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It's ten days until the start of the crucial COP26 climate summit in Glasgow. As one of the largest ever world meetings on how to tackle global warming, this year’s summit may be the last chance to put humanity on a path to Net Zero by 2050. Scholars, activists, youth, and leaders from around the world will present their calls, hopes, and demands for climate action to political leaders.
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It's ten days until the start of the crucial COP26 climate summit in Glasgow. As one of the largest ever world meetings on how to tackle global warming, this year’s summit may be the last chance to put humanity on a path to Net Zero by 2050. Scholars, activists, youth, and leaders from around the world will present their calls, hopes, and demands for climate action to political leaders. Their success may depend not only on having their voices heard, but on managing to reframe the entire conversation around the climate. One way is to move the conversation from one around security, to one around justice.
See our new primer on climate security for an in-depth understanding of how we can avoid military solutions to climate impacts, among other materials that are extremely relevant to the discussions at COP26.
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There is a growing political demand for climate security as a response to the escalating impacts of climate change, but little critical analysis on what kind of security they offer and to who. This primer demystifies the debate - highlighting the role of the military in causing the climate crisis, the dangers of them now providing military solutions to climate impacts, the corporate interests that profit, the impact on the most vulnerable, and alternative proposals for 'security' based on justice.
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The global battle for control of the digital economy is typically portrayed as one fought by only two titans: US and China, but that does not mean that the EU has been standing still. As this briefing documents, the EU has been making strong efforts to catch up using trade negotiations and trade rules to assert its own interests. In the process, the EU is trying to climb up on the backs of developing countries, undermining the chance for all to equitably share in the benefits of technological development.
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This report examines how, in the past 30 years, Mexico has become one of the main industrial paradises on the planet. Find out in which ways the country serves as one of the most advanced laboratories for free trade and deregulation.
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On January 20, 2021, his first day in office, President Biden issued an executive order pausing the remaining construction of the southern border wall initiated during the Trump administration. Soon after, the White House sent a bill to Congress, the US Citizenship Act of 2021, calling for the deployment of “smart technology” to “manage and secure the southern border.”
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Since 2013, a number of countries and local jurisdictions around the world have legalised and regulated their cannabis supply chains for non-medical use. Lawmakers, regulators, researchers, and advocates continue to design, enact, implement and revise regulatory frameworks for medical and recreational cannabis. And yet lessons from regulating other psychoactive substances, including tobacco products, are not always fully considered.
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A pre-review of kratom (Mitragyna speciosa), a tree native to Southeast Asia, and its two principal psychoactive alkaloids (mitragynine, 7-hydroxymitragynine), is on the agenda of the 44th WHO Expert Committee on Drug Dependence (ECDD) for their 11-15 October 2021 meeting. Kratom and its compounds have not previously been reviewed by WHO and are not currently under international control, but a number of Southeast Asian and European countries as well as Australia have varying levels of national controls in place. How did kratom get on the ECDD agenda? And what are the chances that this process will ultimately lead to kratom being put under international control?
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This year, 2021, the global community of food sovereignty activists is celebrating what is deemed as the 25th year anniversary of food sovereignty – as it protests against a corporate-captured UN Food System Summit (UNFSS) this September 2021. The global food system remains front and center in international political debates, as working people struggle to survive during this ongoing pandemic while a few corporate food giants continue to make huge profits. The struggle to dismantle the unjust, unsustainable industrial food system while constructing alternatives around food sovereignty is at the core of contemporary anti-capitalist struggles.
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For the last two years, Lebanon has been witnessing an acute multi-dimensional crisis that has left more than half the population living below the poverty line. Many families are struggling to survive. Some say that the massive economic crisis, the COVID-19 pandemic, the August 2020 Beirut explosions and instability have all combined to create conditions even worse than they were during the 1975-1990 civil war.
To help us understand the situation in Lebanon, the Coordinator of TNI’s North Africa Program, Hamza Hamouchene, sat down to have a chat with Hicham Safieddine, who is an assistant professor at the University of British Columbia. Hicham is a scholar of political economy and intellectual history (19th and 20th centuries) with a particular emphasis on the MENA region. He is currently researching financial (de)colonization on a global scale, the history of economic thought, as well as modern Arab and Islamic thought, with an emphasis on the age of anti-colonial national liberation in the mid-20th century.
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Energy systems and climate action cannot be left to the market. It's urgent to transition to energy democracies that are optimal for people and planet. How can public ownership, community control and participatory governance ensure that justice is served? And which forms of collective action will help us get there?
In this webinar we will dive into the biggest challenges to a renewable energy future and best practices from across Europe, South Africa and the Americas. A set of formidable speakers is ready to equip you with concrete handles for building system-wide people power to ensure that those on the frontlines of the climate crisis are the ones driving the energy transition.
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Join us for a unique and dynamic online discussion on 26 October 2021 bringing together seven global and regional human rights experts to reflect on the crucial role of public services in building a more sustainable, inclusive, socially-just, and resilient economy and society.
Interpretations - English, French and Spanish.
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This webinar provides an opportunity for an international audience to understand how water is being debated in the new constitution and why it is critically important in Chile, in Latin America and the world, and what we can learn from each other to recover democracy and protect water for the future.
Simultaneous Interpretation: Spanish - English
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This webinar will explore the dynamics and the strategies that have emerged on the left to address decoloniality in the region.
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Don’t be fooled by a high-tech ‘virtual’ wall: It’s even more invasive than a physical wall.
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What is the point of France-Africa summits?
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International peace movements’ representatives analyse the deep and long term impacts of the Australia-UK-US (AUKUS) military partnership.
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