By External SourceMar 6 2020 (IPS) The narrative surrounding women’s rights in 2020 carries much hope and possibility. This year’s International Women’s Day, bearing the theme “I am Generation Equality: Realizing Women’s Rights,” falls on the celebration’s 110th anniversary. The occasion is monumental, and with 10 years remaining to achieve the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals,
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6 March 2020
Landmark deep-sea mission to boost ocean action
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By PRESS RELEASEMar 6 2020 (IPS-Partners) A deep-sea scientific mission to uncharted depths in the Maldives and Seychelles will gather valuable data to support the Commonwealth Blue Charter on ocean action and train local scientists. The newest Commonwealth member country, Maldives, has joined Seychelles to launch a major joint scientific expedition to investigate unexplored depths
6 March 2020
The on-paper hydropower boom: A case study of corruption in the hydropower sector in Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Publication date: June 2020 Source: Ecological Economics, Volume 172 Author(s): Özge Can Dogmus, Jonas Østergaard Nielsen
6 March 2020
Scaling up but losing out? Water commons’ dilemmas between transnational movements and grassroots struggles in Latin America
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Publication date: June 2020 Source: Ecological Economics, Volume 172 Author(s): Emilie Dupuits, Michiel Baud, Rutgerd Boelens, Fabio de Castro, Barbara Hogenboom
6 March 2020
Which infrastructures for which forest function? Analyzing multifunctionality through the social-ecological system framework
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Landscapes are subject to ecological and socioeconomic forces of change that interact in complex ways. To cope with these changes, landscape planning of natural resource management integrates sociocultural, ecological, and economic considerations in an analytic and systemic way. In this regard, social-ecological system (SES) frameworks have been developed to help analyze key factors that drive
5 March 2020
Slavery Modernises, Adapts to Stay Alive in Brazil
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Workers produce charcoal in Andrequice, a town in the state of Minas Gerais in southeastern Brazil. The activity employs large numbers of workers who are subjected to modern slavery, in addition to damaging the environment by deforesting large areas. It was a frequent target of inspections carried out by the Mobile Inspection Team for Combating
5 March 2020
Warwick asks voters to back radical council tax rise for climate action
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In first local referendum of its kind, district council proposes being carbon-neutral by 2025 A local authority is asking its residents to back an unprecedented 34% increase in its share of council tax bills – equivalent to £52 for a typical household – to fund a radical climate emergency action plan, in what is set
5 March 2020
Radical Uncertainty Released
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Radical Uncertainty, coauthored by myself and Mervyn King, has been published! Order it on Amazon, or pick it up at any good bookshop! The post Radical Uncertainty Released appeared first on John Kay.
5 March 2020
This winter in Europe was hottest on record by far, say scientists
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Climate crisis likely to have supercharged temperatures around world, data suggests This winter has been by far the hottest recorded in Europe, scientists have announced, with the climate crisis likely to have supercharged the heat. The EU’s Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) data dates back to 1855. It said the average temperature for December, January
5 March 2020
Many Milestones but Painfully Slow Progress Towards Gender Equality
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This article is part of special IPS coverage of International Women’s Day on March 8 2020 Farhana Haque Rahman is Senior Vice President of IPS Inter Press Service; a journalist and communications expert, she is a former senior official of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization and the International Fund for Agricultural Development.