The Rights Studio Festival ( 01 April – 29 April 2021)

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The Rights Studio Festival is a series of digital events and artistic content to be showcased throughout April 2021, presented by The Rights Studio in collaboration with CRIN. The festival is an invitation to play with, break with and reshape how we engage with the rights of children and young people, and marks the official launch of The Rights Studio.

His Holiness the Dalai Lama and 100 other Nobel Laureates urge cooperation at Climate Summit to stop fossil fuel expansion

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"Climate change is threatening hundreds of millions of lives, livelihoods across every continent and is putting thousands of species at risk. The burning of fossil fuels – coal, oil, and gas – is by far the major contributor to climate change."

Bertrand Piccard's Solar Impulse Foundation readies 1000+ profitable Solutions to fix climate change

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Four years after announcing the goal of identifying 1000 clean and profitable solutions to the environmental crisis, Bertrand Piccard and the Solar Impulse Foundation have officially achieved their target and commit to go even further.

The economics of climate change: Swiss Re

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"Climate change poses the biggest long-term risk to the global economy. No action is not an option.By mid-century, the world stands to lose around 10% of total economic value from climate change. That is a real scenario if temperature increases stay on the current trajectory, and both the Paris Agreement and 2050 net-zero emissions targets are not met, according to new Swiss Re Institute research"

CCPI 2021 Press Conference

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The annual Climate Change Performance Index (CCPI), published since 2005, is an independent monitoring tool for tracking the climate protection performance of 57 countries and the EU. The CCPI aims to enhance transparency in international climate politics and it enables comparison of individual countries’ climate protection efforts and progress.

EARTH DAY 2021

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THREE DAYS OF CLIMATE ACTION ALL STREAMING RIGHT HERE STARTING APRIL 20

Impact Rankings 2021: British, Australian universities on the top

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University of Manchester grabs the top position but then the Australian Universities together with their Kiwi counterparts, the British universities dominate while the ones from South Korea and Portugal are also the most improved.

Combatting the Costs of Exclusion for Children with Disabilities and their Families (FROM UNICEF)

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"A growing body of research suggests that the costs of exclusion are high. Fortunately, evidence also demonstrates that there are effective ways to ameliorate these costs. A strong case can be made for the social and economic benefits of inclusion. This paper is an effort to begin making that case"

European climate law: Council and Parliament reach provisional agreement

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In April 2021, the Council's and the European Parliament's negotiators reached a provisional political agreement setting into law the objective of a climate-neutral EU by 2050, and a collective, net greenhouse gas emissions reduction target of at least 55% by 2030 compared to 1990.

Global Energy Review 2021 Part of Global Energy Review Flagship report — April 2021 Global Energy Review 2021

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The latest statistical data and real-time analysis confirm our initial estimates for 2020 energy demand and CO2 emissions while providing insights into how economic activity and energy use are rebounding in countries around the world – and what this means for global emissions.

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