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Earth ‘well outside safe operating space for humanity’, scientists find
News / 15th September 2023Earth’s life support systems have been so damaged that the planet is “well outside the safe operating space for humanity”, scientists have warned.
‘Elephant in the Room’ campaign calls for urgent action on global food crisis at upcoming UN meetings
News / 7th September 2023Climate activists and anti-poverty campaigners are calling for an emergency meeting of world leaders on the global food crisis at the United Nations General Assembly in New York next month.
Rich nations have delivered mere ‘pittance’ to help East Africa tackle climate crisis: Oxfam
Report / 5th September 2023As the first-ever Africa Climate Summit kicked off in Nairobi, Kenya, an analysis by Oxfam found that rich nations have delivered just a small fraction of the aid that East African nations say they need to meet their climate goals.
Asia’s poor grew by 68 million people after pandemic, report says
News / 29th August 2023Nearly 70 million more people lived in extreme poverty in developing Asian countries last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic and rising living costs, a Philippines-based development bank has said.
Annual Report for 2023: Share the World’s Resources
Report / 29th August 2023The cause for sharing the world's resources reached critical new heights in 2022. Read more about STWR's activities over the past year and our future plans.
Global South countries need a new legal framework for debt relief
Article / 29th August 2023Global South countries need a forum where they can collaborate to solve urgent problems on debt rather than begging the IMF and G20 for relief, writes Ramya Vijaya and Pooja Rangaprasad.
World leaders need to prioritize the more than 1 billion people living in informal settlements
Blog / 18th August 2023By 2050, nearly 70% of the world’s population is expected to live in urban areas, making the proliferation of informal settlements inevitable – unless world governments take bold action.
Amazon Summit ends with plan to protect rainforests but no measurable goals
News / 11th August 2023Brazil’s Amazon Summit has closed with a roadmap to protect tropical rainforests but without concrete commitments to end deforestation.
From crisis to resilience: We need a new recipe to combat hunger
Blog / 9th August 2023A decent nutritious diet is now out of reach for nearly half the planet. We need a completely new recipe to address hunger and rebuild countries’ capacity to produce the food they require, writes Olivier De Schutter for IPS news.
Overshoot Day: Countries still burning through Earth’s resources like we have a spare planet, study finds
News / 3rd August 2023People are continuing to burn through the planet like we have one to spare, according to new research from the Global Footprint Network.