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Climate·23 November 2021

Conservation International: These ecosystems could determine our climate future: study

Nature’s stashes of climate-warming carbon are packed into a small percentage of Earth’s lands, finds a new study that pinpoints the ecosystems humanity must protect to avert a climate disaster.

ON Network · 7 min read

Education·22 November 2021

Don't call young people 'woke', says leading head teacher

Adults should stop mocking young people by calling them 'woke' for standing up for things they believe in, a leading head teacher has said.

Roger Toogood · 2 min read

Health·22 November 2021

World must agree pandemic treaty and strengthen WHO, experts warn

A nurse leaves a hospital in Gulu, Uganda after administering Covid-19 vaccinations, September 2021. Vaccine inequity has meant more than 50 countries have missed the World Health Organization's (WHO) target for 10 per cent of their…

ON Network · 4 min read

Arts & Culture·21 November 2021

Libraries with buckets of love - Atlas of the Future

Project leader - German Florian Heinzelmann and Daliana Suryawinata, Co-founders

ON Network · 4 min read

Climate·21 November 2021

‘Open science is an accelerator for SDGs’: Ana Persic, UNESCO

The United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization logo is pictured on the entrance at UNESCO's headquarters in Paris, October 2016. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)

ON Network · 5 min read

Climate Crisis·20 November 2021

Groundtruthed - George Monbiot

1 min read

Charities·20 November 2021

United Nations: World Children's Day

Students at the “25 de Junho” School, located in Beira, Mozambique.

ON Network · 2 min read

Arts & Culture·17 November 2021

Skateboards For Hope

Skateboards For Hope.

ON Network · 1 min read

Climate·15 November 2021

MSF: Climate emergency: The climate crisis is a health and humanitarian crisis

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ON Network · 3 min read

Climate·15 November 2021

WATER AID: What has climate change got to do with water?

Our climate is changing at an alarming rate and it’s making it even harder for the world’s poorest people to get clean water. More frequent and extreme flooding is polluting fragile water sources; longer droughts are drying up springs.…

ON Network · 2 min read

Arts & Culture·12 November 2021

Hiver Nomade - Winter Nomads

Pascal, 53, and Carole, 28, are shepherds. In the month of November 2010, they embark on their long winter transhumance: four months during which they will have to cover 600 km in the Swiss-French region, accompanied by three donkeys, four…

ON Network · 3 min read

Climate·12 November 2021

If global finance can step up to the net-zero challenge, governments surely can

‘Our enormous financial resources mean the world can now finance the transition to net zero.’ Photograph: Murdo MacLeod/The Guardian

ON Network · 4 min read

Climate·12 November 2021

Artists must confront the climate crisis – we must write as if these are the last days

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ON Network · 6 min read

Arts & Culture·11 November 2021

A 12-Foot Puppet of a Syrian Girl Will Travel 5,000 Miles This Summer as Part of a Wildly Ambitious Art Project About the Plight of Refugees

Good Chance theater company, The Walk , featuring the Little Amal puppet created by Handspring Puppet Company, as seen in London. Photo by Nick Wall, courtesy of Good Chance theater company.

ON Network · 4 min read

Climate·11 November 2021

WWF: Details, not just promises: What corporate ambition should look like at COP26

To ensure credibility, companies need to not only step up their climate ambition but to deliver on their promises, writes WWF’s Seán Mallon.

ON Network · 4 min read

Climate·11 November 2021

Cop26 targets too weak to stop disaster, say Paris agreement architects

A Nepalese climate change protest in Kathmandu, Nepal this week. It will be too late to increase ambitions in 2025, Christina Figueres argues. Photograph: Narendra Shrestha/EPA

ON Network · 5 min read

Systems Change·10 November 2021

UN offers science-based blueprint to tackle climate crisis, biodiversity loss and pollution

© UNESCO A horse rider heads towards mountains in Kyrgyzstan .       UN offers science-based blueprint to tackle climate crisis, biodiversity loss and pollution 18 February 2021 Climate Change Without nature’s help, “we will not thrive or e

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Climate·10 November 2021

UNEP: Spotlight on climate action

The climate emergency is a direct consequence of carbon-heavy land-use and agriculture, transport, buildings and industrial processes and polluting energy sources. Without profound changes to these sectors and a drastic cut to carbon…

ON Network · 1 min read