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The International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) has recently released Fostering a Just Energy Transition: A Framework for Policy Design, a report that marks an important moment in global energy debates. At a time when renewable energy deployment is accelerating worldwide, IRENA explicitly recognizes that the […]

International Human Rights Day exposes how climate breakdown is not only an environmental crisis but a structural human rights emergency already reshaping lives and territories across the Global South. For Kallied, a community of practice rooted in the struggles of land and environmental defenders, this […]

Climate Economics with a Human Face: Why Latin America’s Transition Starts with Protecting Defenders The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean’s 2025 report on the economics of climate change reframes the crisis as a structural development problem, not just a technical emissions challenge. […]

In her most recent report to the UN General Assembly, Tipping Points: Human Rights Defenders, Climate Change and a Just Transition, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, Mary Lawlor, delivers an urgent message: the world is failing those who are […]

Rebuild the Future: From Loss to Repair and Justice A Global South Call for Climate Recovery and Resilience   Our Shared Reality From Beirut to Belém, Sana’a to the Sahel, the Global South is experiencing a convergence of crises: conflict, economic collapse, ecological breakdown, and […]

A recent advocacy brief by the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and partners (including CELS and Observatorio Ciudadano, both members of our community of practice)  outlines why reframing climate action through the lens of human rights and environmental justice  is urgent and how States, […]