Australia raises emissions cutting target for 2030
Melbourne, AustraliaReuters Australia, under a new Labor government, on Thursday raised its 2030 target for cutting carbon emissions, bringing the country more in line with other developed economies’ Paris climate accord commitments. Australia, one of the world’s highest per capita carbon emitters, pledged to the United Nations that it would cut carbon emissions by 43 […]
Africa lags on 2030 global goal of gender parity in politics
Nairobi, KenyaThomson Reuters Foundation Africa has increased the number of women in parliament but still looks set to miss a global goal of gender parity in politics by 2030, a European thinktank said on Thursday. The study by Sweden’s International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA) found that women occupied 24 per cent […]
ENVIRONMENT: GOVERNMENTS FACE PRESSURE TO PROTECT NATURE IN BIODIVERSITY “SUPER YEAR”
THIN LEI WIN, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on plans for a new global framework to safeguard the Earth’s eco-systems and biodiversity…