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Climate·26 January 2024

Third South Summit Calls for International Financial Architecture Reform

In the Third South Summit Outcome Document, leaders stress the need to strengthen the role of the UNGA and ECOSOC in dealing with the international financial architecture reform and urge MDBs to “meet the financing needs of all developing…

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Charities·20 January 2024

‘All faiths and none’: London peace march aims to ease Gaza tensions

Sunday’s event follows a number of pro-Palestine marches in London in recent weeks.Photograph: Christian Sinibaldi/The Guardian

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New Museum·10 January 2024

Featured Story: Why we need museums now more than ever

To those who aren’t as passionate about the power of museums as readers of this blog, it can often seem that such institutions are merely places where forgotten objects go to enjoy their final years.

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Climate·10 January 2024

2024: A Four-pronged Quest to Rebuild Trust and Restore Hope

“Humanity is strongest when we stand together.” This was the gist of the UN Secretary-General’s message for New Year 2024 . Describing 2023 as the year of “enormous suffering, violence, and climate chaos,” he urged the international…

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Arts & Culture·5 January 2024

Water Bear - A Wild Education

This film is about the extraordinary journey of a family living deep in the wild of the Carpathian Mountains. Christoph and Barbara met in Romania, over a love of wolves, and continue breaking through local opposition with their passion…

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Climate·4 January 2024

UNEP: Climate Action

Unless greenhouse gas emissions fall dramatically, warming could pass 2.9°C this century, which would have catastrophic consequences for life on this planet. UNEP takes a four-pronged approach to addressing the climate crisis and reducing…

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Climate·4 January 2024

Aloe vera plants turned into energy-storing supercapacitors

A battery-like device known as a supercapacitor can be created from different parts of aloe vera plants – and it can be used to make living plants power lights

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Climate·30 December 2023

5 Global Issues Io Watch In 2024

A young protester onstage calling for the end of fossil fuels at the closing of the Global Climate Action High-Level Event during the UN Climate Change Conference, COP 28 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Photo: COP28/Anthony Fleyhan

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Climate·27 December 2023

Art Charter for Climate Action

Together International Committee for Museums and Collections of Modern Art (CIMAM), Julie’s Bicycle, Gallery Climate Coalition (GCC), and ART 2030 have founded an alliance committed to developing a charter that aligns the global art sector…

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Charities·19 December 2023

Human.Kind. A new look at Humanitarian Photography through 10 editions of the Prix Pictet

Human.Kind. presents an alternative approach to photographing humanitarian action. The exhibition showcases the work of 30 of the 3,000 photographers from around the world who’ve been nominated for the Prix Pictet since it was first…

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A New Wave·13 December 2023

Louise Harris - We Tried

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Climate·13 December 2023

COP28 Agreement Signals “Beginning of the End” of the Fossil Fuel Era

UN Climate Change News, 13 December 2023 – The United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28) closed today with an agreement that signals the “beginning of the end” of the fossil fuel era by laying the ground for a swift, just and…

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Climate·12 December 2023

Climate advocates demand stronger COP28 language on fossil fuels

The 21-page text, prepared by the COP28 presidency, United Arab Emirates, makes no mention of fossil fuel ‘phasedown’ or ‘phaseout’, which UN Secretary-General António Guterres said earlier on Monday was one of the keys to the conference’s…

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Climate·8 December 2023

COP28 in Dubai enters final week, negotiations ramp up on emissions cuts, fossil fuels

UN climate chief Simon Stiell has said that the current draft of the text is “a grab bag of wish lists and heavy on posturing.” As such: “All governments must give their negotiators clear marching orders. We need highest ambition , not…

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Arts & Culture·3 December 2023

Featured Story: Indian girl school offers opportunities for the marginalized

In an area with less than 32% female literacy, the ability for girls to attend school means new opportunities for the next generation in a rural area with high poverty. Over 400 girls are registered to the school , which will serve…

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Climate·3 December 2023

How do we bring about peace in a world of war and chaos?

‘Where there is conflict and disaster, the Quaker response is through a stance of non-partisanship,’ writes Alan Clayton. Photograph: Getty Images

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Climate·2 December 2023

Over 150 Non-State Actors sign Call to Action calling for transformation of food systems

The Call to Action unites many diverse actors working in food and agriculture around a shared vision and priority actions for transforming food systems. It calls for a set of time-bound, aligned, holistic, and global targets by COP29 at…

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Climate·2 December 2023

COP28: UN climate talks take aim at planet-warming food

More than 130 countries signed up to a declaration about food, on the second day of the UN climate summit COP28 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

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