Shipping will need far greater collaboration, both among existing players as well as with governments and land-based business partners, to work out how it pays for the transition necessary to meet the 2050 decarbonisation goals set out by the International Maritime Organization (IMO).
Posted on - 2020-01-23People fleeing immediate danger due to the climate crisis cannot be forced to return home, the UN has said.
The landmark ruling centres on the case of Kiribati man Ioane Teitiota, whose home is threatened by rising sea levels.
Teitiota applied for protection in New Zealand in 2013. The UN rejected his claim, saying he wasn't in immediate danger, but the wording of its ruling allows others to claim asylum based on climate change.
Five months after a dengue fever outbreak started in Majuro, the outbreak is getting worse.After numbers dropped to less than 10 cases per day after peaking at 30 on 20 November, the government's Cabinet ended a directive that had banned travel to remote outer islands for four months in an effort to contain the problem from spreading.
Posted on - 2020-01-23