Biden Brings World Leaders Together At Climate Summit
The world’s industrialized nations — the biggest polluters — are very far from achieving the necessary reductions to meet Paris Agreement goals.
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API Smashes Brakes As Momentum For Methane Action Grows
Originally published by Union of Concerned Scientists, The Equation. By Julie McNamara, senior energy analyst with the Climate & Energy program at the Union of Concerned Scientists. The American Petroleum Institute? Blink once. Touting its work with the Environmental Protection Agency? Blink twice. On methane regulations? Scrunch, unscrunch. Oh, this should be good. For … [continued]
UN Study Analyzing Indigenous Tribes Shares 9 Key Insights To Consider For More Sustainable Food…
This is a follow-up to another article I just wrote, “UN Report: Indigenous Lands Protecting Biodiversity Are Being Threatened By Incursions.” That article detailed how climate change and incursions were threatening Indigenous Lands. Line 3 is a great example of this. However, I wanted to provide more detail on the … [continued]
UN Report: Indigenous Lands Protecting Biodiversity Are Being Threatened By Incursions
A report conducted by the United Nations (UN) found that Indigenous Peoples’ food systems are the most sustainable, and also explored how climate change is affecting them. Incursions into Indigenous lands are threatening tribal food systems and our planet’s well-being, Inside Climate News reported. Indigenous people have been sustainably using … [continued]
Boston Redlining Visible In Concrete, Ecocide Needs Definition, Climate Threatening Indigenous Food — Nexus Media…
Below are three recent Nexus Media news briefs combined into one article. Boston Redlining Past Visible In Concrete Today The racist legacy of redlining and other inequities, exacerbated by continued greenspace disparities, are disproportionately heating — and thus harming — low-income Boston neighborhoods, the Boston Globe reports. Previously redlined neighborhoods, those … [continued]
UN Greenwashes Shipping with Hopelessly Weak Carbon Efficiency Target
Originally published on Transport & Environment. By Eoin Bannon The global shipping fleet will be required to reduce its carbon intensity by just 1.5% a year under a climate plan adopted by the UN regulator, the IMO, yesterday. The target is as weak as what would be achieved under business as usual¹ … [continued]
UN: Climate Change & Biodiversity Crises Actually One Big Crisis
To address climate change without also protecting biodiversity, or vice versa, is to court failure in both fights, two UN bodies warned Thursday. Jointly issued by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, the report for the first time declares that … [continued]
Secretary-General’s Message On World Water Day
Originally published on United Nations website and on the World Water Day website. This year’s World Water Day, with the theme “Valuing water,” asks: What does water mean to me? The value of water is profound and complex. There is no aspect of sustainable development that does not fundamentally rely upon … [continued]
Despite Protecting Nature, Indigenous People Will Be Left Out Of UN Biodiversity Talks
By Jeremy Deaton Aiming to preserve 30 percent of the world’s land and water by 2030, dozens of countries will take part in a UN biodiversity conference later this year — but Indigenous people won’t have a seat at the table. Indigenous communities have repeatedly mobilized to block logging, mining … [continued]
Rising To The Challenge 5 Years After Paris Climate Agreement
On the fifth anniversary of the adoption of the Paris Agreement — December 12th, 2020—countries are coming together for the “Climate Ambition Summit 2020” to commit to new and more aggressive climate actions as required under the Paris Agreement.
