By Diana Gitig, Ars Technica A Kenyan tinkerer and Stanford engineer team up to make maxi pads from agave fibers. Women and girls across much of the developing world lack access to menstrual products. This means that for at least a week or so every month, many girls don’t go to …
It’s One of the Biggest Experiments in Fighting Global Poverty. Now the Results are In.
By Nurith Aizenman, NPR It’s an unprecedented – and massive – experiment: Since 2017 the U.S.-based charity GiveDirectly has been providing thousands of villagers in Kenya what’s called a “universal basic income” – a cash grant of about $50, delivered every month, with the commitment to keep the payments coming …
Navajo Nation Faces Possible New Threats After Decades of Uranium Mining
By Kate Holland and Tenzin Shakya, ABC News A Canadian company is working to move forward with uranium extraction. Just miles from the site of the 1979 Church Rock Mill spill, the largest nuclear disaster in American history, uranium extraction operations could resume near the Navajo Nation. Now, Navajo leaders …
‘Phaseout’ or ‘Phasedown’? Why UN Climate Negotiators Obsess Over Language
By Akielly Hu, Grist Expect heated debates over single words — and even commas — at COP28. In recent years, environmental activists have lambasted annual United Nations climate conferences for producing “empty words” and “hollow promises” instead of concrete actions to slow global warming. Many of those critics argue that follow-through — actually implementing commitments …
Climate Finance Takes Center Stage at COP28 Climate Talks
By Simon Jessop, Maha El Dahan, and Hadeel Al Sayegh, Reuters DUBAI, Dec 4 (Reuters) – Money pledges grabbed the spotlight again at COP28 in Dubai on Monday as delegates turned their focus to the yawning gap in the need for climate finance and what’s on offer. The United Arab Emirates, the …
COP28: What UN reports say about global action on climate change
By Gloria Dickie, Susanna Twidale, and David Stanway, Reuters Nov 29 (Reuters) – Ahead of this year’s COP28 climate summit in Dubai, U.N. agencies have released several reports offering updates on global progress in limiting climate change. Here are some of the most important findings: GLOBAL GREENHOUSE GASES ARE STILL RISING Global …
Ikeda Center Founder Daisaku Ikeda Passes Away at 95
It’s with deep sadness that Ethical Markets shares in announcing the passing of Daisaku Ikeda, Founder of Ikeda Center. Buddhist thinker and president of the lay Buddhist movement Soka Gakkai International (SGI). In 2004, Daisaku Ikeda and Hazel Henderson co-authored, “Planetary Citizenship: Your Values, Beliefs and Actions Can Shape a Sustainable World”. They explore the …
The Great Carbon Divide
By Jonathan Watts, The Guardian We are not equally to blame for rising temperatures, and recognising that is an important step in identifying possible solutions The climate chasm between the world’s carbon-guzzling rich and the heat-vulnerable poor forms a symbolic shape when plotted on a graph. Climate-heating greenhouse gas emissions …
World Stands on Frontline of Disaster at Cop28, says UN Climate Chief
By Fiona Harvey, The Guardian Exclusive: Simon Stiell says leaders must ‘stop dawdling’ and act before crucial summit in Dubai World leaders must “stop dawdling and start doing” on carbon emission cuts, as rapidly rising temperatures this year have put everyone on the frontline of disaster, the UN’s top climate …
US Coal Power Plants Killed at Least 460,000 People in Past 20 Years – Report
By Nina Lakhani, Guardian Pollution caused twice as many premature deaths as previously thought, with updated understanding of dangers of PM2.5. Coal-fired power plants killed at least 460,000 Americans during the past two decades, causing twice as many premature deaths as previously thought, new research has found. Cars, factories, fire …