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Announcement. yes, declaring you will be met zero x 2070 is a very long way off, but to say half your energy will come from renewable sources by 2030, that is a pretty meaningful target. and it has been very widely welcomed, not least because for years india as a developing country wouldnt accept international climate targets of this kind. 0n the other hand, china, you mentioned, sticking to its current policies. president xi saying in fact it is western countries who need to take the lead when ...

Conference. and it is perhaps fitting that you have come together in glasgow, once a heartland of the industrial revolution, but now a place to address climate change. this is a duty i am especially happy to discharge, as the impact of the environment on human progress was a subject close to the heart of my dear late husband prince philip, the duke of edinburgh. i remember well that in 1969 he told an academic gathering, "if the world pollution situation is not critical at the moment, it is as c...

What matters most is emissions of the gases heating the planet. they are heading in the wrong direction. projected to rise by 16% by 2030, just as the science couldnt be clearer that they need to fall by 45% over that time. and the fear is that this is rebounding on us. it is time to say, "enough." enough of brutalising biodiversity, enough of killing ourselves with carbon, enough of treating nature like a toilet, enough of burning and drilling and mining our way deeper. we are digging our own g...

La capacité à réagir efficacement face à l’enjeu climatique est freinée par des croyances culturelles fortement ancrées chez les décideurs. Pour envisager l’avenir avec sérénité, il faut changer de paradigme et mener une révolution culturelle. (Par Mathieu Hame, PDG de Innovation Is Everywhere)

Plummet, schools, hospitals and businesses would close and youd have to slaughter your own animals for meat. thats just the first week. and our use of fossil fuels correlates with langer lives, higher incomes and thinner hotter bodies. this was the typical human being before fossil fuels. and this is a typical human after. yeah. [applause] thank you. it caught me totally by surprise. in other words its called human progress. without it there would be no technology, and no entertainment, and no l...

I don’t know how many protests, solidarity movements, refugees, human rights alerts, economic collapses, and purges are going to get this message through everyone’s heads, Communism is a terrible system of governance. In fact, at this point, we should be consistent. Any government that does not guarantee as to the very justification for its existence, individual rights, open markets, and accountable governance, is worth challenging. I am of course referring to the ongoing protest in Cuba, ...

Zur Resolution "Die Notwendigkeit der Beendigung der Wirtschafts-, Handels- und Finanzblockade, die von den Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika gegen Kuba verhängt wurde" Eure Exzellenz, Herr Präsident, Herren und Damen Delegierte, im Jahr 2020 stand Kuba, wie die übrige Welt, der außerordentlichen Herausforderung der Pandemie COVID-19 gegenüber. Die Regierung der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika hat sich das Virus zum Verbündeten in seinem erbarmungslosen, nicht konventionellen Krieg gemacht,...

Edwin Madunagu, a Revolutionary Icon, at 75   Edwin Madunagu, a Revolutionary Icon, at 75   Edwin Ikechukwu Madunagu who turns 75 on May 15, 2021, has been a consistent voice for the radical transformation of Nigeria in the last five decades. For this reason, comrades, friends, associates, and students, will organize a conference on the theme: “Progressive Politics as the Answer to the National Question: Problems and Prospects,” to celebrate this revolutionary icon, Marxist, mathematici...

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For Edwin Madunagu, A Revolutionary Icon, At 75, By Chido Onumah   A humanist per excellence, Eddie brought panache and mathematical meticulousness in explaining even the most complex of historical, political, and ideological issues. 7 min read Essentially, what Professor Jeyifo is saying in describing Eddie’s vast and complex body of work is that he (Eddie) shows us that “no meaningful conversation exists” among Nigerians about the future of the country. “What we have ...