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Some countries say deal should not have been done and is ‘abysmally poor’ compared with what is needed
The climate finance deal agreed at Cop29 is a “travesty of justice” that should not have been adopted, some countries’ negotiators have said.
The climate conference came to a dramatic close early on Sunday morning when negotiators struck an agreement to triple the flow of climate finance to poorer countries.
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Rich and poor countries concluded a trillion-dollar deal on the climate crisis in the early hours of Sunday morning, after marathon talks and days of bitter recriminations ended in what campaigners said was a 'betrayal'.
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Major incident declared in Wales and England and Scotland hit by power cuts due to rain, floods and wind
Several people have been killed as Storm Bert battered the UK and a major incident has been declared in south Wales.
At least five deaths have been reported in England and Wales since the storm hit. Strong winds have been accompanied by flooding caused by heavy rain and thawing snow.
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Away from the brutal main negotiations, there were important strides forward. The science can – and must – rise above politics
The resolutions reached at Cop29 on tackling the climate crisis, in the early hours of Sunday morning, are gravely disappointing but much better than nothing. And “nothing” was almost the result of this climate conference in Baku. This was one of the most difficult of the 29 Cops I have followed.
The deal falls a long way short of hopes at the start of the climate summit, and even further behind what the world urgently needs. But coming after negotiations that frequently teetered on the very edge of collapse, the result does keep climate talks alive despite Donald Trump’s second coming, and has laid the first ever international foundation, however weak, on which the world could finally construct a system of financing poor countries’ transition away from fossil fuels.
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Rich countries still need convincing that giving money to poorer nations is very much in their interests too
It was only on the last scheduled day of two weeks of negotiations at the UN Cop29 climate summit that developed countries put a financial commitment on the table for the first time.
In reality, this offer took not just two weeks of talks to prepare, but nine years – since article 9 of the Paris agreement in 2015 made it clear that the rich industrialised world would be obliged to supply cash to developing countries to help them tackle the climate crisis.
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Countries must curb production now and tackle plastic’s full life cycle, says Norwegian minister Anne Beathe Tvinnereim ahead of key UN talks this week
The world will be “unable to cope” with the sheer volume of plastic waste a decade from now unless countries agree to curbs on production, the co-chair of a coalition of key countries has warned ahead of crunch talks on curbing global plastic pollution.
Speaking before the final, critical round of UN talks on the first global treaty to end plastic waste, in Busan, South Korea, this week, Norway’s minister for international development, Anne Beathe Tvinnereim, acknowledged the split that had developed between plastic-producing countries and others. She represents more than 60 “high ambition” nations, led by Rwanda and Norway, who want plastic pollution tackled over its full life cycle. Crucially, this means clamping down heavily on production.
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Estimated $2bn lost in missed taxes from environmentally destructive practice some blame on political corruption
Felicity Nelson remembers her 17-day detention last September vividly. The 34-year-old Ghanaian activist was one of 53 people arrested at a road junction in Accra after demonstrating alongside hundreds of other youths against illegal mining.
In detention, the group found a 54th person in their midst who had not been at the protest but was apprehended after visiting Oliver Barker-Vormawor, the protest’s organiser in hospital.
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The world will continue to be absurd, but you, with all your passion, can still make your corner of it more bearable
The questionI am finding it ever more difficult to be in this nasty world. Everything that I cherish is being destroyed and there is nowhere to go to find solace. I’ve always loved nature – but when I go for a walk now, I see every ash tree dying, I hear the loss of birdsong, I see how few insects there are. When I read the news, I just cannot comprehend how cruel humans are able to be, racism, misogyny, religious hate, cruelty to animals… The list is endless.
I work in climate change and am having to pretend every day that there is still a chance we can prevent catastrophic climate change. I find it ever harder to be around people who don’t get just how bad things are. I don’t have kids and am single. I can’t talk to my family about it because they are rightwing, wealthy climate sceptics. They patronise me (despite the fact I’m nearly 60 and a chief executive).
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America’s majestic national bird was close to extinction when Tina Morris, a young researcher, was asked to help bring three chicks to adulthood. First, she had to conquer a fear of heights
It was a daunting task, with little likelihood of success. An adventurous but anxious graduate researcher without any experience of looking after birds was dispatched to the wilds of upstate New York to become a human eagle mother: feeding, teaching – and keeping alive – three helpless eagle chicks.
Tina Morris was to camp alone beside their artificial nest, find them food, track them when they began to fly, keep them away from danger and rescue them if they got into trouble. If they survived to adulthood, northeast America would begin to be repopulated with its national bird, the bald eagle, a majestic, much-loved raptor that had been driven to the brink of extinction by the 1960s.
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Spain is increasingly either parched or flooded – and one group is profiting from these extremes: the water-grabbing multinational companies forcing angry citizens to pay for it in bottles
After catastrophic floodsengulfed Valencia last month, killing more than 200 people, it might seem counterintuitive to think about water shortages. But as the torrents of filthy water swept through towns and villages, people were left without electricity, food supplies – and drinking water. “It was brutal: cars, chunks of machinery, big stones, even dead bodies were swept along in the water. It gushed into the ground floor of buildings, into little shops, bakeries, hairdressers, the English school, bars: all were destroyed. This was climate change for real, climate change in capital letters,” says Josep de la Rubia of Valencia’s Ecologists in Action, describing the scene in the satellite towns south of the Valencian capital.
In the aftermath, hundreds of thousands of people were reliant on emergency tankers of water or donations of bottled water from citizen volunteers. Within a fortnight, the authorities had reconnected the tap water of 90% of the 850,000 people in affected areas, but all were advised to boil it before drinking it or to use bottled water. Across the region, 100 sewage treatment plants were damaged; in some areas, human waste seeped into flood waters, dead animals were swept into rivers and sodden rubbish and debris piled up. Valencia is on the brink of a sanitation crisis.
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Rezultati nove studije pokazali su da naširoko propisivan lijek za Parkinsonovu bolest entakapon značajno remeti mikrobiom ljudskog crijeva inducirajući nedostatak željeza. Smatra se, da ova studija pruža nove uvide u često zanemaren utjecaj lijekova na mikrobne zajednice koje igraju ključnu ulogu u ljudskom zdravlju.
Finsko istraživanje pokazalo je da dugotrajno stajanje na poslu ima negativan utjecaj na 24-satni krvni tlak sudionika istraživanja. Nasuprot tome, provođenje više vremena sjedeći na poslu povezano je s boljim krvnim tlakom. Studija sugerira da ponašanje tijekom radnog vremena može biti relevantnije za 24-satni krvni tlak od rekreacijske tjelesne aktivnosti.
Studija koju je financirao američki Centar za kontrolu i prevenciju bolesti (CDC) otkriva rastuću prevalenciju upalne bolesti crijeva (IBD) kod Amerikanaca mlađih od 20 godina, među najvišim stopama u svijetu.
Rak glave i vrata sedma je najčešća vrsta raka u svijetu. Pušači i konzumenti alkohola, kao i oni s HPV infekcijama, nerazmjerno su pogođeni, a kemoterapijski lijek cisplatin, kada se primjenjuje uz terapiju zračenjem, zlatni je standard za liječenje ovih zloćudnih bolesti.
Nova studija pokazuje veće stope smrtnosti među osobama rođenim prije vremena, s rizicima koji variraju ovisno o gestacijskoj dobi, a najveći su u ranom djetinjstvu. Prijevremeno rođenje remeti višestruke organske sustave, ostavljajući pojedince ranjivima na cjeloživotne zdravstvene rizike, pri čemu su stope smrtnosti obrnuto povezane s gestacijskom dobi.
Rezultati nedavno objavljenog istraživanja sugeriraju da bi električna stimulacija mogla biti ključna za održavanje zdravlja tetiva, nudeći nove mogućnosti za popravak i regeneraciju tetiva.
Prema rezultatima nove studije, dnevna doza vitamina B3 smanjuje upalu u plućima pacijenata s kroničnom opstruktivnom plućnom bolesti (KOPB). Ovo otkriće je važno jer upala može dovesti do smanjene funkcije pluća kod oboljelih od KOPB-a.
Nova studija pruža uvjerljive dokaze da gastroezofagealna refluksna bolest (GERB) - stanje koje se tradicionalno prepoznaje kao probavni poremećaj karakteriziran refluksom kiseline i žgaravicama - može utjecati na ključne čimbenike kardiovaskularnog rizika, uključujući krvni tlak, profile lipida i rizik od srčane bolesti.
Rezultati nove studije sugeriraju da mikrobi usne šupljine mogu igrati ulogu u mentalnom zdravlju majke i naglašavaju potencijal za ciljane intervencije tijekom trudnoće za poboljšanje mentalnog zdravlja.
Mlade odrasle osobe s rizikom od psihoze pokazuju smanjenu povezanost mozga, nedostatak koji se čini da se pogoršava korištenjem kanabisa, pokazalo je novo istraživanje. Ovo otkriće utire put liječenju psihoze usmjerenom na simptome koje sadašnji lijekovi propuštaju.
Doba u kojem živimo obilježeno je sve bržim promjenama koje se name?‡u morskom okolišu, a gotovo za sve odgovorni su ljudi. Obalna zona Sredozemlja, pa tako i našeg Jadranskoga mora, mjesto je na kojemu obitava više od polovice ukupnog stanovništva Mediterana te zbog toga ovo usko područje predstavlja i jedan od najugroženijih morskih okoliša.
U našem dijelu svijeta, koji zovemo zapadnim i smatramo razvijenim, prije samo 50 godina nisu sve žene imale pravo glasa na izborima, nisu imale jednak pristup obrazovanju, nisu mogle voditi države i nisu imale pristup visokim pozicijama u poslovnom svijetu.
Gotovo svi su upoznati s činjenicom kako oceani i mora prekrivaju više od 70 % površine Zemlje. Me?‘utim, nedovoljno je prepoznato kako su oceani, mora i obalna područja esencijalni dio Zemljinih ekosustava te kako o njima ovisi cijelo čovječanstvo, bilo na obali ili u dubokoj unutrašnjosti kontinenata! Zašto?
Ovaj cilj održivog razvoja odnosi se na ostvarivanje održive proizvodnje i potrošnje u čemu trenutačno ne uspijevamo jer je ekološki otisak koji ostavljamo i dalje ve?‡i od resursa koje imamo na raspolaganju. Dakle, potrebno je promijeniti načine na koji proizvodimo hranu, smanjiti bacanje hrane, pove?‡ati udjele obnovljive izvore energije u ukupnoj proizvodnji energije, pravilno gospodariti otpadom tijekom čitavog njegovog životnog ciklusa kako bi, me?‘u ostalim što manje utjecali na zaga?‘enje zraka, vode i tla.
Razvoj industrije i infrastrukture kao temelja za pove?‡anje životnog standarda za sve ljude, uz okolišno prihvatljiva rješenja te uključivanje novih tehnologija tema je cilja održivog razvoja koji se odnosi na okolišno prihvatljivu industrijalizaciju, kvalitetnu, pouzdanu, održivu i prilagodljivu infrastrukturu, a sve uz primjenu novih tehnologija, istraživanja i inovacija.
