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COP31: Beyond the Negotiating Rooms — Organising to Adapt and Survive

Brian Ashley — 2026-11-11T09:49:25Z

This week the Climate Conference of the Parties (COP) moves to Antalya. From 9 to 20 November, delegates to COP31 gather on Türkiye's Mediterranean coast, with Australia's Chris Bowen acting as "president of negotiations" and the Turkish hosts branding it the "implementation COP". Climate and social justice activists are entitled to ask a blunt question: implementation of what, and for whom?

- Features / Ecology and the Environment, South Africa, Climate

El Niño, La Niña, and a collapse that is not natural

Nahuel Gravano — 2026-10-23T19:32:23Z

A critical reading of climate and its social impacts.

- Features / Ecology and the Environment, Argentina, Climate

Sitting on a time bomb

Phil Hearse — 2026-10-20T12:07:44Z

“In his infamous United Nations speech a year ago, Trump denounced global heating as the “biggest scam in world history.” Since his re-election, Trump has withdrawn the US from the Paris Accords, closed offices and programs dealing with climate change, terminated dozens of experts working on global heating and, crucially, withdrawn billions of dollars aimed at mitigating the effects of climate change.”

- Features / United States (USA), Ecology and the Environment, Climate

Between floods and droughts – towards an ecosocial transformation of the landscape

Gregor Zahn — 2026-10-20T10:26:30Z

The summer of 2026 broke all heat records. We have witnessed unprecedented forest fires in Europe and droughts in regions that, until now, had been largely spared. In this context, it is interesting to examine landscapes and society from the perspective of water.

- Features / Ecology and the Environment, Climate, Switzerland

NATO, the climate crisis and the ecosocialist emergency

Gippò Mukendi Ngandu — 2026-10-03T10:51:09Z

Gippo Mukendi Ngandu, a member of the leadership of the Fourth International, spoke at the anti-imperialist conference NoToNATO to present the links between war and the climate crisis, and to propose the answers put forward in our Manifesto for an Ecosocialist Revolution.

- IVP621 - October 2026 / Ecology and the Environment, Turkey, NATO, Climate

Global warming and the headlong rush of fossil-fuel capitalism: the number one threat to global public health!

Frank Prouhet — 2026-09-24T11:40:01Z

Global warming is a health time bomb, of which deaths from heatwaves are merely the tip of the iceberg. And as is always the case under this system, which combines social and ecological inequalities, the bill is never presented to those who placed the order!

- IVP620 - September 2026 / Climate

The crisis in Nepal: climate crisis capitalism and the political economy of the Himalayas

Kunal Chattopadhyay — 2026-08-30T19:26:09Z

On 26th August part of a glacier and the stone layers beneath it on the northern slope of Langtang Lirung in the Nepal-Tibet border [Tibet is today an “autonomous region” of China] collapsed. The ice and rock avalanche falling down from this nearly 7200 metre mountain was so powerful that its impact created a seismic signal equivalent to a 5.2 Richter scale earthquake. The debris flow then traversed nearly 100 kilometres via Lende Khola river to the Bhote Koshi- Trishuli river system. Villages have been destroyed, the principal road connecting Nepal with China has been isolated, and at least 6 hydel power centres have been damaged according to the news received till now over 500 deaths have been reported from Nepal and Tibet and nearly 2000 people are still untraced.

- IVP619 - August 2026 / China, Nepal, Climate

Climate events provoke tensions in the Arab world

Luiza Toscane — 2026-08-02T08:54:03Z

The countries of the Arabic-speaking region experienced floods last winter (Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Oman, Saudi Arabia). Six months later, the region is experiencing extreme temperatures: from 40° to 50° in the Maghreb and 50° and more in Iraq and the Arabian Peninsula, with an average of 35° in Gaza (meaning 50° in tents). Deaths due to the heatwave are estimated to be in the hundreds in Tunisia.

- IVP619 - August 2026 / Palestine, Syria, Iraq, Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Climate, Yemen, Oman

Heatwaves & strategy

Daniel Tanuro — 2026-07-26T07:58:08Z

“Whilst ecosocialism has made great strides in its ability to offer a comprehensive alternative for society, its supporters must still prove that they are capable of engaging in politics – that is, of fighting for power.”

- IVP618 - July 2026 / Climate

China Hit by “Deadly Weather Events”

Pierre Rousset — 2026-07-23T07:39:04Z

During the first ten days of July, cyclones (typhoons), tornadoes, storms, severe weather, floods, and landslides wreaked havoc in the central and southern parts of the country—and beyond. China is facing extreme weather events intensified by the climate crisis.

- IVP618 - July 2026 / China, Climate