Green policies
Green policies put the environment, sustainability and social justice at the center of decision-making. In this category, we deal with topics that connect ecology, economy and politics – from climate policies and energy transition, to the protection of natural resources and the participation of citizens in decision-making.
Through texts, analyzes and examples of good practice, we explore how sustainable policies can contribute to a healthier society, a fairer economy and the preservation of the planet for future generations.
Conflicts, militarization, and the environment were the focus of the second public lecture of the School of Political Ecology, held on December 3, with presentations by researchers Dr. Julie Klinger and Dr. Aleksandar Matković.
The lectures and the accompanying discussion examined how armed conflicts, geopolitical tensions, and the current wave of intensified militarization affect nature and society. Held online via the Zoom platform, this public lecture connected issues of security, geopolitics, and ecology, creating space for reflection on alternatives to militarized approaches to natural and social crises.
A large truck carrying sand on a platinum mining site in Africa
After decades of painstaking progress in environmental policies, the European Union is entering a phase in which, under the pressure of geopolitical tensions and the demands of big capital, it is increasingly openly renouncing its own progressive principles of environmental protection and public health.
The proposed amendments to the Criminal Code dangerously expand criminal repression: they criminalize common protest tactics such as road blockades, thereby threatening the right to peaceful assembly; they introduce a vague criminal offense of publishing materials, which could easily be arbitrarily applied to journalists, activists, and citizens; they risk downgrading serious acts of rape to the lighter category of “sexual intercourse without consent,” contrary to the spirit of the Istanbul Convention and to the detriment of victims; and with the definition of a “malicious computer program,” they abandon objective criteria and introduce the need to prove subjective intent, undermining legal certainty.
The Right to Water initiative was a guest in the latest episode of the podcast Tampon Zona!
Polecol is among more than 150 organizations from around the world that signed the letter addressed to the UN Secretary General, who we ask to immediately initiate the work of an expert group for a just transition in the sector of critical raw materials.
On the occasion of the issuance of the Decision on conditions for nature protection - Project "Jadar", 32 civil society organizations dealing with nature protection call on the Government of Serbia and the Ministry of Environmental Protection to take responsibility and take measures to sanction those responsible in the Institute for Nature Protection of Serbia for the non-transparent and illegitimate process of issuing nature protection conditions for the "Jadar" project.
