03/12/2020
Countries must decrease production of fossil fuels by 6 per cent per year, between 2020 and 2030, if the world is to avert “catastrophic” global temperature rise, a new UN-backed report has found.*
ESCAP Photo/Christian Dohrmann | A new report has urged countries to cut the production of fossil fuels by 6 per cent, per year, to avoid catastrophic global warming. Pictured here, a cargo train, laden with coal, waits at a railway station in India. (file photo)
Released, on Wednesday [2 December 2020], in the shadows of the coronavirus pandemic, the Production Gap Report also revealed that while the pandemic and resulting lockdowns led to “short-term drops” in coal, oil and gas production, pre-COVID plans and post-COVID stimulus measures point to a continuation of increasing fossil fuel production.
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03/12/2020
(UN News)* — The UN Secretary-General, António Guterres, has described the fight against the climate crisis as the top priority for the 21st Century, in a passionate, uncompromising speech delivered on Wednesday [2 December 2020] at Columbia University in New York.
NASA | The Earth, an image created from photographs taken by the Suomi NPP satellite.
The landmark address marks the beginning of a month of UN-led climate action, which includes the release of major reports on the global climate and fossil fuel production, culminating in a climate summit on 12 December, the fifth anniversary of the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement.
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02/12/2020
2 December 2020 (ILO)* – Highlighting the tragic human cost of modern slavery, El Patron tells the real-life story of an illiterate man, called Hermógenes, from the Argentinian countryside who finds himself trapped in forced labour after he goes to work in a butcher’s shop in the capital, Buenos Aires.
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02/12/2020
By UN Secretary-General António Guterres*
2 December 2020 (United Nations)* — This year’s global protests against systemic racism have brought renewed attention to a legacy of injustices all over the world whose roots lie in the dark history of colonialism and slavery.
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Secretary-General António Guterres (second from right) approaches the stakeout area to read a statement to journalists concerning allegations of slavery in Libya in 2017. UN Photo /Mark Garten
But slavery is not simply a matter of history.
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02/12/2020
Hundreds of families with young children work and live in these brickyards near Islamabad – often under conditions of bonded labour. PHOTO:ILO / Marcel Crozet
2 December 2020 (United Nations)* — According to the International Labour Organisation (ILO) more than 40 million people worldwide are victims of modern slavery. Although modern slavery is not defined in law, it is used as an umbrella term covering practices such as forced labour, debt bondage, forced marriage, and human trafficking. Essentially, it refers to situations of exploitation that a person cannot refuse or leave because of threats, violence, coercion, deception, and/or abuse of power.
In addition, more than 150 million children are subject to child labour, accounting for almost one in ten children around the world.
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02/12/2020
By Robert J. Burrowes*
Do you like to believe that scientists are studying the evidence – whether in relation to Covid-19 or anything else – and delivering high quality knowledge that can be used to guide public policymaking so that it might better serve the interests of ordinary people?
Robert J. Burrowes
It is certainly a comforting idea, isn’t it?
After all, we have long been told that science is an ‘evidence-based approach’ to understanding particular phenomena and thus providing accurate guidance on how to proceed to achieve productive outcomes.
Unfortunately, this claim is just propaganda for the unwary.
In his 2005 study of the validity of published medical research, John P. A. Ioannidis, a professor of medicine who also studies scientific research itself, explained why ‘It can be proven that most claimed research findings are false.’ Most? False? Here is what Professor Ioannidis concluded but you can read his entire article, cited below.
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01/12/2020
1 December 2020 (WMO)* — The extremely active 2020 Atlantic hurricane season officially ended on 30 November with a record-breaking 30 named tropical storms, including 13 hurricanes and six major hurricanes. There were 12 landfalling storms in the continental United States.
This is the most storms on record, surpassing the 28 from 2005, and the second-highest number of hurricanes on record.
2020 marked the fifth consecutive year with an above-normal Atlantic hurricane season, according to the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
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01/12/2020
Briefing on the state of the empire, ending on a positive note.
Mazin Qumsiyeh
First, the bad news: unemployment in Gaza now at 82%, economy of Palestinians de-developed by Israeli apartheid, Netanyahu visiting the Kleptocracy known as “Saudi Arabia”, weapon sales to human rights abusers accelerating, millions infected daily by the COVID19, rich got richer, poor got poorer, rich people get healthcare and the rest suffers and much more.
Things will get worse under Biden as is clear from the appointment of elite war mongering Zionists for key positions like his Chief of Staff, his Secretary of State or his Secretary of the Treasury (unfortunately few people will look into their background).
This bodes ill for the USA and the world. Not one single progressive was appointed to any key position in the Biden “team”. The change is merely to go back to plain vanilla US empire in its classic (less Trumpian) form.
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01/12/2020
Conservation Agriculture advocates leaving crop residues on fields, creating an organic cover that gives nutrients back to the soil. Lal believes that “people are a mirror image of the soil they live upon.” For us to be healthy, soils need to be healthy. ©Ohio State University/K. Chamberlain
1 December 2020 (FAO)* — Growing up on a small farm in India, Dr. Rattan Lal experienced much of the hardship faced by today’s smallholder farmers. His family didn’t have running water or electricity, but he explains, “We never missed it because that was the way everybody lived.”
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01/12/2020
1 December 2020 (UN News)* — A 19-year-old woman from Nicaragua in Central America has been telling the United Nations how she was traded as “currency” in a card game, and then trafficked and abused.
UN Costa Rica/ Danilo Mora | Lilith, a 19-year-old woman, and her son fled Nicaragua after being trafficked and sexually abused.
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Lilith, not her real name, who now has a three-year-old son, was able to flee to neighbouring Costa Rica, where she has dedicated her life to protecting and preventing violence and abuse against young women and girls.
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