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Biden streicht ihren Wunsch aus seiner Agenda: Meghan mischt sich in US-Politik ein – und scheitert

Blick.ch - Fri, 10/29/2021 - 05:03
Herzogin Meghan setzte sich in einem flammenden – aber kontrovers diskutierten Brief – für bezahlte Ferien für frischgebackene Eltern ein. Jetzt hat US-Präsident Joe Biden den Gesetzentwurf aus seiner Agenda gestrichen.
Categories: Swiss News

A Hamász halálra ítélt hat palesztint Izraelnek történő kémkedés vádjával

Biztonságpiac - Fri, 10/29/2021 - 04:35
A Gázai övezetet uraló radikális iszlamista Hamász terrorszervezet halálra ítélt hat, a vád szerint Izraelnek kémkedő palesztint – jelentette a The Times of Israel című angol nyelvű izraeli hírportál.

A palesztin terrorszervezet katonai törvényszéke azt közölte, hogy több más “informátor” életfogytiglani börtöntől meghatározott időre szóló kényszermunkáig terjedő büntetést kapott, és egy gyanúsítottat felmentettek. 2007 óta 130 embert ítéltek halálra az övezetben, legutóbb 2018-ban szintén hat embert, köztük egy nőt. Egy évvel korábban három halálos ítéletet hajtottak végre nyilvános akasztással vagy sortűzzel olyanokon, akiket a Hamász egyik tisztjének a megölésével vádoltak.

A Becelem nevű izreli jogvédő szervezet adatai alapján a 2007-es erőszakos gázai hatalomátvétel óta meghozott 130 halálos ítéletből a gyakorlatban 25 embert végeztek ki. A Hamasz ígéretet tett arra, hogy enyhébb feltételekkel sújtják majd azokat az Izraellel együttműködőket, akik feladják magukat. A szervezet szerint az ítéletek megfeleltek a szükséges jogi eljárásoknak, és minden elítélt törvényes védelmet kapott. A palesztin törvények megkövetelik a Palesztin Hatóság elnökének, vagyis Mahmúd Abbásznak a jóváhagyását a halálbüntetéshez, de a Gázai övezetben az elnök engedélye nélkül hajtották végre a kivégzéseket.

A Becelem szerint a csütörtökön bejelentett esetekkel együtt idén 13 halálos ítéletet hoztak az övezetben. A vádlottak közül legalább egyet távollétében állítottak bíróság elé. A nemzetközi közösség többször bírálta a szervezetet a halálbüntetés alkalmazásáért. Gázai emberi jogi csoportok is tiltakoztak, és felszólították a Hamászt, hogy csökkentse a halálbüntetés kiszabását. Október elején a gázai székhelyű Al Mezan nevű jogvédő központ moratóriumot kért a büntetések végrehajtására, és súlyos aggodalmát fejezte ki a szerintük gyakran kiszabott halálos ítéletek miatt.

Izrael az övezettel szintén szomszédos Egyiptommal együtt gazdasági blokád alá vette az övezetet a 2007-es véres hatalomátvételt követően. Jeruzsálem szerint a blokád a gázai terrorcsoportok fegyverkezésének megakadályozásához szükséges.

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Categories: Biztonságpolitika

COP26: The Roadmap Plotting the Way to a Historic Meeting – Or Not

Africa - INTER PRESS SERVICE - Fri, 10/29/2021 - 03:26

The Madrid climate summit in 2019, COP25, left important pending issues that the conference in Glasgow, which begins on Sunday Oct. 31, will have to resolve. CREDIT: Emilio Godoy/IPS

By Emilio Godoy
MEXICO CITY, Oct 29 2021 (IPS)

The climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland, the most important since 2015, may go down in history as a milestone or as another exercise in frustration, depending on whether or not it resolves the thorny pending issues standing in the way of curbing global warming.

If successful, it could be placed on a par with the 2010 Cancun meeting, which rescued the negotiations after the previous year’s failure in Copenhagen, and Paris, where an agreement was reached in 2015 which defined voluntary emission reductions and a limit to global warming.

But if the summit fails, it will be compared to Copenhagen (COP15), the 2009 conference, and Madrid (COP25), the 2019 summit, whose progress was considered more than insufficient by environmental organisations and academics.

Former Mexican climate negotiator Roberto Dondisch said it is difficult to predict success or failure at the 26th Conference of the Parties (COP26) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), which will take place in Glasgow in the northern UK Oct. 31 to Nov. 12.

“This time we are not seeking an agreement, but trying to work out unresolved issues. The same thing happened in Paris, but a space was created to solve it. The reports are not very promising in terms of where we are at and what we must do. The conditions are very complicated; the will is there, but not the results,” Dondisch, a distinguished fellow at the Washington, DC-based non-governmental Stimson Center, told IPS.

Climate governance has come a long way since the first COP.

Background

In 1992, the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, held in Rio de Janeiro on the 20th anniversary of the first U.N. Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm in 1972, brought together political leaders, scientists, representatives of international organisations and civil society to address the impact of human activities on the environment.

One of the results of the so-called Earth Summit was the creation of the UNFCCC, at a time when there was already evidence of global warming caused by human activity.

In fact, as early as 1990, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), created by the U.N. General Assembly in 1988 and composed of scientists from all over the world entrusted with the responsibility of assessing the existing scientific knowledge related to climate phenomena, released its first report.

Report after report, the IPCC has become a key part of the global climate framework for understanding and addressing the crisis of rising temperatures and their impacts.

Seven years later, in 1997, the member states of the UNFCCC negotiated the Kyoto Protocol (KP), signed in that Japanese city during COP3, which established mandatory emission reduction targets for 36 industrialised countries and the European Union as a bloc, listed in Annex II of the agreement.

In Kyoto, the nations of the developing South were exempted from this obligation in Annex I of the pact.

After the first compliance period (2008-2012), the parties agreed on another period for 2013-2020, which in practice never entered into force, until the protocol was replaced by the Paris Agreement.

The KP, which came into effect in 2005 – without the participation of key countries such as the United States and Russia – also has its own Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (CMP), which oversees its implementation and takes decisions to promote its effective implementation.

A view of the main venue for COP26 in Glasgow. Expectations are high for the outcome of the conference, but the two-week discussions and meetings must negotiate an obstacle course to reach concrete results in keeping with the severity of the climate emergency. CREDIT: UNFCCC

The relatively uneventful COP19 in Warsaw in 2013 served to testify to the birth of the Warsaw International Mechanism for Loss and Damage associated with Climate Change Impacts (WIM), whose rules of operation and financing will be central to the Glasgow discussions.

Climate policies will be the focus of COP26, co-chaired by the United Kingdom and Italy, which had to be postponed for a year due to covid-19 pandemic restrictions.

COP26 will address rules for carbon markets, climate finance for at least 100 billion dollars annually, gaps between emission reduction targets and necessary reductions, strategies for carbon neutrality by 2050, adaptation plans, and the local communities and indigenous peoples platform.

But missing from the agenda of the two weeks of discussions will be the goal of hundreds of billions of greenbacks per year, which has been postponed to 2023 – a sign that funding for mitigation and adaptation to climate change is the hot potato for the parties.

Complex architecture

The UNFCCC entered into force in 1994 and has been ratified by 196 parties, with the participation of the EU as a bloc, the Cook Islands and Niue – South Pacific island nations – in addition to the 193 U.N. member states.

The parties to the binding treaty subscribe to a universal convention that recognises the existence of climate change caused by human activities and assigns developed countries the main responsibility for combating the phenomenon.

The COPs, in which all states parties participate, govern the Convention and meet annually in global conferences where they make decisions to achieve the objectives of the climate fight, adopted unanimously or by consensus, especially after the KP failed to reach the negotiated goals.

In Paris, at COP21, member countries agreed on voluntary pollution reduction targets to keep the temperature increase below 1.5 degrees Celsius, considered the indispensable limit to contain disasters such as droughts and destructive storms, with high human and material costs.

These targets are embodied in the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), in which countries set out their 2030 and 2050 goals. Only 13 nations have submitted a second version of their measures since they began submitting their actions to the UNFCCC Secretariat in Bonn, Germany, in 2016.

The Paris Agreement, in force since 2020 and so far ratified by 192 states parties, has its own Meeting of the Parties (MOP), which monitors compliance and takes decisions to promote compliance.

Each COP also draws thousands of business delegates, non-governmental organisations, international organisations, scientists and journalists.

In addition, a parallel alternative summit will bring together social movements from around the world, advocating an early phase-out of fossil fuels, rejecting so-called “false solutions” such as carbon markets, and calling for a just energy transition and reparations for damage and redistribution of funds to indigenous communities and countries of the global South.

Sandra Guzmán, director of the Climate Finance Programme at the non-governmental Climate Policy Initiative – with offices in five countries – foresees a complex summit, especially in terms of financing.

“No one knows for sure how loss and damage will be covered. Developed countries don’t want to talk about more funds. The scenario for political agreement is always difficult. The expectation is that the COP will move forward and establish a package of progress and build a good bridge to the next meeting,” she told IPS from London.

For 30 years, the parties to the UNFCCC have been doing the same thing, without achieving the desired reduction in emissions or control of global warming. If COP26 follows the same mechanics, the results are unlikely to change at the end of the two weeks of discussions and activities in which more than 25,000 people will participate.

Categories: Africa

Africa's week in pictures: 22-28 October 2021

BBC Africa - Fri, 10/29/2021 - 02:26
A selection of the best photos from the African continent and beyond.
Categories: Africa

Ethiopia food crisis: Why does PM have a problem with wheat aid?

BBC Africa - Fri, 10/29/2021 - 02:25
Ethiopia has been increasing its wheat production, but this is yet to catch up with growing wheat demand.
Categories: Africa

Soll Ex-Mitarbeiterin begrapscht haben: New Yorks Ex-Gouverneur Cuomo jetzt angeklagt

Blick.ch - Fri, 10/29/2021 - 02:11
Der ehemalige Star-Politiker der Demokratischer Partei Andrew Cuomo musste im August wegen Belästigungsvorwürfen zurücktreten. Jetzt wurde der Ex-Gouverneur von New York angeklagt.
Categories: Swiss News

Manifestations non autorisées: Le parlement de la ville de Berne veut faire payer les casseurs

24heures.ch - Fri, 10/29/2021 - 01:43
La nouvelle loi cantonale sur la police, approuvée par le peuple en 2019, permet de répercuter les coûts en cas de débordements lors de manifestations.
Categories: Swiss News

Klimaneutral unterwegs: Mit dem Auto-Abo von Carvolution kostenlos CO₂ kompensieren

Blick.ch - Fri, 10/29/2021 - 01:13
Wer mit dem Auto-Abo-Pionier Carvolution fährt, ist auf Wunsch klimaneutral unterwegs. Denn ab sofort können Kundinnen und Kunden gemeinsam mit Carvolution ihre Emissionen kompensieren.
Categories: Swiss News

Pionier Theo Seiler gibt Auskunft: Darum ist Augenlasern sichern

Blick.ch - Fri, 10/29/2021 - 01:12
Das Auge ist ein sensibles und heikles Organ. Darum fürchten sich viele vor einem Laser-Eingriff. Der Zürcher Augenlaser-Pionier Professor Theo Seiler über Ängste, Bedenken und Risiken, aber auch Chancen eines Laser-Eingriffs.
Categories: Swiss News

Bei Naturgefahr droht Preisabschlag bei Immobilien: Liegt Ihr Eigenheim im Gefahrengebiet?

Blick.ch - Fri, 10/29/2021 - 01:10
Wetterextreme wie diesen Sommer dürften in Zukunft zunehmen. Das birgt Gefahren für den Immomarkt. Eine grosse interaktive Karte zeigt erstmals, ob Ihre Gemeinde in einem Risikogebiet liegt.
Categories: Swiss News

Post-Tochter in Vietnam kaserniert Angestellte wegen Corona: Chef fährt Porsche, Mitarbeiter leben im Zelt

Blick.ch - Fri, 10/29/2021 - 01:09
65 vietnamesische Mitarbeitende der Post-Tochter SPS mussten monatelang im Büro zelten, damit die Firma ihre Dienste trotz Corona weiter anbieten konnte. Das hätten sie «freiwillig» gemacht, verteidigt sich der gelbe Riese. Doch daran sind Zweifel angebracht.
Categories: Swiss News

Expertinnen warnen vor Schönheits-Ops im Ausland: Halber Preis, doppeltes Risiko

Blick.ch - Fri, 10/29/2021 - 01:09
Schönheitsoperationen werden im Ausland oftmals günstiger angeboten als hierzulande. Doch der niedrige Preis hat oftmals einen Haken.
Categories: Swiss News

Kampf gegen die Chaoten: Jetzt entscheiden die Super-League-Klubs über die Gäste-Fans

Blick.ch - Fri, 10/29/2021 - 01:08
Nach den Fan-Ausschreitungen in Zürich geht die Swiss Football League nicht zur Tagesordnung über. Jetzt kommt eine mögliche Schliessung der Gästesektoren auf den Tisch.
Categories: Swiss News

Nach historischer Cup-Blamage: Fällt der FCB jetzt aus dem Rahmen?

Blick.ch - Fri, 10/29/2021 - 01:07
0:1 gegen Carouge! Der FCB kassiert das grösste Cup-Debakel seit 61 Jahren. Die Antworten nach der Schmach.
Categories: Swiss News

Ex-Pfleger vom Altersheim Giswil: «Wir konnten die Bewohner nicht schützen»

Blick.ch - Fri, 10/29/2021 - 01:05
Neun Menschen starben in den letzten Wochen im Giswiler Altersheim an Corona. Im Heim wurden keine Masken getragen. Nun spricht ein ehemaliger Pfleger.
Categories: Swiss News

Corona-Tote in Heim in Giswil OW – jetzt packt ein Ex-Pfleger aus: «Die Heimleitung forderte uns auf, die Masken abzulegen»

Blick.ch - Fri, 10/29/2021 - 01:05
Neun Menschen starben in den letzten Wochen im Giswiler Altersheim an Corona. Im Heim wurden keine Masken getragen – und zwar ganz bewusst. Nun packt ein ehemaliger Pfleger aus.
Categories: Swiss News

La route Djougou-Péhunco-Kérou-Banikoara en chantier

24 Heures au Bénin - Fri, 10/29/2021 - 00:27

Les travaux de construction de l'axe routier Djougou-Péhunco-Kérou-Banikoara ont été lancés, jeudi 28 octobre 2021. La cérémonie s'est déroulée en présence du Ministre d'État, chargé du Développement et de la Coordination de l'Action gouvernementale, Abdoulaye Bio Tchané, du ministre des Infrastructures et des Transports, Hervé Hêhomey et des populations bénéficiaires des communes bénéficiaires.

Les travaux d'aménagement et le bitumage de la route Djougou-Péhunco-Kérou-Banikoara longue de 209 Km sont lancés. Le lancement des travaux s'est déroulée en présence du Ministre d'État, chargé du Développement et de la Coordination de l'Action gouvernementale, Abdoulaye Bio Tchané, du ministre des Infrastructures et des Transports, Hervé Hêhomey, des députés Robert Gbian, Jacques Yampabou, Abdoulaye Gounou, Nouhoum Youssouf Bida, Sabaï Katé, Sinan Bio Gounou, des préfets des départements de l'Alibori, de l'Atacora et de la Donga, et des maires des communes de Djougou, Péhunco, Kérou et Banikoara.
Occasion pour le Ministre d'État, chargé du Développement et de la Coordination de l'Action gouvernementale de rappeler la vision du Gouvernement du Président Patrice Talon. Il s'agit de faire des infrastructures de transport un levier important pour soutenir la croissance économique, faciliter le développement des exportations et promouvoir l'intégration sous régionale.
Le ministre des Infrastructures et des Transports, Hervé Hêhomey, a invité les populations à respecter les prescriptions de la sécurité pendant la période des travaux.
M. Hêhomey a invité également l'entreprise exécutante, la mission de contrôle, et la Direction Générale des Infrastructures, à une exécution de qualité dans le respect du délai contractuel qui est de 30 mois.
M. M.

Categories: Afrique

Nach Verlobung im September: Alles aus zwischen Nathalie Volk und «Hells Angels»-Rocker

Blick.ch - Fri, 10/29/2021 - 00:24
Im September haben sich das Ex-«GNTM»-Model Nathalie Volk und der «Hells Angels»-Rocker Timur A. verlobt. Jetzt ist alles aus.
Categories: Swiss News

Provisional agreement between Council and European Parliament to reinforce European Medicines Agency

European Council - Fri, 10/29/2021 - 00:15
The Council presidency and European Parliament negotiators reached a provisional agreement on a reinforced role for the European Medicines Agency.
Categories: European Union

Joint press statement following the sixth Association Council meeting between the European Union and the Republic of Moldova

European Council - Fri, 10/29/2021 - 00:15
Joint press statement following the sixth Association Council meeting between the European Union and the Republic of Moldova
Categories: European Union

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