Leaders of the G20 Summit in 2019 pose for a photo in Osaka, Japan
Parliamentary reporter @TrinderMatt
WORLD leaders should align anti-poverty and climate strategies to avoid missing key targets for both, a joint report from a cross-party group of parliamentarians and academics said today.
MPs and Lords in the all-party parliamentary group on the United Nations global goals for sustainable development joined University of Sussex researchers to warn that the Covid-19 pandemic has exacerbated global poverty and also hit funding to address it.
But inequality and the undermining of global development goals could be worsened still further if policies designed to achieve climate targets are “not managed with care,” they stressed.
From summit to summit, imperialist companies and governments cut, delay or water down their commitments, warn the Communist Parties of Britain, France, Portugal and Spain and the Workers Party of Belgium in a joint statement on Cop30
Reaching co-operation is supposed to be the beginning, not the end, of global climate governance, argues LISA VANHALA
One of the major criticisms of China’s breakneck development in recent decades has been the impact on nature — returning after 15 years away, BEN CHACKO assessed whether the government’s recent turn to environmentalism has yielded results
