17/11/2021
MADRID, Nov 16 2021 (IPS)* – It sounds incredible: while politicians have been cackling about the climate emergency and profiling in empty promises to halt it, they have spent six trillion US dollars from taxpayers’ money to subsidise fossil fuels in just one year: 2020. And they are set to increase the figure to nearly seven trillion by 2025.
An offshore oil rig drilling platform. Globally, fossil fuel subsidies amounted to 5.9 trillion US dollars in 2020, according to an IMF report. Credit: Bigstock
Add to this that governments will double the production of energy from these very same, highly dangerous, global warming generators.
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17/11/2021
Leaders at the COP26 summit have no intention of tackling the growing environmental impacts caused by their ‘defence’ spending.
Physicians for Social Responsibility
World leaders gathered in Glasgow last week for the COP26 summit in a bid to demonstrate how they are belatedly getting to grips with the climate crisis.
Agreements to protect forests, cut carbon and methane emissions and promote green tech are all being hammered out in front of a watching world.
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17/11/2021
(UN News)* — Following pandemic-driven school closures, five UN agencies threw their strong support behind an international coalition to improve the nutrition, health and education of school-age children around the world.
© UNICEF/Bona Khoy | A young girl eats a meal in school before beginning class in Cambodia.
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In a joint declaration on Tuesday
[16 November 2021], the Food and Agriculture Organization (
FAO), the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (
UNESCO), the UN Children’s Fund (
UNICEF), the World Food Programme (
WFP) and the World Health Organization (
WHO) committed to assisting the
School Meals Coalition in which over 60 countries envision a nutritious meal in school for every child in need by 2030.
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17/11/2021
(UN News)* — Over the past week, mass arrests of people reportedly of Tigrayan origin have continued in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa and elsewhere, the UN rights office said on Tuesday 16 November 2021.
© WFP/Leni Kinzli | Tens of thousands of Ethiopians have been displaced by the ongoing conflict in the Tigray region.
The alert from the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) comes as the World Food Programme (WFP) described the aid situation for vulnerable people in Tigray as “hand-to-mouth”.
Citing reports, OHCHR said that at least 1,000 individuals are believed to have been detained by police officers in the last seven days, on suspicion of being linked to the Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front (TPLF).
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