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What does a just transition actually look like? As our guests explain, it’s about more than fossil fuel workers — and it depends a lot on the local context.

Africa Science Focus investigates how communities are managing this plastic tsunami. This week, we speak to a team who set sail across Lake Victoria in a dhow made of recycled plastics and flip flops, and our reporter Michael Kaloki meets with activist James Wakibia, who’s taking his campaign against single-use plastics Africa-wide. Carole Excell from the World Resources Institute tells us what more governments and communities can do to protect people and the environment from plastic waste. And in this week’s Q&A segment, Kent Chizu from Highland Secondary School in Zambia has a question ...

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Home > STATEMENT: Escazú Agreement Moves A Big Step Closer to Making the World Safer for Environmental Defenders STATEMENT: Escazú Agreement Moves A Big Step Closer to Making the World Safer for Environmental Defenders Statement - January 22, 2021 WASHINGTON (January 22, 2021)—The Regional Agreement on Access to Information, Public Participation and Justice in Environmental Matters in Latin America and the Caribbean – otherwise known as the Escazú Agreement – was acceded to by Mexico and Argentina today and can officially enter into force in 90 days, on Earth Da...

Article by Social Share St John’s – Authorities and experts attending the high-level virtual Second Meeting of the Signatory Countries to the Escazú Agreement here, have underscored the importance of guaranteeing human rights in Latin America and the Caribbean. According to the United Nations’ Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), delegates have also highlighted the significance of the Regional Agreement on Access to Information, Public Participation and Justice in Environmental Matters in Latin America and the Caribbean, known as the Escazú Agreement...