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In its first review of the ongoing Standby Arrangement (SBA) programme with Pakistan, the International Monetary ...

WASHINGTON DC, Jan 12 (IPS) - The world faces the existential threat of a climate change crisis, and it is becoming increasingly clear that the outcome of the latest UN climate summit, COP28 — hosted as it was by the CEO of one of the world’s largest oil companies, and filled with a record number of fossil fuel lobbyists — is not going to do much to change that.

Dozens of civil society organizations across the Caribbean are calling on the Biden administration to do more to support their countries in responding to climate change, including helping them to get the necessary funds to respond to disasters exacerbated by the crisis.

March 5, 2021 —  Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal — March 2, 2021, was the five year anniversary of the murder of Berta Cáceres, who opposed the Agua Zarca dam in Honduras. That date was less than one month after the deaths of dozens of people from the Tehri Dam disaster in Uttarakhand, India. The two stories together tell us far more about consequences of the insatiable greed of capitalism for more energy than either narrative does by itself. In addition to being sacr...

by Don Fitz / March 4th, 2021 March 2, 2021 was the five year anniversary of the murder of Berta Cáceres, who opposed the Agua Zarca dam in Honduras.  That date was less than one month after the deaths of dozens of people from Tehri Dam disaster in Uttarakhand, India.  The two stories together tell us far more about consequences of the insatiable greed of capitalism for more energy than either narrative does by itself. In addition to being sacred to the indigenous Lenca people of Honduras, t...