How Asia can invest in averting a food crisis caused by climate change. Climate change is expected to spark greater food insecurity in Asia. But regional markets do not seem to be incorporating this risk. The focus should be on increasing the affordability and scalability of solutions. Such as enzymes to boost soil health and...
UAE: Release all those unjustly imprisoned before COP28. Authorities in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) should release all those unjustly imprisoned in the country before the start of COP28. It will be held at Expo City Dubai between November 30 and December 12, 2023. UAE authorities continue to detain dozens of people who completed their prison sentences some years ago. This includes...
UAE sends arms after a promise to send aid to Sudan. UAE arms shipments support a war that has claimed more than 3,900 lives and work against efforts to put an end to the conflict. Early in June, a cargo plane landed at Uganda’s main airport. The flight records indicate that it had been sent...
Why older people are some of those worst affected by climate change. While we are all affected to some extent by extreme weather, it is older adults. Especially older women and those with disabilities, who tend to be the most vulnerable. Their struggle is partly determined by age but also by pre-existing health conditions, mental wellbeing, and social and...
What the fossil fuel industry doesn’t want you to know. In a blistering talk, Nobel Laureate Al Gore looks at the two main obstacles to climate solutions and gives his view of how we might actually solve the environmental crisis in time. You won’t want to miss his searing indictment of fossil fuel companies for...
COP28: ‘Having a climate summit in an oil-and-gas country can jeopardise the outcomes’. CIVICUS discusses the hopes and roles of civil society at the forthcoming COP28 climate summit with Harlee Richards, strategist at Follow This. Follow This is a Dutch organization representing over 10,000 green shareholders in oil and gas companies. It supports investor stewardship...
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has the second highest prevalence in the Arab States region, and the seventh highest prevalence in the Global Slavery Index. Migrant workers in the UAE are particularly vulnerable under the kafala (sponsorship) system, a restrictive work permit system that ties migrant workers to their employer.1 The system embeds a steep power...
COP28 President’s ‘hypocritical’ oil firm failing to acknowledge full extent of their carbon footprint. The fossil fuel giant run by the president of the forthcoming UN climate summit, Sultan Al-Jaber, last month reported only a fraction of its carbon pollution. This is despite him saying companies need to “attack all emissions”, according to new analysis....
On the Highway to Climate Hell. The world’s infrastructure was built for a climate that no longer exists. Countries have spent decades building critical infrastructure that is now buckling under extreme heat, wildfires, and floods. They were laying bare just how unprepared the world’s energy and transportation systems are to withstand the volatility of climate...
Climate summit host country misses own clean power target – but ‘continues to embrace’ transition. Like any country hosting a COP climate summit, the United Arab Emirates is facing intense scrutiny of its own track record. The oil-rich country hosting the next UN climate summit missed its own green energy target, Sky News can reveal....