Tag: Climate Crisis
Philippine climate campaigners urge China’s Xi to showcase renewable energy leadership
At the 2021 United Nations General Assembly, Xi made the policy announcement on coal projects, adding a pledge to deal with climate change
Climate activists call on corporations to stop financing fossil fuel projects
The climate crisis has driven the world to the brink of multiple “disastrous” tipping points
World in ‘wrong direction’ as climate impacts worsen: UN
"Floods, droughts, heatwaves, extreme storms and wildfires are going from bad to worse, breaking records with alarming frequency"
Aid to the Church in Need to send help to flood...
The charity will channel help through leading Church project partners who are grappling with desperate appeals for help from people
‘Start my life from zero’: Poor Pakistanis face heavy cost of...
Floods have ruined crops and homes across Pakistan, leaving many of the country's poor struggling to restart their lives
Philippines opens ‘Season of Creation’ with call to change ‘abusive ways’
“Listen to the voice begging us to change our abusive ways,” said Bishop Pablo Virgilio David, president of the bishops’ conference
The crushing burden of debt
So why not call it quits. Cancel the foreign debt of the poor nations and in return cancel the climate debt owned by the rich nations?
Global heating, human development could drive future waves of disease in...
Disturbance of ecosystems as humans interact with wild species make future outbreaks and pandemics more likely
Help stop the extinction of a million species
More than 10,000 wild species are harvested for human food with one-in-five people dependent on such species for income and food
Pacific leaders struggle to keep focus on climate at key summit
Geopolitical jostling between the United States and China has been building since Solomon Islands signed a security pact with Beijing