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A mining engineer holds up a tablet to a rock quarry. Credit: Morsa Images/iStock. As the Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) wave continues to build around the world, many are wondering what this year has in store. According to Blackrock, the world’s largest asset manager, investors plan to double their allocations to sustainable investments over the next five years, and 20% say that Covid-19 is accelerating those allocations. The pandemic has greatly intensified the growing societal ...

Indigenous women call upon Biden to stop pipelines and uphold Indigenous rights in the wake of escalating climate chaos and Covid-19 crises “No more broken promises, no more broken Treaties.” Today over 75 Indigenous women leaders from across the country impacted by fossil fuel extraction and pipeline infrastructure sent a letter to the incoming Administration calling on President-elect Biden to immediately take five executive actions to halt the Keystone XL, Dakota Access, and Line 3 pipel...

https://www.afinalwarning.com/487476.html (Natural News) A first-of-its-kind study, involving over 25,000 children, reveals that masks are harming schoolchildren in many physical and psychological ways and have a negative effect on their behavior, focus and interest in learning. These negative effects are censored from social media, under-reported by the media, and ignored by government officials. Of the 25,930 children studied, the database includes at least 17,854 health complaints submitte...

Liberia: Salala Rubber Corporation Accused of Masterminding Violence against Affected Communities, Green Advocates Liberia: Salala Rubber Corporation Accused of Masterminding Violence against Affected Communities, Green Advocates Share Salala Rubber Corporation, established in 1959, holds a concession of over 40,000 hectares in central Liberia, but has often been accused of land grabbing and destruction of the locals’ farms, including private rubber farms and edible crops like eddoes and plan...

India Approves Two Vaccine Candidates, But Let’s Not Pretend Everything Is Okay India stands at the cusp of one of the worlds largest vaccination drives – but while the moment is suffused with hope, a lot still depends on good luck. A medical worker prepares a vaccination against COVID-19 in Jerusalem, December 23, 2020. Photo: Reuters/Ammar Awad/File Photo World03/Jan/2021 In a short, eight-minute statement at 11 am on January 3, the Drug Controller General of India (DCGI) Dr V.G. So...

My tribe holds a funeral every week for people killed by fossil fuels. This isn’t progress – it’s environmental genocide Casey Camp Horinek © Provided by The Independent As a member of the Ponca Nation, my family’s journey from our homelands to what would become Oklahoma took place in 1877. My grandfather was eight years old when he was walked at the point of a bayonet from South Dakota with his parents and grandparents. Hundreds of tribes were forced to walk along man...

Carbon Forestry course Share this With respect to climate change mitigation, the sequestration of carbon by forests and soils is one of the most important ecosystem services of terrestrial ecosystems. Therefore, large efforts have been undertaken and major political initiatives started to increase the carbon storage capacity of forests and their products. Professionals with competencies in the development of land use based mitigation projects and with knowledge of related climate policy instrum...

Letter from the Association of Brazils Indigenous Peoples and Amazon Watch to Anglo American The Munduruku address mining on Indigenous lands and threats to their people and territory, as Anglo American seeks at least 27 research permits in Munduruku territory December 22, 2020 In our Complicity in Destruction III report published in October 2020, the Association of Brazils Indigenous Peoples (APIB) alongside Amazon Watch, exposed the pressure that large mining companies have exerted on Indige...

Controversy continues to dog how hospitals get permission to operate on patients. A year on from a complaint North Shore Hospital was breaching womens rights, an investigation into it by the Health and Disability Commissioner is still going on (file image). Photo: 123rf The rules have now been strengthened a little, but too weakly for some womens health advocates and in a way that raises further questions. The risk now was of a "piecemeal" approach, according to the Cartwright Collective - na...

Oil Change International FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Jennifer K. Falcon, Indigenous Environmental Network, jennifer [at] ienearth.org Denali Nalamalapu, 350.org, denali.nalamalapu [at] 350.org Ryan Schleeter, Greenpeace USA, rschleeter [at] greenpeace.org Jean Su, Center for Biological Diversity, jsu [at] biologicaldiversity.org Leading Progressive Groups Launch Pressure Campaign for Biden to Address Fossil Fuels and Climate Crisis WASHINGTON, DC — Today, organizations representing millions of envi...