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Over 50,000 people and 195 global groups demand Biden commit the U.S. to do its "fair share" on climate
News / 19th February 2021Civil society groups are ramping up their demand that the new Biden Administration commits to doing its fair share of emissions cuts and honours owed support for Global South countries.
What Covid-19 can teach us about a sustainable future
Blog / 19th February 2021The climate crisis is set to bear the same hallmarks of inequality, whereby the world’s poorest are expected to suffer most. This is why just transitions are such an integral part of climate action, writes Elaine Burke.
Global South urges rich countries: Lift monopolies on COVID-19 medical products
News / 16th February 2021Ahead of critical talks at the World Trade Organization, civil society and trade unions from the Global South are calling on rich countries’ leaders to stop blocking a proposal to waive certain intellectual property rights on COVID-19 vaccines and other medical products.
Intellectual property cause of death, genocide
Article / 12th February 2021Refusal to temporarily suspend several World Trade Organization intellectual property provisions to enable much faster and broader progress in addressing the COVID-19 pandemic should be grounds for International Criminal Court prosecution for genocide.
The Earth does not belong to Jeff Bezos or Elon Musk
Article / 12th February 2021The new U.S. administration should begin with an honest accounting of the abundance so unequally hoarded in the nation's coffers, followed by a plan to share it more fairly. By Rev Dr Liz Theoharis for TomDispatch.
Hunger deaths aren’t simply about famine or no famine
Blog / 9th February 2021Focus on loss of life – and urgently trying to prevent it – rather than whether a famine has been declared, writes Daniel Maxwell et al for The New Humanitarian.
Climate change seen as global emergency by 64 per cent of people
News / 6th February 2021The biggest ever poll of climate change views has found that 64 per cent of people think the issue is a “global emergency”.
Illicit financial flows hinder development in Africa – the UN must rise to the challenge of ending this
Article / 29th January 2021Every year, US$88.6 billion leaves Africa in the form of illicit capital flight according to the 2020 report of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD).
In 2021, let’s ring a global alarm on inequality that everyone can hear
Blog / 29th January 2021As billionaire wealth soars during the pandemic, we may have seen the greatest ever single-year redistribution of wealth to the already wealthy. Influencers worldwide need to be sounding the alarm, writes Sam Pizzigati.
‘Footprint Justice’ and ‘Fair Earth Shares’ is getting more attention
Article / 26th January 2021The campaign for 'Footprint Justice' is gathering momentum with a call for UN member states to investigate the legal implications of enshrining a 'Fair Earth Share' as a human right.