COP stands for “Conference of the Parties", which is a generic phrase in international relations-speak meaning a committee created after an international treaty is signed, tasked with making decisions ...

Conflict coltan from DRC is already finding its way into electronic devices, and accelerated AI and data centre demand could ...

With their forests and farmland vanishing into sterile monocultures, Dayak communities in Indonesia have mobilised to resist the land grabs ...

The renewable energy boom has triggered a new rush for resources, as countries race to secure their supply of transition minerals. But this push for clean technology could quickly turn dirty, unless ...

Copper will be essential to the world’s decarbonisation plans, but is there enough of it to go around? We examine this ...

We document killings and disappearances where there is a reasonable and suspected link to an individual’s activism in defence of the land or the environment. As well as individuals who are directly ...

Last year, 124 people were murdered for doing this work. We acknowledge that the names of many defenders who were killed last year may be missing, and we may never know how many more gave their lives ...

Take the resistance of Dayak communities in Indonesia. Corporate clearances were destroying community farmland and customary forest, while also fuelling the loss of carbon-rich peatlands and orangutan ...