If you ask the average person on the street, are you worried about the climate crisis, most will say they are.
If you ask should their governments be doing more, nearly all will say they should.
And a strong majority worldwide are in favor of a quick transition away from fossil fuels.
In the biggest ever public opinion survey on climate change, the Peoples’ Climate Vote 2024, four out of five people globally — 80% — want their governments to take stronger action to tackle the climate crisis.
Over 73,000 people speaking 87 different languages across 77 countries were asked 15 questions on climate change for a survey conducted by the UN Development Program. The 77 countries polled represent 87% of the global population.
Aside from a broad call for bolder climate action, the survey shows support by a global majority of 72% in favor of a quick transition away from fossil fuels. This is true for countries among the top 10 biggest producers of oil, coal, or gas. This includes majorities ranging from 89% in Nigeria to 54% of people in the United States.
The people of the world want action. So why isn't it happening? Because the people are not in charge. Our system is controlled by a tiny minority of plutocrats who profit enormously from continued economic growth, from the cancer of capitalism.
States and companies must end arms transfers to Israel immediately or risk responsibility for human rights violations: UN experts (OHCHR, 2024-06-20)
“These companies, by sending weapons, parts, components, and ammunition to Israeli forces, risk being complicit in serious violations of international human rights and international humanitarian laws”...
UN-Umfrage: Sorge über Klimawandel noch nie so groß
Die Sorge ist groß, der Wunsch nach Maßnahmen auch: Eine UN-Umfrage über den Klimawandel ist eine Mahnung an Politik und Wirtschaft. Dabei hofft ein Großteil der 75.000 Befragten auf mehr Zusammenarbeit. Von Antje Passenheim.
"The requirement to select means and methods of warfare that avoid or at the very least minimize to every extent civilian harm appears to have been consistently violated in Israel's bombing campaign."
"The human rights office's report is the latest of several recent U.N. analyses accusing Israeli forces of committing grave war crimes in Gaza—including torture, using starvation as a weapon of war, and genocide"
Israeli cabinet discusses punitive measures against #UN agencies
🔶️ Months of tensions boil over after UN chief adds Israeli military to #blacklist for failing to protect #children in conflict
🔶️ Benjamin #Netanyahu’s government has discussed far-reaching measures against UN agencies operating in Israel and the Palestinian territories, including the possible expulsion of staff, according to five people familiar with the matter.
🔶️ The UN has slammed Israel for not doing enough to protect either the organisation’s own humanitarian personnel in Gaza or Palestinian civilians, with #Guterres calling Gaza a “graveyard for children”.
Israel vows to press on in Gaza after UN Security Council approves ceasefire proposal
🔶️ Israel has vowed to persist with its military operation in Gaza, saying it won’t engage in “meaningless” negotiations with #Hamas, shortly after the United Nations Security Council overwhelmingly approved a US-backed #ceasefire plan intended to bring an end to the eight-month war.
🔶️ Israel’s representative to the UN, Reut Shapir Ben-Naftaly, emphasized at a #UNSC meeting Monday that her country wants to “ensure that Gaza doesn’t pose a threat to Israel in the future.”
🔶️ Her comments came after 14 of the 15 UNSC council members voted in favor of Monday’s US-drafted resolution, with only #Russia abstaining – the first time the council has endorsed such a plan to end the war. Israel is not a member of the UNSC, and so did not vote.
Kick this rogue nation out of #UN. They do not belong to the world nations. They are a nation of arrogant #savages.
#Israel considering leaving #un
"In response to the UN adding Israel to the “blacklist” of countries who harm children during war, Israel’s ambassador to the UN, Gilad Erdan, said that Israel needs to weigh leaving the UN. He said the move was “a despicable decision by the Secretary General who hates Israel, who in his conduct serves dictators and murderers and will be remembered in history as a failed Secretary General who degraded the UN to an all-time low.” @palestine https://anash.org/war-day-251-israel-considers-exiting-un-rescue-details-revealed/
Not to forget using aid truck as the mean of military operations which is clearly made as a crime in Geneva convention.
Question is, will it have any impact on the favorable relationship between US, UK and EU with Israel? Or it's going to be one another crimes comitted by Israel that goes unpunished.
"In all, 5,698 violations were attributed to Israeli armed and security forces, and 116 to Hamas’s armed wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades. Israeli settlers were judged responsible in 51 cases, and Palestinian Islamic Jihad’s al-Quds Brigades was involved in 21."