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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.
A child under 15 dies every five seconds around the world – UN report
News / 25th September 2018An estimated 6.3 million children under 15 years of age died in 2017, or 1 every 5 seconds, mostly of preventable causes, according to new mortality estimates released by UNICEF, the World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations Population Division and the World Bank Group.
World Bank reports slower progress on extreme poverty
News / 25th September 2018The war in Syria and a population surge in sub-Saharan Africa have undermined efforts to reduce the number of people living in extreme poverty, the World Bank has said.
The EU needs a stability and wellbeing pact, not more growth
News / 17th September 2018‘Today, solving social problems within European nations does not require more growth – it requires a fairer distribution of the income and wealth that we already have.’ 238 academics call on the European Union and its member states to plan for a post-growth future in which human and ecological wellbeing is prioritised over GDP.
A decade after the Lehman Brothers’ collapse, finance remains a major risk
Blog / 14th September 2018On 15 September, it will be ten years since the collapse of Lehman Brothers opened a Pandora’s Box. Movements across Europe are commemorating the date with acts of disobedience to relaunch our struggle to rebuild democracy, which can only be done by controlling finance, writes Susan George.