In a dangerous step backwards, Papua New Guinea has prioritized profits over the rights of its citizens. “The new laws are meant to protect the interests of investors at the expense of the environment and the resource owners. The new laws are selling out the rights of the people.”
The forests of Totonicapan cover about 45,000 acres – an impressive reach in the densely populated aldeas in this central part of Guatemala near Quetzaltenango. The twenty-eight communities that steward these forests are Quiche Maya, descendants of royalty who settled in this valley centuries ago. For them, a healthy forest signifies clean water, and they continue a long-held tradition of protecting and tending to their trees.
It is a country with great natural beauty and human potential, but the need for grassroots activism to protect its precious resources is even greater. Greengrants has been funding small environmental groups in Uganda for almost ten years, and we are inspired to see that the momentum is building.
This ‘People’s’ Conference provides an opportunity to put civil society back into climate negotiations. Its outcomes—informed by representatives of indigenous peoples, rural villages, and coastal communities—will be powerful forces in re-shaping the climate change policy debate into one focused on the lives and lands at stake in a rapidly changing world.
Maria Hadjimichael was deeply affected by the recent earthquake and subsequent tsunamis that devastated communities in central Chile. She had visited some of the communities during her dissertation research for her Master’s and, after the disaster struck, she decided to take action to help the shattered towns she had come to love. As a fundraiser […]
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