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One of the few pluses to come out of the Covid pandemic has been a worldwide reduction in carbon dioxide emissions.

2021-02-05 15:35:33 GMT2021-02-05 23:35:33(Beijing Time) Xinhua English Video Player Close NAIROBI, Feb. 5 (Xinhua) -- The UN Environment Program (UNEP) on Friday urged African nations to integrate the fight against COVID-19 and climate change response. Richard Munang, Africa regional climate change coordinator at UNEP said that the region needs to leverage on a strategic approach to climate action in order to accelerate socio-economic growth. "This will help the nations to rebuild bette...

Ludovic Marin/AFP via Getty Images A Paris court has found the French government guilty of failing to adequately address climate change in a landmark ruling that climate campaigners Four environmental groups — Greenpeace France, It’s Everyone’s Business, Oxfam France, and the Foundation for Nature and Mankind — filed the case in 2018 after 2.3 million people signed a petition expressing dissatisfaction with how the French government was handling its efforts to curb global warming. The ...

No ifs, no buts, no shortcuts: Agriculture and food sectors are vital ingredients for a sustainable economy and society Deep Dive into ESG - biodiversity Carmine de Franco of Ossiam Carmine de Franco For investors, 2020 was an unusual year. What happened in markets and economies around the world has profoundly shaken long-held beliefs. As we start, hopefully, to emerge from the Covid-19 crisis, we face enormous challenges, notably the repair of economies, dealing with inequality, and acting on ...

The Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Bárcena, urged the countries of the region today to implement a post-pandemic economic recovery based environmental sustainability and equality, through new internal and international political coalitions and unprecedented forms of cooperation to sustain the change in development style. The United Nations high official made remarks today at the XXII Forum of Ministers of Environment of Latin ...

This article was originally published on The Conversation. For decades, the potential for a nuclear catastrophe felt like a waking threat, just around the corner. Then, in 1968, many of the nations once responsible for pushing the world to the brink of nuclear war collectively agreed to reverse course, signing the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. Member nations, including the United States and the Soviet Union, agreed to end the stockpiling of nuclear weapons and eventually m...

 Japan, in consultation with the US, is trying to build a huge military facility for the US Marine Corps by reclaiming a large part of the wondrous, biodiverse Oura Bay. It is akin to Australia offering part of the Great Barrier Reef to the Pentagon to establish a military facility.  Japans status as a corrupt, submissive US colony, is made clear by the virtual occupation of Okinawa by S military bases, this despite decades of local protests. In the first weekend of October 2020, at Oura Bay ...

480,000 people killed by extreme weather in last 20 years, analysis shows January 25, 2021 / 11:04 AM / AFP Natural disasters in 2020 Almost half a million people have died in natural disasters linked to extreme weather events in the last 20 years, according to a new assessment of the direct threat posed to humanity by climate change. The mortality burden of climate-related catastrophes such as storms, flooding and heatwaves is overwhelmingly borne by developing countries. At the start...

The amount of carbon dioxide that we can still emit while limiting global warming to a given target is called the "remaining carbon budget," and it has become a powerful tool to inform climate policy goals and track progress towards net-zero emissi

By Robert J. Burrowes* In August 2010, the secretary-general of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity,  Ahmed Djoghlaf, warned that ‘We are losing biodiversity at an unprecedented rate.’ According to the UN Environment Program, ‘the Earth is in the midst of a mass extinction of life’ with scientists estimating that ‘150-200 species of plant, insect, bird and mammal become extinct every 24 hours’ which is nearly 1,000 times the ‘natural’ or ‘background’ rate. Robert J. B...