CoP28 Delivers: What, Who and How They’re Pledging
Who is pledging climate finance at COP28, and how much? At this year`s U.N. climate summit, countries, development institutions and businesses are pledging more money for everything from the energy transition to health care initiatives, technology investments,
Published : 06 December 2023
@ CoP28, India Refuses Curbs on Energy Use
Jacob Koshy, The Hindu India will not be bound by curbs on energy use: Environment Secretary At COP28, India was conspicuously absent from a list of 118 countries signed on to a pledge to triple installed renewable energy capacity by 2030. India has also reiterated its right to
Published : 03 December 2023
Clashes @ CoP28: Fossil Fuels, War on Gaza
Clashes over fossil fuels, Gaza conflict cloud COP28 climate summit Summary Leaders push starkly different hopes for fossil fuels King Charles III of Britain pleads for climate progress South Africa, Turkey criticize conflict in Gaza DUBAI—U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres
Published : 01 December 2023
Agreement on loss and damage deal reached on first day of CoP28 talks
Agreement on loss and damage deal reached on first day of CoP28 talks Fund to help world’s poorest and most vulnerable countries hit by climate disaster is first decision agreed at conference A landmark deal to help
Published : 30 November 2023
The Palestinian people`s call to the free people of the world
In 1977, the United Nation’s General Assembly adopted resolution 32/40 B, declaring the 29th of November of each year as the “International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People,” a date coinciding with that of
Published : 29 November 2023
CoP28: Why Are Billionaires Blocking Action to Save the Planet?
Opinion Here’s a question Cop28 won’t address: why are billionaires blocking action to save the planet? It’s obscene that the super-rich can criminalise protest, while they burn the world’s resources and remain untouched by the law Don’t they
Published : 29 November 2023
Western Sahara: UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention Demands Gdeim Izik Prisoners’ Immediate Release
Morocco must immediately release a group of leading human rights defenders, UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention demands. 13 years after two dozen Saharawi activists were arrested and subsequently given draconian sentences by a Moroccan
Published : 27 November 2023
New Rport on Kashmir Misrule
The Kashmir Law and Justice Project (KLJP) has issued a new report, Complete Injustice: The Indian Supreme Court and the Misrule of Law in Kashmir. It challenges dominant narratives about Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir, India
Published : 27 November 2023
HLRN Statement: States Must Act for Peace with Justice in Palestine, not with Zionism
This statement updates the HIC Statement of 23 October 2023. Amid the most-recent escalation of violence in Zionism’s century-long persecution of the Indigenous Palestinian People, the Palestinian Islamist Resistance Movement (Hamas) and its militant `Izz ad-Din
Published : 24 November 2023
