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Geneva, 9 March 2021—As governments prepare to meet for another round of talks at the World Trade Organization (WTO) tomorrow, Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) urged the small number of governments that continue to block a landmark waiver on intellectual property (IP) during the pandemic to immediately reverse their stonewalling and allow formal

The Global Justice Now Podcast The Global Justice Now Podcast The Global Justice Now Podcast podcSubscribe on: Episode 11: Can we ensure the climate has a future after the corona-crisis? In this episode we explore what a post-lockdown world might look like and how it will affect the climate. Our panel of international campaigners discusses why we need to treat the climate crisis as urgently as the Covid-19 pandemic, why challenging the free market ideology and committing to universal public hea...

The Scottish Government’s climate change plan contains “false solutions” to meet its net-zero targets, a leading environmental group has claimed. The updated government plan includes pledges to increase woodland cover across Scotland from 18 to 21 per cent, and to restore 40 per cent of Scotland’s degraded peatland by 2032.  There’s also a commitment to achieve a quarter of carbon emissions reductions through negative emissions technologies (NETs) by 2032. The term net-zero refers to...

Ebola: The New Fake Outbreak We’re being warned that a new Ebola outbreak is spreading. Yahoo News (February 26, 2021): “On Feb. 17, the World Health Organization reported a cluster of Ebola cases in Guinea…The Biden administration is moving forward with plans to screen airline passengers from two African countries arriving in the U.S. for Ebola…” Before yet another lunatic pandemic story takes off, people need to understand the multiple hoaxes behind Ebola. I covered the story in 201...

Countries’ pledges to meet climate goals are nowhere near what they need to be. TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/Getty Images Then–Secretary of State John Kerry holds his granddaughter during a signing ceremony for the Paris Agreement in 2016. The Paris Agreement is a paradox. On the one hand, it provides an essential, shared framework for the nations of the world to tackle the climate crisis. On the other, as those who follow climate politics closely have long known, it has almost no power to ensure t...

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WASHINGTON – President Joseph Biden is expected to take the United States back into the Paris Agreement on Day One of his presidency. Friends of Earth International, U.S., and Malaysia, as well as Third World Network, released the following statements in response: Karen Orenstein, Climate and Energy Program Director at Friends of the Earth U.S., said: “Rejoining the Paris Agreement was the easy part. The Biden Administration must now put together a carbon reduction plan premised on the Un...

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted two features of the Nepal-India economic relationship: Nepal’s ballooning trade deficit, and unrestricted cross-border movement of people of both countries. Attributing the trade deficit entirely to supply-side constraints is neither accurate nor conducive to the overall health of the relationship. This brief suggests ways towards more sustainable trade relations between India and Nepal, among them, India relaxing the non-tariff measures it imposes on Nep...

Explaining non-disclosure agreements in Covid-19 vaccine procurement Modified6 Jan 2021, 7:56 am A - COVID-19 | Last week’s spat between Science, Technology, and Innovation Minister Khairy Jamaluddin and DAP veteran Lim Kit Siang over Covid-19 vaccines highlighted an important feature of the procurement process - non-disclosure agreements (NDAs). Why do pharmaceutical companies like Pfizer and Moderna impose NDAs in the first place? Are NDAs common? Who stands to benefit from such secrecy? To...

Share: Share this page on Twitter Share this page on LinkedIn Email this page to a friend Print this page Professor David S. Levine An Elon Law scholar who teaches and researches on issues related to privacy, intellectual property, and internet law authored a column for WRAL TechWire that raises concerns about changes to copyright law that were rolled into omnibus government funding legislation signed December 27, 2020, by President Donald Trump. “Changing copyrigh...