Leaked report for world’s major fossil fuel financier says Earth is on unsustainable trajectory The world’s largest financier of fossil fuels has warned clients that the climate crisis threatens the survival of humanity and that the planet is on an unsustainable trajectory, according to a leaked document. The JP Morgan report on the economic risks
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21 February 2020
JP Morgan economists warn climate crisis is threat to human race
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21 February 2020
No Country On Track to Ensuring a Better Future for its Children
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Climate change, ecological degradation, migrating populations, conflict, pervasive inequalities, and predatory commercial practices threaten the health and future of children in every country, a new report states. Credit:Tess Bacalla/IPS By Samira SadequeUNITED NATIONS, Feb 21 2020 (IPS) There is no country that is on the right path to ensure the safety, health and proper environment
21 February 2020
SDGs Corporate Tracker to Monitor Progress of UN’s Development Agenda
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Credit: UN Global Compact By Peter Paul van de WijsAMSTERDAM, the Netherlands, Feb 21 2020 (IPS) This year marks just ten years ahead of the deadline for completing the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030. These universally supported targets were always ambitious in their scope – yet what is clearer now than ever before
21 February 2020
Colorado River flow shrinks from climate crisis, risking ‘severe water shortages’
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Millions of people rely on the 1,450-mile waterway as increasing periods of drought and rising temperatures reduce flow of river The flow of the Colorado River is dwindling due to the impacts of global heating, risking “severe water shortages” for the millions of people who rely upon one of America’s most storied waterways, researchers have
21 February 2020
Rajendra Pachauri obituary
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Climate scientist who pioneered the global work of the IPCC as its chair and tackled the ‘climategate’ hacking scandal To stave off the worst impacts of the climate crisis – already being felt in the form of extreme weather, fires and floods – we have only about a decade to cause greenhouse gas emissions to
20 February 2020
A Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework Aims at Reinforcing Efforts to Save World’s Ecosystem
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Credit: IPBES By Thalif DeenUNITED NATIONS, Feb 20 2020 (IPS) The UN’s highly-touted socio-economic agenda, which lays out an ambitious global plan for “people, planet and prosperity”, has been dominated by “goals, targets and deadlines.” But regrettably, most developing nations are struggling to reach these goals—due largely to a shortfall in much-needed funding or lack
20 February 2020
Zimbabwe’s Thin Line between Child Smuggling and Child Trafficking
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A large number of children are regularly transported across Zimbabwe’s borders by women who are not their mothers. Courtesy: Michelle Chifamba By Michelle ChifambaHARARE, Feb 20 2020 (IPS) Elton Ndumiso*, a bus-conductor who works the route from Zimbabwe’s capital, Harare, to neighbouring South Africa, sees it all the time: Zimbabwean women travelling with three or
20 February 2020
What Future for the Rohingyas after the ICJ Ruling?
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By Maged SrourROME, Feb 19 2020 (IPS) In a groundbreaking ruling in January 2020, the International Court of Justice demanded that Myanmar halt all measures that contribute to the genocide of the Rohingya community. The order was lauded by international bodies and organisations who have been involved with and/or closely following the case since the
20 February 2020
Getting a proper grip on flooding problems | Letters
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Reckless new developments on green belt land and farmland greatly add to the flooding risk, writes Dr Jon Mulberg, while Prof Tom Spencer says that flood defences are just a sticking-plaster solution. Plus letters from Dr Mark Ashby, Dr Andreas Heinemeyer, Anne Gray and Innes Thomson There is a link between the Trinity College protest
19 February 2020
Popular Pakistani Singer Pushes for Corporal Punishment be Made a Crime
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Schoolgirls in Peshawar. Section 89 Pakistan Penal Code (PPC), which allowed for the use of corporal punishment by parents, guardians and teachers “in good faith for the benefit”, was suspended last week by the Islamabad High Court. Credit: Ashfaq Yusufzai/IPS. By Zofeen EbrahimISLAMABAD , Feb 19 2020 (IPS) “He struck his head, his side, his