Features & Opinion

COP27 begins next week and this year’s host is Egypt, an authoritarian country accused of human rights abuses. Journalist Georgie Hughes considers whether productive talks can take place when the host country has a history of persecuting critics and activists.  

Following the recent deaths of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira in the Amazon, Charlie Jaay investigates the dangers that activists raising the alarm against environmental atrocities across the world face and learns of attempts to silence them.