Without proper planning, organization and health and safety support the impact of teleworking on the physical and mental health and social wellbeing of workers can be significant, warns new report. Credit: Martin/ILO By Baher KamalMADRID, Feb 4 2022 (IPS) Now it comes to teleworking, the double-edged, relatively recent phenomenon imposed by COVID-19 lockdowns. On the
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4 February 2022
California subsidies for dairy cows’ biogas are a lose-lose, campaigners say
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The state pumps millions into methane produced by manure – but advocates argue it increases greenhouse gas emissions and encourages factory farming A coalition of climate, environmental and animal welfare groups is calling for California to remove the huge subsidies provided to dairy farms to turn animal waste into a form of energy called biogas.
3 February 2022
Agricultural trade liberalization and domestic fertilizer use: Evidence from China-ASEAN free trade agreement
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Publication date: May 2022 Source: Ecological Economics, Volume 195 Author(s): Fei Nie, Jian Li, Xiang Bi, Gucheng Li
3 February 2022
Green opportunities missed in UK levelling up strategy, say experts
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Government white paper criticised for overlooking opportunities along road to net zero The need to reach net zero carbon emissions, and the green jobs that could be created in doing so, received scant attention in the government’s levelling-up strategy, an omission slammed by green campaigners and businesses. The mention of “the green industrial revolution and
3 February 2022
Argentina Seeks a Way Out (Again) of its Economic and Social Labyrinth
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A garbage picker walks down Santa Fe Avenue, one of the main avenues in Buenos Aires. Argentina suffered a deep economic and social decline in 2018 and 2019, which was accentuated in 2020 by the pandemic. Although in 2021 there was a rebound, the most vulnerable did not benefit. CREDIT: Daniel Gutman/IPS By Daniel GutmanBUENOS
2 February 2022
Biodiversity conservation through forest certification: key factors shaping national Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) standard-development processes in Canada, Sweden, and Russia
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Our work focuses on the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), one of the most stringent, but also contested certification schemes for sustainable forestry. Responding to criticisms concerning inconsistency at the national level, FSC-International recently increased the prescriptiveness of its international standards, including the development of biodiversity-related International Generic Indicators (IGIs). We aim to understand recent efforts
2 February 2022
Extreme heat in oceans ‘passed point of no return’ in 2014
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Formerly rare high temperatures now covering half of seas and devastating wildlife, study shows Extreme heat in the world’s oceans passed the “point of no return” in 2014 and has become the new normal, according to research. Scientists analysed sea surface temperatures over the last 150 years, which have risen because of global heating. They
2 February 2022
Downstream from Del Rio
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Restrictive immigration policies such as Title 42 have serious consequences on migrants. Credit: Esteban Montaño/MSF By Peter CostantiniSEATTLE, USA, Feb 1 2022 (IPS) The specters of slave patrols and Ku Klux Klan night riders haunted the viral videos. They showed cowboy-hatted Border Patrol agents on horseback insulting and threatening Haitian families with children as they
31 January 2022
Debunking Demographic Denialism
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The larger the population size, the greater are the consequences on climate, environment, biodiversity and pollution. Credit: Isaiah Esipisu/IPS By Joseph ChamiePORTLAND, USA, Jan 31 2022 (IPS) Demographic denialism is increasingly appearing in countries across the globe. Various government officials, politicians, business leaders, media commentators and others are blatantly denying demographic realities and likely future
30 January 2022
Australian regulator finds large-scale emissions misreporting by coalminer Peabody
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US giant agrees to hire auditors after calculation errors, poor record-keeping and inconsistent data collection discovered US coalmining giant Peabody Energy has repeatedly submitted incorrect greenhouse gas emissions reports to the Australian government, prompting questions about the reliability of national climate data based on company assessments. The Clean Energy Regulator found Peabody had a history