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In March 2022, a New York City-sized ice shelf collapsed in East Antarctica, long thought to be relatively stable against rapid change. The Conger-Glenzer ice shelf collapsed following decades of ocean-induced thinning, allowing its long-stabilizing features to transform into destabilizing ones.

Door de oorlog in Oekraïne raken de bodem, de landbouwgrond en het water voor lange tijd verontreinigd. Na elke granaatinslag sijpelt er een cocktail van chemische stoffen in de grond. Honderden fabrieken waar toxisch afval opgeslagen lag, zijn tot puin herleid. En ook het zeewater dreigt vervuild te raken, al doet de biodiversiteit het in de Zwarte Zee momenteel opvallend goed. "Dit is een grootschalig en bijzonder tragisch experiment."

All local communities affected by mining projects should have the right to have a say on whether mining activities will start or continue in their backyard. This belief in community involvement in political, economic, and environmental decision-making is epitomised in a Right to Say No (RTSN), which is the inalienable and collective right of a community to say no (or yes) to extractive projects on the territories/lands they are living within. Currently, there is no real ‘Right’ to Say No outside of iterations of the indigenous right to free, prior and informed consent (FPIC) — it is a right we are asserting, not something we can yet claim. This toolbox will elaborate on the rights local communities already have and those rights that still need to be recognised and enforced, to establish a Right to Say No.

Recent leaks from oil sands tailings ponds have contaminated water, sowing mistrust among local First Nations people