Coastal fisheries provide vital food security and household incomes throughout the Pacific Islands. The fish market, Auki, Malaita Province, Solomon Islands. Credit: Catherine Wilson/IPS By Catherine WilsonCANBERRA, Australia, Oct 13 2020 (IPS) Coastal fisheries in the Pacific Islands have become a food and livelihood lifeline to many people who have lost jobs, especially in urban
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13 October 2020
How the Pacific Islands are Balancing COVID-19 Survival Demands on Coastal Fisheries with Sustainable Management
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13 October 2020
Anthony Albanese on Q+A: Labor will go to next election with interim emissions targets ‘or a pathway’
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Party leader confirms he will consider dumping Coalition’s third round of tax cuts Anthony Albanese has attempted to leave himself breathing room as the Labor party debates setting emission reduction targets for the 2030s, saying he will go to the next federal election with “interim targets or a pathway”. During an appearance on the ABC’s
13 October 2020
Afghanistan, Hope Fading in the midst of Fear and Silence
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Credit: Giulio Piscitelli for Emergency By Elena L. PasquiniROME, Oct 12 2020 (IPS-Partners) Distant and blurred, as if it belongs to the past, the war in Afghanistan has never been so fierce and forgotten. On the 7th of October, the country entered the twentieth year since the United States announced the first airstrikes against the
11 October 2020
Tackle fuel poverty and the climate crisis | Letter
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The government needs to stop subsidising high-carbon heating and use the extra revenue to support low-income homes, writes Libby Peake of the Green Alliance Experts are right to raise the alarm about the climate impacts of how we heat our homes. That the UK is on course to take 700 years to achieve low-carbon heating
11 October 2020
Corrigendum to extreme heat and stock market activity☆
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Publication date: February 2021 Source: Ecological Economics, Volume 180 Author(s): Jonathan Peillex, Imane El Ouadghiri, Mathieu Gomes, Jamil Jaballah
11 October 2020
Australia needs to find its heart, brain and courage to recover from the Covid nightmare | Sam Mostyn and Travers McLeod
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We’re not in ‘Kansas’ any more, and nor should we hanker to return, because many Australians weren’t faring well there If there is a movie that offers an analogy for the federal budget and its place in Australia’s response to Covid, it might be the Wizard of Oz, released the month before the start of
10 October 2020
Building Back Better: Education Cannot Wait
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By External SourceOct 10 2020 (IPS-Partners) The United Nations General Assembly adopted Resolution 66/170 declaring October 11 as the International Day of the Girl Child, to recognize girls’ rights and the unique challenges girls face around the world. The International Day of the Girl Child focuses attention on the need to address the challenges girls
7 October 2020
Intensive farming worldwide threatens Paris climate accord, report says
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Rising emissions of nitrous oxide from farming are putting world on track to exceed 2C heating The spread of intensive farming is threatening to jeopardise the world’s chances of meeting the terms of the Paris agreement on the climate crisis, as the increasing use of artificial fertiliser and growing populations of livestock are raising the
7 October 2020
Can Colonialism be Reversed? The UN’s Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Provides Some Answers
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Indigenous women join protests for land rights in Asia. Credit: IWGIA By External SourceCANBERRA, Australia, Oct 7 2020 (IPS) Can a state built upon the “taking of another people’s lands, lives and power” ever really be just? Colonialism can’t be reversed, so at a simple level the answer is no. But in my book, ‘We
7 October 2020
Participation in illegal harvesting of natural resources and the perceived costs and benefits of living within a protected area
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Publication date: January 2021 Source: Ecological Economics, Volume 179 Author(s): Aires Afonso Mbanze, Carina Vieira da Silva, Natasha Sofia Ribeiro, José Lima Santos