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World Leaders Remain Committed to Paris Climate Agreement Despite Trump’s Withdrawal

On the second day of the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, European leaders spoke out against President Donald Trump’s withdrawal of the United States from the 2015 Paris Agreement, saying they would remain firmly committed to the…

Trump’s sanctions threats against Russia usual routine – Kremlin

The Kremlin views US President Donald Trump’s threats to impose sanctions against Russia if a deal on the Ukrainian conflict settlement is not reached as the usual routine, Russian Presidential Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Thursday. “We do not see…

Trump Pulls U.S. Out of Paris Agreement, Again

‘There’s No Mandate to Slam Climate Progress Into Reverse,’ Says NRDC By Paige Bennett As one of his first orders of business upon taking office, President Donald Trump has once again withdrawn the U.S. from the Paris Agreement. During his…

EcoWaste Coalition Slams Mercury Cosmetics as Toxic Menace to Health and Environment

23 January 2025, Quezon City.  Despite the global ban, the EcoWaste Coalition continues to uncover the illegal use of mercury in unauthorized imported products for lightening skin tone and for removing age spots, dark marks, freckles, wrinkles, and other dermal…

Another World Is Already Here

To see the future we want to create, we just have to look outside of our own borders. I hope everyone in the world reads the new book Another World Is Possible: Lessons for America from Around the Globe by…

The Non-Discrimination Roundtable at the World Humanist Forum

On Saturday, January 25, 2025, the first Assembly of the World Humanist Forum will take place online. At this meeting, various Thematic Tables will be put into dynamics that will have an international and intercultural character. Context and framework of…

PH Reuse Study Tour and Conference

Seeking the Mainstreaming of Reuse, Refill vs Single-Use Plastics 20 January 2025, Manila — In celebration of Zero Waste Month, plastic waste reduction advocates kicked off the “Philippine Reuse Study Tour and Conference”  in a bid to amplify the viability…

Ecuador’s Coastal Ecosystems Have Rights, Constitutional Court Rules

The Constitutional Court of Ecuador has determined that coastal marine ecosystems have rights of nature, including the right to “integral respect for its existence and for the maintenance and regeneration of its life cycles, structure, functions and evolutionary processes,” per Chapter…

The Defector is the Hero of the Future

Speech by Gerardo Femina at the meeting in Prague on 11 January 2025 on the theme of nonviolent conflict resolution. Good evening everyone and thank you for the invitation to this fantastic meeting. I would like to talk about the…

Leonard Peltier Out of Jail

After 49 years of incarceration, 80-year-old Leonard Peltier has been granted clemency. He will be released from jail and complete his sentence in home confinement. Leonard was sentenced to two life sentences for the deaths of two FBI agents in…

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