Way Forward for Treaty Negotiations Left Unclear, Civil Society Stands with Countries Choosing People Over Politics Geneva, Switzerland– At the close of the plastics treaty negotiations (INC-5.2), ambitious Member States held strong under immense pressure and a...
Today president Trump will meet with president Putin in Alaska. This meeting is planned with the aim of launching talks to end the conflict in Ukraine. Perhaps it’s an excellent opportunity to demonstrate the willingness of the USA and Russia to go beyond resolving...
It is not fatigue: it is erosion. Reality, when it touches you daily with the coldness of a war report and the smell of a morgue, wears you down from the inside until it makes invisible the edges that once held you up. What broke me was not sleepless nights nor the...
Watchdog Group Lists 48 Skin Lightening Products Adulterated With Mercury 15 August 2025, Quezon City. As the eighth anniversary of the global entry into force of the Minamata Convention on Mercury is observed on August 16, the toxics watchdog group EcoWaste...
Global Warming (“GW”) is winning, and it is gaining. Obstacles to hotter temperatures are falling to the wayside, allowing GW to go for more intense heatwaves along with much, much higher sea levels. Alas, the greenest of green countries are turning tail and...
Geneva, Switzerland– Demonstrating strong unity, Global South Member States and Civil Society called for ambitious, legally binding global measures to curb plastic production, in a media briefing on the closing day of the second part of the fifth session of the...
The future is not in pipes; it is in sovereignty. And Chile has yet to take control. How much is green hydrogen worth and who controls it? Green hydrogen is not just an energy solution. It is a global financial commitment. Today, producing one ton of green hydrogen...
For a few seconds, my imagination staged a surreal scene: a gray, fortified building in the middle of the ice, with the flags of Russia and the United States flying side by side, as if the Cold War had ended with a tea party. But no, that image exists — and only...
This coming Sunday, August 18, at 10:00 a.m., at the Haifa enlistment camp, Yona Roseman, a 19-year-old from Haifa, will refuse to enlist in protest against the genocide in Gaza, and will probably be tried and sent to prison. Activists from the Mesarvot network will...
Communities and advocates rally against policies that would lock Asia into polluting energy projects and deepen climate inequities Mandaluyong City, Philippines – 14 August 2025 – Today, environmental advocates and community members gathered outside the Asian...
Pakistan recently celebrated its 78th Independence Day, marking nearly eight decades since its inception. This period is comparable to the lifespan of an average human being—enough time to experience birth, growth, maturity, and decline. Similarly, Pakistan’s history...
But did you know? Is this discussed now when the UN turn 80 in October? No, politicians, media and scholars generally focus on war and ignore humanity’s most important peace-maker. By Jan Oberg “UNITED NATIONS, Aug 12 2025 (IPS) – The United Nations, facing a...