Edmund Rice International- Care of Earth

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Figure from the new report illustrating the fifth insight that “Global climate action must be just”. It shows that the richest 10% of the global population have been responsible for more than half of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions between 1990 and 2015

Source: The ten most important insights from climate science – Stockholm Resilience Centre

The planet is already 1.1°C warmer than in pre-industrial times. July 2021 was the hottest month ever recorded in 142 years. Despite the pandemic slowdown, 2020 was the hottest year so far, ending th

Source: Climate Injustice at Glasgow Cop-Out | Inter Press Service

Every year, 25 November marks the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. Thirty percent of women and girls suffered physical or sexual violence in their lifetime, most frequently by an intimate partner.

Source: International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women – A Third of All Women are Subjected to Violence

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Source: Opinion | Bankers Took Over the Climate Change Summit. That’s Bad For Democracy. – The New York Times

By Christopher Caldwell

Mr. Caldwell is a contributing Opinion writer and the author of “The Age of Entitlement: America Since the Sixties” and “Reflections on the Revolution in Europe: Immigration, Islam and the West.”

The big annual United Nations forum for debate on climate change ended this month in Glasgow in a way that left many attendees bewildered. Money men have taken the thing over.

COP26, as the event was called, was less like its predecessors and more like a second “Davos” — the January meeting of the World Economic Forum where the global economy’s moguls and regulators meet to map out our economic future. Dozens of private jets arrived for COP26, bringing investors and fossil-fuel lobbyists in embarrassing profusion. The finance writer Gillian Tett noted that between 2015 and today, the “tribe” of COP attendees had been transformed from one of “environment ministers, scientists and activists” to one of “business leaders, financiers and monetary officials.” That is bound to render the movement’s tactics and goals less democratic.

For environmentalists, COP26 ended in disarray, with the world’s two largest coal-burning countries, China and India, refusing to sign on to a phaseout of that dirtiest of fuels. For the finance industry, prospects were rosier. The new Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero united 450 financial institutions around a “private-sector” plan to move the world to so-called net-zero carbon emissions. 

Source: Meet the US ecologist who explained to Pope Francis why coral reefs are crucial for the planet | Earthbeat | National Catholic Reporter

Source: The average person’s daily choices can still make a big difference in fighting climate change – and getting governments and utilities to tackle it, too