Daily Archives: April 6, 2022

2022-04-06: News Headlines

ecns.cn (2022-04-06). Global execs call for more clarity on green goals. ecns.cn Global businesses say not enough governments and policymakers are giving them the clarity needed to meet their sustainability and climate change targets, according to a study by the United Nations Global Compact and consultancy Accenture.

ecns.cn (2022-04-06). Aerial view of potato planting base in Qinghai. ecns.cn Aerial photo shows a spectacular view of potato field covered with plastic mulch in Haidong, Qinghai Province. Due to its unique advantages, including high altitude and dry climate, Haidong has became an important potato planting base.

Paul Palmer PhD (2022-04-06). Zero Waste Theory is the answer to waste problems. indybay.org Zero Waste Theory can solve many problems of waste, thought to be intractable. It depends on redesigning all items for reuse, instead of for discard as today. Two photos from Costa Rica and France show examples.

JANET (2022-04-05). World hunger and the war in Ukraine. iacenter.org By Vijay Prashad April 5, 2022 During this war on Ukraine, No Cold War launched a new publication called Briefings, which will be factual texts on matters of global concern. Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research shared this first briefing: Billions of people around the world will suffer from this hunger crisis. The war in Ukraine, along with sanctions imposed by the United States and Western countries against Russia, have caused global food, fertilizer and fuel prices to skyrocket and endanger the world food supply. This conflict is exacerbating the existing crisis of global hunger and imperils the living…

Tom B.K. Goldtooth (2022-04-05). Indigenous Peoples Lead the Way. progressive.org To solve the climate crisis, we must reject schemes that fail to address its underlying causes.

_____ (2022-04-05). World On Track For 3.2 Degrees Celsius Of Warming, Latest IPCC Report Warns. popularresistance.org Policies in place to reduce emissions as of December 2020 would lead the planet to 3.2 degrees Celsius of warming, more than double the 1.5 degrees limit that scientists say is essential for avoiding the worst impacts of the climate crisis. | That's the urgent warning from the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report released Monday. | "The jury has reached the verdict, and it is damning," UN Secretary-General António Guterres told reporters ahead of the report's release. "This report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is a litany of broken climate promises. It is a file of sha…

Staff (2022-04-05). IPCC report reveals 'bleak and brutal truth' about climate emergency, say campaigners. therealnews.com This story originally appeared in A United Nations report on the climate emergency—released Monday after negotiations

_____ (2022-04-05). Appalachia Knows There's a Climate Crisis. Does President Biden? commondreams.org The fracked gas industry is taking advantage of a brutal war to put profit over people. We cannot allow that to happen.

_____ (2022-04-05). Federal Court Rejects Coal Mine Expansion Unlawfully Authorized by Trump. commondreams.org "This is now a huge opportunity for the Biden administration to get it right on coal and climate," said one advocate.

_____ (2022-04-05). Time to Put Charles Koch Under Oath for His Climate Lies. commondreams.org If the House Oversight Committee is serious about getting to the bottom of the fossil fuel industry's longtime campaign to stymie climate policy, it should call Koch on the carpet.

ecns.cn (2022-04-05). IPCC report calls for further reducing greenhouse gas emissions. ecns.cn The IPCC publishes comprehensive scientific assessment reports on climate change and its impacts every six to seven years, which integrates reports submitted separately by its three working groups.

____ (2022-04-05). "Fridays for Future" climate protest leaders back German war drive. wsws.org By taking the side of the German government in the midst of the war in Ukraine, the leaders of the Fridays for Future protest movement show that they are not having the slightest impact on climate protection—unless they want to stop global warming through a nuclear winter.

_____ (2022-04-05). Will the Wasteful Pentagon Budget Ever Shrink? commondreams.org A thought experiment on the military-industrial complex.

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