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La répression du mouvement de contestation en Iran a fait a nombre vérifié ‍de ‌2.571 morts, dont 2.403 ‍manifestants ​et 147 personnes ‌affiliées au gouvernement, ⁠a rapporté mercredi l'organisation ⁠de ​défense ‍des droits humains ‍HRANA, basée ‌aux Etats-Unis. Le dernier bilan de cette ONG basée en Norvège annonçait au moins 734 manifestants.

Since 2010, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has required large industrial facilities to report their greenhouse gas emissions. The data, which the EPA’s Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program has been collecting since 2011, is essential in efforts to reduce emissions and provides vital information to the public about climate pollution from the largest U.S. polluters. However, the Trump EPA has proposed to put an end to greenhouse gas reporting by major polluters. This move is consistent with the Trump administration’s intent to make climate denial an official U.S. policy and restricts the public from the right to know. Subsequently, it will deprive communities from having access to a critical tool for holding pollutants accountable.

Met haar onderhandelingspositie over het terugkeerbeleid volgt de Europese Raad het Amerikaanse voorbeeld en kiest het voor een de facto deportatieregime. Dat zeggen onder meer Human Rights Watch, Dokters van de Wereld en Amnesty International. Ze spreken van ‘keiharde beleidsmaatregelen die een totale minachting voor het internationaal recht en de menselijke waardigheid tonen.’

I always say that models are not predictions; they are qualitative illustrations of what the future could be. But as the future gets closer to the present, models can start being seen as predictive tools. It is the weather/climate dichotomy, so aptly exploited to confuse matters by politically minded people in the discussion about climate. Right now, we are getting close to the point that we could forecast a collapse in the same way as we can forecast the trajectory of a tropical storm. So, you remember how “The Limits to Growth” generated a long term forecast in 1972. Here it is

The NGO Shipbreaking Platform is a global coalition of organisations working to reverse the environmental harm and human rights abuses caused by current shipbreaking practices and to ensure the safe and environmentally sound dismantling of end-of-life ships worldwide. Just as the goods they transport, ships too become waste when they reach the end of their operational lives. Yet only a fraction is handled in a safe and clean manner. The vast majority of the world's end-of-life fleet, full of toxic substances, is simply broken down - by hand - on the beaches of South Asia. There, unscrupulous shipping companies exploit minimal enforcement of environmental and safety rules to maximise profits.

Les deux organisations israéliennes, qui ont publié lundi 28 juillet un communiqué corroborant les accusations génocidaires visant le pouvoir israélien, critiquent les actions de leur pays en territoire occupé depuis plusieurs décennies.

Healthy environment a human right, UN court says in landmark climate ruling

in January, a group of present and former Republican state officials gathered at a posh resort in Sea Island, Georgia, together with conservative leaders, for a two-day lesson in how to dismantle corporate America’s most ambitious response to climate change. At the Cloister, with its golf courses, tennis courts, and beaches, ESG was denounced as a sinister force undermining free markets and democracy.

The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them

Rapporteur calls for defossilization of economies and urgent reparations to avert ‘catastrophic’ rights and climate harms