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Briefing for councillors on the climate and ecological emergency

Type: Campaign briefings
Date: 17 July 2022
Campaigns: Climate

Globally, many of the most effective initiatives in relation to climate change have come from local councils and the majority of our local councils have recognised the urgency of the […]

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Ten reasons why we need a new pharma system

Type: Campaign briefings
Date: 1 July 2022
Campaigns: Pharma

Big pharma companies have profiteered of the pandemic instead of sharing their vaccine recipes and intellectual property. But this wasn’t a glitch in the system. Pharma companies have behaved like […]

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Coal ransom: How the Energy Charter Treaty drove up the costs of the German coal phase-out

Type: Campaign briefings
Date: 22 April 2022
Campaigns: Climate, Trade

The risk of being sued in ‘corporate courts’ in the Energy Charter Treaty drove up the cost of the coal phase-out in Germany up to twelve times. This is a […]

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ISDS files – Anglo American v Colombia

Type: Campaign briefings
Date: 31 March 2022
Campaigns: Climate, Trade

UK mining giant, Anglo American is suing Colombia after a Colombian court prevented the expansion of the Cerrejón open cast coal mine. Case file summary.

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MP briefing on TRIPS waiver, January 2022

Type: Campaign briefings
Date: 11 January 2022
Campaigns: Pharma

Briefing for the backbench debate ‘Global Vaccine Access’. The TRIPS Waiver and why it matters 13 January 2021  

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Debt and the Climate Crisis: A Perfect Storm

Type: Campaign briefings
Date: 28 September 2021
Campaigns: Climate, Debt

This new joint briefing explains why debt justice is key to addressing the climate crisis.

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Financing justice? UK climate finance and how to increase ambition at COP26

Type: Campaign briefings
Date: 22 September 2021
Campaigns: Climate

In 2010, rich countries pledged to provide $100 billion a year in climate finance to the global south by 2020, but fell well short. Official estimates suggest that rich countries […]

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Briefing: Corporate courts vs the climate

Type: Campaign briefings
Date: 16 September 2021
Campaigns: Climate, Trade

Climate finance for low-income countries is already abysmally insufficient. But thanks to corporate courts, rich countries could end up paying nearly as much to fossil fuel companies as they do […]

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End the debt trap: Cancel Zambia’s debt

Type: Campaign briefings
Date: 6 July 2021
Campaigns: Debt

Briefing and leaflet for Scottish supporters Covid-19 exacerbated an already growing sovereign debt crisis across much of the global south. The pandemic is predicted to push over a hundred and […]

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A Five Step Plan for a People’s Vaccine

Type: Campaign briefings
Date: 20 May 2021
Campaigns: Pharma

People’s Vaccine Policy Manifesto May 2021 The world is facing a vaccine apartheid – billions of people are unprotected facing the threat of illness and death from this cruel disease. […]

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