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Dans un entretien au « Monde », le responsable de l’ONG de défense des droits humains se dit surpris « de voir à quelle vitesse la qualité de la démocratie américaine s’est détériorée en l’espace d’un an ».

L'ONG Human Rights Watch a averti mercredi que le président Donald Trump était en train de transformer les Etats-Unis en un Etat autoritaire alors que la démocratie et les droits humains sont attaqués de toute part.

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

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.

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

I’m used to environmentalists and futurists writing about The Limits to Growth. I’m less used to seeing investment writers mention research that’s linked to The Limits of Growth. But that’s what Joachim Klement did in his daily newsletter recently.

I’m used to environmentalists and futurists writing about The Limits to Growth. I’m less used to seeing investment writers mention research that’s linked to The Limits of Growth. But that’s what Joachim Klement did in his daily newsletter recently. Of course, anyone who writes about Limits of Growth has to do all the usual disclaimers first. This is because the combination of the words “limits” and “growth” in the title produced a lot of critical responses, on a range from straight-up hatchet jobs which misrepresented the book, to people who didn’t appear to understand the systems dynamics model that sat behind it.

L’ancien directeur exécutif de la puissante ONG assure que les régimes autoritaires ne sont pas indifférents aux pressions de l’opinion publique pour la défense des droits humains. L’administration Trump désengagée, il appartient aux Européens d’assurer ce « combat », estime-t-il dans un entretien au « Monde ».

The escalating tensions between Pakistan and India serve as a stark reminder that climate change is no longer a distant — it is now a force multiplier for geopolitical instability. As the climate crisis accelerates, so too does its capacity to deepen existing rivalries, strain fragile agreements, and inflame long-standing disputes. In South Asia, the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) has long been a rare success story of transboundary cooperation between two nuclear-armed neighbours. However, as both climate pressures and political tensions mount, this once-resilient agreement is beginning to show signs of severe strain. The looming question is no longer just about water rights — it’s about whether climate change could be the catalyst for the world’s first true climate war.

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