COP27: Polluters must pay for climate change, poor nations tell rich
Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt Reuters Leaders from poor countries criticised wealthy governments and oil companies for driving global warming, using their speeches on Tuesday at the COP27 climate summit in Egypt to demand that they pay up for damages being inflicted on their economies. Small island states already buffeted by increasingly violent ocean storms and sea-level […]
Polluters must pay, says UN chief, urges taxes to help climate victims
United NationsReuters UN chief Antonio Guterres on Tuesday urged rich countries to tax windfall profits of fossil fuel companies and use that money to help countries harmed by the climate crisis and people who are struggling with rising food and energy prices. United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres addresses the 77th Session of the United Nations […]
Focus turns to climate finance after flurry of COP26 pledges
Glasgow, UKReuters Governments will push for agreement on Monday on how to help vulnerable countries deal with global warming and compensate them for damage already done, a test of whether developing and rich nations can end a standoff over cash for climate change. At the start of a crunch week for the UN climate talks […]
Developing nations’ plea to world’s wealthy at UN: stop vaccine hoarding
United NationsReuters Leaders from developing nations warned the UN General Assembly this week that COVID-19 vaccine hoarding by wealthy countries left the door open for the emergence of new coronavirus variants even as infections already increase in many places. The Philippines warned of a “man-made drought” of vaccines in poor countries, Peru said international solidarity […]
Vaccine deserts: The poor nations trailing in the fight against COVID-19
NITA BHALLA and ANASTASIA MOLONEY, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, report on how, as rich countries open up and start vaccinating less vulnerable younger people, poor countries are still struggling to secure vaccines…
Essay: Global herd immunity remains out of reach because of inequitable vaccine distribution – 99 per cent of people in poor countries are unvaccinated
In an article first published on The Conversation, MARIA DE JESUS, a US-based scholar of global health specialising in healthcare inequities, looks at the global picture when it comes to the COVID-19 vaccine rollout…
UK’s Johnson calls on G7 to vaccinate world by end of 2022
London, UKReuters British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Saturday called for leaders of the Group of Seven rich nations to make a commitment to vaccinate the entire world against COVID-19 by the end of 2022 when they meet in Britain next week. Johnson will host the first in-person summit in almost two years of G7 […]
“Failure for humanity”: rich world aims to end vaccine inequities
Rome, ItalyReuters Rich nation leaders and big drugmakers promised on Friday to do more to bridge the startling divide in fighting COVID-19, with an increased flow of badly-needed vaccines to poorer regions. Lavishly-funded mass inoculation campaigns are helping many wealthy countries slash infections, but few shots have reached less developed nations where the virus still […]
Pandemic may reverse human development for first time in 30 years, UN says
Barcelona, SpainThomson Reuters Foundation The novel coronavirus outbreak has starkly exposed inequalities worldwide and could set back human development for the first time since 1990, the United Nations said last week. It said the crisis had, though, revealed the strength of collective action in the face of a common threat and urged the world to […]