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Definitely not on track to save life on planet

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- James A Michel - December 17, 2024December 17, 2024

Alongside climate finance, COP29 currently being held in Baku, Azerbaijan, was expected to serve as an important platform for nations to demonstrate their intention to submit stronger national climate commitments, strengthen adaptation efforts, and show tangible progress and action on previous pledges. Halfway through the conference some key experts and leaders

UN and the multilateral system in crisis: what the Global South must do

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- Times Report - October 2, 2023

The planet is on fire, but almost all the firefighters have deserted. At the meeting of the United Nations General Assembly, which began on September 19 in New York, the leaders of four of the five permanent members of the Security Council – the UN’s most powerful executive body –

This planet is drying up and these are the consequences

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- Baher Kamal, IPS - December 2, 2022December 3, 2022

Drought is one of the ‘most destructive’ natural disasters in terms of the loss of life, arising from impacts, such as wide-scale crop failure, wildfires and water stress. In other words, droughts are one of the “most feared natural phenomena in the world;” they devastate farmland, destroy livelihoods and cause untold

Climate collapse is not inevitable but ‘Great Leap’ needed

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- Paul Virgo, IPS - September 12, 2022September 13, 2022

In 1972 the Club of Rome alerted the world to the harm human economic systems were doing to the health of our planet in its seminal, best-selling report, The Limits to Growth. With the devastating impacts of the climate crisis hitting home harder than ever, especially in the Global South,