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Indonesia hit by climate disaster and authoritarian power

Pierre Rousset — 2025-12-12T06:41:49Z

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 is still impossible to measure the full extent of the devastation in the provinces of Aceh, North Sumatra and West Sumatra. At least 961 people have lost their lives, with nearly 300 still missing, over 156,000 homes have been damaged or destroyed, (…)

- IVP611 - December 2025 / Solidarity after disasters , Indonesia, Climate

COP 30: entrenching the crisis of climate politics

Brian Ashley — 2025-12-06T18:11:50Z

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 distant future, but today. The world's political and economic elites arrived in the Amazon to negotiate when the 1.5°C target had already slipped out of reach, and they left with little more than symbolic gestures. No binding emissions cuts. No serious plan to phase out fossil fuels. No meaningful climate finance for adaptation. No accountability for the destruction already unleashed.

- IVP611 - December 2025 / Ecology and the Environment, Climate

Social movements and COP 30: transnational alliances against the global extractivist offensive

Maureen Zelaya Paredes, Pedro Ramiro — 2025-11-18T14:00:26Z

While empty promises are repeated in Belém, a plurality of social, indigenous and environmental movements are promoting an internationalist agenda against extractivism and for climate justice from various meeting spaces.

- IVP610 - November 2025 / Brazil, Ecology and the Environment, Climate

Brazil, COP30 and the extractivist paradox

Miguel Urbán Crespo — 2025-11-16T08:32:26Z

With each passing day, the evidence—not only scientific but also empirical, as seen in [the floods in] Valencia last year—confirms the ecological emergency. Not as a phenomenon of a grim future, but as a present reality. The UN Secretary-General himself, António Guterres, stated that 2024 was "a masterclass in climate destruction." This statement was part of his opening address at the COP29 global climate summit in Baku, exactly one year ago.

- IVP610 - November 2025 / Brazil, Ecology and the Environment, Climate

Palestinian COP30 coalition demands

Collective — 2025-11-15T15:34:02Z

For nearly two years, Israel has waged a livestreamed genocide against Indigenous Palestinians in Gaza and across historic Palestine, devastating lives, land, and ecosystems. UN experts have described Israel's crimes as including domicide, urbicide, scholasticide, medicide, cultural genocide and ecocide. In September 2025, the UN Commission of Inquiry confirmed that Israel is committing a genocide in Gaza.

- News from around the world / Palestine, Ecology and the Environment, Climate

Greece: Mobilisation for the environment, a key issue

Andreas Sartzekis — 2025-02-04T15:57:00Z

Greece is one of Europe's worst examples of environmental policy. The most well-known damage is caused by fires, but recent industrial and energy policy, particularly under Prime Minister Mitsotakis, has been a disaster, also in democratic terms.

- IVP601- February 2025 / Greece, Ecology and the Environment, Climate

Flooding tragedy strikes Valencian Community

Daniel Geffner — 2024-11-06T15:09:32Z

“The outpouring of solidarity and the desire to help those affected show that, in the face of the TINA (“There Is No Alternative”) of Thatcherism and neo-liberalism, with its religion based on individualism and the commodification of life and society, it is possible to challenge not only its rhetoric but also its practice by creating popular power from below and from the left. ”

- IV598 - November 2024 / Spanish state, Solidarity after disasters , Climate

Brazil is burning

Israel Dutra, Roberto Robaina — 2024-09-20T13:24:44Z

The fires and air pollution across the country demonstrate the insufficiency of government measures and demand popular mobilization for the climate emergency

- IV596-September 2024 / Brazil, Climate

Statement from the Organizing Committee of the 1st Antifascist International Conference

Collective — 2024-05-08T13:50:32Z

“In this calamitous situation, we are unable to maintain the Antifascist International Conference on the proposed date.”

- News from around the world / Brazil, Far Right, Climate

Historic victory for the “Aînées pour le climat”

Maryelle Budry — 2024-04-22T20:33:10Z

“They accused Switzerland, with evidence to back up their accusations, of failing to take care of their health and well-being in the face of increasingly worrying heatwaves, and of failing to take steps to achieve the target set for 2030 by the Paris Agreement in 2015.”

- IV591 - April 2024 / Women, Climate, Switzerland