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Sunday, 1 December 2019- edited by Ilaria
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The
European Parliament declares climate
emergency
The
European Parliament on Thursday approved a
resolution declaring a climate and environmental
emergency in Europe and globally. They also want
the Commission to ensure that all relevant
legislative and budgetary proposals are fully
aligned with the objective of limiting global
warming to under 1.5 °C.
In
a separate resolution, Parliament urges the EU to
submit its strategy to reach climate neutrality as
soon as possible, and by 2050 at the latest, to
the UN Convention on Climate Change. MEPs also
call on the new European Commission President
Ursula von der Leyen to include a 55% reduction
target of greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 in the
European Green Deal.
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International
migrants: money sent home
In
its latest global report , IOM
estimates that the number of international
migrants in 2019 is 270 million and that the main
destination remains the USA with 51 million
migrants: a global figure that has increased by
0.1% compared to its previous Report, which means
that the majority of the world's population -
96.5% - lives in their own country. Most of them
come from India (17.5 million people), followed by
Mexico (11.8 million people) and China (10.7
million people). International remittances also
increased to $689 billion in 2018 and the top
beneficiaries are India ($78.6 billion), China
($67.4 billion), Mexico ($35.7 billion) and the
Philippines ($34 billion). The United States
remained the top remittance-issuer, at $68
billion, followed by the United Arab Emirates
($44.4 billion) and Saudi Arabia ($36.1
billion).
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Even
if countries meet commitments made under the 2015
Paris Agreement, the world is heading for a 3.2
degrees Celsius global temperature rise over
pre-industrial levels, leading to even
wider-ranging and more destructive climate
impacts, warns a report from the UN Environment
Programme, released on Tuesday.
The
annual Emissions Gap Report
which compares where greenhouse gas
emissions are heading, versus where they
need to be, shows that emissions need to fall
by 7.6 per cent each year over the next decade, if
the world is to get back on track towards the goal
of limiting temperature
rises to close to 1.5 degrees
Celsius.
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FOURTH
PLENUM CCP – EXPORTING CHINA'S TOTALITARION
POLITICAL SYSTEM
At
the end of October, the Chinese Communist Party
(CCP) summoned 300 of its Central Committee
members to hold the Fourth Plenum of the
19th Communist Party Congress - a significant
event that provided important details about the
CCP's strategic goals and specific steps to
realize them, as well as metrics for measuring
progress.
The
document expounds 13 ostensible superiorities of
the Chinese socialist system, which the CCP
believes can be used to replace the inferior
Western liberal democracy system. In fact,
the fifth modernization is not about closing
the gaps or catching up to the West, as were the
previous four, but instead is a path to global
governance - in other words, to use China's
socialist system to end
capitalism.
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The
lack of shared responsibility for Europe in the
reception centers of the Greek
islands
UN
High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo
Grandi urged Greece to implement urgent
measures to tackle the severe overcrowding in the
Greek Aegean islands, stressing the need for
European accountability after a three-day visit to
the island of Lesbos and to Athens. His requests
were: the tackling of overcrowding on the islands;
ensuring an efficient and fair asylum process; and
ensuring the protection of 5,000 unaccompanied
children now in the country, most of them living
in precarious conditions. On Lesvos, Grandi said
he witnessed “extremely disturbing” conditions at
the Moria reception
centre which now hosts 16,100 asylum
seekers — seven times over capacity.
Through the European Commission-funded ESTIA
programme UNHCR and the Greek government are
supporting some of the most vulnerable asylum
seekers – many of whom go on to be recognized as
refugees – with 25,500 places in apartments across
Greece, in partnership with mayors and NGOs. Some
80,000 asylum seekers and refugees receive monthly
cash assistance through the same
programme.
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BYTEDANCE
AND HUAWEI WORK CLOSELY WITH CPP IN
XINJIANG
Beijing
- Chinese tech giants including ByteDance,
TikTok's parent company, and Huawei are working
closely with the Communist Party to censor and
surveil Uighur Muslims in China's western region
of Xinjiang, according to a report published
Thursday.
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