Subject: This month: Cities Beyond Growth, Decolonising Coca Policy, and Corporate Complicity in Palestine

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Exporting Borders

Frontex and the Expansion of Fortress Europe in West Africa


The EU is pushing its migration control far beyond Europe’s borders. This report exposes how Frontex operates in West Africa under the cover of cooperation, entrenching neo-colonial influence, undermining rights, and reshaping the Sahel into a securitised buffer zone.


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Fossil Water, ‘Renewables Capitalism’

Land, Groundwater, and Solar Power in Siwa Oasis, Egypt


At the edge of Egypt’s Sahara, Siwa Oasis stands as a paradox: solar-powered farms draw life from ancient groundwater while drowning the land they seek to cultivate. This article uncovers how green energy and agribusiness, hailed as sustainable solutions, are accelerating ecological collapse and eroding indigenous lifeways in Siwa.


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Toolkit: Disrupting Energy Corporations for the Liberation of Palestine


This activist toolkit equips grassroots movements with narrative framing, research, and tactical guidance to target energy corporations complicit in the settler occupation and genocide in Palestine. It focuses on Dana Petroleum and Eni SpA, which in October 2023 received Israeli gas licences in Palestinian maritime waters—an act that may violate international law. This potential breach offers strategic leverage to pressure these companies and mobilise globally for an energy embargo to help end the genocide and support Palestinian liberation


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NATO’S 3.5% Spending Goal

Unsustainable on every count


While the planet burns and scientists sound the alarm, NATO met in June not to confront climate collapse, but to fuel further conflict.


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Indigenous Rights and Drug Policy


The UN Coca Leaf Review and Indigenous Peoples’ Rights

Can the WHO Meet the Moment?

Coca Chronicles #5

Will the WHO confront its colonial legacy and right a historic wrong? The critical review of the coca leaf could transform global drug policy and marks an important moment for Indigenous rights and traditional medicine.


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Too Little Too Late

We need to suspend the EU Israel agreement immediately

Israel is committing genocide and ethnic cleansing in Gaza, yet the EU maintains its trade agreement. This double standard exposes Europe's complicity and moral failure. Only an immediate suspension, not a review, can end its support for these crimes.


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Power and politics through keywords in everyday life

What a keyword means to you often depends on which side of the fence you stand. The term ‘land tenure security’ can be protecting poor peasants, but it could also mean legitimizing a land grab by a corporation and legalizing the dispossession of the displaced villagers. Power and politics do operate through keywords in everyday life.


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Rooting Deeper Through Agroecology

The Rooting Deeper Festival was organized on 30 and 31 May in Ede, in the countryside in the east of the Netherlands to share the story and values of agroecology with the general public in a way anyone could enjoy. Agroecology is a science, a set of practices, and a movement that is critical to the transition to sustainable food systems. The festival featured guided excursions to local agroecological initiatives on the first day, followed by a second day with market stalls, interactive workshops, live performances, and meals from local vendors. This blog gives an impression of the festival. 


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Better Public Ownership for a Future-fit GB Energy

Why does energy matter so much? As governments roll out climate solutions, GB Energy promises public ownership and lower bills—but will it deliver real change, or risk undermining trust in the energy transition before it truly begins?


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Civil society groups say there is now even more reason to keep ISDS out of the RCEP

We call on RCEP governments to uphold the exclusion of Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS), which undermines public interest regulation. Civil society organisations are invited to sign this open letter supporting fair, sustainable policy space.


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TNI Updates

Annual report 2024

In 2024, TNI marked 50 years of advancing transformative change. With global allies, we showcased real alternatives, from energy democracy and trade justice to resistance against green colonialism and the Energy Charter Treaty.


Amid rising militarisation and digital capitalism, we connected struggles from Palestine to Myanmar, climate justice to AI governance, reaffirming our commitment to internationalism and a just, democratic, and peaceful future.

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TNI researcher awarded prestigious ERC grant

We are delighted to announce that TNI’s Daniel Chavez has received a major research grant from the European Research Council. His groundbreaking S-OIL project will assess how national oil companies in the Global South can navigate decarbonisation while supporting vital development goals.


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Challenges and prospects for ‘green’ industrial policy in the Global South

Open call for research papers and summer school

The Global Green Industrial Policy Lab invites young researchers from Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean to submit original research on just, ecological industrial policy grounded in the realities of the Global South. Selected proposals will receive funding, mentorship, and the opportunity to present at a summer school in South Africa.


Deadline for submission of proposals extended: July 31, 2025


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Watch back: Key discussions & debates

GreenPaths webinar series


This year, the GreenPaths Project hosted 12 webinars, bringing together voices from around the world — including activists, trade unionists, researchers, policy-makers, and community leaders. Together they explored how governance and public policy must evolve to ensure that socio-ecological transitions in Europe are fairer, more inclusive, and truly democratic.


Watch the full series

Fractures

All the recordings, summaries and resources


Thank you to the activists, thinkers, and co-organisers: AIDC, AEPF, the Global Movement of Network Lawyers, and NOOR, as well as the fellows and friends who supported this powerful series. We've compiled the rich insights on our Fractures page.


All recordings and session summaries remain available for those who want to engage with the content at their own pace.


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Illegal Occupation, Genocide, and Business

Reflections on the Case of Palestine (Part I)

Illegal Occupation, Genocide, and Business: Reflections on the Case of Palestine (Part I)
 

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