Report: Nature needs to be heart of economics
A report commissioned by the British government is urging a radical transformation in the way that countries around the world assess the state of their economies by elevating the natural world as a key element in their economic planning By Associated Press
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LONDON (AP) A report commissioned by the British government is urging a radical transformation in the way that countries around the world assess the state of their economies by elevating the natural world as a key element in their economic planning.
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Naima Khan says BBC presenter Emma Barnett was wrong to use female imams as a battleground in a recent interview with Zara Mohammed, the first female secretary general of the Muslim Council of Britain. Barnett’s hostile questioning led to “facepalming from Muslim women across the country” at the presenter’s “lack of religious literacy” and at the “shaming of a Muslim woman of colour by a white woman on a woman-led radio show”, Khan says. “Reducing our feminist progress to this one question about the number of female imams marginalises the other brilliant progress happening and imposes the priorities of white feminism on Muslim women.”
World needs economies to fully include nature, says landmark review
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VISHAL GULATI ( IANS) |
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New Delhi, Feb 4 : The world needs an urgent and radical change to the way economies operate to save nature and to avoid a catastrophic breakdown, a first-of-its-kind landmoark review for biodiversity by an Indian-British economist has concluded.
The 600-page report has been commissioned by the UK Treasury, marking the first that time a national Finance Ministry has authorised a full assessment of the economic importance of nature.