Development & environment

Environment

5 October 2023
Revealing the missing links to climate justice: Drug policy

Revealing the missing links to climate justice: Drug policy

The International Coalition on Drug Policy Reform and Environmental Justice shines a light on how global drug prohibition fuels organised crime, corruption and environmental devastation, and calls for closer collaboration between environmental and drug policy movements.
22 August 2023
Drug policy and pathways to peace in Colombia

Drug policy and pathways to peace in Colombia

As momentum for drug policy reform grows in Colombia, the growers of northern Cauca insist on a clear demand: that profits from legal regulation do not go to armed groups or big business, but to the growers themselves.
22 August 2023
Youth response to the 2023 World Drug Report

Youth response to the 2023 World Drug Report

The Paradigma Youth Coalition present their response to the 2023 World Drug Report, emphasising the importance of involving young people in shaping progressive drug policies with evidence-based approaches, inclusivity and harm reduction at their core.
21 August 2023
If you care about the climate crisis, fight to legalise drugs

If you care about the climate crisis, fight to legalise drugs

Huge profits from the drug trade are financing illegal industries responsible for destroying much of the Amazon, highlighting the often overlooked and complex relationship between drug prohibition and environmental degradation.
5 July 2023
World Drug Report 2023

World Drug Report 2023

UNODC provides an overview of drug markets and related challenges related to health, environmental degradation and conflict.
7 December 2022
IDPC analysis of the UNODC World Drug Report 2022

IDPC analysis of the UNODC World Drug Report 2022

IDPC welcomes the report’s impressive range of data and analysis, as well as its attention to environmental impacts; but regrets the continued lack of acknowledgement of the destructive impact of punitive drug policies, related human rights abuses and opportunities for meaningful reform.