truth? Religious diversity reality in most humanitarian settings

What's the best way to include religious diversity in humanitarian settings? Olivia Wilkinson and Jennifer Philippa Eggert, of the Joint Learning Initiative on Faith and Local Communities (JLI), share insights on their new working paper co-published by JLI and the IDS-led Coalition for Religious...

Disrupting adultism in the climate change conversation

To achieve climate justice the world must leave fossil fuels in the ground

The climate crisis is fuelled by a global development model built on historical extractivism with the ongoing unequal exchange of resources causing unprecedented threats, especially for the world’s poor. These threats are manifested in extreme weather events and disruption of food and water...

Climate Justice: What recognition has to do with it

In order to obtain climate justice, there is a need for recognising recognition. In the new article for the upcoming IDS-Bulletin special issue on climate justice we show how powerful actors exercise their power in ways that cause climate injustice for poor and vulnerable groups in the global...

Why mainstream narratives on climate and livestock create multiple injustices

In the build up to COP26 in Glasgow there has been much talk of curbing emissions of methane, with livestock farming being pointed to as a major culprit. The Global Methane Pledge, now signed up to by over 30 countries, aims to reduce methane emissions by 30 percent by 2030. This could have...

COP26: Time to reframe climate and environmental justice

The language of justice relates to nearly everything on the agenda at COP26, whether on the inequality and injustices of the impacts of climate change, the injustice in the distribution of climate funds, or the injustices from policies to reduce emissions. Yet beyond the broad statements of the...

Amber Huff

Lars Otto Naess