🌱 Human right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment
The United Nations General Assembly, in a vote last Thursday (28), approved resolution declaring a clean, healthy and sustainable environment as a human right.
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After approval of the resolution, UN Secretary-General, António Guterres, highlighted that the document demonstrates that Member States can unite in the collective fight against the triple planetary crisis of climate change, loss of biodiversity and pollution.
In official note, Guterres highlights that the decision will help reduce environmental injustices, fill protection gaps and empower people, especially those in vulnerable situations, including environmental human rights defenders, children, young people, women and indigenous peoples (United Nations*).
The UN Chief also called on States to make the right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment a reality for everyone, everywhere.
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The approved resolution is not legally binding on the 193 UN Member States. However, its defenders hope that it will encourage countries to consolidate the right to a healthy environment in their national legislation. (UNEP*).
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- Recognition of the human right to a healthy environment is an important step in a long journey (The Globe)🚥.
☀️ Zoe: the first heat wave to be named in the world
The intense heat wave that has affected several European countries in recent weeks received an official name in Spain: Zoe (CNN).
The meteorological service in Seville, Spain, created a system similar to the one used around the world to name hurricanes, called proMETEO Seville.
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The program pilotthe classification assigns the “category 3” degree of the heat wave that hits Europeans, the most severe in the new classification system (G1).
🔥 Faster than you can calculate
Experts report that temperatures are warming faster than their tools can calculate.
Scientists from several countries have collaborated to assess the extent to which human-induced climate change has altered the likelihood and intensity of the exceptional heatwave that has affected much of the UK.
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The project World Weather Attribution realized an analysis that concluded the phenomenon was at least ten times more likely due to human-caused climate change (World Weather Attribution*).
The project, however, considered its discoveries underestimated, justifying that the tools available to scientists have limitations and are creating a 'blind spot' in defining the role that humans are playing in the occurrence of heat waves (CNN*).
🍃 Ibama issues preliminary license for reconstruction of the middle section of BR-319
This Thursday (28), Ibama issued a preliminary license for the reconstruction of the middle section of the BR-319 highway, in Amazonas.
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The announcement was made by the Minister of Infrastructure, Marcelo Sampaio, on social media.
The highway is the only land connection between Amazonas and other regions of Brazil.
Environmental experts, however, state that paving the road would allow illegal loggers and land grabbers to more easily access remote and relatively untouched areas of the forest, which threatens to increase deforestation (The Guardian*).
A study developed by the CPI (Climate Policy Initiative)/PUC-Rio, together with the Amazon 2030 project, concluded that the reconstruction project would result in a five-fold increase in deforestation by 2030, equivalent to an area larger than the entire state of São Paulo (Folha de S. Paul)🚥.
Bolsonaro celebrated the granting of the preliminary license on his social networks.
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