Local activism is an important contribution to a struggle for a just and sustainable planet, but the scale of the climate crisis is such that only long-term, legally binding commitments can make a change. We need a new Keynesianism for the environment, writes Susan George.

Residents and activists from the central Mexican state of San Luis Potosí travelled to Toronto to tell the shareholders of a Canadian mining company that their investments are at risk because the billion-dollar Cerro San Pedro gold and silver mine is illegal and environmentally unsafe.

In a declaration presented to the media in Jakarta during the International Conference on Peasant Rights, Via Campesina states that the current massive wave of investment in energy production based on cultivating and industrial processing of vegetal materials will neither solve the climate crisis nor the energy crisis.

A research that includes an independent surveillance in 22 countries on the implementation of the Work Program of Forestry Biological Diversity, agreed by the parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity, was submitted by the Global Forest Coalition in Bonn, Germany.

Communities and organizations opposed to large scale metallic mining in Ecuador are calling the new mining decree passed by the National Constituent Assembly a win for their movement.

Civil Society groups participating in the ongoing UNCTAD XII conference in Accra have kicked against the privatization of water and health services.

Oxfam America and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) agreed on April 4, 2008 to collaborate on creating a common mining code for all of West Africa.

Coca-Cola shareholders should be extremely concerned that the Coca-Cola company continues to increase its liabilities in India by engaging in unethical practices, shareholders were told at the Coca-Cola annual general meeting.

Canada emerged as the pivotal nation behind recent manoeuvres to block the United Nations Human Rights Council from recognizing water as a basic human right, according to international observers.

Brazil's government is unwilling and unable to halt destruction in the Amazon rainforest despite emergency measures it announced last week to curb rising deforestation, environmental experts say.