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Environment: Cost of fuel, what ecosocialist responses?

NPA-A Environment commission — 2026-04-05T05:16:25Z

The war is fuelling the profits of fossil fuel companies while aggravating the ecological and social crisis. Faced with exploding prices and organized dependence on all oil, it is urgent to impose immediate measures while breaking with fossil capitalism.

- IVP615 - April 2026 / Ecology and the Environment

Popular Feminism: The Radical Force Capable of Defeating the Far Right in Brazil

Women of Centelhas — 2026-04-01T12:20:09Z

This year, 2026, marks the 20th anniversary of the occupation of Aracruz Celulose by women from the Landless Rural Workers' Movement (MST), Via Campesina and the World March of Women – a milestone in the radicalisation of women's struggles in our country and across Latin America.

- Feminism / Brazil, Ecology and the Environment, Women, Features

The EU and green colonialism in Serbia

Denis Verstraeten — 2026-01-28T11:44:33Z

Environmental struggles and protests against the destruction of the natural environment are common in the Balkans, and Serbia is no exception. The most recent and symbolic of these is the protest against the installation of lithium mines in the west of the country. During our trip, we met with an activist from the anti-extractivist collective Marš Sa Drine in a hotel in downtown Belgrade, away from the prying ears of the Vučić regime.

- Features / Ecology and the Environment, Serbia

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

TotalEnergies must face up to its responsibilities in Mozambique

Paul Martial — 2025-12-04T21:51:30Z

A complaint against TotalEnergies for complicity in war crimes in Mozambique has just been lodged with the National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor's Office (PNAT), following the ‘container massacre'.

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

Free public transport in Ukraine

Denys Gorbach, Simon Pirani — 2025-11-19T15:35:31Z

The common weal versus capitalist modernity.
Free public transport can open cities to all. It combats social injustice and can also help to tackle climate change, by moving away from car-centred urban transport systems.
Public transport has been made free in more than 130 municipalities in Brazil – and, in Europe, Luxembourg; Tallinn, Estonia; Belgrade, Serbia and several French cities.
In this interview, the writer and activist Denys Gorbach talks with Dr Simon Pirani about Kryvyi (…)

- Features / Ecology and the Environment, Ukraine, Public services

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

COP30: The shift to green capitalism fails to materialise

Christian Zeller — 2025-11-15T15:35:28Z

Despite dramatic warning signs, global politicians continued to back the fossil fuel-based economic order.

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

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