17/05/2019
India’s new comprehensive Cooling Action Plan targets an increase in sustainable cooling for the good of its population, while helping to fight climate change
17 May 2019 (UN Environment)* — Four years after temperatures hit the high forties in India, claiming over 2,000 lives, parts of the country are again baking in intense, and deadly, heatwaves. Throughout April and into May, the states of Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and Rajasthan have seen daily highs of 42°C.
As climate change increases, such temperatures are becoming the new normal. Combined with economic growth and urbanization, this brings a huge growth in cooling demand. The number of air conditioners in India is expected to rise from 15 million in 2011 to 240 million in 2030.
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17/05/2019
Geneva, 16 May 2019 (IOM)* – Climate change and disasters are driving more people to move than ever before, whether due to sudden onset disasters like the unprecedented cyclones that devastated Southern Africa earlier this year, or destructive long-term weather patterns causing drought.
Women displaced from drought in Ethiopia receive emergency shelter from IOM. The Organization supports more than 70 countries to prevent and mitigate disaster displacement. Photo: Rikka Tupaz
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16/05/2019
Immediate Action Is Needed to Save the Future
John Scales Avery
The central problem which the world faces in its attempts to avoid catastrophic climate change is a contrast of time scales.
In order to save human civilization and the biosphere from the most disastrous effects of climate change, we need to act immediately.
But it is difficult to mobilize public opinion behind urgently needed action because the most severe effects of global warming belong to the long-term future.
However, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, in their October 2018 report, used strong enough language to wake up at least part of the public: the children whose future is at stake.
Here is an excerpt from a speech which 16-year-old Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg made at the Davos Economic Forum in January, 2019:
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16/05/2019
14 May 2019 (UN Environment)* — With young people driving a global wake-up call on climate change, it is no surprise to find schools and universities leading by example and reducing carbon emissions, promoting renewable energy and becoming hotbeds of activism on the defining issue for a generation.
In Britain, several universities have declared a “climate emergency”, reflecting growing student unease over the slow pace of official action. Bristol University did so in April, saying it wanted to acknowledge the deep concerns of its students. It is already acting to reduce its own carbon footprint.
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16/05/2019
Progress is also slow in high-income countries including the UK, Finland, France, Germany, USA, Australia, and New Zealand.*
UNICEF/Kate Holt | Baby in Papua New Guinea wears an orange hypothermia alert device at the neo natal unit in Mendi General Hospital in Southern Highlands Province to monitor its temperature.
NEW YORK/ LONDON/ GENEVA, 15 May 2019 (UNICEF)* — More than 20 million babies were born with a low birthweight (less than 2500g; 5.5 pounds) in 2015—around one in seven of all births worldwide. Almost three-quarters of these babies were born in Southern Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, where data are most limited.
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15/05/2019
In order to make the case for privatizing state-owned enterprises, their real problems were often exaggerated in order to make the case for privatization from the 1980s.
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, May 14 2019 (IPS)* – Privatization has not provided the miracle cure for the problems (especially inefficiencies) associated with the public sector.
Jomo Kwame Sundaram
The public interest has rarely been well served by private interests taking over from the public sector. Growing concern over the mixed consequences of privatization has spawned research worldwide.
Adverse economic consequences
Both Bretton Woods institutions have long been aware of the adverse impacts of privatization.
For example, IMF research acknowledged that privatization “can lead to job losses, wage cuts and higher prices for consumers”.
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15/05/2019
By Baher Kamal*
Indebted, exploited, hunt down, shamed at Home… The harsh reality of Southeast Asia’s migrants
Photo from ILO.
Sorry for coming back to this issue, but its immense human dimension justifies this new attempt to report on another aspect, which is deliberately hidden, unwanted to be seen by the new wave of racist, xenophobe, far-right pseudo-politicians, which is now steadily growing in the biggest industrialised powers on Earth: United States and so far a full dozen of European countries. See what it is about:
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15/05/2019
We need to value nature’s biodiversity, clean water, and seeds. For this, nature is the best teacher.
Vandana Shiva at her biodiversity farm, Navdanya, which is also where the Earth University is located. Participants learn humans’ role and responsibility in Earth Democracy, and they work with seeds and soil as living things, in the context of the entire web of life. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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15/05/2019
Geneva (UN Environment)* -– Decisions on plastic waste have been reached on 11 May 2019 in Geneva, as approximately 180 governments adopted a raft of decisions aimed at protecting human health and the environment from the harmful effects of hazardous chemicals and waste.
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15/05/2019
The global assessment report on biodiversity and ecosystem services from the Intergovernmental Panel on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) warned that 1 million species are at risk of extinction, more than at any time in human history.
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