15/12/2015
By Nastasya Tay*
PARIS, 14 December 2015 (IRIN) – The world has its first universal climate accord.
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Adopted late on Saturday [12 December 2015] night, on a small airstrip on the periphery of the French capital, the Paris Agreement is a landmark deal that brings together 196 nations, uniting them in the fight against climate change and its impacts.
Nearly two weeks of intense negotiations have been synthesised into a single 31-page document, representing a balance of interests; a document of consensus for countries at different levels of development and with different capabilities.
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15/12/2015
14 December 2015 (Greenpeace) – We at Greenpeace had three key expectations for the Paris Agreement. We wanted:
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- a signal that the age of fossil fuels is over,
- a commitment to soon – and continuously – improve national climate action and
- global solidarity, including a way to make polluters pay for the damage they cause.
Today, we can say that we got one, achieved progress on two, and that governments mostly failed us on three. Justice and corporate accountability were the weakest points of the Paris deal.
Let me explain.
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15/12/2015
Geneva (ICAN)* – On 7 December 2015, governments adopted at the United Nations General Assembly in New York a resolution that will convene talks in Geneva in 2016 to develop new law on nuclear weapons.
Source of image: ICAN-International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons
The resolution presented by Mexico received the support of two-thirds of the governments of the world and is a response to the growing demand for a treaty banning nuclear weapons.
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15/12/2015
Nearly 7,400 newborns die every day in South-East Asia, causing untold misery to mothers and families, yet two thirds can be saved with proven cost-effective measures, the United Nations health agency on 14 December 2015 said, calling on Governments to act urgently against a scourge that kills 2.7 million newborns annually.
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A mother and her newborn baby at the Maternal and Child Health Training Institute for medically needy in Dhaka. UN Photo/Kibae Park
“Scaling up interventions with good quality care around the time of childbirth and during the first days after birth can substantially prevent complications and infections in new-borns, which are the main causes of new-born deaths,” UN World Health Organization (WHO) South-East Asia Regional Director Poonam Khetrapal Sing stressed in Delhi, as health partners signed a pledge to reduce such deaths.
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15/12/2015
Ten years after the United Nations World Summit on the Information Society, delegates from Member States and observer entities are meeting at UN Headquarters starting on 15 December 2015 to identify emerging trends, fresh priorities and innovations for advancing information and communications technologies.
Photo: ITU | Source: UN News Centre
The process that began with the World Summit, known by the acronym WSIS, “is where the real grassroots work is being done. It is where people gather if they believe in effectively using ICTs [Information and Communications Technologies] for sustainable development,” said International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Secretary-General Houlin Zhao*.
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15/12/2015
Some two billion people have moved out of low human development levels in the last 25 years but in order to secure these gains and galvanize progress, a stronger focus to “act now” to provide decent work is needed, according to the new United Nations Human Development Report released on 14 December 2015.
Factory workers in Accra, Ghana producing shirts for overseas clients. Rapid globalization, technological revolution, demographic transitions and many other factors are creating new opportunities, but also pose risks. Photo: World Bank/Dominic Chavez
“This new global Human Development Report is an urgent call to tackle one of the world’s great development challenges – providing enough decent work and livelihoods for all,” UN Development Programme (UNDP) Administrator Helen Clark said, launching the report at a ceremony in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
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14/12/2015
Egyptian born, Spanish national secular journalist, Baher Kamal, comments on the current Middle East situation and its future. Read The Over-Written, Under-ReportedMiddle East – Part I: Of Arabs and Muslims and Middle East Part II – 99.5 Years of (Imposed) Solitude
**[Condolezza] Rice Special Briefing on Mideast Peace”. Licensed under Public Domain via Commons (More details at bottom of article)
MADRID, 15 December 2015 (IPS) – When, in June 2006, former US National Security adviser and, later on, Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, spelled out the George W. Bush administration new, magic doctrine for the Middle East, tons of ink was poured and millions of words said in a harsh attempt to speculate with what she really did mean by what she called “Creative Chaos.”
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14/12/2015
13 December 2015 (RT)* – Following the release of the ‘Paris Agreement,’ a document signed by 195 nations to fight climate change, Jagoda Munic, Chairperson of Friends of the Earth International, says the legislation will fail to reduce global temperatures.
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**Image: A freshwater ecosystem in Gran Canaria, an island of the Canary Islands. | Eckhard Jakob at the German language Wikipedia | Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. | Wikimedia Commons
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After four years of negotiating the climate change pact, dubbed COP21, delegates from almost 200 countries agreed to limit global warming to 2 degrees Celsius.
Activists, however, say it’s not enough to save the planet from overheating.
Munic described the scene in central Paris as world leaders were putting the final touches on the historic climate change pact.
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13/12/2015
The U.S. agribusiness giant Cargill’s port terminal on the banks of the Tapajós River in the northern Brazilian city of Santarém, where large cargo vessels dwarf the traditional small fishing boats of the Amazon basin. Credit: Fabiana Frayssinet/IPS
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13/12/2015
By Uri Avnery*
12 December 2015
BINYAMIN NETANYAHU is our prime minister for life.
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So it seems. So he evidently believes.
Not only believes. He acts accordingly.
To make sure, he has done the two necessary things: (a) eliminate every possible competitor, and (b) surround himself with male and female nincompoops, no one of whom could be considered by anyone a plausible successor.
Indeed, the idea that any of this lot could ever become prime minister sends shudders down our spines.
So we are stuck with him for life (at least). Time to face this prospect.
HE IS not the worst. No one ever is. For every bad leader, there is a worse one. (Except Adolf Hitler, perhaps.)
So let us look first at the positive sides of his rule. There are some. (Yes, indeed.)
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