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5 February 2023
Labor urged to halve $8bn a year in fuel tax credits for trucks and heavy vehicles
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3 February 2023
Scale, evidence, and community participation matter: lessons in effective and legitimate adaptive governance from decision making for Menindee Lakes in Australia’s Murray-Darling Basin
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Research, part of a special feature on Deeper Water: Exploring Barriers and Opportunities for the Emergence of Adaptive Water Governance ABSTRACT Rivers and their interdependent human communities form social-ecologically complex systems that reflect basin scale functionally but are often governed by spatially mismatched governance systems. Accounting for this complexity requires flexible adaptive governance systems supported
3 February 2023
Global Leaders Urge Participation in High-Level Financing Conference to Fund Education for 222 Million Crisis-Impacted Children
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Yasmine Sherif, the Director of Education Cannot Wait, sees the ECW High-Level Financing Conference as crucial to turning the agreements from the Transforming Education Summit into action. Credit: ECW By Joyce ChimbiNAIROBI, Feb 3 2023 (IPS) The world is in the throng of a monumental, damaging, and unprecedented global education crisis. Wars, protracted conflict, extreme
2 February 2023
Corrigendum to “Utilization potential of alien plants in nature-based tourism sites: A case study on Agave americana (century plant) in the Ogasawara Islands” [Ecological Economics 195 (2022) 107362]
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Publication date: April 2023 Source: Ecological Economics, Volume 206 Author(s): Mizuki Onozuka, Takeshi Osawa
1 February 2023
Who are Humanitarian Journalists?
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Credit: Ramón Díaz Yanes – Cartoon Movement’. The image was originally featured in The New Humanitarian | Why so many humanitarian crises are ‘forgotten’, and 5 ideas to change that By Martin Scott, Kate Wright and Mel BunceNORWICH / EDINBURGH / LONDON, Feb 1 2023 (IPS) In a new book, entitled Humanitarian Journalists: Covering Crises
1 February 2023
Climate protesters who squashed cake into King Charles waxwork told to pay damages
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Eilidh McFadden and Tom Johnson convicted of criminal damage after action at Madame Tussauds and must pay £3,500 compensation The climate protesters who threw cake into the face of a waxwork of King Charles in Madame Tussauds have been ordered to pay the London tourist attraction £3,500 in compensation. Eilidh McFadden, 20, and Tom Johnson,
31 January 2023
Overcoming the Currency Mismatch to Finance Clean Energy in Developing Countries
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A wind energy generation plant located in Loiyangalani in northwestern Kenya. Credit: Isaiah Esipisu/IPS By External SourceWASHINGTON DC, Jan 31 2023 (IPS) Meeting our climate change goals will require massive investments in clean energy projects, in both advanced economies and across the Global South. But financing projects in the latter group of countries requires an
31 January 2023
Getting back to that point of balance: Indigenous environmental justice and the California Indian Basketweavers’ Association
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Insight, part of a special feature on Collaborative Management, Environmental Caretaking, and Sustainable Livelihoods ABSTRACT Emerging theories of Indigenous environmental justice reframe environmental problems and solutions using Indigenous onto-epistemologies, emphasizing the agency of non-human relations and influence of colonialism. The California Indian Basketweavers’ Association (CIBA) embodies this paradigm in its work to expand access to
30 January 2023
Collective payments for ecosystem services: a counterpart of commodification and privatization trends in nature conservation?
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Synthesis ABSTRACT Payments for ecosystem services (PES) gained an increasing importance in science and politics within the last decades. Although the enthusiasm about PES is particularly high in Environmental Economics, opponents criticize the market-based character of PES and the associated commodification as well as privatization trends. By means of a systematic literature review we aim
30 January 2023
Spain’s prized jamón ibérico under threat from climate crisis
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Rising temperatures and low rainfall threaten key ingredient of pigs’ diet – acorns from the dehesa oak forests Spain’s prized jamón ibérico bellota is under threat from the climate crisis as rising temperatures and low rainfall imperil a key ingredient of the pigs’ diet – acorns. In a country where pigs are as populous as