Topic: Environment
Number of children in crisis levels of hunger due to extreme weather events doubles in past five years
News / 3rd June 2024The number of children facing crisis levels of hunger in the countries where extreme weather events are most impacting food supplies has more than doubled in the past five years, according to new analysis.
Record 75.9 million internally displaced in 2023, UN report reveals
News / 17th May 2024The number of people living in internal displacement soared to a record 75.9 million last year, according to a new UN-backed report.
World squanders over 1 billion meals a day – UN report
Report / 29th March 2024Households across all continents wasted over 1 billion meals a day in 2022, while 783 million people were affected by hunger and a third of humanity faced food insecurity.
Earth’s ‘life support system’ is being destroyed by global business paradigm, UN expert warns
News / 12th March 2024UN expert calls for an urgent and radical shift in how business and the global economy operates to prevent irreversible damage to Earth’s life support system and safeguard human rights.
After Dubai: Towards a “just, orderly, and equitable” fossil fuel phase out
Article / 8th February 2024Unless we win a comprehensive climate finance breakthrough, all hope for ‘a fair, orderly, and equitable’ phase-out of fossil fuels will be abandoned, writes Tom Athanasiou.
‘Stop wars and step up ‘measly’ contributions’ to climate finance
Article / 21st December 2023The United State’s contribution to the Loss and Damage Fund equals nine minutes of Pentagon spending, says Jeffrey D. Sachs at the ReWired Summit at COP28.
At COP28, it’s time to transform the global financial architecture
Blog / 11th December 2023The global finance system is giving fossil fuels a lifeline, indebting vulnerable countries and delaying a just energy transition, writes Bronwen Tucker and Shereen Talaat for Oil Change International.
Developed countries not doing their fair share in tackling climate crisis, new report shows
Report / 11th December 2023In a collective effort to address the pressing challenges of climate change, a global coalition of civil society organizations have published a new review of whether countries are doing their fair share to tackle the climate crisis.
Richest 1% emit as much planet-heating pollution as two-thirds of humanity
Report / 1st December 2023The richest 1 percent of the world’s population produced as much carbon pollution in 2019 than the five billion people who made up the poorest two-thirds of humanity, reveals a new Oxfam report.
New push for debt relief to help developing world fund climate action
News / 1st December 2023The world’s poorest countries are paying more than 12 times as much to their creditors as they are spending on measures to tackle the impact of global heating, a campaign group has warned.