Resource conflict and ecosystem diplomacy in bullet point updates – since 2008
Medvedev retfærdiggør Ruslands brutale fremfærd i Donbas med milliardværdier, mens Schweiz kæmper med gammel ammunition, og europæiske fiskerier udnytter svagere regler i Afrika. Tre historier om, hvordan kampen om ressourcer påvirker alt fra globale konflikter til lokale økosystemer. Plus dejlige skilte i Australien Dmitry Medvedev, der er et højtstående medlem af Putins regime, har retfærdiggjort…
Den mangeårige konflikt mellem Venezuela og Guyana om den olie- og gasrige Essequibo-region er igen i fokus. ExxonMobils opdagelse af store oliereserver nær Essequibo har forstærket spændingerne mellem de to lande. Kolonial fortid skaber nutidens strid Striden har rødder i en voldgiftskendelse fra 1899, hvor Essequibo-regionen blev tildelt det britisk-styrede Guyana. Venezuela har siden anfægtet…
“Honduran authorities should thoroughly investigate the killing of Luis Alonso Teruel and determine if it was related to his work as a journalist […] The Honduran government must end the impunity that has prevailed in the killings of journalists for so many years by conducting a swift and credible investigation that identifies all of those…
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Anden søndag i advent 2023: Sellafield nuclear site hacked by groups linked to Russia and China “It raises allegations that must be treated with the utmost seriousness by government … The government has a responsibility to say when it first knew of these allegations, what action it and the regulator took and to provide assurances…
Første advent 2023: Tre links fra uge 48? Climate change is also a health crisis — these 3 graphics explain why “People are dying from heatwaves caused by climate change every year” Wenjia Cai, Tsinghua University in Beijing Amnesty International: Menneskerettighedsbeskyttelse forudsætter fuldstændig og retfærdig udfasning af fossilt brændsel Læs selv rapporten. Ruslands invasion i…
Næppe. Ikke 1:1. Men… læs SEBASTIAN STRYHN KJELDTOFTs reportager fra Taiwan. »Fastlandsfiskerne [Kina] bruger ekstreme metoder, som dræber de små og yngre fisk og ødelægger fiskenes habitater. De bruger elektrofiskeri og gift til at fange fiskene, mens de samtidig ødelægger vores [taiwaneseres] fiskenet«. Chen Kuo-Chiang Et spøgelsesagtigt skær hænger over Taiwan. Er det et forvarsel…
klimaforandringerne og deraf følgende kampe om ressourcer og jord har spillet en rolle i 40 procent af de interne konflikter på globalt plan de seneste 60 år Rasmus Stuhr Jakobsen, CARE Øget konflikt efter USAs tilbagetrækning fra Afghanistan bekymrer ikke direktør for nødhjælpsorganisationen CARE Rasmus Stuhr Jakobsen. Det gør til gengæld “tørken, oversvømmelserne og fødevareusikkerheden,…
September 2019, Anders Theis Bollmann asked readers of the Danish newspaper Information if they could ever envision going to war for the climate. To illustrate his case, he used Jair Bolsonaro’s Brazil where the rain forest was burning. imagine that research showed that the burning of the Amazon was so violent that it would cause…
Acclaimed, critiqued and depressing for its bleak prospect for the future of a humanly habitable biosphere (and the liberal economy as we know it), The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming by David Wallace-Wells (Google Books, Goodreads) has a short chapter on climate conflict. The more recent of the sources for that chapter have not all…
Despite certain blemishes, Wikileaks has contributed with disclosures of incredible value to the public. Some of the charges raised at the arrest of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange on 11th April 2019 in London constitute an attack on the free press, says experts and NGOs. The parts of the charges that are under criticism are, particularly,…