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Draft Motion for a Resolution prepared for the EU Parliamentary Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety, March 2016
Draft Motion prepared by Rapporteurs Pavel Poc (Socialists and Democrats Group), Kateřina Konečná on behalf of the European United Left and Nordic Green Left group, Bas Eickhout of the Greens / European Free Alliance Group, Piernicola Pedicini of the Europe of Freedom and Direct Democracy Group, Mark Demesmaeker, Sirpa Pietikäinen and Frédérique Ries. This draft Motion was carried forward for the vote in a Parliamentary Plenary Session in April 2016.
zanimljivosti Opasni otrovi! Glyphosate: EU draft Motion, March 2016
Scientists say goal to keep world’s temperature rise below 1.5C is not going to happen despite talks at Cop29 in Baku
The internationally agreed goal to keep the world’s temperature rise below 1.5C is now “deader than a doornail”, with 2024 almost certain to be the first individual year above this threshold, climate scientists have gloomily concluded – even as world leaders gather for climate talks on how to remain within this boundary.
Three of the five leading research groups monitoring global temperatures consider 2024 on track to be at least 1.5C (2.7F) hotter than pre-industrial times, underlining it as the warmest year on record, beating a mark set just last year. The past 10 consecutive years have already been the hottest 10 years ever recorded.
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Campaign group WWF says there’s a ‘need for parties to get together and work through this’ as experts call for $1tn to reach developing countries each year
How usual is it to have G20 happening at the same time as Cop? According to Jen Iris Allan, a senior lecturer at Cardiff University who also writes the Regular Earth Negotiations Bulletin, commenting on Bluesky, it’s not normal at all.
Cop29 happening at the same time as the G20 is a rare opportunity. It gets the leaders of the big economies together in a small setting. They could strike a side deal that would really help here.
The new climate finance target is the big issue that will define COP29. Government ministers are arriving to thrash out everything from the amount of money raised to who contributes towards it.
We’ve seen a few versions of the text as parties make sure their views are represented while trying to produce something their governments can work with. The number of “options” is lower than it was on Wednesday. But the number of brackets - meaning undecided bits - is higher.
It’s still long: 25 pages. Negotiators started with a 9-page text, which they rejected as “unbalanced” - then lots of stuff got added back in. It will need to be shorter. The EU chief negotiator told journalists last week that a 2-page text could capture “everything we need”.
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Exclusive: Company has failed to tackle serious safety concerns or upgrade vital IT systems, Guardian investigation reveals
Thames Water has £23bn of assets that are in urgent need of repair and the supply of water to its 16 million customers is “on a knife-edge”, a Guardian investigation can reveal.
Britain’s biggest water company has failed to tackle adequately serious safety concerns, has not upgraded essential IT systems and has tolerated a culture of intimidation among staff, according to insiders and an analysis of documents.
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Manufacturers want ministers to ease EV mandate, which would mean energy firms losing out
Big UK businesses including Ovo, SSEand BT Openreach are urging the government to stick to current electric car targets as struggling carmakers pile pressure on ministers to relax the rules before industry talks this week.
The businesses said the zero-emissions vehicle (ZEV) mandate, which forces carmakers to sell greater numbers of electric cars each year, is an essential part of the plan to reduce the carbon and air pollution emissions caused by vehicles on Britain’s roads.
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Caister St Edmund, Norfolk: Dozens of deer and hares are out in the fields, grazing in relative safety, and Dad is especially excited to see mating slugs
We leave the farm track, the truck bumping into the open field. The headlights scan the dark expanse of grassland. For a moment, I’m 10 years old again – transported back to a night-time safari with Dad.
This evening, I’m helping with his podcast. And by helping, I mean saying as little as I can get away with, while he talks about the farm and wildlife. We both love communicating about nature, but I prefer the quieter, more introverted process of writing.
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Powerful storm systems bring heavy rainfall, widespread flooding and landslides to Central America and Asia
Tropical Storm Sara has caused significant disruption across Central America in recent days after forming in the Caribbean Sea on Thursday afternoon. It is the 18th named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season and the third this month. The large number of tropical storm and hurricane formations this season can be attributed to the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico being warmer than average, thus providing more energy for the development and intensification of these systems.
Since its formation, Sara has affected Honduras, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Belize and Guatemala, bringing heavy rainfall, widespread flooding and landslides. The slow-moving nature of the storm has exacerbated the damage, prolonging the duration of its impact. However, Sara is losing strength; initially it had sustained winds of 45mph on Thursday but weakened slightly after moving inland, with winds dropping to 40mph by Sunday. According to the National Hurricane Centre, Sara is expected to dissipate into an area of low pressure as it moves north-west toward the southern region of the Yucatan peninsula on Monday.
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We were shocked by how quickly the water rose. My children panicked and I didn’t know what to save first. This is Leoncia’s story
Location Sitio Gipit, Philippines
Disaster Typhoon Carina, 2024
Leoncia Ibanez lived inSitio Gipit, a small settlement on the outskirtsofAntipolo. In August 2024,Super TyphoonCarina, also calledGaemi, hit thePhilippines; combined with monsoon rains, it caused widespread flooding. The torrential rain and high winds were made worse by the climate crisis, which is also making such tropical storms more common.
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Brown bears, introduced into Trentino province 20 years ago, have begun to clash with the local human population
Franca Gherardini used to cherish the sublime views from her home in Caldes, a village surrounded by forests on the slopes of the Brenta Dolomites in northern Italy’s Trentino province.
But now she tries to shut out the scene as much as possible, rolling down the window canopy in the morning to avoid looking towards the area where her son, Andrea Papi, 26, was killed by a bear.
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Wildlife experts in US west have found small aircraft are ideal for protecting humans and livestock from predators
The first time that Terry Vandenbos watched a bear run from a drone, on a spring day two years ago, he was chasing the animal himself. After he saw the grizzly cross a road near his property, the Montana rancher hopped on his all-terrain vehicle, planning to scare it away from his cattle if needed.
But the bear began sprinting away when he was still far from it, looking over its shoulder as it ran, and Vandenbos looked up too; overhead, a small drone was following the bear, its four propellers emitting a high-pitched whine as it sent the animal towards a nearby lake.
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Campaigners blame United Utilities for blighting famous lake with raw effluent
• United Utilities refuses to hand over data on sewage discharges into Windermere
A short stroll from Beatrix Potter’s former farmhouse in the Lake District are the waters of Cunsey Beck, nestling in the breathtaking landscape that inspired the tales of childhood favourites Jeremy Fisher and Jemima Puddle-Duck.
Campaigners say the once clear waters are regularly blighted by raw sewage from a nearby works. New figures obtained by the Observerreveal the Near Sawrey plant is alleged to have illegally discharged untreated sewage on 56 days from 2021 to 2023.
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U modernom društvu, loša kvaliteta sna i nedostatak sna postali su uobičajena pojava koja je povezana s nekoliko zdravstvenih poremećaja, kao što su kardiovaskularne bolesti, pretilost i dijabetes, a nekoliko studija pokazalo je povezanost između sna i unosa magnezija.
Djeca rođena od majki koje tijekom trudnoće uzimaju lijekove protiv epileptičkih napadaja kako bi liječile napadaje i psihijatrijska stanja, mogu se suočiti s povećanim rizikom od neurorazvojnih stanja, ukazuje nova studija.
Prema rezultatima novog istraživanja, nedostatak cinka u prehrani potiče infekciju pluća bakterijom Acinetobacter baumannii; koja je vodeći uzrok upale pluća povezane s ventilacijom.
Kliničko ispitivanje otkriva da je integrativna kognitivno-bihevioralna terapija (PG-CBT) učinkovitija od terapije usmjerene na sadašnjost (PCT) u smanjenju ozbiljnosti tugovanja i komorbidnih simptoma nakon liječenja, pružajući nadu osobama s produljenim poremećajem tugovanja.
Rezultati nove studije pokazali su da je zagađenje zraka značajan okolišni čimbenik rizika za poremećaje autističnog spektra, koji utječe na neurorazvoj kroz više mehanizama, uključujući epigenetske modifikacije, neuroupalu, oksidativni stres i endokrini poremećaj.
Izgleda da bi novi neinvazivni test koji koristi mikro ribonukleinske kiseline (miRNA) dobivene iz urinarnih ekstracelularnih vezikula mogao pomoći u otkrivanje raka gušterače u svim fazama, usredotočujući se na poboljšanje ranog otkrivanja.
Nedavni napredak u liječenju raka mokraćnog mjehura mogao bi ponuditi nadu većem broju pacijenata, uključujući one s visokorizičnom lokaliziranom, mišićno-invazivnom bolešću, ističu stručnjaci.
Ured europskog javnog tužitelja (EPPO) u Zagrebu (Hrvatska) pokrenuo je istragu protiv osam fizičkih, uključujući i ministra zdravstva RH i odgovorne osobe dviju zagrebačkih bolničkih ustanova, te dvije pravne osobe zbog postojanja osnovane sumnje da su počinili kaznena djela primanja i davanja mita, zlouporabe položaja i ovlasti, te pranja novca.
Više od trećine kirurških pacijenata razvije komplikacije kao rezultat kiruškog zahvata, pokazuje nova studija. Naime, oko 38% odraslih pacijenata doživi neželjeni događaj tijekom ili nakon operacije.
Tri čimbenika rizika ne samo da povećavaju rizik od moždanog udara, već također povećavaju izglede da će takav moždani udar biti težak, upozorava nova studija. Naime, pušenje, visok krvni tlak (hipertenzija) i fibrilacija atrija značajno povećavaju rizik od ozbiljnog moždanog udara.
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.
