The map of actors that seeks to deplasticize Latin America and the Caribbean
Unplastify and Potenciar launched the report “Unplastifying Actors in Latin America and the Caribbean”. The objective of this report is to generate a map of actors (organizations, initiatives and/or solutions)…
Why are there so many cholera outbreaks in the world?
In 2022, around 30 countries suffered outbreaks of cholera or similar diseases. But it’s not just one big outbreak. In most countries, the current wave of cholera is caused by…
Climate change made Argentina’s recent heat wave about 60 times more likely
Human-caused climate change made the record heat wave in northern Argentina and Paraguay in early December about 60 times more likely, according to a rapid attribution analysis by an international…
Bottles are the most frequent plastic items in Europe’s rivers
According to a study by the environmental charity EarthWatch Institute, most of the plastic that ends up in the oceans comes from rivers. As this graph from Statista shows, according…
Atlantic Forest Named UN Global Restoration Flagship Initiative
The UN (United Nations) recognized forest restoration work in the Atlantic Forest as one of the most promising and relevant in the world, naming it the World Restoration Flagship of…
The European Union will ban imports of products that come from deforestation
The increase in consumption and demand for food worldwide encourages the expansion and intensification of agriculture, which often leads to an increase in deforestation and conversion of natural environments. WWF’s…
One in four girls and adolescents is married or in a union in Latin America
Child marriage and early unions are a complex phenomenon related to gender inequalities, poverty, school dropout, violence and adolescent pregnancy. Child marriage puts girls’ lives and health at risk, as…
2022 is confirmed as one of the warmest years
The La Niña weather phenomenon, which has a cooling effect, prevented 2022 from being the warmest year on record. The global average temperature in 2022 was around 1.15 degrees Celsius…
Regenerating nature requires an economic transformation
Biodiversity is being lost at an unprecedented rate and the extractive, wasteful and polluting linear economy is increasingly recognized as one of the main underlying causes of this crisis. Currently,…
The largest amount of microplastics enters the body through bottled water
A person eats, drinks and breathes between 78,000 and 211,000 microplastic particles (plastic particles that measure less than five millimeters) per year. The “Human Consumption of Microplastics” research, published in…
A consortium of organizations is presented that seeks to promote regenerative food businesses
Regenerative food businesses (NAR) are associated with the generation of food products and processes in which the conservation, restoration and strengthening of ecosystems and their self-regulation capacity are central to…
During 2022, ‘Sembradoras por la ReactivAcción’ has generated more than 1,000 green jobs in Bogotá
“Sembradoras por la ReactivAcción” is a labor inclusion program in which 80% of the beneficiaries are women in vulnerable conditions. It is led by the Ministry of the Environment, the…
To stop global warming, the private sector must make the effort, we cannot afford to break the 1.5ºC threshold
According to the WMO we will break the threshold of 1.5º C to 1.8ºC in the next 5 years. Then intercontinental structural droughts may occur. As a consequence, between 2…
WHAT THE BIBBLE SAYS ABOUT HOMOSEXUALITY
The answer the Bible gives God created man and woman, and he established that sexual relations should only take place between husband and wife (Genesis 1:27, 28; Leviticus 18:22; Proverbs…
GlobalSolidarity.live proposal regarding global warming, hunger and extreme poverty
According to a WMO report, during the next 5 years the threshold of 1.5ºC will be broken. Then intercontinental structural droughts may occur and as a consequence between 2 and…
Welcome to Global Solidarity! We work to save the children of the planet and stop Global Warming
https://globalsolidarity.live/ Welcome to Global Solidarity! We work to save the children of the planet and stop Global Warming. We have five years to be able to do it before breaking…
New climate predictions increase likelihood of temporarily reaching 1.5 °C in next 5 years
There is about a 40% chance of the annual average global temperature temporarily reaching 1.5°C above the pre-industrial level in at least one of the next five years – and these odds…
FTX goes bankrupt and investigates possible $473 million hack
Cryptocurrency exchange FTX filed for bankruptcy on 11/11/2022. An investigation is open into whether the crypto assets were stolen and all digital assets have been taken offline. They were…
Sri Lanka: Cost-of-living crunch threatens to sink millions already facing hard choices
UN News/Daniel Johnson / The tea-pluckers with their wet-weather gear at Blue Field tea estate in Ramboda, Sri Lanka. Amid a looming food security crisis linked to Sri Lanka’s cost-of-living…