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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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Responsibility for Single-use Plastic |
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By :Michael Corkery and Somini Sengupta, The New York Times |
| 18 May 2021 |
Here Is Who’s Behind the Global Surge in Single-Use Plastic
A new report shows that a surprisingly small number of big companies and banks are behind the manufacturing and financing of much of the world’s single-use plastic.
The throwaway plastic that holds our takeout food and wraps our dry cleaning is widely seen
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Land Times issue 20 |
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By :HIC-HLRN |
| 08 August 2020 |
HIC’s Housing and Land Rights Network (HIC-HLRN) welcomes you to its 20th issue of Land Times. This milestone edition emphasizes the role of civil society in identifying and remedying housing and land rights problems in the context of a global pandemic.
Amid this protracted crisis, events and developments in the Middle
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Remunicipalizing Our Cities |
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By :Dan Hancox, The Guardian |
| 19 January 2020 |
From sparkling water fountains to better waste services and lower drug prices, cities are showing the benefits of remunicipalisation In 2015, a strident editorial appeared in Global Water Intelligence, a trade magazine for the water industry, under the title: Exorcising the “R” word. “It would be a travesty,”
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Post-capitalism: Life within Environmental Limits |
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By :Dr Samuel Alexander and Professor Brendan Gleeson, University of Melbourne |
| 19 February 2019 |
Capitalism’s limitless growth on a finite planet means the economic system we take for granted could end soon. If so, transformative and sustainable change must come from grassroots action
It may seem as though capitalism has always been a part of the Western world, but that’s not true. Although the
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HIC’s role in the International Planning Committee for Food Sovereignty: Representing the Urban Constituency |
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By :HIC-HLRN |
| 02 July 2018 |
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Human Rights Habitat Observatory |
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By :HIC-HLRN |
| 10 July 2017 |
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General Comment No. 24 on State Obligations under the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in the Context of Business Activities |
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By :CESCR |
| 23 June 2017 |
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Bali Meeting Tackles Oceans’ Plastic Pollution |
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By :Al Jazeera |
| 26 February 2017 |
UNEP and Indonesia launch campaign to solve global issue of massive amounts of plastic ending up in oceans.
NUSA DUA, Bali, Indonesia—The sun is peeking from over the horizon, greeting early morning beach-dwellers to the sounds of crashing waves, the feel of tropical humidity and the sight of an entire beach
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New Urban Agenda, A/71/L.23 |
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By :UN General Assembly |
| 21 November 2016 |
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