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GFANZ (Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero) fails to deliver at COP26

12/12/21
Author: 
Michael Northrop
Link: 
Environmental Finance
Michael Northrop

Nov. 16, 2021

Finance is uniquely positioned to save the planet, but has already financed 1.5֯ C of warming

Carbon Tracker, the London Financial Analytics shop, told us about this in 2019. Maybe because Covid-19 intervened, we didn't fully absorb it.

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Capitalism
Climate Science
Global
Industry Spin
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Countries finally agreed to create an international carbon market. Here’s why it’s controversial.

10/12/21
Author: 
Emily Pontecorvo
Link: 
Grist
Abhishek Chinnappa/Getty Images

Nov. 30, 2021

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Carbon pricing
Climate Change
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US Legislators Call For a Change in Policy Towards Cuba

10/12/21
Link: 
Telesur
Patrick Leahy during the press conference in Cuba. Feb. 21, 2018 | Photo: Twitter/ @JohanaTablada

Dec. 8, 2021

U.S lawmakers Patrick Leahy and Ron Wyden called on Wednesday for the White House to change the hostile policy imposed on Cuba all these years. 

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Global
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Beware Industry-Backed 'Nature-Based Solutions' Scam, Warns Global Climate Coalition

10/12/21
Author: 
Jessica Corbett
Link: 
Common Dreams
An international coalition is warning world leaders that corporate-backed "nature-based solutions" are scams that will lead to "dispossessions" while failing to help mitigate the climate emergency. (Photo: tcareob72/Shutterstock)

But in Canada we now have this!!

Dec. 7 - Canada announces $200 million for "nature-based solutions"

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Canada
Capitalism
Climate Change
Ecology/Environment
Global
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Richest 1% Took 38% of New Global Wealth Since 1995. The Bottom Half Got Just 2%

08/12/21
Author: 
Jake Johnson
Link: 
Common Dreams
Richest 1% Took 38% of New Global Wealth Since 1995. The Bottom Half Got Just 2%

Dec. 7, 2021

A new report finds that global inequities in wealth and income are "about as great today as they were at the peak of Western imperialism in the early 20th century."

In the nearly three decades since 1995, members of the global 1% have captured 38% of all new wealth while the poorest half of humanity has benefited from just 2%, a finding that spotlights the stark and worsening gulf between the very rich and everyone else.

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The Left's Response to Capitalism's Death Spiral

06/12/21
Capitalism Caused Climate Catastrophe

Dec. 5, 2021

Category: 
Capitalism
Climate Change
Global
Protest - Revolt
Social
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U.S.-Russia confrontation over Ukraine threatens to become all-out war — but why?

06/12/21
Author: 
Medea Benjamin - Nicolas J.S. Davies
Link: 
Salon

Nov. 23, 2021

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Category: 
Climate Change
Global
Nuclear
USA
War/military
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How Canada became a vaccine villain

05/12/21
Author: 
Nikolas Barry-Shaw
Link: 
The Breach
image of masked people, barbed wire, vaccine vials

Dec. 5, 2021

Pharma lobbying nearly doubled before Liberal government moved to block TRIPS waiver

Until recently, nobody could accuse Justin Trudeau of being Big Pharma’s BFF. 

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Canada
Global
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Cuba’s Vaccine Could End up Saving Millions of Lives

30/11/21
Author: 
Branko Marcetic
Link: 
Jacobin
A medical worker displays a dose of Cuba’s Soberana 2 vaccine against COVID-19 at a school in Havana, Cuba. (Joaquin Hernandez / Xinhua via Getty Images)

Nov. 22, 2021

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WHO Seeks New Global Pandemic Treaty

29/11/21
Author: 
Jason Beaubien
Link: 
National Public Radio
On November 29, the World Health Organization will convene a virtual summit for its member states to consider the handling of future outbreaks. Pictured above: WHO headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. Sean Gallup/Getty Images

Nov. 28, 2021

The World Health Organization is convening a special session of its governing body, the World Health Assembly, to start talks on a new global treaty covering pandemics. Representatives of WHO's 194 member states will meet virtually for three days starting on Monday to consider new international rules for handling future outbreaks.

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