Archive for ‘Climate carnage’

20/11/2025

Gaza: Displaced Palestinians Dealing with the ‘Death of Dignity’, Warns UNICEF

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Washing is hung up to dry in a damaged home in Gaza City.
© WFP/Maxime Le Lijour | Washing is hung up to dry in a damaged home in Gaza City.

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20/11/2025

Artificial Intelligence Has an Environmental Problem. Here’s What the World Can Do about That

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By the UN Environment Programme*

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19/11/2025

Ending World Hunger Costs Less than 1% of Military Spending

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(UN News)* — Ending hunger by 2030 would cost just $93 billion a year — less than one per cent of the $21.9 trillion spent on military budgets over the past decade, according to the UN World Food Programme (WFP).

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A woman in the eastern DR Congo, who was forced to flee her home, due to violence works on a smallholding.
© WFP/Benjamin Anguandia | A woman in the eastern DR Congo, who was forced to flee her home, due to violence works on a smallholding.

By 2026 a staggering 318 million people would face crisis levels of hunger or worse, more than double the figure recorded in 2019, the food agency reported in its 2026 Global Outlook.

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18/11/2025

Methane Is the Fastest Climate Win — Here’s the Data the World Needs

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17 November 2025 — Methane might only stay in the atmosphere for a short time, but its impact is powerful—and cutting it is one of the quickest ways to slow global warming.

Methane is the fastest climate win — here’s the data the world needs

Credit: UNEP

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17/11/2025

European Banks Pour Nearly €8 Billion a Year into Critical Minerals Mining Despite Links to Human Rights and Environmental Abuses

Meanwhile, the EU rolls back and weakens its sustainability and green rules

17 November 2025 — New Oxfam, Fair Finance International and 11.11.11. report exposes how Europe’s banks and investors are blindly investing in mining companies linked to land grabs, pollution and human rights violations.

This comes ahead of the EU’s Raw Materials Week.  

The report, “Financing Critical Minerals but Failing Critical Safeguards”, finds that Europe’s drive to secure critical raw materials needed for the green transition inadvertently fuels human rights abuses and environmental harm.

 
 

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16/11/2025

The Silent War Before COP30: How Corporations Are Weaponising the Law to Muzzle Climate Defenders

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BELÉM, Brazil, Nov 10 2025 (IPS)** As the world prepares for the next COP30 summit, a quieter battle is raging in courtrooms.
Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (SLAPPs) are the fossil-fuel industry’s new favourite weapon, turning justice systems into instruments of intimidation.

Family agriculture and land defenders in Colombia. Credit: Both Nomads/Forus

“Speak out, and you’ll pay for it”

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16/11/2025

‘We’ll Always Need the Toilet’

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By the United Nations*

No matter what lies ahead, we will always rely on sanitation to protect us from diseases and keep our environment clean.

Today, billions of people still live without a safe toilet — with the poorest, especially women and girls, worst affected.

As time goes by, the pressure on sanitation is only increasing. Across the world, ageing infrastructure is failing. Investment hasn’t kept pace with demand.

And climate change is reshaping our world – with glaciers melting, weather worsening, and sea levels rising.

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15/11/2025

Over 1.7 Million Children Live in Areas Affected by Strongest Typhoon to Hit the Philippines This Year

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By UNICEF*

MANILA, 13 November 2025 – More than 1.7 million children are impacted by Super Typhoon Fung-wong, which made landfall in the Philippines on 9th November. 

Children impacted by Super Typhoon Fung-wong in the Philippines.
 
UNICEF/UNI896456/PiojoChildren stay in Reserva Elementary School in Baler, Aurora, as the province braced for the impact of Super Typhoon Uwan (international name: Fung-wong) on November 9, 2025.

The severe storm has wreaked havoc to children’s homes, schools, and access to health services across 16 regions in the archipelago that is already exhausted by multiple climate-related and geophysical shocks this year. 

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15/11/2025

‘Mobs’ Target Palestinians in Occupied West Bank, as Floods Roil Gaza

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(UN News)* — Images emerged this week of what appear to be mobs of masked Israeli settlers carrying out arson attacks on Palestinian homes and property, the UN human rights office (OHCHR) said on Friday [].

Families return to their destroyed homes in Gaza City.
© WFP/Maxime Le Lijour | Families return to their destroyed homes in Gaza City.

OHCHR condemned this week’s attacks as abhorrent and said they reflected a wider pattern of increased violence against Palestinians.

Several people were reportedly injured in the attacks, which included a raid on a dairy factory, while delivery trucks and homes were set ablaze. 

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15/11/2025

Millions of Lives at Risk, Warn UN Food Agencies, as Hunger Crisis Worsens

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(UN News)* — The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and World Food Programme (WFP) warn of a major hunger emergency, with acute food insecurity set to worsen in 16 countries and territories between now and May 2026, putting millions of lives at risk.

Freshly baked bread is handed out to people in Deir al-Balah, Gaza.
© WFP/Maxime Le Lijour | Freshly baked bread is handed out to people in Deir al-Balah, Gaza.

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