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“The Italian government led by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is pushing a security bill through parliament that, if enacted, could have a devastating impact on fundamental rights, including the rights to peaceful protest and freedom of expression.”
https://www.hrw.org/news/2025/02/05/italian-security-bill-seriously-threatens-rights-freedoms
#FarRight #Italy #Italia #HumanRights #EU #Europe #Migration #Refugees #ClimateCrisis
Hello & welcome back!
We're kicking off 2025 with a piece that looks towards the year 2050 – and was actually published in late 2024 (by our colleagues at DW Data).
The question in focus: How's the world doing in terms of slowing global warming – and getting to net zero?
https://www.dw.com/en/net-zero-by-2050-9-charts-showing-the-worlds-progress/a-59684637
#ddj #dataviz #climatecrisis #netzero
Net zero by 2050: 9 charts showing the world's progress
The pressure is on to prevent global warming from accelerating further. How is the world doing?Gianna-Carina Grün (Deutsche Welle)
Our oceans are heating up. Cartoon published in Trouw last Monday (but sharing it now because I was on holiday): https://www.trouw.nl/cartoons/tjeerd-royaards~bcb45712/
#oceans #climatecrisis #sealife
🙄 Another day, another lying capitalist corporation. (Capitalists, of course, always lie.)
This time it's Coca-Cola, reneging on their "pledge" to cut back on plastic waste and pollution. But we know they never intended to do that. It was an empty promise, a phony slogan to make themselves look good while continuing to rake in profits. A classic example of #greenwashing.
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Despite growing public scrutiny and legal challenges over its use of plastic, Coca-Cola appears to be moving backward on packaging sustainability.
Earlier this decade, the soda giant publicly pledged to decrease its use of virgin plastic and boost the share of its beverages sold in reusable containers. But in a blog post last week, the company quietly dropped those targets.
Coke’s announcement is part of a broader trend of companies walking back or falling short of their plastics sustainability targets. Last month, a progress report from the Ellen MacArthur Foundation showed that hundreds of companies had collectively fallen short of the progress needed to meet a range of voluntary plastics commitments by 2025.
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FULL STORY -- https://grist.org/accountability/coca-cola-virgin-plastic-reuse-sustainability-targets-ellen-macarthur-foundation/
#Economics #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Pollution
After 2 years, Coca-Cola’s promise to scale up reusable packaging is dead
The pledge was born out of shareholder activism — and was withdrawn as regulators crack down on greenwashing.Joseph Winters (Grist)
There's no rush, no reason to panic. Everything is fine. #COP29
#Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency
How embarrassingly ironic that we let a minuscule minority of #sociopaths destroy the habitability of our #planet in their quest to profit from machines that think better than we do -- when the most important moral, ethical, and subjective questions can't be answered by machines because they mimic the sociopaths that built them.
#Morality #Ethics #Subjectivity #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #AI #uspol #QuantumComputing