Inequality out in the open. Credit: A.D. McKenzie/IPS By Yilmaz AkyüzGENEVA, Jan 24 2020 (IPS) The failure of large-scale bailout operations, historically low interest rates and rapid injection of liquidity to bring about a strong recovery from the 2008-2009 financial crisis and recession created a widespread concern that advanced economies suffered from a chronic demand
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24 January 2020
Inequality, Stagnation and Instability ‒ the New Normal for Finance Capitalism
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24 January 2020
Nature Losses Threaten Emerging Economies
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Small-scale slash-and-burn agriculture is one of the deforestation problems in Brazil’s Amazon jungle. Credit: Mario Osava/IPS. By External SourceJan 24 2020 (IPS) More than half of worldwide GDP is moderately or highly dependent on nature, putting biodiversity loss among the top five risks to the global economy, according to a report presented at the World
24 January 2020
David Attenborough to appear at citizens’ climate assembly
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People from across Britain will join TV host to discuss ways to cut emissions to zero by 2050 Sir David Attenborough will address members of the public who are taking part in the UK’s first climate assembly this weekend. The TV presenter and naturalist will appear in Birmingham, where the 110 members are meeting to
24 January 2020
Land tenure, climate and risk management
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Publication date: May 2020 Source: Ecological Economics, Volume 171 Author(s): Matthias Kalkuhl, Gregor Schwerhoff, Katharina Waha Abstract We analyze to what extent climate conditions affect the prevalence of sharecropping as a form of traditional land tenure. We investigate how sharecropping tenure is related to climate risk and how it interacts with fertilizer use and livestock
24 January 2020
Blue Innovation in the Commonwealth
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By Patricia ScotlandJan 23 2020 (IPS) With 95 per cent of the ocean still unexplored by humans, we are only just beginning to understand its profound influence on life on earth, including its effect on global climate and ecosystems. As we do so, more and more countries are exploring the immense potential of the ‘blue
24 January 2020
Greta Thunberg clashes with US treasury secretary in Davos
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Climate activist responds after Steven Mnuchin suggests she should study economics Donald Trump’s treasury secretary has clashed with Greta Thunberg after responding to the activist’s call for immediate fossil fuel divestment by telling the 17-year-old to go to college and study economics. In an attempt to slap down the climate emergency movement, Steven Mnuchin pretended
23 January 2020
Leprosy Re-emerges as a Global Health Challenge
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Sattamma, a daily labourer in the Rangareddy district of southern India’s Telangana state, says that even though she no longer has Hansen’s Disease, she remains discriminated against because of it. Credit: Stella Paul/IPS By Stella PaulHYDERABAD, India , Jan 23 2020 (IPS) Fifteen years ago, Sattamma – a daily labourer in the Rangareddy district of
23 January 2020
Doomsday clock lurches to 100 seconds to midnight – closest to catastrophe yet
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Nuclear and climate threats create ‘profoundly unstable’ world Robinson: climate inaction is ‘death sentence for humanity’ The risk of civil collapse from nuclear weapons and the climate crisis is at a record high, according to US scientists and former officials, calling the current environment “profoundly unstable”. Related: Trump’s impeachment lawyers ‘tending toward conspiracy theories’ says
23 January 2020
Sweet spots are in the food system: Structural adjustments to co-control regional pollutants and national GHG emissions in China
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Publication date: May 2020 Source: Ecological Economics, Volume 171 Author(s): Li-Jing Liu, Qiao-Mei Liang, Felix Creutzig, Hauke Ward, Kun Zhang Abstract The Chinese government aims to mitigate climate change while also reducing local air pollution; this requires co-control of greenhouse gases and pollutants. Here, we develop a method combining an elasticity analysis and a multi-regional
23 January 2020
UK climate scientist corrects Australian MP Craig Kelly’s ‘blatant misrepresentation’
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Prof Sandy Harrison tells the Liberal on his Facebook page that his misuse of her study should not go unchallenged A leading UK climate scientist has used the Facebook page of the MP Craig Kelly to correct his “blatant misrepresentation” of a study she co-authored on a 70,000-year history of bushfires in Australia. Kelly, a