12/09/2020
11 September 2020 (UN News)* — Fresh fires at a Greek island centre for thousands of refugees and migrants, have destroyed all remaining accommodation for those affected by the initial blaze on 11 September 2020 evening.
© UNICEF/Ron Haviv VII Photo | Children skip rope outside the Reception and Identification Centre in Moria in Lesvos, on December 15, 2018.
In an alert on Friday, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) said that people of all ages have been left homeless in Lesbos after further fires on Wednesday and Thursday.
Why they started has not been determined.
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12/09/2020
10 September 2020 (UN Environment)* — Some of the worst wildfires in California in living memory; exceptional and prolonged heat in Siberia; walls of seawater as Hurricane Laura lashes Louisiana; unprecedented rates of glacier melt and sea-ice loss… these are some of the blinking lights of the climate crisis.
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Beyond headline-grabbing climate events, however, lie other indicators that our climate is changing more rapidly.
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12/09/2020
11 September 2020 (WMO)* — United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres launched the high-level multi-agency United in Science report on 9 September with yet another appeal for urgent climate action to “ensure a liveable planet for this and future generations.”
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11/09/2020
NAIROBI, Sep 10 2020 (IPS)* – Forced to flee wars and disasters, sometimes without family, and struggling to survive in the worst of circumstances, children on the move have long led very precarious lives. 
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11/09/2020
Did you know that around 60 per cent of all infectious diseases in humans are zoonotic, as are 75 per cent of all emerging infectious diseases, in other words they come to us via animals?
Zoonoses that emerged or re-emerged recently are Ebola, bird flu, Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS), the Nipah virus, Rift Valley fever, sudden acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), West Nile virus, Zika virus disease, and, now, the coronavirus. They are all linked to human activity.
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11/09/2020
Why the 2020 election is so important
September 2020 (Wall Street International)* — Why did Prof. Noam Chomsky call the U.S. Republican Party “The most dangerous organization in the history of the world”?
He did so because the party is characterized by climate change denial and by support for giant fossil fuel corporations.
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11/09/2020
The Escazú Agreement is the first in the world to contain specific provisions on human rights defenders in environmental matters.
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10/09/2020
7 September 2020 (WMO)* — The first comprehensive assessment of where the Earth’s excess heat is accumulating has been released by the
Global Climate Observing System, co-sponsored by the World Meteorological Organization, Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission-UNESCO, International Science Council and United Nations Environment Programme.
Reporting in the journal Earth System Science Data, the group of more than 30 researchers from scientific institutions around the world tracked and quantified global heat storage from 1960 to 2018 to answer the question “where does the heat go”?
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10/09/2020
New York/Geneva, 9 September 2020 (UN Environment)* – Climate change has not stopped for COVID19. Greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere are at record levels and continue to increase. Emissions are heading in the direction of pre-pandemic levels following a temporary decline caused by the lockdown and economic slowdown.
The world is set to see its warmest five years on record – in a trend which is likely to continue – and is not on track to meet agreed targets to keep global temperature increase well below 2 °C or at 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels.
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The agreement seeks to guarantee access to information, citizen participation, and access to justice in environmental matters in the region. | Photo: EFE/José Jácome
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