Canada: Halt pipeline project with outdated permit

An environmental assessment certificate for the Prince Rupert Gas Transmission (PRGT) liquified natural gas pipeline project expires on 25 November 2024. In 2014, the government approved the certificate even though it found that the project would have significant adverse effects and increase greenhouse gas emissions. Since then, the pipeline route, which goes through several Indigenous Nation’s unceded, ancestral territories, has changed. The indefinite extension of the certificate puts everyone’s right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment and Indigenous Peoples’ ways of life at risk. We call for a new assessment to be conducted, in full consultation with the Indigenous Peoples along the pipeline route. Weiterlesen

Free environmental lawyer Đăng Đình Bách

Environmental lawyer Đăng Đình Bách dedicates his life to protecting people in Viet Nam from pollution and the climate crisis. On 24 June 2021, he was arrested for alleged tax evasion, a tactic used by the authorities to silence environmental activists. He was sentenced to five years in prison. Sign the petition and call on Viet Nam to free Bach immediately. Weiterlesen

Fighting to save their ancestral lands

Wetʼsuwetʼen land defenders are being criminally prosecuted just for defending their lands. Now they are fighting for its very survival, and the survival of our planet during a global climate crisis. Sign the petition and help them protect their land. Weiterlesen

Azerbaijan: Ongoing arbitrary detention ahead of COP29

Anar Mammadli’s state of health has deteriorated considerably in prison. The authorities are refusing to provide the human rights activist and climate campaigner with the necessary medical care. He has been in prison since 29 April 2024 on trumped-up charges and must be released immediately and unconditionally. Weiterlesen

COP29: What you need to know about the global climate summit

The 2024 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP29) opens next week in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan. The summit takes place between 11 and 22 November, and decisions made there will impact all of us. To date, the international community has failed to rein in the deadly activities of the fossil fuel industry, which continues to pollute, burn, and ransack the planet in the face of mounting human suffering. Weiterlesen

Protect the protest in Azerbaijan

Protect the protest in Azerbaijan HERE First published: hier Overview For more than ten years, Azerbaijani authorities have been closing space for civil society. NGOs have been arbitrarily shut down and civil society representatives and journalists arrested or forced into exile.  Azerbaijani authorities have faced international criticism for their alleged torture and other ill-treatment of Weiterlesen