Datong, in China’s Shanxi Province, was an old-fashioned coal mining city. It has been a key city for an environmental clean-up. China is the world’s largest emitter of CO2. Credit: Trevor Page By Marwa AwadOTTAWA, Canada, Nov 9 2021 (IPS) Look up any map showing today’s global humanitarian crises and […]
Read MoreCountry: World Sources: International Organization for Migration, World Health Organization IOM, the WHO and Lancet Migration, are calling on world leaders to take concrete action to mitigate the consequences of climate change on migration and people’s health worldwide, on the occasion of the COP26.
Read MorePhoto: Pixabay/Pexels Red meat is bad for your health and bad for the environment too. That we have known. But here is something that may come as a surprise: cutting back on sweets and pastries can be just as important. Researchers who reviewed 20 studies on the environmental impacts of […]
Read MoreAt least 89 people, including 17 children, have tested positive for the Zika virus in a surge of cases in the Indian city of Kanpur, its health department said on Monday.
Read MoreIndia’s manufacturing capital Chennai came to a standstill on Sunday, with many areas flooded after the southern Indian coast was battered by heavy rainfall overnight, prompting authorities to issue warnings and evacuate people from low-lying areas.
Read MoreIn October, the German Federal Cartel Office (Bundeskartellamt, “FCO”) published new guidelines on its leniency program and on the setting of fines in cartel proceedings.1 The guidelines substantiate the changes in the law resulting from the 10th Amendment to the German Act against Restraints of Competition (Gesetz gegen Wettbewerbsbeschränkungen, “ARC”) […]
Read MorePhoto: Pixabay/dassel Vast quantities of water are locked up as ice in Greenland’s giant sheets, yet these sheets are melting at increasing rates. In the past decade 3.5 trillion tons of ice has melted on the island. That’s enough melted ice to cover the entire United Kingdom in 15 metres […]
Read MoreThe high-level segment of the UN General Assembly in late September 2021 was attended by more than 100 world leaders and over a thousand delegates from 193 countries —despite the UN’s pandemic lockdown. But NGOs were banned from the Secretariat building—a 20-month- old ban which still continues. Credit: UN Photo […]
Read MoreKetum DPP PKB Muhaimin Iskandar mendukung presiden Joko Widodo menjadi pahlawan dunia, dalam upaya penanganan perubahan iklim. “Setahun ke depan adalah kesempatan emas Jokowi dan dunia usaha jadi pahlawan dunia dalam …
Read MoreCountry: World Source: World Health Organization Only about a quarter of countries recently surveyed by the World Health Organization have been able to fully implement their national health and climate change plans or strategies.
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