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26 January 2020
The week in podcasts and radio: Drilled; Discovery – Ecological Grief
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26 January 2020
Education Cannot Wait Interview with Rt. Hon. Gordon Brown
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By External SourceJan 24 2020 (IPS-Partners) As the world marks the second International Day of Education on 24 January 2020, Education Cannot Wait’s Director, Yasmine Sherif, interviewed one of today’s most prominent and passionate advocates for the global movement to ensure education for all. In his role as UN Special Envoy for Global Education and
26 January 2020
Amnesty’s musical appeal for education of Rohingya and host community children
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By Star Online ReportJan 24 2020 (IPS-Partners) Amnesty International released a music video today on the occasion of the International Day of Education to encourage people of Bangladesh and around the world to support education for Rohingya children and those of host communities in Bangladesh. Bangladeshi hip-hop lyricist and musician Mahmud Hasan Tabib and child
26 January 2020
If you love Australia, climate change should scare the hell out of you | Greg Jericho
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Conservatives love to talk up Australia ‘punching above its weight’, but they turn to self-hating cowards when it comes to climate change I love Australia. It’s not a thing you hear too often from progressives. Mostly this is because we don’t go in for the pathetic jingo-nationalist, quasi-militaristic “love it or leave it” style patriotism
25 January 2020
‘Kids are taking the streets’: climate activists plan avalanche of events as 2020 election looms
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Young demonstrators aim to make the climate crisis a central issue of the presidential campaign Organizers in the youth climate movement plan an avalanche of activities beginning next week, determined to make the future of the climate the major issue of the 2020 election. Capitalizing on turnout in the September climate strikes, when 6 million
25 January 2020
We can’t trust the billionaires of Davos to solve a climate crisis they created | Payal Parekh
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It’s time to turn away from the World Economic Forum and its mass-polluting ‘affiliates’. We need new, radical solutions • Payal Parekh is an international climate activist This week, among the private chalets and deep snow of Davos, the world’s leading politicians and businesspeople have been spending their time at the World Economic Forum (WEF),
24 January 2020
Inequality, Stagnation and Instability ‒ the New Normal for Finance Capitalism
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Inequality out in the open. Credit: A.D. McKenzie/IPS By Yilmaz AkyüzGENEVA, Jan 24 2020 (IPS) The failure of large-scale bailout operations, historically low interest rates and rapid injection of liquidity to bring about a strong recovery from the 2008-2009 financial crisis and recession created a widespread concern that advanced economies suffered from a chronic demand
24 January 2020
Nature Losses Threaten Emerging Economies
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Small-scale slash-and-burn agriculture is one of the deforestation problems in Brazil’s Amazon jungle. Credit: Mario Osava/IPS. By External SourceJan 24 2020 (IPS) More than half of worldwide GDP is moderately or highly dependent on nature, putting biodiversity loss among the top five risks to the global economy, according to a report presented at the World
24 January 2020
David Attenborough to appear at citizens’ climate assembly
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People from across Britain will join TV host to discuss ways to cut emissions to zero by 2050 Sir David Attenborough will address members of the public who are taking part in the UK’s first climate assembly this weekend. The TV presenter and naturalist will appear in Birmingham, where the 110 members are meeting to
24 January 2020
Land tenure, climate and risk management
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Publication date: May 2020 Source: Ecological Economics, Volume 171 Author(s): Matthias Kalkuhl, Gregor Schwerhoff, Katharina Waha Abstract We analyze to what extent climate conditions affect the prevalence of sharecropping as a form of traditional land tenure. We investigate how sharecropping tenure is related to climate risk and how it interacts with fertilizer use and livestock