Earth Overshoot Day 2021: Why the date has been moved back to 29 July as emissions ramp up amid Covid recovery
News / 29th July 2021Humans will have already consumed all the natural resources that Earth can sustainably supply for 2021 by tomorrow — overshooting by five months.
3 million people have died of Covid since rich nations began obstructing vaccine patent waiver
News / 29th July 2021More than three million people across the globe have died of Covid-19 in the roughly nine months since India and South Africa first proposed a temporary patent waiver for coronavirus vaccines, a popular measure that Germany, the United Kingdom, Canada, and other rich countries have blocked.
Hundreds of grassroots organisations oppose the UN Food Systems Summit
News / 26th July 2021Over 300 global civil society organizations of small-scale food producers, researchers and Indigenous Peoples’ are gathering online (25-28 July) to protest against the UN Food Systems Pre-Summit.
A unifying framework for food systems transformation
News / 7th July 2021More than 800 international organizations, NGOs, farming groups and experts call for agroecology, organic, and regenerative agriculture to top the agenda at this year’s UN Food Systems Summit.
Billions of people will lack access to safe water, sanitation and hygiene in 2030 unless progress quadruples
News / 2nd July 2021Billions of people around the world will be unable to access safely managed household drinking water, sanitation and hygiene services in 2030 unless the rate of progress quadruples, according to a new report from WHO and UNICEF.