Publication date: June 2020 Source: Ecological Economics, Volume 172 Author(s): Jacob Smessaert, Antoine Missemer, Harold Levrel
Publication date: June 2020 Source: Ecological Economics, Volume 172 Author(s): Jacob Smessaert, Antoine Missemer, Harold Levrel
Our government continues to focus on the supposedly horrendous cost of climate action without mentioning the benefits The first duty of a government is to protect the people. There is no greater threat than climate disruption as the world heads to 3C or more warming, possibly by mid-century, yet the prime minister is unwilling to
Members of the Alliance for Food Health, a collective of organisations and academics, called in Mexico for better regulation of advertising of junk food aimed at children and of food and beverage labelling, during the launch of the report “A childhood hooked on obesity” in Mexico City. Credit: Emilio Godoy/IPS By N Chandra MohanNEW DELHI,
German teenager is due to speak at US rightwing conference CPAC A young campaigner who has been hailed by climate sceptics as the right’s answer to Greta Thunberg has previously described a white nationalist who appeared to promote “white genocide” theories as one of her “inspirations”. Naomi Seibt, a 19-year-old from Münster, Germany, who styles
Civil protection volunteers engaged in health checks at the “Milano Malpensa” airport. This week a joint team between WHO and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control arrived in Rome to review the public health measures put in place to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. Courtesy: Dipartimento Protezione Civile By Samira SadequeUNITED NATIONS,
View of the Italian Pyramid, at 5,050 m a.s.l. located 20 minutes awayfrom Lobouche, Nepal. Credit: Valentina Gasbarri By Valentina GasbarriMILAN, Italy, Feb 27 2020 (IPS) Hello! Are you Italian? No, I’m from Nepal. Ops. Kaji Bista is the staff manager of the Ev-K2-CNR’s innovative Pyramid International Laboratory/Observatory (known as the Italian Pyramid) at
A court ruling that airport expansion plans are illegal could be the shock that the system needs It’s not often that climate activists get to punch the air. News about the environment is alarming far more frequently than it is cheering. So campaigners were understandably jubilant on Thursday when the court of appeal issued its
Urbanization continues to drive informal settlement growth on land exposed to hazards such as landslides, increasing risk among low-income populations. Though technical and social ways of managing landslide risk are known, in developing countries these measures are often difficult to implement because of complex social, economic, political, and institutional reasons. We present the findings from
The current Climate Assembly UK is deliberating on a red herring – participants should be deciding not just how, but how quickly, we need to act, say a group of scientists, MPs and campaigners Climate Assembly UK, which enters its third weekend this Friday, is breaking new ground in British democracy. Participants from all walks
Mantfombi Msibi (left) and Bheki Ginindza, the Climate-Smart Market Oriented Agriculture project manager (right) talking in her field while her grandchildren look on. Thanks to Climate-Smart Agriculture, the 63-year-old Msibi no longer has to spend days on end weeding her fields. Credit: Mantoe Phakathi/IPS By Mantoe PhakathiNGWEMPISI, Eswatini, Feb 27 2020 (IPS) Aside from the