According to an analysis of emission trends conducted by Reuters, just 25 cities accounted for greater than half of the greenhouse gas emissions across the globe. As reported by the European Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy, the study compared greenhouse gas emissions reported by 167 cities in 53 countries and
On Sunday, July 4th, 2021, delegates selected a woman from Chile’s majority indigenous Mapuche people to take the lead in drafting Chile’s new constitution, a drastic shift for an ethnic group that is unacknowledged in Chile rule book. The woman who was selected is Elisa Locon, a political independent who
According to the New York Times, on Monday, June 28th, 2021, the United Nations Human Rights Commissioner Michelle Bachelet implored countries to take action towards systemic racism meted out towards Black people, a sentiment she expressed just as she released a report calling for changes in policing as well as
On Tuesday 15 June, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez announced plans to pardon nine jailed leaders of Catalonia’s unsuccessful 2017 independence bid. He alluded to how pardoning them was in public interest, since it symbolized moving from past confrontational viewpoints by the government against the Catalan prisoners. According to The New
Adding to the advancements seen in the G20 Global Health Summit and the Gavi COVAX AMC Summit, according to the UN, in an agreement at the G7 Summit, the global leaders pledged to share at least 870 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines, striving to deliver as many as half of
According to Reuters, on June 7th, 2021, Dmitry Rogozin, the Director-General of Roscosmos (Russia’s space agency), proposed that Moscow withdraw from the International Space Station (ISS) in 2025. However, this maintains conditional on Washington lifting sanctions on the space sector that were preventing Russian satellite launches. Dmitry Rogozin was addressing
This past Monday, Russia announced that it would send what it termed as “uncomfortable” signals to the United States just before a summit between the two nations’ leaders that is scheduled to take place next month. In fact, according to CNBC, Russia stated that it was in the process of
According to CNN, Taiwan has criticized the World Health Organization for its ‘indifference’ towards the health rights of the Taiwanese people as well as for yielding to China’s position regarding not inviting Taiwan to a meeting of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) decision-making body. Taiwan is excluded from a majority
According to the Washington Post, since the beginning of 2019, more than 1000 civilians have been killed in and surrounding the Democratic Republic of Congo’s eastern Beni region. These killings, which the UN has deemed as war crimes, are the most recent developments in massacres in the Beni region since
Turkey and Egypt’s cold diplomatic relations have been ongoing for almost 8 years. The two nations initially severed ties in 2013 after Egypt’s first democratically elected president Mohammed Morsi, long supported by Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, was ousted by the military. According to Al Jazeera, after this turbulent period,
