Former US presidential candidate tells global elite that crisis is a ‘challenge to our moral imagination’ Former US vice-president Al Gore has tried to mobilise the global elite to fight the climate crisis by comparing it to some of history’s greatest battles, from Agincourt to Dunkirk. Gore told delegates at the World Economic Forum in
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23 January 2020
‘This is Dunkirk. This is 9/11’: Al Gore implores Davos to tackle climate crisis
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23 January 2020
Mosul, an Epicentre of the ISIS Conflict, is a Devastated Iraqi City
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Resident of Hamdaniya district stands before a house destroyed in a Coalition airstrike, February 2017. Credit: Mark Lattimer /Ceasefire By Mark LattimerLONDON, Jan 22 2020 (IPS) As Iraq this month faces the threat of new conflicts – including a proxy war between the US and Iran – the shadow of the last conflict runs long.
22 January 2020
GGGI inks Declaration of Intent and MoU with the French Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs and the Agence Française de Développement to strengthen cooperation
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By GGGIPARIS, Jan 22 2020 (IPS-Partners) The Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI) signed a Declaration of Intent and a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the French Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs (MEAE) and the Agence Française de Développement (AFD), a French development bank today to promote sustainable development and climate action. The signing was
21 January 2020
Greyhound warns staff they could be ‘in the crossfire’ over Adani contract
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Exclusive: anti-Adani campaigners may protest bus company’s involvement in controversial mine, email tells workers The boss of the Australian bus company Greyhound has warned its workers they could be caught “in the crossfire” after signing a contract to help build the Adani coal project in Queensland. The email from the chief executive, Alex de Waal,
21 January 2020
Why the Coronavirus Should Worry Us All
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Colorized scanning electron micrograph of MERS virus particles (yellow) both budding and attached to the surface of infected VERO E6 cells (blue). Credit: NIAID By Ifeanyi NsoforABUJA, Jan 21 2020 (IPS) The coronavirus outbreak — which began in Wuhan, China, and causes a pneumonia-like illness — is raging across Asia, infecting close to 300 people and killing
21 January 2020
“For Generations, We Have Been Nominating Men Just Because They are Men”
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Ms. Marlene Schiappa. Credit: UN Women/Antoine Tardy By External SourceJan 21 2020 (IPS) Marlène Schiappa, Minister of State for Gender Equality and the Fight against Discrimination in France, attended the 25th year Regional Review Meeting of the Beijing Platform for Action for the UN Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) Region last month. She highlighted why
21 January 2020
Oceans, biodiversity, deforestation: what’s on the climate agenda for 2020?
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This year could be crucial in determining the response to the environmental crises World leaders and business chiefs meeting in Davos this week will be confronted for the first time with an agenda on which the climate and ecological crises take top billing. Financial and economic concerns have been shunted down the list of priorities
21 January 2020
Is the environmental movement ageist? | Letters
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Retired colleagues and I have regularly shared ideas and actions with young people, writes XR member Dr Lesley Morrison. It is disappointing to be judged as a ‘threat to the young’, says Maureen Wilsker Anne Karpf writes about the “unthinking ageism” that she thinks has crept into the climate movement. (Ageism must not pollute the
21 January 2020
How we made Captain Planet and the Planeteers
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‘Never in our wildest dreams did we think our over-the-top storylines about floods and food shortages would come true’ In 1980, America’s Global 2000 Report to the President took the current trends of the planet – population pressures, overstretched resources – and projected them 20 years into the future. It read like armageddon. CNN founder
21 January 2020
From Digital Diplomacy to Data Diplomacy
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By Cathryn Clüver AshbrookCAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Jan 20 2020 (IPS) The digital revolution arrived late at the heart of ministries of foreign affairs across the Western world. Ministries latched on to social media around the time of Tahrir Square and Iran’s 2009 Green Revolution, beguiled by a vision of the technology engendering a networked evolution toward