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MGNREGA workers in Rajasthan, April 13 (Purushottam Diwakar) Gurgaon-based artist Akanksha Sarkar (name changed on request), 41, has given up taking on freelance projects. The pandemic intensified her domestic work pressures, leaving her with no help to take care of her home and the home-schooling of her eight-year-old, forcing her to let go of her existing clients. She’s part of a growing number of women across the world who have had to give up paid work during the pandemic, further widening...

South Africa’s planned harmful gas limits ‘off target’ Civil society organisations have received South Africa’s newly proposed greenhouse gas reduction targets with little enthusiasm. The lower end of the emissions range remains the same as the nationally determined contributions (NDC) set in 2015. The targets put out for public consultations will form part of South Africa’s commitment to reducing greenhouse gas emissions at the UN climate conference in Glasgow, Scotland in November. ...

Biden Calls Another Summit : Threat of the Anthropocene We must act now US President Joe Biden has called a virtual summit on climate change on April 22-23, inviting heads of government in 40 countries. Biden has also appealed to them to submit their updated commitments on carbon emission cuts as part of the Paris Climate Agreement signed in 2015. The summit is a prequel to the 26th United Nations Conference on Climate Change to be held in Glasgow from November 1-12. The motive of Biden’s vi...

Yves here. This article takes a look at how little progress is being made against climate/carbon emission targets and recommends more aggressive government action. Presumably the book it’s summarizing, Making Climate Policy Work. However, it sets up a straw man by equating carbon pricing with cap and trade and carbon offsets. We’ve called out those approaches starting with the early days of this website, in 2007, as gimmicks that enrich intermediaries, are rife with fraud, fail to change be...

UNEP / Duncan Moore / 25 Mar 2021 (UNEP)* — Did you know nature is one of humanity’s best defences for adapting to climate change? A new funding opportunity is scaling up ecosystem-based adaptation across the world. The call for proposals is now The UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration is launching in June this year. The goal is ambitious – to trigger a global movement for restoring the world’s ecosystems. This is not merely for nature’s sake, say experts. Mounting evidence shows that ...

The East African Wednesday February 24 2021 Flood-affected areas in Jamalpur, Bangladesh in 2020. Developing countries lack funding to take appropriate action to prevent or minimise the adverse effects of climate change. PHOTO | NurPhoto via AFP Summary Huge gaps remain particularly in finance for developing countries and in bringing adaptation projects to the stage where they accrue real reductions in climate risks. Advertisement According to the Adaptation Gap Report by the United Nations, ...

PETALING JAVA: The latest report made in the UNs Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) stated that the global population could grow to around 8.5 billion in 2030 and to around 9.7 billion by 2050. With such huge number of global population be expected in the near future, one key question arises. The possibility of irresponsible consumption of the natural resources that continues to have destructive impacts on the planet! With such alarming catastrophic end-result, it is imperative for all citizens...

Uniting climate and biodiversity agendas through circularity Photo by Sanket Shah/ Unsplash / 15 Feb 2021 Speech prepared for delivery at the World Sustainable Development Summit 2021 on Redefining our Common Future: Safe and Secure Environment for All’. Thank you to the Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) for the invitation to speak at the 20th edition of the World Sustainable Development Summit (WSDS), which takes place under the shadow of the tragedy in Uttarakhand. My thoughts are with...

Addressing climate change is good business × Strengthening private sector engagement is crucial for a transformational shift towards climate actions — both in mitigation and adaptation. Budget 2021 offers opportunities for the same Climate change is one of the most formidable challenges globally. The year 2020 has been one of the warmest years on record and over 50 million have been affected directly due to climate extremes in the form of floods, wildfires, droughts, precipitation anomalie...

by Graham Peebles / February 8th, 2021 Only the most deluded denier can now question that the global climate is dramatically changing and that the chaos is man-made. Extreme weather events – wildfires, drought, intense heat, hurricanes – are becoming more frequent, the impact on ecosystems and biodiversity, populations and infrastructure devastating. Fueled by the industrialized nations and the lifestyles of the rich, it is developing nations in the global south that are most severely impac...