Half the world lives in poverty on under $5.50 a day: report
News / 30th October 2018Half the world’s population lives on less than $5.50 a day despite significant progress in reducing extreme poverty, a new report from the World Bank said Wednesday.
Famine in Yemen could become one of worst in living memory, UN says
News / 25th October 2018Yemen is sliding fast toward what could become one of the worst famines in living memory, the UN’s top emergency relief official has warned.
'Unprecedented' changes to world economy and society required to avoid climate chaos, UN report warns
News / 8th October 2018Avoiding global climate chaos will require a major transformation of society and the world economy that is “unprecedented in scale”, the United Nations has warned.
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News / 1st October 2018Share The World’s Resources (STWR) have published a book version of the pioneering work by Mohammed Mesbahi, which proposes a ‘people’s strategy for world transformation’ based on a massive mobilisation of civil society to end hunger and life-threatening poverty as an overriding international priority.
World 'nowhere near on track' to avoid warming beyond 1.5C target
News / 27th September 2018The world’s governments are “nowhere near on track” to meet their commitment to avoid global warming of more than 1.5C above the pre-industrial period, according to an author of a key UN report that will outline the dangers of breaching this limit.