2024-01-17: News Headlines

Pip Hinman (2024-01-17). 2024 has to be the year of real action on climate. greenleft.org.au Alarmingly — but not surprisingly — 2023 was the hottest year since 1850, but Labor is dragging its feet and depending on the private sector to handle the climate transition. Pip Hinman reports.

Naveena Sadasivam (2024-01-17). New Report Finds We're Off Track to Meet COP28 Goals Despite Renewables Boom. truthout.org At the United Nations climate conference that concluded last month in Dubai, the world's countries pledged to triple global renewable energy capacity by 2030. The renewables target received less attention than other, more contentious goals pursued at the conference, such as scaling down fossil fuel production and funding reparations for the nations suffering the worst climate impacts. After all… |

teleSUR (2024-01-17). Climate Change May Claim 14.5 Million Lives by 2050: WEF. telesurenglish.net On Tuesday, the World Economic Forum (WEF) published a report showing that climate change threatens to cause an additional 14.5 million deaths and US$12.5 trillion in economic losses worldwide by 2050. | RELATED: | The report, jointly compiled by the WEF and the consulting firm Oliver Wyman, is based on "scenarios developed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change on the most likely trajectory for the planet'

Ralph Nader (2024-01-16). Five Omnicides Facing Our Unprepared World. counterpunch.org The countries that straddle our tormented world are woefully unprepared to counter and prevent five Omnicides already underway or looming menacingly on the horizon. This is increasingly true with the yearly passage of neglected opportunities. The gap between our mounting knowledge and its application to these global threats is widening. 1. The Climate Crisis, better

Alexandra Jacobo (2024-01-16). Billionaires' wealth skyrockets by 114% amid global poverty surge. nationofchange.org This extraordinary accumulation of wealth comes at a time when nearly 5 billion people globally grapple with the challenges of inflation, war, and the climate crisis, slipping further into poverty.

Rhoda Wilson (2024-01-16). Bill Gates attends another climate summit for Africa to market his vaccines and seeds. expose-news.com In a speech earlier this year at the Adaptation Finance Summit for Africa, Bill Gates again took the opportunity to market his vaccines. "We all know that malnutrition is a scourge," he …

Katie Myers (2024-01-16). Inside the Nearly Decade-Long Fight Against the Mountain Valley Pipeline. truthout.org As day broke over the small mountain town of Elliston, Virginia one Monday in October, masked figures in thick coats emerged from the woods surrounding a construction site. Three of them approached three excavators and, one by one, locked themselves to the machines, bringing the day's work to a halt. As they did so, several dozen of their fellow protesters gathered around them… |

eng.belta.by (2024-01-17). People's Writer of Belarus comments on Chernobyl theme of BelTA's photo exhibition. eng.belta.by At the same time, the writer noted, while hundreds of thousands of Belarusians worked hard to reclaim contaminated lands and to return to normal life in their native land, others profiteered on that.

Dr. William Makis (2024-01-16). Florida Surgeon General Explains DNA Contamination and the "HALT" of the Covid-19 mRNA Vaccine. globalresearch.ca

EcoWaste Coalition (2024-01-17). Warning Out on 3 More Leaded Spray Paints. pressenza.com 17 January 2024, Quezon City. Following its most recent exposé on 31 lead-containing spray paints, the EcoWaste Coalition today named three more products containing dangerous levels of lead, a potent neurotoxin that has been banned in paint manufacturing. | The toxics watchdog group bought the products from online sellers and had them screened for lead using a handheld X-ray fluorescence (XRF) analyzer. According to the country's lead paint regulation, paints and similar surface coatings must not contain lead above the maximum limit of 90 parts per million (ppm). Three spray paints with lead content up to over 10…

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