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We can t let the planet heat up another 1.5 degrees Celsius.
By Megan Rowling
BARCELONA, July 22 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - In 2015, years of efforts by small island nations worried about being swallowed up by rising seas as the planet heats paid off: they got world leaders to aim for a global warming limit of 1.5 degrees Celsius in the Paris Agreement on climate change.
Their campaign slogan 1.5 to stay alive however, is now being reshaped by others as an increasingly urgent plea to keep 1.5 alive .
Half a decade on, much of the world is under siege from warming-fuelled floods, heatwaves and wildfires, in countries from China to Germany to the United States, with impacts arriving faster than scientists had predicted.
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Money wars in Belarus
Belarus dictator Alyaksandr Lukashenka addresses the opening of the Slavianski Bazaar cultural festival in Vitebsk on July 16. (Maxim Guchek/BelTA/TASS via REUTERS)
In addition to enacting a harsh crackdown on civil society activists and independent journalists, Belarus dictator Alyaksandr Lukashenka is now also going after their money.
Since the beginning of this year, Belarusian law enforcement have raided journalists’ homes or offices 107 times according to the Belarusian Association of Journalists. Since July 8 alone, 63 raids have been conducted and 33 journalists remain incarcerated.
The crackdown on NGOs and media and the freezing of their accounts came just weeks after Lukashenka issued a decree giving the Belarusian National Bank sweeping powers over foreign currency exchange.