Government, UN and partners launched a $3.2 billion plan to support local families and refugees in Lebanon
21 Juni 2022 Asupan Warta / Newsfeed 0 CommentCountries: Lebanon, Syrian Arab Republic Sources: Government of Lebanon, UN Development Programme, UN High Commissioner for Refugees The Lebanon Crisis Response Plan aims to deliver critical assistance to more than three million people as vulnerabilities rise, and to support public infrastructure, services, and the local economy.
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Who Should Be the Next UN Climate Change Head?
20 Juni 2022 Asupan Warta / Newsfeed 0 CommentUN Climate Change Executive Secretary Patricia Espinosa addresses the Bonn Climate Change Conference. Her second, three-year term as head of UNFCCC ends in July. By Felix Dodds and Chris SpenceNEW YORK, Jun 20 2022 (IPS) Patricia Espinosa’s six years as Executive Secretary of the UN’s climate change secretariat ends on […]
Read MoreK&L Gates Welcomes Antitrust, Competition, and Trade Regulation Partner in Brussels
Asupan Warta / Newsfeed 0 CommentBrussels – Global law firm K&L Gates LLP has added Nikolaos Peristerakis as a partner in the antitrust, competition, and trade regulation practice. He joins K&L Gates’ Brussels office from Linklaters. Peristerakis is a competition practitioner with more than 20 years of experience in Brussels. He advises and represents companies […]
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Severe flooding triggers humanitarian crisis in northeastern Bangladesh
19 Juni 2022 Asupan Warta / Newsfeed 0 CommentCountry: Bangladesh Source: UN Resident Coordinator for Bangladesh An estimated 4.3 million people are impacted by flash floods in northeastern districts. Experts considered the flood worse than the ones they had experienced in 1998 and 2004.
Read MoreUpset to global agricultural trade? Long-term impacts of the Russia-Ukraine Conflict
17 Juni 2022 Asupan Warta / Newsfeed 0 CommentUpset to global agricultural trade? Long-term impacts of the Russia-Ukraine Conflict Jun 17, 2022 Jun 16, 2022 pfowlkes Fri, 06/17/2022 – 11:39 Upset to global agricultural trade? Long-term impacts of the Russia-Ukraine Conflict Upset to global agricultural trade? Long-term impacts of the Russia-Ukraine Conflict In the News AgWeb published an […]
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Slave Markets Open 24/7: Refugee Babies, Boys, Girls, Women, Men…
Asupan Warta / Newsfeed 0 CommentTwo young victims of human trafficking, who were rescued from the Dzaleka Refugee Camp, are receiving support at a shelter in Malawi. Credit: UNODC By Baher KamalMADRID, Jun 17 2022 (IPS) In addition to slave selling and buying deals in public squares, as reported time ago in ‘liberated’ Libya, a […]
Read MoreSatellites help us with solutions to the urban heat island effect
Asupan Warta / Newsfeed 0 CommentPhoto: Pixabay/geralt Spend time in a city in summer and you can feel the urban heat rising from the pavement and radiating from buildings. Cities are generally hotter than surrounding rural areas, but even within cities, some residential neighborhoods get dangerously warmer than others just a few miles away. Within […]
Read MoreSri Lanka only has enough fuel for about five more days, minister says
Asupan Warta / Newsfeed 0 CommentSri Lanka’s fuel stocks will last for about five more days, its power and energy minister said on Thursday, as the island nation awaits official confirmation from the Indian government for a new $500 million credit line for fuel.
Read MoreUnclogging the Interconnection Queues – FERC Proposes Interconnection Reform
Asupan Warta / Newsfeed 0 CommentAt its open meeting on 16 June 2022, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NOPR) on interconnection reform in response to its Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking: Building for the Future Through Electric Regional Transmission Planning and Cost Allocation and Generator Interconnection (ANOPR) (Docket […]
Read MoreU.S. Supreme Court Narrows Scope of 28 U.S.C. § 1782 to Proceedings Before “Governmental or Intergovernmental Adjudicative Bodies”
16 Juni 2022 Asupan Warta / Newsfeed 0 CommentOn 13 June 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court narrowed the scope of 28 U.S.C. § 1782 (Section 1782), holding that the statute does not permit federal courts to order discovery for use in foreign private commercial arbitrations or investment treaty arbitrations. As detailed in our previous alerts on this issue,1 […]
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