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Artic ice viewed from aboard the Norwegian Coast Guard vessel, "KV Svalbard", during Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's visit to the Polar ice rim to witness firsthand the impact of climate change on icebergs and glaciers.
© UNPhoto
environment

Agrofuels and climate change: a false solution

A local farmer harvests sorghum produced from seeds donated by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) through the "Improving Seeds" project.
© UNPhoto
environment

The worldwide production of agrofuels

Logo Agenda 2030 per lo Sviluppo Sostenibile
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

An Analysis of The Critiques to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development: The Contribution of the Encyclical Laudato Si’ of Pope Francis

Women's meeting in the Peasant Reserve Zone Perla Amazónica - Puerto Asís (Colombia)
© Yaku
women

Women’s cuerpo-territorio: a space of domination and resistance against patriarchal extractivism

Panoramic view of Lake Charvak, a huge artificial reservoir created by erecting a stone dam on the Chirchiq River - Uzbekistan
© Vladimir V. Burov
environment

Selected Problems of Implementation of the Espoo Convention: On the Example of the Republic of Uzbekistan

View of the melting Collins Glacier in Antarctica, showing the effects of climate change.
© UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe
climate change

The Warsaw International Mechanism for Loss and Damage: the Economical-Political Blockade and Future Prospects for Reparations against Climate Change Impacts

A woman plants some seeds while taking part in a Sahelian plants grow testing and reforestation project in Malamawa village, Zinder Region, Niger on July 30
© FAO/Luis Tato
Land Rights

Land grabbing: what does it truly mean?

People at the marketplace of Lolachat in Uganda
Uganda

Think Globally, Act Locally: Building Rural Climate Resilience in Karamoja, Uganda

Sign in which is written "Water is a human rights".
© Anne Hoffman
water

Human Rights, Water and Development: what role for the United Nations?

African woman in the countryside with goats.
© Kenya © IOM 2011/Brandan Bannon
climate change

Towards a climate migration governance: the new challenge of the 21st century

© Centro Diritti Umani
environment

The Evolution, Status and Future Position of American Environmental Policy: environmental action at the domestic level and in the context of international cooperation (2010)

Permanent People's Tribunal
environment

The Judgement of the Permanent People’s Tribunal, May 2010

Twelve children, who placed the twelve stars on a giant flag spread out on the lawn of the Palace of Europe, 2005
© Council of Europe
environment

The EU’s role in promoting the production and the use of agrofuels: the 2009 Renewable Energy Directive

Farmers work the rice fields in Palung, Nepal
© UN photo
environment

Land tenure and agrofuels

A painting on yellow cloth, created for an exhibit inside the UNESCO Headquarters, in occasion of the International Day for the Abolition of Slavery.
© UNESCO
environment

The inhuman working conditions in monocropping plantations as new forms of slavery