It was the surprise of the final stretch of the COP26. Chinese and Americans announced an agreement confirming their cooperation on climate change, despite their political differences. What does this agreement mean for Beijing and how these commitments adopted in the last days of the world conference on the HIM-HER-IT about the climate in Glasgow […]
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In the bowels of COP26, the climate theme park
On the banks of the River Clyde, an estuary once dotted with shipyards and steel mills that made Scotland prosper during the Industrial Revolution, they are trying these days to forge the pacts that will have to free the planet from the enormous amounts of CO2 that have been overheating it since the 18th century […]
The UN and the OECD help collect US $ 1.4 billion in taxes in several countries including Peru
Updated on 11/09/2021 11:15 am Tax Inspectors Without Borders (IFSF), an OECD and UN Development Program (UNDP) project to help emerging countries improve the efficiency of their tax collection, helped raise $ 1.4 billion in tax revenue additional since 2012. According to the annual report of that organization, the large part of this extra collection […]
Study predicts that young people will suffer much more natural disasters
Seven times as many heat waves, three times as many droughts and river floods, and twice as many forest fires. This is the dramatic future predicted by an international group of researchers for people born between 2015 and 2020 if current climate policy does not change. “It is a call to action. We need to […]
Thousands demand immediate action against climate change in Glasgow
Tens of thousands of activists marched on Saturday through the Scottish city hosting the climate summit of the HIM-HER-IT, physically close to the world’s negotiators inside, but separated by a great gulf of expectations, with frustrated protesters increasingly despising the talks climatic and demand immediate measures not only to slow down the global warming. Despite […]
FAO: World food prices reach their highest level since 2011
World food prices rose strongly in October to reach their highest level since July 2011, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) announced on Thursday. The FAO food price index increased 3% compared to September, to 133.2 points. In year-on-year terms, the increase is 31.3%, the organization said in a statement. The indicator, which measures […]
UN promotes a methane observatory to stop global warming
Updated 10/31/2021 12:05 pm The Program of United Nations for the Environment (UNEP) launched today, within the framework of the G20 summit in Rome, the International Methane Emissions Observatory (IMEO), an entity that will promote actions to reduce emissions of this greenhouse gas “responsible for at least a quarter of the climate change actual”. The […]
Who finances the fight against the climate crisis? All and none
Governments, companies and multilateral organizations must finance the fight against the climate crisis, although there is a lack of concreteness, as was clear last Thursday at the forum “Making climate action count”, organized by the World Bank (WB). A few weeks before the climate conference starts in November COP26 in Glasgow (the United Kingdom), the […]