Opinion

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

Climate change: We need to talk about methane

Ian Scoones

Pandora’s box is open: What should lower-income countries do to tax the wealthy now?

Giulia Mascagni

Rhiannon McCluskey

The market configuration failure behind Covid vaccine supply

The Covid-19 health crisis will continue to disrupt societies globally until the rollout of vaccines can accelerate the end of the pandemic. The development of Covid-19 vaccines in record times is an incredible scientific achievement but, over a year and a half on,...

Anabel Marín

Five steps to telling stories of impact

Stories are an intrinsic part of how we raise awareness, generate understanding and build engagement with the universal development challenges and our work to help those marginalised, living in poverty or with injustice globally. This makes the way we ‘tell’ stories about impact vital as a...

Vivienne Benson

Citizen-led financing of public services in fragile contexts: New evidence from Somalia

Vanessa van den Boogaard

Surveillance laws are failing to protect privacy rights: what we found in six African countries

On paper, privacy rights for citizens of countries throughout Africa are well protected. Privacy rights are written into constitutions, international human rights conventions and domestic law. But, in the first comparative review of privacy protections across Africa, the evidence is clear:...

Ridwan Oloyede

Tony Roberts

Zimbabwe’s bumper harvest: what explains the success?

Ian Scoones