Credit: Annabelle Avril – Women in Europe for a Common Future (WECF) By Patricia BohlandMADRID, Spain, Jan 8 2020 (IPS) After nearly two weeks of negotiations at COP 25 climate negotiations in Madrid last month (2-13 December), governments will be adopting a new 5-year Gender Action Plan (GAP) that progressively builds upon the first GAP,
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8 January 2020
Women’s Groups Applaud Gender Action Plan Following COP 25
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8 January 2020
The Guardian view on an ice-sheet collapse: threatening the world’s coasts | Editorial
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A scientific expedition to Thwaites glacier aims to provide vital information about the dangers of melting Antarctic ice Thwaites glacier, a vast river of ice the size of Great Britain, holds enough frozen water that were it to collapse, the world’s oceans would rise by more than 60cm. Part of the West Antarctic ice sheet,
7 January 2020
Let’s Give Trade a Chance
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Courtesy: ESCAP By Mia Mikic and James Gregory GallagherBANGKOK, Thailand, Jan 7 2020 (IPS) Imagine going through the day without consuming or using some product, service, data, technology, personal contact, or payment which has not – at least in some part – crossed one or more national borders before reaching you. We live in a
7 January 2020
One year to save the planet: a simple guide to fighting the climate crisis in 2020
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Veganism might help and it’s always good to avoid flying. But the answer to Earth’s emergency must involve political, collective action – and there are countless ways to get active The impact of the climate crisis is all too visible. Bushfires have killed more than 20 people in south-eastern Australia and forced thousands more to
7 January 2020
Billionaires Beware
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By Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame SundaramSYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 7 2020 (IPS) The latest November 2019 UBS/PwC Billionaires Report counted 2,101 billionaires globally, or 589 more than five years before. Earlier, Farhad Manjoo had seriously recommended, ‘Abolish Billionaires’, presenting a moral case against the super-rich as they have and get far, far more
7 January 2020
Not all Trade is Good – the Case of Plastics Waste
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Credit: United Nations By Alexey KravchenkoBANGKOK, Thailand, Jan 6 2020 (IPS) Currently, approximately 300 million tons of oil-based plastic waste are produced every year. A significant amount of plastic waste ends up in the oceans, having a detrimental effect on marine ecosystems and coastal communities. Most of this waste originates from the Asia-Pacific region. If
7 January 2020
The Guardian view on philanthropy and the bushfires: a reason to hope | Editorial
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In an ideal world it would not be left to film stars to point to the science underlying the climate emergency “You are in no position to lecture the public about anything,” Golden Globes host Ricky Gervais told his audience in a pointedly irreverent opening speech on Sunday. By the evening’s end, following statements about
7 January 2020
This apocalyptic Australian summer is our Sandy Hook moment – if we don’t take climate action now we never will | Brigid Delaney
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These bushfires are without precedent. After rock bottom, there is a choice: stasis and misery or growth and transformation When a gunman entered Sandy Hook elementary school and murdered 27 children, the shock was so great you could assume that America would undergo a profound shift in consciousness. In addiction parlance, Sandy Hook was the
6 January 2020
India’s Citizenship Law Triggered by Rising Right-Wing Ideology
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Credit: Foreign Policy By Nadia KanjiUNITED NATIONS, Jan 6 2020 (IPS) “Fire bullets at the traitors of the country,” chanted mobs of Bharatiya Janata Party, or BJP, supporters wrapped in Indian flags in Delhi last week. It’s been less than a month since protests emerged against the BJP’s Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), a new law
6 January 2020
Scott Morrison makes us ashamed to be Australian | Letters
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Luella Brookes-Inglis says Australia’s prime minister is the wrong man to lead the country through the bushfires crisis and Linda Phillips says he seems incapable of learning from new facts It is not just the lack of timely action by Scott Morrison but also his lack of instinct that has become so apparent over the