Ecological debt
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Who killed the poor people of Safi in the recent floods?
5 January 2026 - by Jawad Moustakbal
“Despotism overturns the scales of morality, turning virtues into vices and vices into virtues.”“Injustice destroys civilization, and the consequences of this destruction on the state are corruption and upheaval.” “Muqaddimah” by Ibn Khaldun (…) -
Delhi’s Toxic Air Is a Political Choice: Working-Class Lungs as Collateral Damage
22 December 2025 - by Sankha Subhra Biswas
Every winter, the Delhi NCR region greets its citizens with a familiar grim situation. The sky dims, visibility plummets, and the very air seems to turn against its inhabitants. Schools close, hospitals become overwhelmed, and people are advised (…) -
Cyclone Ditwah and Disaster Capitalism
19 December 2025 - by Sushovan Dhar
Cyclone Ditwah tore through Sri Lanka with a frightening force, leaving behind washed-out villages, broken roads, drowned fields, and thousands of families trying to rebuild their lives from the mud. But as the waters recede and statistics (…) -
Indonesia hit by climate disaster and authoritarian power
15 December 2025 - by Pierre Rousset
Cyclone Senyar has caused deadly floods and landslides in several Indonesian provinces. The toll looks set to be very heavy, and the government’s (non-)risk prevention policy is once again under scrutiny. A week after the cyclone passed, it (…) -
Cyclone Ditwah and Disaster Capitalism
15 December 2025 - by Sushovan Dhar
This audio recording features a public lecture delivered at the Bandaranaike Centre for International Studies (BCIS) in Colombo on 10 December 2025, following Cyclone Ditwah. The main objective of the presentation was not to approach the event as (…) -
COP 30: entrenching the crisis of climate politics
15 December 2025 - by Brian Ashley
As the dust settles after COP30 in Belém, the scale of the failure becomes impossible to ignore. The world is on a path toward catastrophic warming, ecological systems are collapsing, and millions across the Global South face annihilation, not in (…) -
The Great Flood
5 December 2025 - by Balasingham Skanthakumar
Cyclone Ditwah ripped through Sri Lanka between 27 and 29 November. The toll is devastating. Seven days later, the official count is 486 deaths and 341 missing. To which should be added five navy and one air-force officer killed in rescue (…) -
Between ecological debt and the capitalist-colonialist transition: we need to work towards an alternative transition that is fair and sovereign
25 November 2025 - by Jawad Moustakbal
In a world dominated by a patriarchal, colonialist and racist capitalist system that is now threatening the lives of both humans and non-human nature, the concept of ecological debt takes on particular interest: pedagogically, to remind us of our (…) -
For decades, the North has been accumulating an ecological debt towards the peoples of the South
8 July 2025 - by Eric Toussaint, Jorge Muracciole
Argentine journalist Jorge Muracciole interviews Éric Toussaint. From Belgium, the historian and economist raises alarms about the global ecological crisis, asserting that it has reached an extreme level. He emphasises the necessity of fighting (…) -
Peoples against Extractions
20 May 2025 - by Collective
Corporate appropriation and commodification of territories and nature is expanding in sectoral, geographical, and political terms. The extractive mega-projects linked to the exploitation of crucial minerals, the development of large renewable (…) -
Ecological debt : Who is reponsible ? The need for radical alternatives, far from false solutions of green capitalism
11 February 2025 - by Maxime Perriot
At the CADTM South Asia workshop in Colombo, held from Thursday 30 January to Saturday 1 February, Maxime Perriot developed the concept of ecological debt. Who is responsible? What are the false solutions promoted at the COPs, synonymous with (…) -
Debt-for-nature swaps 2.0, a deceptive solution
9 February 2025 - by Pablo Laixhay, Maxime Perriot
Debt-for-nature swaps are back to the forefront of the international stage. Promoted as being an innovative solution to reduce the debt of countries of the South while financing the preservation of nature, those mechanisms have been put forward (…) -
Part 2 of Towards a successful “Great Bifurcation”: Recognize ecological debt
To achieve an ecological bifurcation we have to give up on false solutions
14 January 2025 - by Eric Toussaint, Maxime Perriot
The capitalist system and its institutions have fully integrated climate change into their mental software and suggest false solutions that do not address the issues raised in Part 1 of this series, To successfully achieve the Great Bifurcation (…) -
Part 1 of Towards a successful “Great Bifurcation”: Recognize ecological debt
Environmental and climate debt: Who is responsible?
7 January 2025 - by Eric Toussaint, Maxime Perriot
The concepts of climate debt and ecological debt are central to successfully achieving the ecological bifurcation. The ecological debt owed by States – and in particular the wealthiest States and major corporations – of the North to the (…) -
The CADTM International network condemns the cowardice of Northern governments in response to the climate emergency
29 November 2024 - by CADTM International
The COP29 was another farce. The CADTM International network denounces an event that was riddled from the start by fossil fuel lobbies and by the Azerbaijan government that never had any intention to even start an ecological transition. The CADTM (…) -
African People’s Counter-COP denounces the COP system and demands climate justice for Global South be at the centre of the climate action
12 November 2024 - by La Via Campesina
From October 7th to 10th, the African Climate Justice Collective (ACJC) held the first physical African People’s Counter-COP (APCC) in Saly, Senegal. Over one hundred participants, from 21 countries, representing social movements, grassroots (…) -
Global Week of Action for Climate Finance and a Fossil-Free Future!
13 September 2024 - by Collective
As we head towards COP 29, the issues of climate finance and a fossil fuel phaseout towards a just energy transition are ever more critical for climate action. The upcoming UN General Assembly, the UN Summit of the Future and the Global (…) -
Laundering Carbon—The Gulf’s ‘New Scramble for Africa’
8 August 2024 - by Adam Hanieh
In early November 2023, shortly before the COP28 summit opened in Dubai, a hitherto obscure UAE firm attracted significant media attention around news of their prospective land deals in Africa. ___________________ Reports suggested that Blue (…) -
STOP the IMF and the World Bank!
25 July 2024 - by CADTM International, Collective
This July 22, about a hundred popular movements, networks and social organizations from around the world launch a Call to join forces to put an end to the criminal actions of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank (WB) and the (…) -
Climate and environmental crisis: Sorcerer’s apprentices at the World Bank and the IMF
26 June 2024 - by Eric Toussaint
In July 2024, the World Bank and the IMF will be 80 years old. 80 years of financial neo-colonialism and the imposition of austerity policies in the name of debt repayment. 80 years is enough! The Bretton Woods institutions must be abolished and (…) -
Argentina
Towards the 6th International Ecosocialist Meeting
2 May 2024 - by Maria Elena Saludas
On 9, 10 and 11 May 2024, the 6th International Ecosocialist Meeting and the 1st Latin American and Caribbean Ecosocialist Meeting will be held in Buenos Aires, Argentina.. What is ecosocialism and what does it advocate? Our aim is to put (…) -
ADB violates its own safeguard policies in Nepal Hydropower Project
30 January 2024 - by Sushovan Dhar
The 140 MW Tanahu Seti Hydroelectric Project (THP) is located in the Tanahu District of Nepal’s Western Development Region. It is a storage type hydropower project with a capacity of 140 MW. As part of the project, a dam with a height of 140 (…) -
Oil Jabber heard in Dubai: Our top ten reasons to dismiss the Conference of Polluters 28
16 December 2023 - by Patrick Bond, Desmond D’Sa
The most publicised sentence from the final COP28 document – the first ‘Global Stocktake’ (GST), presided over by oil man Sultan Al-Jaber and co-managed by South Africa’s environment minister Barbara Creecy – is this objective: “Transitioning (…) -
COP28 Dubai: The Other Side of the Story
14 December 2023 - by Farooq Tariq , Zaighum Abbas
A two-member delegation of the Pakistan Kissan Rabita Committee—a member of the Asian People’s Movement on Debt and Development (APMDD)—attended the 28th Conference of Parties (COP28) held in Expo City, Dubai. The final agreement is termed by (…) -
28th session of the Conference of the Parties on Climate Change (COP 28) No to green colonialism, no to the false solutions of green capitalism, no to green normalization, Yes to the sovereignty of peoples over their territories
13 December 2023 - by ATTAC/CADTM Morocco
All official reports on climate, including the report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC ), confirm the worsening of the comprehensive climate crisis associated with global warming and that we are frighteningly close to the (…)
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