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The IPCC report and the risk of false solutions

The IPCC report and the risk of false solutions

Acknowledging the gravity of the IPCC report, global organizations and some based in the United States are calling on governments to reject false solutions to the climate crisis and invest in strategies that will rapidly reduce emissions. Climate Justice Alliance...

Adani and his greed

Adani and his greed

Well with the new IPCCC report Adani is definitely our own disaster.

कवि इकबाल की सुन्दर रचना…

कवि इकबाल की सुन्दर रचना…

मंजिल से आगे बढ़ कर मंजिल तलाश कर !! मिल जाये तुझको दरया तो समन्दर तलाश कर !! हर शीशा टूट जाता है पथ्थर की चोट से !! पथ्थर ही टूट जाये वो शीशा तलाश कर !! सजदों से तेरे क्या हुआ सदियाँ गुजर गयीं !! दुनिया तेरी बदल दे वो सजदा तलाश कर !! ईमान तेरा टूट गया रहबर के हाथों...

#NoTrashTalk #Fightfor1Point5

#NoTrashTalk #Fightfor1Point5

Waste-to-energy relies on co-burning plastics and coal which are fossil fuels. Plastics production and incineration emitted 850M MT of GHG equal 2 emissions from 189 five-hundred MW coal power plants in 2019! Asian Development Bank take out WTE in renewable energy...

Digging up the ocean floor for metals could prove disastrous

Digging up the ocean floor for metals could prove disastrous

The sea floor between Hawaii and Mexico is covered in potato-sized rocks that contain many metals needed to make electric-car batteries. All that’s needed is a way to lift them to the surface for processing. At least, that’s the theory behind The Metals Co, a business...

G20, #EndFossilFuelSubsidies and Deliver Climate Finance Now!

G20, #EndFossilFuelSubsidies and Deliver Climate Finance Now!

Despite committing to phase out fossil fuels in 2009, G20 governments are still spending public funds on coal, oil and gas and have provided billions of dollars to fossil fuel intensive industries in response to Covid-19 -- $77 billion in public funds annually to...

Thousands Now Homeless After Khori Gaon Demolition

Thousands Now Homeless After Khori Gaon Demolition

Referred to by the Court as an encroachment, the settlement contains over 10,000 homes, with over 1 lakh residents (for scale, this is little under the population of the entire city of Darjeeling in Bengal, according to the 2011 Census). This is a conservative...

Stop illicit financial flow

Stop illicit financial flow

As per UNESCAP Survey of Asia and the Pacific 2021 and APMDD - In Asia and the Pacific, an additional 89 million people are estimated to have been pulled into absolute poverty, setting back what limited gains had been made before in poverty reduction. We urge the...