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Gaza Genocide’s Environmental Damage Assessed |
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By :Lottie Limb, EuroNews |
| 19 June 2024 |
‘This is like a slow death’: Environmental toll of Gaza war laid bare in first UN assessment
The new assessment from UNEP follows a call from the State of Palestine to take stock of the environmental damage.
Families forced to burn plastic to cook food. Raw sewage spilling onto beaches, and over
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UN Security Council Debates Urban Warfare |
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By :UN News |
| 16 June 2024 |
UN Security Council Open Debate on Urban Warfare: “War in cities: protection of civilians in urban settings”
On 25 January 2022, the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) held an open debate on “War in cities: protection of civilians in urban settings”. Convened by Norway and chaired by its Prime Minister, Jonas Gahr Støre, this
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Over 340 NGOs Address Loss & Damage Fund Board |
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By :hlrn |
| 29 April 2024 |
The first meeting of the Board of the new Loss and Damage Fund (LDF) will take place from 30 April to 2 May 2024 at Abu Dhabi Energy Centre, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Ahead of that meeting, over 340 organizations around the world have addressed the Board to urge that it establish procedures for meaningful
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Loss and Damage Fund: A Participation Blueprint |
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By :HIC-HLRN |
| 25 April 2024 |
Loss and Damage Fund: A Participation Blueprint
The ACE Observatory, Columbia Climate School, Heinrich Böll Stiftung, Washington DC, the Center for International Environmental Law, and the Loss and Damage Collaboration have jointly published an advocacy brief aimed at the Board of the UNFCCC Loss and Damage Fund (LDF). It underscores the importance of establishing robust, inclusive mechanisms for meaningful participation
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New Report: Counting Costs, Losses & Damage |
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By :HIC-HLRN |
| 18 February 2024 |
On the occasion of World Habitat Day 2023, this report from HLRN’s Violation Database (VDB) Counting Costs, Loss & Damage: Quantifying Impacts of Habitat-related Human Rights Violations amid Environmental Hazards and Climate-change selects cases of housing and land rights violations from HLRN’s 2022 report, In Pursuit of Climate Justice, to focus
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UNCTAD Rapid Assessment of Gaza War Impacts |
| 02 February 2024 |
Preliminary Assessment of the Economic Impact of the Destruction in Gaza and Prospects for Economic Recovery
UNCTAD Rapid Assessment
Utilizing innovative satellite imagery and official data, the report details the unprecedented destruction in Gaza since the military operation that began after 7 October 2023.
It warns that the economic damage will take
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Türkiye-Syria: Remedying Natural and Human-made Disasters |
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By :HIC-HLRN |
| 22 February 2023 |
Cairo, 22 February 2023
Türkiye-Syria: Remedying Natural and Human-made Disasters
HIC-HLRN is deeply saddened by the massive and widespread destruction, loss of tens of thousands of lives, and the displacement, dispossession and homelessness of millions by two devastating magnitude 7.8 and 7.5 Mw earthquakes that struck southeastern Türkiye and northwest Syria on
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‘Loss and Damage’ Debate to Dominate CoP27 |
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By :Camilla Hodgson, Financial Times |
| 10 October 2022 |
‘Loss and damage’ debate set to dominate the COP27 agenda
countries are stepping up demands for compensation ahead of the UN conference in Egypt
World leaders attending next month’s UN climate summit are gearing up for a renewed battle over how much financial support rich countries provide to developing nations,
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Earth Day Workshop: Green Transition in Sudan |
| 24 April 2022 |
The challenges of the green transition in Sudan Who should fill the gap and how? Public workshop on the occasion of Earth Day 2022, in cooperation between Housing and Land Rights Network – Habitat International Coalition and GoGreen Sudan. Sudan is going through difficult transitional conditions,
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Green-transition Discourse in MENA |
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By :Joseph Schechla |
| 24 March 2022 |
The economic slowdown associated with the COVID-19 pandemic and other simultaneous crises has done little to slow the climate crisis. Preliminary data show global greenhouse gas emissions (GHGE) increased in 2020 while the global average temperature in 2020 was about 1.2°C above pre-industrial level, dangerously close to the 1.5°C limit
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