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The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) launched a report outlining three environmental emergencies currently facing humanity – the climate crisis, the devastation of wildlife and nature, and the pollution that causes millions of deaths every year.
“Humanity is waging war on nature. This is senseless and suicidal,” said UN Secretary–General Antonio Guterres. “The consequences of our recklessness are already apparent in human suffering, towering economic losses, and the accelerating erosion of life on Earth.”
The report, entitled “Making Peace With Nature,” provides a scientific blueprint on how to repair the planet. One of UNEP’s recommendations encourages redirecting more than $5 trillion from fossil fuels and industrial agriculture to renewable energy and low-carbon technology. It also urges wealthier nations to reduce meat consumption and waste less energy a
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Key details about the future of Site C, the province’s largest public infrastructure project and one that grows more contentious by the day, remain hidden from the public according to experts speaking at a town hall Thursday night organized by the B.C. Green party.
Harry Swain, former chair of the Joint Review Panel on Site C and Roland Willson, chief of the West Moberly First Nation, say the NDP government must lift the secrecy around the mega-dam as its $10.7-billion price tag keeps ballooning.
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sure. victoria the capital of british columbia this is where the provincial government will be making its decision close by is the headquarters of the state owned company b.c. hydro. more and more details are coming to light media reports say the company has doctored the figures related to the dam project massively overestimating the province s energy needs and that the company is heavily in debt. in the provincial capital a retiree is adding his voice to the debate harry swain is probably more familiar with the planning of the project than anyone. in two thousand and fourteen he had a panel that examined sightsee for the government i think the economic case was bad at the time we did the review and it s got worse i think that the people of british columbia have either as rate payers or taxpayers are on the hook for billions of
provincial capital a retiree who s adding his voice to the debate harry swain is probably more familiar with the planning of the project than anyone. in two thousand and fourteen he had a panel that examined sightsee for the government i think the economic case was bad at the time we did the review and it s got worse i think that the people of british columbia either as rate payers or taxpayers are on the hook for billions of dollars the need to be spent of will have no economic benefit. earlier swain was federal deputy minister of indian affairs he says he s discouraged by the treatment of the first nations i m not sure that i m angry that s an unfair it s quite the right word i m disappointed. a little angry for the politicians who cooked the books. i m the some bold on this issue and i m
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