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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 (…) -
People of Sri Lanka demand renegotiation of the IMF deal, debt, and climate justice in the face of the national disaster
10 December 2025 - by Collective
Cyclone Ditwah has inflicted devastating impacts across Sri Lanka. As of December 6, 2025, the death toll exceeds 600, with several hundred still missing, thousands displaced, with massive property, infrastructure, and livelihood damages. (…) -
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 (…) -
Ecosocialism or Extinction: defending life, building free territories, and Ecosocialism of the peoples and for the peoples
28 November 2025 - by Collective
We gather at a moment of a profound offensive of capital against life, within the framework of the actions organized by our peoples in response to COP 30. This encounter has allowed us, once again, to reaffirm that both the rise of the extreme (…) -
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 (…) -
COP 30: it’s no joke
23 November 2025 - by Michael Roberts
The usual joke about the United Nations Climate Change Conferences (COPs) is that each one is a ‘cop-out’. Each time there is a failure to agree on ending fossil fuel production as the source of energy, even though it is now well established (…) -
COP30 Belém: Second Latin American and Caribbean Ecosocialist Meeting
13 November 2025 - by Vanessa Dourado
We are publishing this article by Vanessa Dourado of ATTAC/CADTM Argentina regarding the second Latin American Ecosocialist Meeting, which has recently taken place in Belém. The content of this article, penned by Vanessa to announce the meeting, (…) -
India : Working-Class Priorities as the Principle for Climate Action
11 November 2025 - by Soutrik Goswami
“Climate change is not a separate issue—it is the terrain where all social contradictions intersect... To genuinely confront the crisis, we must reclaim climate action as a political and class project. It must be rooted in redistribution, public (…) -
The Middle East and Fossil Capitalism: Oil, Militarism and the Global Order
10 November 2025 - by Adam Hanieh
For more than a century, the Middle East has been central to the making of the contemporary world order. Today the region is the world’s largest exporter of oil, and its vast reserves have shaped the rise of fossil capitalism and the unfolding (…) -
COP30 and the Brazilian dilemma
6 November 2025 - by Gabriella Lima
A few days before the start of COP 30 in Brazil, we are publishing an article written by Gabriella Lima of CADTM Switzerland and published on 12 October 2025 by the Geneva daily Le Courrier. Gabriella Lima is a doctoral student in contemporary (…) -
For an Ecosocialist Degrowth
6 October 2025 - by Yorgos Mitralias
Why republish the text “For an ecosocialist degrowth,” which was already published in several languages more than three and a half years ago? First, because its initial publication went almost unnoticed, coinciding as it did with the Russian (…) -
Norway: the fossil fuel capital of Europe
8 September 2025 - by Michael Roberts
Norway has a general election today. In a country of 5.6m people, some 4m are entitled to vote and there is usually a high turnout by international standards – over 75%. Indeed, early voting has become increasingly popular, with up to 60% (…) -
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 (…) -
Ecosocialism : an alternative to break with capitalist civilizational crises
12 June 2025 - by Jawad Moustakbal
CADTM is pleased to share the presentation by Jawad Moustakbal, a member of CADTM’s Shared International Secretariat, delivered at the 13th session of the 13th Asian Regional School, which took place at the International Institute for Research (…) -
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 (…) -
Peoples’ Summit towards COP30: Joining Voices for Climate Justice
5 May 2025 - by Collective, La Via Campesina
La Vía Campesina joins the People’s Summit as part of a growing process of mobilization and political convergence for systemic transformation. Together, we are already building a transformation rooted in grassroots struggles — a process that will (…) -
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 (…) -
Pitfalls of resource-national consciousness:
5 February 2025 - by Patrick Bond
ABSTRACT – Frantz Fanon warned in his 1961 Wretched of the Earth of various ’pitfalls of national consciousness’ associated with the shift to post-colonialism. What of a more recent shift, from resource looting to resource nationalism? Are (…) -
Taxation of the rich, reparations and debt cancellation: the urgency calls for radicalism
21 January 2025 - by Eric Toussaint, Maxime Perriot
In the South as in the North, inequalities are yawning wide, and while the responsibility of the States and major corporations of the North in the exploitation of the South is very real, the simple North-South opposition is far too simplistic. In (…) -
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 (…)
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