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Less than half of people in Global South cities feel safe from extreme weather events, but hope remains
The climate emergency needs to be addressed with a more comprehensive perspective, starting with the communities that have been historically excluded and are now being most impacted.
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Does nature really end where cities begin?
#UrbanOctober is exploring how to create safe, clean, resilient cities with nature and life at the centre.
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Champions of clean air: People power in the fight against air pollution
Meet champions of clean air from around the world who are standing up and fighting for local solutions to air pollution, whilst inspiring and empowering their communities.
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Earth Overshoot Day: An abundance of ideas to fix the rigged economic system
Earth Overshoot Day reminds us that humanity’s richest are breaching the limits of our planet’s ability to support life in all its forms.
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You need meat and dairy (says the meat and dairy industry)
As the pressure to tackle the environmental, climate and health impact of heavy meat based diets grows, the meat industry seems to be resorting to the same playbook used by the fossil fuel business. It downplays its the climate impacts, disputes the accounting of the its responsibility for climate change, and funds scientists to support…
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Litmus test for the Council of Europe: Time to recognise and protect the right to healthy environment
Everyone has the human right to live in a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment. Most human rights systems in the world recognise this, but the European human rights convention needs to catch up. Here's how.
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So nice! My dream for African women
From Cameroon to DRC, Senegal, Kenya and South Africa, Luchelle’s dream of African women is a cross-continental tour of what’s possible, if governments put people and nature before corporate profits.
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Fighting for inclusion and justice in Brazil’s Amazonas capital
At the meeting point of the Rio Negro and the Amazon lies Manaus, capital of Brazil’s Amazonas state, people are connecting younger generations with their roots to help counter the alienation they feel in the modern world.
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Who are the Hunger Profiteers?
Who are the Hunger Profiteers?They could cover the basic needs of 230 million vulnerable people and still have the equivalent of the GDP of The Gambia left in the pocket.
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Unchecked, unregulated, unaccountable: how big agribusiness corporations get rich amid crisis
The world’s biggest agribusiness corporations made more in billion-dollar profits since 2020 than the amount that the UN estimates could cover the basic needs of the world’s most vulnerable.