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Some narratives in international development hold that ending poverty and achieving good lives for all will require every country to reach the levels of GDP per capita that currently characterise high-income countries. However, this would require increasing total global output and resource use several times over, dramatically exacerbating ecological breakdown. Furthermore, universal convergence along these lines is unlikely within the imperialist structure of the existing world economy. Here we demonstrate that this dilemma can be resolved with a different approach, rooted in recent needs-based analyses of poverty and development. Strategies for development should not pursue capitalist growth and increased aggregate production as such, but should rather increase the specific forms of production that are necessary to improve capabilities and meet human needs at a high standard, while ensuring universal access to key goods and services through public provisioning and decommodification. At the same time, in high

Cell-based food production, which is the field of growing animal agricultural products directly from cell cultures, has been explored as an alleged sustainable alternative to the conventional livestock agricultural system. As commercial cell-based food production continues to expand, the urgency increases to address one of the most important questions of consumers, the question of food safety. Thus, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO), has developed the present document to engage with respective Members and relevant stakeholders by proactively sharing the current knowledge to identify concrete ways to inform consumers and all other stakeholders about the food safety considerations for cell-based food products. This document includes a literature synthesis of relevant terminology issues, principles of cell-based food production processes and the global landscape of regulatory frameworks for cell-based food production.

Contribution du Groupe de travail I au sixième Rapport d’évaluation du Groupe d’experts intergouvernemental sur l’évolution du climat - traduction officielle

De concept peu connu et mal compris, la sobriété a gagné du terrain ces derniers mois jusqu’à devenir pour certains un « indispensable débat » à mener. S’il a toujours un potentiel clivant, le fait que de plus en plus d’acteurs l’invoquent, y compris au plus haut niveau de l’État, ouvre un nouveau stade de débat politique. Mais de quoi faudrait-il débattre exactement ? Et comment construire les bases politiques d’un projet collectif de sobriété ?

The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), a major ocean current system transporting warm surface waters toward the northern Atlantic, has been suggested to exhibit two distinct modes of operation. A collapse from the currently attained strong to the weak mode would have severe impacts on the global climate system and further multi-stable Earth system components. Observations and recently suggested fingerprints of AMOC variability indicate a gradual weakening during the last decades, but estimates of the critical transition point remain uncertain.

Le dossier thématique propose des séquences d'enseignement-apprentissage sur le changement climatique, la protection du climat et la politique climatique destinées aux 2e et 3e cycles de l'enseignement obligatoire et aux degrés postobligatoires, qui ont été développées, testées et finalisées sur la base des connaissances scientifiques les plus récentes.

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In the last few years, one of the solutions envisaged for improving access to healthcare – seen by some as a step toward universal access – is to remove part of the financial barrier to healthcare ...