Climate

EU Borderveillance

Report

Read the full analysis of the EU's border control strategy in the following research paper titled: "EU Borderveillance: Maritime Surveillance and Third Country Agreements." by our partner Refugees=Partners The attached research assesses the measures that the EU employs to inhibit migration across the Mediterranean Sea, particularly since the Arab Spring of 2011. Drones and satellites provide the EU with imagery that informs its responses to migrants in the Mediterranean Sea

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Commons and Beyond: Discovering the Commonsverse The 10th MENA Regional Summer School designed to discover the Commonsverse

Building upon the success and rich history of previous editions, the Tunis office, in collaboration with the Rabat, Ramallah, and Beirut offices, organized the 10th MENA Regional Summer School of the Heinrich Böll Foundation from June 2nd to 8th, 2024, titled “Commons and Beyond: Discovering the Commonsverse”. This year’s edition aimed to delve into the multifaceted world of Commons practices in the context of our programme on Transformative Economics.

hands of a person picking grains from a plant

Wild Relatives

Deep in the earth beneath Arctic permafrost, seeds from all over the world are stored in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault to provide a backup should disaster strike. Wild Relatives starts in 2012 when an international agricultural research center was forced to relocate from Aleppo to Lebanon due to the Syrian Revolution turned war, and began a laborious process of planting their seed collection from the Svalbard back-ups. The film follows the path of this transaction of seeds. It captures the articulation between this large-scale international initiative and its local implementation in the Bekaa Valley of Lebanon, carried out primarily by young migrant women. The meditative pace patiently teases out tensions between state and individual, industrial and organic approaches to seed saving, climate change and biodiversity, witnessed through the journey of these seeds.

Dossier: United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP24) Katowice, Poland – 2 to 14 December 2018

Dossier

The 24th Conference of the Parties (COP24) of UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is taking place from 2 to 14 December 2018 in Katowice, Poland. Delegates from the Heinrich Böll Foundation Offices worldwide and their partners are represented in the COP 24. The Heinrich Böll Foundation, Beirut office – Middle East is supporting journalists from the region to travel and report on the conference from Katowice. The following web-dossier includes publications, written and audio-visual media coverage of the Katowice Climate Change Conference from the Heinrich Böll Foundation delegates and journalists in English, French and Arabic.

Radical Realism for Climate Justice

This publication is a civil society response to the challenge of limiting global warming to 1.5°C while also paving the way for climate justice. It brings together the knowledge and experience of a range of international groups, networks and organisations the Heinrich Böll Foundation has worked with over the past years.