Macron Pledges €15 Billion Toward Battling Climate Change
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3 min readJul 10, 2020
UN warns more animal-to-human diseases could emerge
(From NewsHero issue 133 available here)
🦸♀️🦸♀️🦸♀️ — Emmanuel Macron, for the environmental support
🦸♀️🦸♀️🦸♀️ — U.N. Environment Program
🦸♀️🦸♀️🦸♀️ — Katharine Hayhoe, and all fact-checkers
🦸♀️🦸♀️🦸♀️ — CARE organization
🦸♀️🦸♀️🦸♀️ — Climate change believers and warriors everywhere
- French President Emmanuel Macron has promised an extra €15 billion to fight the climate crisis over the next two years, and a referendum on whether to introduce the crime of “ecocide” for damage to the environment, reports The Guardian. Macron made the announcement at a meeting with members of the Citizens’ Commission for the Climate — a committee of 150 randomly chosen French people.
- A new United Nations report warns that more diseases that pass from animals to humans, such as COVID-19, are likely to emerge as habitats are ravaged by wildlife exploitation, unsustainable farming practices and climate change, states NPR. “We have intensified agriculture, expanded infrastructure and extracted resources at the expense of our wild spaces,” U.N. Environment Program Executive Director Inger Andersen said. “The science is clear that if we keep exploiting wildlife and destroying our ecosystems, then we can expect to see a steady stream of these diseases jumping from animals to humans in the years ahead.”
- A climate scientist says Facebook is restricting her ability to share research and fact-check posts containing climate misinformation, reports Scientific American. Texas Tech University’s Katharine Hayhoe, a lead author of the Fourth National Climate Assessment, has been blocked from promoting videos related to climate research, a move that has limited her efforts to refute false claims.
- The international aid organization CARE launched a new report today, “Evicted by Climate Change: Confronting the Gendered Impacts of Climate-Induced Displacement,” which highlights the urgent need for more women’s leadership and greater financial support for gender-just solutions to climate-induced displacement, ReliefWeb says.
- “The impact of climate change on marmot survival differs between seasons,” reports Phys.org. A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences says that marmot survival is affected differently by climate change during summer and winter seasons. Climate change affects everything!
(From NewsHero issue 133 available here)
Sources:
- Emmanuel Macron pledges €15bn to tackle climate crisis — The Guardian
- U.N. Predicts Rise In Diseases That Jump From Animals To Humans Due To Habitat Loss — NPR
- UN report warns of rise in further outbreaks spread from wildlife to humans — Fox News
- Too many cross-species diseases like COVID-19 are being overlooked worldwide — The Hill
- Climate Denial Spreads on Facebook as Scientists Face Restrictions — Scientific American
- New CARE Report Calls for Urgent Gender-Transformative Response to Climate Displacement — ReliefWeb
- The impact of climate change on marmot survival differs between seasons — Phys.org
