By Yasmine SherifNEW YORK, Mar 20 2023 (IPS-Partners) Only forty-five days into our new Strategic Plan 2023-2026, Education Cannot Wait secured 55 percent of its total requirement for the coming four years, reaching $826 million at #HLFC2023. This is a significant milestone for education in emergencies and protracted crises, and ECW will continue to pursue
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19 March 2023
Samoa PM urges world to save Pacific people from climate crisis obliteration
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Fiame Naomi Mata’afa pleads for action before landmark IPCC report is expected to issue ‘final warning’ What is the IPCC report and why does it matter? The world must step back from the brink of climate disaster to save the people of the Pacific from obliteration, the prime minister of Samoa has urged. On the
17 March 2023
Georgia: Danger Averted, for Now
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Cedit: Daro Sulakauri/Getty Images By Andrew FirminLONDON, Mar 17 2023 (IPS) Georgian civil society can breathe a sigh of relief. A proposed repressive law that would have severely worsened the space for activism has been shelved – for now. But the need for vigilance remains. Russia-style law A proposed ‘foreign agents’ law would have required
16 March 2023
Boundary spanners: a critical role for enduring collaborations between Indigenous communities and mainstream scientists
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Insight ABSTRACT The need to diversify science includes increasing both the diversity of science practitioners and the voices included in decision-making processes. Indigenous communities have been sought out to provide Indigenous knowledge to mainstream science research programs. As working across the mainstream science and community boundary is increasingly codified into the future of natural sciences,
16 March 2023
Heteronomous limits vs. Self-limitation to address environmental problems. A Book Review of “Limits: Why Malthus was Wrong and Why Environmentalists Should Care” by Giorgos Kallis (2019).
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Publication date: June 2023 Source: Ecological Economics, Volume 208 Author(s): Yaella Depietri
16 March 2023
Belarus: A Prison State in Europe
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By Andrew FirminLONDON, Mar 15 2023 (IPS) Last October, Ales Bialiatski was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. He was one of three winners, alongside two human rights organisations: Memorial, in Russia, and the Center for Civil Liberties in Ukraine. The Nobel Committee recognised the three’s ‘outstanding effort to document war crimes, human rights abuses and
16 March 2023
Budget does little to meet UK’s net zero carbon goals, say campaigners
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Chancellor silent on home insulation, oil and gas windfall tax, and onshore windfarms – but freezes fuel duty Budget 2023 live: reaction to Jeremy Hunt’s statement Budget 2023: key points at a glance The government’s latest budget will do little to meet the UK’s net zero carbon goals, missed opportunities to create a green economy,
15 March 2023
Contextualizing patterns in short-term disaster recoveries from the 2015 Nepal earthquakes: household vulnerabilities, adaptive capacities, and change
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Research ABSTRACT Disaster recovery is multidimensional and requires theoretical and methodological approaches from the interdisciplinary social sciences to illustrate short- and long-term recovery dynamics that can guide more informed and equitable policy and interventions. The 2015 Nepal earthquakes have had catastrophic impacts on historically marginalized ethnic groups and Indigenous households in rural locations, arising in
15 March 2023
Insurance value of biodiversity in the Anthropocene is the full resilience value
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Publication date: June 2023 Source: Ecological Economics, Volume 208 Author(s): Thomas Hahn, Giles B. Sioen, Alexandros Gasparatos, Thomas Elmqvist, Eduardo Brondizio, Erik Gómez-Baggethun, Carl Folke, Martiwi Diah Setiawati, Tri Atmaja, Enggar Yustisi Arini, Marcin Pawel Jarzebski, Kensuke Fukushi, Kazuhiko Takeuchi
14 March 2023
Catalonia launches operation to clear fish from reservoir to save drinking water
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Focus is on Sau reservoir, where water supplies have plunged to their lowest level since 1990 Officials in Catalonia have launched what is being described as an extraordinary operation to clear as many as 1.5 tonnes of fish a day, including many invasive species, from a rapidly dwindling reservoir in the hopes of salvaging drinking