Climate catastrophe: current global governance is not good enough.
… Conflict Pandemics Artificial Intelligence Global Catastrophic Risk Report Global Challenges Foundation Economics … Climate catastrophe: current global governance is not good enough. We have …
'Degrowth' is central to the reversing of flows of natural resources from the global south to the global north.
… of flows of natural resources from the global south to the global north. Degrowth advocates for a … - such as calling for a massive reduction in global population or for all technology to be …
The Global GMO Free Coalition brings together 60 groups across six continents with over 4.5 million members - all committed to fighting GMO / biotech industry propaganda. Meanwhile Russia is leading the way to GMO freedom ...
… Global GMO-free Coalition launches with 4.5 … GMOs Food Farming Health no-gmo-cut.jpg The Global GMO Free Coalition brings together 60 … is leading the way to GMO freedom ... The Global GMO Free Coalition (GGFC), with over …
The Gates Foundation - widely assumed to be 'doing good', is imposing a neoliberal model of development and corporate domination that's opening up Africa's agriculture to land and seed-grabbing global agribusiness, writes Colin Todhunter. In the process it is foreclosing on the real solutions - enhancing food security, food sovereignty and the move to agroecological farming.
… agriculture to land and seed-grabbing global agribusiness, writes Colin Todhunter. … world. It actually distributes more aid for global health than any government. As a … result, it has a major influence on issues of global health and agriculture. The charges are …
For the second year running CO2 emissions flatlined even as the global economy was growing at around 3%, writes Alex Kirby. But sharply rising temperatures show the need for further massive renewable energy deployment to actually bring emissions down.
… Global emissions stand still as temperatures … running CO2 emissions flatlined even as the global economy was growing at around 3%, … of preliminary data for the year reveals that global energy-related emissions of carbon …
The first ever ‘summit of the future’ will be staged by the United Nations next year. It might be our last chance.
… UN website calls for a summit "to forge a new global consensus on multilateral solutions to … face unprecedented challenges, both in their globality and in their vast time horizon. … enough, with many alarm signals flashing globally. The multiple, global ecological and …
Genuine climate justice means thinking big when it comes to economic inequality. A 'carbon fee and dividend' would reduce emissions and poverty.
… Basic income and a global commons Laura Bannister Paul Harnett | … doing so would boost basic income payments. Global response Climate change is a global problem and it requires a global …
As millions join in climate marches and other actions around the world, writes Ronnie Cummins, the 'mainstream' focus on energy is missing the 55% of emissions that come from mismanaged land and destroyed forests. The key is to replace industrial agriculture worldwide with productive, regenerative organic farming that puts carbon back in the soil.
… The Carbon Underground: reversing global warming Ronnie Cummins Organic … going to preserve a livable Earth, we the global grassroots, must do more than mitigate global warming. We must reverse it. How? Hint …
Can we initiate a global green recovery, embedding economics within sound ecological parameters?
… Can we initiate a global green recovery, embedding economics … within sound ecological parameters? The global impacts of Covid-19 have left humanity … of the fragility of the human condition. A global health crisis is being superimposed on …
COP28, the Gulf Arab states and the new ‘East-East’ axis of world oil.
… and other large oil-producing states in the Global South. Collectively, these firms have … Canada and Western Europe, but their overall global influence has been much diminished by … significant changes that have taken place in global capitalism over the last two decades. …
The global homogenisation of food carries costs, writes Sayed Azam-Ali - notably the world's the increasing dependence on just a few 'elite crops', creating a precarious food system vulnerable to climate change. We must diversify our diets, and the crops that that feed us.
… USA Science seedful-bananas-cut.jpg The global homogenisation of food carries costs, … history. At its core is the homogenisation of global food systems, which increasingly must … and aspirations lead to an appetite for global brands - to buy and to eat. Within a …
Food - and the land we grow it on - are much too important to be left to 'free' markets, writes Olivier De Schutter. And all the more so when those markets are not really free at all, but grossly distorted in favour of the rich.
… were soaring to unprecedented heights on global markets. Food riots ensued and hunger … visible. We learned that summer that the global food supply was only a few spoiled harvests away from failing to meet global demand. But we also glimpsed the unjust …
World heading for ‘climate catastrophe’ as countries’ plans fail to deliver – UN.
… 'Economy-destroying levels of global heating' Emily Beament | 27th October … how far off track nations are on cutting global warming pollution. A UN Environment … a huge gap between the action needed to limit global temperature rises to avoid the worst …
Agroecology is key to retaking control over food, farming and land from the 'monstrous machine' of agribusiness, biotech, big finance and 'free trade', writes Colin Todhunter, as it represents a truly viable alternative to agriculture for corporate profit. But such are the powers ranged against the world's small farmers that it must be supported by a broad-based, global people's movement.
… that it must be supported by a broad-based, global people's movement. It is becoming … depleted and smallholder farmers, so vital to global food production, are being squeezed off … land and out of farming. A minority of the global population has access to so much food …
The increasingly militant protests by dairy farmers against low prices forced on them by the corporate 'free market' represent serious and effective resistance against the 'free trade' agenda being forced on the world by neoliberal governments, writes David Miller. They are the first steps to building a new global food system that respects food, people, culture and environment.
… They are the first steps to building a new global food system that respects food, people, … that milk was now "cheaper than water" . Global trade deals accelerate 'race to the … Following two years of rapidly decreasing global demand for milk, and already increasing …
Agricultural pests - viruses, bacteria, fungi, blights, mildews, rusts, beetles, nematodes, flies, mites, spiders and caterpillars - are spreading thanks to trade, travel and global warming, writes Tim Radford. The world faces a dire future of increased crop losses and growing insecurity.
… Farm pests' global advance threatens food security Tim … - are spreading thanks to trade, travel and global warming, writes Tim Radford. The world … according to new research in the journal Global Ecology and Biogeography , those …
A year ago Typhoon Haiyan, one of the strongest tropical cyclones ever recorded, struck central Philippines leaving tens of thousands of people dead and missing, millions homeless and livelihoods destroyed. Today climate-affected communities worldwide are demanding change.
… Haiyan and to honor all the victims of the global climate crisis, we declare this day, … in countless other places around the world. Globally, the number of reported … In Central America, as in many places in the Global South, warming climates have resulted …
Oxford researchers have quantified the benefits of the world becoming vegetarian, writes Marco Springmann. Their study shows that simple changes - like moving to diets low in meat and high in fruit and vegetables - could lead to significant reduction in mortality and health care costs, while cutting food sector greenhouse gas emissions by two thirds.
… more plant-based diets in line with the WHO's global dietary guidelines could avert 5m-8m … by 2050. This represents a 6-10% reduction in global mortality. Food-related greenhouse gas … trillion. That's up to a tenth of the likely global GDP in 2050. Our results are published …
Scientists have found new way to to answer the question: how much carbon have we got left before we pass the Paris limits?
… Paris climate targets of 1.5 o C and 2 o C of global warming. Although the exceptionally … the vast complexity of the climate system, global warming depends overwhelmingly on the … definition of Net Zero as the point at which global warming essentially stops. The problem …
Rate of decarbonisation ‘falling dangerously short of rate needed for 1.5C’ says financial services giant.
… Agreement. The 2023 analysis suggests that global year-on-year decarbonisation must now hit a rate of 17.2 per cent to limit global warming to 1.5C above pre-industrial … Ambition This is seven times greater than the global decarbonisation rate of 2.5 per cent …
The Global Alliance for Climate-Smart Agriculture made its high-profile launch at the New York Climate Summit. But for a huge coalition of civil society organizations, it's a 'greenwash' initiative designed to promote intensive profit-driven industrial agriculture at the expense of small farmers, environment, and the real solutions.
… Corporate-smart greenwash: the Global Alliance on Climate-Smart Agriculture … soil. Photo: Carbon Gold. The Global Alliance for Climate-Smart Agriculture … hereby manifest our rejection of the proposed Global Alliance for Climate-Smart Agriculture …
The climate emergency is a lived reality across the Global South - we must have action not words from COP27.
… Global South faces 'war without bullets' … Julius Ng’oma | 13th September 2022 | Comment Global South COP26 COP27 Economics Editor’s … emergency is a lived reality across the Global South - we must have action not words …
'Sharpe’s favoured alternative to neoclassical economics is a form of evolutionary economics: when it comes to the energy transition this notion is deeply flawed.'
… enough emphasis on the risks arising from global warming. Why, he asks, are there so few studies of the impact of 4 degrees of global warming compared with the impact of 2 … the two degree limit is too risky. No doubt global risk assessment can be improved, …
We must urgently move from Petropolis and dependence on fossil fuels to Ecopolis supported by regenerative economies.
… bottled gas and kerosene, food supplies from global sources, and health and education … relying on ever more fossil fuel energy and global resource supplies. Combustion technologies and global trade jointly fuelled its unprecedented …