'Unseen' News and Views – By Baher Kamal & The Like
Image: We’re being sold a post-Brexit picture of a bucolic utopia. The truth is rather different.
The European Union is, perhaps more than anything else, a farming union.
About 40% of its budget goes on the Common Agricultural Policy, which has guided food production and land use across the continent throughout a 55-year period which has been marked by changes in farming practice as great as any since the Neolithic revolution.
7 February 2018 (UNEP)* –– When China decided to ban imports of plastic waste at the end of last year, it left major exporters of plastic waste unprepared.
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Source: UN Environment
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According to the Worldwatch Institute, the average North American or European consumes 100 kilograms of plastic every year. Globally, only 14 per cent of our plastic waste is being recycled.
Current recycling machines are unable to separate plastics into reusable forms, so plastic waste has previously been pressed into bales and sent to China, where recyclable plastic was manually picked and reused.
Nearly six months after an outbreak of violence drove almost 700,000 minority Rohingyas from Myanmar to seek safety in Bangladesh, senior United Nations officials on 13 February 2018 said it is time to address the root causes – including decades of repression inside Myanmar – so those who fled feel safe enough to return to their homeland.
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“We are now in a race against time as a major new emergency looms,” United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi told the Security Council via videolink from Geneva, Switzerland.
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