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– Scientists warn of vastly higher impacts on billions of people’s livelihood and cost to the global economy by the accelerating losses in the world’s snow and ice regions, aka the cryosphere.
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17/11/2024
Cryosphere Crisis: Scientists Warn of Devastating Global Impacts Without Urgent Climate Action
16/11/2024
The UN Agency for Palestine Refugees Is Living Through the “Darkest Moment” of Its 75 Year History
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(UN News)* — The UN agency for Palestine refugees, UNRWA, is living through the “darkest moment” of its 75 year history, Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini said on Wednesday [], pointing to a trifecta of legislative, operational and security challenges.
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16/11/2024
UN May Face Another Calamity– Under a Second Trump Presidency
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– US President Donald Trump’s return to the White House on January 20 next year may be another calamity for the United Nations—particularly if the second term turns out to be a re-run of his first presidency (2017-2021).
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15/11/2024
The 1.5 Degrees Celsius Target from Paris (Probably) Died on November 5th.
Human Wrongs Watch
– So, the worst has happened. American voters have apparently just elected the most chaotic and kleptocratic individual in their country’s political history as their president. (We say ‘apparently’, because these days nothing can be certain about the integrity of the US political or electoral system – as is the case with far too many other countries.)
As the annual global Climate Conference (COP29) continues its first week in Baku, Azerbaijan, we can already see what the impact of the next Trump presidency will be. Credit: Shutterstock
That means the previous president, Donald Trump – who opposed every one of those climate-friendly investments and has promised the greatest re-investment in oil, gas and coal of any nation in history – is back in.
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14/11/2024
‘Drill, Baby, Drill’
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– During his electoral campaign, incoming U.S. President Donald Trump highlighted that the U.S. holds more oil reserves than any other country, even surpassing Saudi Arabia. In this context, he openly encouraged big businesses to tap into these reserves with the words: ’Drill, baby, drill.’
Trump’s focus: Drilling for oil, not saving the planet. Credit: Shutterstock
The US president-elect has also threatened to impose record tariffs on electric cars’ imports from China, by increasing them between 100% and 200%, and has hinted at higher taxes on European vehicles as well.
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14/11/2024
COP29: Energy Transition Must Not Trigger a ‘Stampede of Greed’ that Crushes the Poor
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(UN News)* — Climate talks at COP29 in Baku on Wednesday [] turned to the pressing issue of how to manage the demand for minerals essential to producing electric vehicles and solar panels without triggering a “stampede of greed” that exploits local communities and crushes the poor.
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11/11/2024
‘Adapt or Perish’
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By Vibhu Mishra
UN calls for urgent action at COP29 climate summit
(UN News)* — Come hell or high water, nations must urgently scale up climate adaptation efforts, the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) warned Thursday [], starting with a commitment to boost adaptation financing at the upcoming COP29 summit.
11/11/2024
2024 Is on Track to Be Hottest Year on Record
Human Wrongs Watch
Baku, Azerbaijan, 11 November 2024 – The year 2024 is on track to be the warmest year on record after an extended streak of exceptionally high monthly global mean temperatures, according to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).
The WMO State of the Climate 2024 Update once again issues a Red Alert at the sheer pace of climate change in a single generation, turbo-charged by ever-increasing greenhouse gas levels in the atmosphere.
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10/11/2024
Cities Will Be Hit Hardest By Climate Change
Human Wrongs Watch
– Cities are in a unique position, simultaneously the biggest emitters of greenhouse gasses and the most affected areas of the greenhouse effect.
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A flood in Feni City, Bangladesh. Bangladesh, which is one of the most climate-sensitive regions in the world, is particularly vulnerable to climate shocks, such as rising sea levels. Credit: UNICEF/Alaa Seoudy
As a new UN report shows that rapid urbanization and industrialization have adverse effects on the environment, causing a rise in sea levels, prolonged rainfalls and flooding, and an increase in overall temperature.
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09/11/2024
UN Arms Embargo on Israel: Dead on Arrival
Human Wrongs Watch
– When the United Nations imposes sanctions or penalizes a member state – be it the General Assembly or the Human Rights Council – the resolutions are “non-binding” and often remain unimplemented.
In Khan Younis, thousands of people are fleeing for their lives again. Credit: UNRWA
But the Security Council resolutions are “binding” – and still openly violated by countries such as North Korea—because all these UN bodies have no means of implementing these resolutions, nor a standing army to forcibly enforce them. But they only carry moral weight.
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