CETRI
actualites
Leveraging the ICJ Opinion to Secure a Just Climate Future for the South during (...)
Daniel Uribe Terán 24/11/25
The 30th Conference of the Parties (COP30) in Belém converges with the recent International Court of Justice (ICJ) Advisory Opinion on Climate Change, creating a critical inflexion point for global climate action. This policy brief analyses how (...)
La diplomatie climatique africaine entre affirmation et marginalité
Moïse Tsayem Demaze 02/09/25
Les pays africains se sont tardivement investis dans l’agenda international du climat. Ils se coordonnent désormais sous la bannière de la justice climatique. Bien qu’elle fasse de plus en plus parler d’elle lors des COP, la diplomatie africaine (...)
Avis de tempête : Haïti face à l’injustice (notamment) climatique
Frédéric Thomas 23/01/20
Haïti est l’un des pays les plus affectés par les changements climatiques. Sa vulnérabilité est la combinaison d’une exposition « naturelle » et de conditions sociales. Les manifestations qui secouent Haïti depuis juillet 2018 visent aussi à renverser (...)
Weathering the storm
Alex Randall 29/07/19
How do we view those who choose to move location to escape the effects of climate change ? Are they competition for resources or hardy survivors ? Abdulkadir is caught in the middle of a deep political schism over climate change and migration. (...)
Bay of Bengal : depleted fish stocks and huge dead zone signal tipping (...)
Aaron Savio Lobo, Amitav Ghosh 02/02/17
he Bay of Bengal’s basin contains some of the most populous regions of the earth. No less than a quarter of the world’s population is concentrated in the eight countries that border the bay. Approximately 200 million people live along the Bay of (...)
Climate schizophrenia : From Paris with love for lake Poopó
Pablo Solon 22/12/15
Lake Poopó becomes a desert while in Paris, governments conclude an agreement they call « historic » to address climate change. Will the Paris Agreement save over 125,000 lakes that are in danger of disappearing in the world due to climate change ? (...)
COP 21 : ¿Camino a la Conferencia de las Partes o al Colapso Planetario (...)
Maritza Islas 13/11/15
Desde el siglo XIX, diversos científicos advertían sobre el incremento de las emisiones de CO2, y sus efectos en el calentamiento global, al mismo tiempo que señalaban la vinculación de las actividades humanas con dicho proceso. En 1861, el físico (...)
Climate Change Is a Crisis We Can Only Solve Together
Naomi Klein 24/06/15
The very idea that we—as atomized individuals—could play a significant part in stabilizing the planet’s climate is objectively nuts. First of all, a huge congratulations to all the graduates—and to the parents who raised you, and the teachers who (...)
Latin America : Women in Resistance and Resilience
Leny Olivera 21/05/15
Climate change impacts more on women. It has a direct and amplifying effect on the violence that intersects their lives, despite the fact that women have less impact on the environment than their male counterparts. Women have historically (...)
Changement climatique et Amazonie
François Houtart 22/01/15
A la fin décembre 2014, les Nations unies ont organisé la dernière réunion préparatoire à la Conférence de Paris sur le changement climatique. Durant ce sommet, Il a été fait référence à plusieurs reprises à la forêt amazonienne. Le tribunal d’opinion sur (...)