Archive for November 28th, 2018

28/11/2018

Protect Central America Migrants; Tackle Root Causes of Flight, Urge UN Independent Experts

Migrants who have made, or who are making the journey to the United States border in caravans confront increasing threats to their lives, liberty and security, United Nations independent experts said on 28 November 2018, calling for their full protection.

IOM/Rafael Rodríguez | Central American migrant caravan passing by Chiapas, Mexico. 2018.

 

Nine UN experts pointed out that the migrants are seriously vulnerable, facing challenges such as shortages of healthcare, water, sanitation, food, and shelter. They are also at increased risk of trafficking and sexual exploitation.

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28/11/2018

‘At Risk’ Mediterranean Forests Make ‘Vital Contributions’ to Development

Human Wrongs Watch

Between 2010 and 2015, forests around the Mediterranean have expanded by two per cent, but that has come at the price of significant degradation and increasing vulnerability to climate change, population pressures, wildfires and water scarcity, warned a new UN report launched on 27 November 2018.

UNDP Eurasia | Z.B.’s children now walk and play in the woods as he used to when he was young

The State of Mediterranean Forests 2018, from the Food and Agriculture Organization(FAO) and environment agency UNEP, analyzes a wide range of political, economic, social and environmental issues in the region, which consists of 31 countries.

28/11/2018

CLIMATE CHANGE FOCUS: Cutting Emissions, One Bog at a Time

Human Wrongs Watch

Farmers and entrepreneurs in rural eastern Europe are helping to tackle climate change while boosting their livelihoods as a result of regenerating ancient wetland peat bogs.

UNDP Eurasia | Clima East project by the European Union and UNDP assists environment protection in Eastern Europe. In Belarus, Ukraine and Russia it helps preserve bogs

 

Peat is made up of decaying organic matter and, crucially, is able to absorb harmful carbon deposits which would otherwise add to carbon dioxide emissions, if released into the atmosphere.

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28/11/2018

Human Delusion and Our Destruction of the Biosphere: We Aren’t Even Trying!

Human Wrongs Watch

By Robert J. Burrowes*

DAYLESFORD, Australia, 27 November 2018 – Have you heard the expression ‘climate change’? That lovely expression that suggests a holiday in a place with a more pleasant climate.

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Robert J. Burrowes

Unfortunately, only the rarest individual has the capacity to see through the elite-promulgated delusion that generated this benign expression and its twin notions that 1.5 degrees celsius (above the preindustrial level) is an acceptable upper limit for an increase in global temperature and that the timeframe for extinction-threatening outcomes of this ‘climate change’ is the ‘end of the century’.

If you believe that this 1.5 degree increase is achievable or even viable for sustaining life on Earth and that the ‘end of the century’ is our timeframe then you are the victim of your own fear, which is suppressing your capacity to seek out, analyze and comprehend the evidence that is readily available and to then behave powerfully in response to it. 

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