Climate Change
A Drop of Water Is Flexible. A Drop of Water Is Powerful. A Drop of Water Is in Demand
Human Wrongs Watch 22 March 2015, World Water Day* — The planet is facing a 40% shortfall in water supply by 2030, unless we dramatically improve the management of this precious resource. This is the unavoidable conclusion reached in the…
Is This a Blip or a Tip in Humanity’s Onslaught on the Climate?
Human Wrongs Watch By Kumi Naidoo* 18 March, 2015 — Reports that the growth in carbon pollution paused last year should give heart to climate campaigners and clean energy investors around the world. The figures, from the International Energy Agency, no…
Climate Change ‘Threatens Self-determination’ of Citizens in Island States
Human Wrongs Watch In the United Nations Human Rights Council on 6 March 2015 , senior UN officials joined high-level delegates from Pacific Island States that are on the frontline of the global battle against sea-level rise to examine the…
UK: Occupy Democracy returns to Parliament Sq. March 7, Climate theme
By Occupy London We are the first generations to feel the effects of catastrophic climate change but we are the last generations who can do anything about it. If not now, when? If not you, who? On March 7th Occupy…
Natural Disasters in Asia and Pacific Impact 80 Million People
Human Wrongs Watch When leaders and decision makers from across Asia and the Pacific gather next month in Japan to discuss how to reduce disaster risks, their top priority will be to build resilience in a region that saw some…
2014 Was The Hottest Year Since At Least 1880
Washington, 17 Jan (Prensa Latina) 2014 was the hottest year in 135 years of record-keeping, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and NASA announced today. The year’s average combined global land and ocean surface temperature was 58.24 degrees Fahrenheit, according…
Something Came Out of Lima: 20 Million Hectares of Degraded Land Will Be Restored in Latin America by 2020
Human Wrongs Watch Something came out of Lima climate change meeting: the ground-breaking Initiative 20 X 20, with its bold target of restoring 20 million hectares of degraded land in Latin America and the Caribbean by 2020, was launched during the…
Cost of Climate Change Adaptation in Developing Countries Set to Be as High as $250-500 Billion Per Year By 2050
Human Wrongs Watch Despite public funding of climate change adaptation measures reaching as high as $26 billion in 2012-2013, a new United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) report issued on 5 December 2014 predicts a significant funding gap after 2020 unless…
‘Never before have the risks of climate change been so obvious and the impacts so visible
Human Wrongs Watch As Governments prepare to meet for the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Lima, Peru, starting on Monday 1 December 2014, a top UN official has highlighted the session as an opportunity to raise immediate awareness on…
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