Tag: Climate Change
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Earth Hour: ‘Make peace with nature’ – UN chief
The world began to ripple to darkness on Saturday as countries globally dimmed their lights at 8:30 pm local time for Earth Hour – an event that, according to the UN, encourages individuals, communities, and businesses to turn off non-essential electric lights, for one hour. In his message to mark the event, Secretary-General António Guterres said that…
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Historic inquest conclusion that air pollution contributed to death
In a ruling today a coroner has made legal history by concluding that air pollution was a cause of the death of Ella Adoo-Kissi-Debrah. This is the first conclusion of its kind. The coroner also identified failures to bring air pollution below legal limits and failures to provide information about the risks of air pollution…
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UN secretary general urges all countries to declare climate emergencies
Governments around the world should all declare a state of climate emergency until the world has reached net zero CO2 emissions, the UN secretary general, António Guterres, has told a summit of world leaders. At least 38 countries have already declared such a state of emergency, often owing to their vulnerability to the impacts of…
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Indigenous peoples key to saving threatened forests
by Patrick Galey More than a third of the world’s vanishing pristine forests are managed by indigenous peoples under threat from development and deforestation, scientists said Tuesday, calling for greater protection. As deadly bushfires ravage Australia’s east coast, a new assessment of how wild forests are maintained showed that indigenous people have tenure over 36 percent of…