Ecological debt
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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 (…) -
How the BRICS+, Africa Climate Summit, G20 and UN Prepare Us for Planetary Arson
Summary In the months prior to the 2023 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change conference (hosted in Dubai), summits held by global, ‘multipolar’ and continental-African elites are worthy of consideration in part because their (…) -
Cancel the debt now to deliver climate justice!
30 November 2023 - by CADTM International, Collective
To mark Cop 28, the CADTM International Network is joining forces with over 550 organisations, activists and academics to call for debt cancellation for the Global South. 54 countries in the global south are in debt crisis. Debt drains (…) -
The Palestinian people have a right to their lives, land and sovereignty
30 October 2023 - by GRAIN
The CADTM shares GRAIN’s point of view and in-depth analysis, in solidarity with the Palestinian people. Israel’s retaliation for the 7 October 2023 attack by Hamas has rapidly evolved into another phase of what can only be considered a (…) -
An Urgent Call for Debt, Climate and Economic Justice
9 October 2023 - by CADTM International, Collective
Communities all over the world are struggling and resisting the impacts of multiple crises. At a time of intensifying climate impacts and speculative increases of food and energy prices, governments, particularly in the Global South, are (…) -
Economists of the world say yes to the Yasuní National Park in Ecuador
13 July 2023 - by Eric Toussaint, Alberto Acosta, Pierre Salama, Joan Martínez Alier, Wilma Salgado, Rosa Sueiro, Aleida Azamar
On 20 August, Ecuador will vote in a historic referendum to suspend oil extraction and keep the remaining oil reserves in the ground in Block 43 or the ITT field. This field is located in the Yasuni National Park, in the heart of the Ecuadorian (…) -
Deal in Ignominious Green in the Galapagos
21 June 2023 - by Anne Theisen
According to Julien Bouissou’s article in Le Monde on 18 May 2023, ’cancelling the debt and offsetting it with a set of measures to safeguard the biodiversity of the Galapagos archipelago, a UNESCO world heritage site’ is an ’extraordinary green (…) -
[Video] Le CADTM joins the international campaign Debt for Climate and calls for the cancellation of the illegitimate debts
28 February 2023 - by CADTM Belgique, Scientist Rebellion Belgium, Extinction Rebellion Belgium
On the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the cancellation of Germany’s debt, CADTM, Scientist Rebellion Belgium and Extinction Rebellion Belgium joins the international Debt for Climate campaign and calls for the cancellation of the (…) -
Financing the 30x 30 agenda for the Oceans: Debt for Nature swaps should be rejected
16 December 2022 - by CADTM, Collective
1. At the UN Biodiversity Conference, or COP-15, the post-2020 framework will likely endorse the target of declaring 30% of the world’s land and oceans as protected areas by 2030. We recognise that protected areas can be effective means to (…)
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