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A delegation of AFET Members will travel to Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia and the seat of the ASEAN Secretariat, and to Hanoi in Vietnam from 20 to 24 February. The main goal of the mission is to contribute to furthering the EU-ASEAN Strategic Partnership, in particular cooperation between the parliaments, and to enhancing bilateral relations with EU’s major partners in the region.
Members will hold meetings with government and parliament officials in Indonesia and in Vietnam to discuss global and regional security issues as well as to follow-up on the EU-ASEAN Summit of 14 December 2022 and the own-initiative-report of June 2022 on the 'EU and the security challenges in the Indo-Pacific'. Members will also pursue dialogue with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), which Indonesia is chairing in 2023.
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Könnyen viszi el az embert a lelkesedés, amikor az olcsó etetőhajó vásárlása, és a várva várt halfogás lehetősége lebeg a lelki szemei előtt. De bármennyire is kecsegtető ajánlattal hoz minket össze a sors, a józan ész és az óvatosság hosszabb távon kifizetődő. 

Ebben szeretnénk támogatást adni azzal, hogy összefoglaljuk a kockázatmentes beszerzés tippjeit.

Mi a kedvező árú etetőhajó megvásárlásának legfőbb kihívása?

Egy olyan jelenség, ami felfogható akár előnyként is, de igencsak megnehezítheti a tudatos választást. Mára ugyanis odáig jutott ez a terület, hogy rendkívül sok helyen hirdetnek olcsóbb árkategóriás hajókat.

Erre vannak előnyös, illetve kevésbé jó példák is. Előbbinek alátámasztására ott van a Cheapfishing webáruház etetőhajó kínálata. De egyéb platformokon látható, hogy komoly különbségek vannak a termékek megbízhatóságát és a kereskedők becsületességét tekintve.

Nagyon-nagyon meg kell tehát fontolni a döntést, ha valaki magánszemélytől marketplace oldalakon vagy csoportokban készül vásárolni. Mindig rá kell kérdezni, honnan származik az adott modell, melyik gyártó termékéről van szó, miért akarja eladni, és a számla megvan-e róla.

Ezeket a buktatókat jobb elkerülni a beszerzésnél

Ha az ember kétes helyről vásárol, talán az lesz a kisebb baj, hogy könnyen résztvevőjévé válhat a fekete kereskedelemnek. De van még egy ennél is riasztóbb tényezője annak, hogy számla és garancia nélkül, magánszemélytől vásároljunk.

Gondoljunk csak rá, mi lesz, ha néhány nappal a beszerzés után hirtelen elromlik a készülék? Mivel a kétes módon seftelő kereskedők kaméleon módjára képesek rejtőzni, jó eséllyel semmilyen panasszal nem tudunk élni ilyenkor.

Senki nem akarhat magának ilyen kockázatot, ha már több tízezer forintot áldoz a beszerzésre. Pláne irracionális döntés bevállalni ezt a rizikót annak tükrében, hogy ma már korrekt, leinformálható helyekről is megoldható az olcsó etetőhajó megvásárlása.

Az olcsó etetőhajó vásárlásának praktikus tippjei

A legbiztosabb döntést akkor hozhatjuk meg, ha webshopból oldjuk meg a vásárlást. Először is ez legális útnak számít. Persze nem mindegy, hogy melyik áruházat választjuk.

Első körben nézzünk utána, hogy a weboldal mióta létezik, hány vásárlói visszajelzés, illetve tartalom lelhető fel vele kapcsolatban. Ugyanúgy célszerű leinformálni a megbízhatóságot és a vevői visszajelzéseket a kiszemelt termékeknél is.

Pozitív jel, ha a webáruházban garancia is jár a vásárlás mellé. A biztonság kedvéért azért ilyenkor sem árt elolvasni ennek a feltételeit. Járjunk utána, hogy hiba vagy sérülés esetén kivel, hol tudjuk felvenni a kapcsolatot.

Lássuk be, olyan horgász eszközről van szó, ami relatíve nagyobb értékkel bír. Ezért ha egy mód van rá, ne döntsünk kapkodva, inkább menjünk biztosra a beszerzéssel.

 

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A family take shelter on the roof of their small house. Due to climate change, incessant rainfall has flooded nearby houses. The photo was taken from Jatrapur Union in Kurigram District. Credit: Muhammad Amdad Hossain/Climate Visuals

By Joyce Chimbi
NAIROBI, Feb 15 2023 (IPS)

As the effects of climate change escalate and natural disasters such as earthquakes, floods, and droughts become more frequent and severe, threatening lives and livelihoods, humanity is losing the climate battle.

A sharp decline in the variety and the number of both wild animals and species, severe food insecurities, high levels of malnutrition, disappearing streams, springs, and rivers in some areas, and dangerous rises in sea levels that threaten island nations are alerting the world to a climate-driven catastrophe.

Yet even as the world stares at unprecedented climate disasters, experts such as Hafez Ghanem caution that existing international institutions are not delivering on climate change mitigation and finance and are now calling for renewed efforts through the establishment of a Green Bank.

Hafez Ghanem says the creation of a Green Bank to solely address climate change adaptation and mitigation efforts is long overdue.

Ghanem, former regional Vice President of the World Bank Group and a current nonresident senior fellow in the Global Economy and Development Program at the Brookings Institution, Senior Fellow at the Policy Center for the New South, and Distinguished Fellow at the Paris School of Economics tells IPS that “the creation of a Green Bank as a new international institution to solely address climate change adaptation and mitigation efforts is long overdue.”

“Everybody is looking at how to finance investments in climate change. The estimate is that USD 2 trillion is needed every year for countries in the global South alone to address climate change.”

Today’s development assistance, he says, is about USD 200 billion per year, “so we need to multiply that figure 10-fold and only use the funds for climate change and forget about critical social sectors such as health and education.”

Choosing the climate agenda over critical social sectors or vice-versa is a lose-lose situation because they are both matters of life and death. This has led world leaders to a critical crossroads.

To meet the climate financing gaps, Ghanem says many of the developed countries are asking existing multilateral development banks, such as the World Bank, to reform and invest more in climate change.

Ghanem says reforms within existing institutions will not work and recommends a different approach: the establishment of a singular international institution that concerns itself solely with climate-related matters. An institution that would be a repository for global knowledge on climate change and advice governments on climate policies.

He says a Green Bank would also develop green projects across the Global South and support their financing and implementation. As currently constituted, multilateral development banks are yet to open up space for Global South to be heard at the same level as those in the North.

At the World Bank, for instance, he says, the voting power is such that the G7 countries control 39.8 percent of the World Bank while other donors control another 14.9 percent.

“Despite the World Bank conducting most of its business in Africa, the largest ten African countries control only about 3.5 percent of its voting power. A development bank that is controlled by its borrowers is not a good idea; neither is a development bank where beneficiaries feel that they don’t have enough voice,” he expounds.

A waterfall is on the verge of drying out. High temperatures and prolonged droughts are blamed on the devastating impact of climate change. Credit: Joyce Chimbi/IPS

Ghanem further emphasizes that the absence of the private sector will continue to curtail efforts to raise much-needed funds. “I believe that the Green Bank should be a public-private partnership where private corporations, foundations, and civil society organizations are invited to participate in its capital together with sovereign states.   I am calling for a tripartite approach where countries of the Global South have the same voice, same voting rights as those in the Global North and the private sector.”

The need to attract much-needed funds from the private sector cannot be over-emphasized, he says as it is now, “there is no voice from the private sector because the owners of, say, the World Bank and the African Development Bank are all sovereign states.”

The Green Bank would, therefore, primarily support private green investments through equity contributions, loans, and guarantees at the national, regional, or global level. The new institution would also free existing multilateral banks to direct scarce resources to social and development assistance.

This would significantly boost progress toward the delivery of critical social sectors services such as health and education, particularly in poorer, more vulnerable nations such as those classified as Least Developed Countries.

As such, the proposed Green Bank will not be in competition or opposition to existing multilateral banks but an instrument to partner with other institutions and complement their projects.

“Climate change is an external threat facing all of humanity, and all of humanity needs to unite to face it. But a major share of humanity and particularly the Global South lacks the necessary resources,” he says.

“There are many international meetings and summits at which resources are pledged, but the pledges are for much less than what is needed to deal with climate change. Moreover, not all pledges materialize as actual commitments and disbursements.”

As governments in the Global North face tighter budget constraints and competing interests, limiting their ability to provide much-needed finance for climate projects in the South even as climate catastrophes increase, Ghanem says a new approach in the form of a Green Bank that is a private, public partnership would be an important contribution to the solution.  You can read his full policy brief on the subject here.

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By Louis Charbonneau
NEW YORK, Feb 15 2023 (IPS)

United Nations member states agreed to fully fund UN human rights mechanisms that China, Russia, and their allies had sought to defund in the 2023 budget. This should set a precedent for UN human rights funding in the future.

Human Rights Watch has warned for years about China and Russia-led efforts to slash funding for UN human rights work, which was aimed at undermining decisions by the UN Human Rights Council, General Assembly, and Security Council.

During the General Assembly’s budget negotiations in late 2022, China, Russia and allies proposed a resolution to defund human rights investigations in Sri Lanka, Iran, Venezuela, Russia, Ukraine, Nicaragua, North Korea, Belarus, Syria, and Eritrea. Ethiopia proposed a resolution to defund an investigation of war crimes and abuses in Ethiopia itself.

Israel also urged states to deny funding for an International Court of Justice advisory opinion on the legal consequences of its 55-year occupation of Palestinian territory.

All these efforts failed. The Czech Republic, as European Union president, countered by proposing full funding for human rights mechanisms at the level proposed by Secretary-General António Guterres. The resolution passed by a sizable majority.

There’s more good news. Not only did the defunding efforts fail, the highly problematic recommendations put forward by the UN Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions (ACABQ) were rejected.

The Advisory Committee is supposed to be an independent body of experts, but in recent years, its “experts” from countries like China and Russia have been pushing their governments’ anti-human rights agendas and advocating for sharp cuts in funding for human rights work, with no good reasons.

Due to divisions between Western countries and developing states, the standard UN funding compromise had become accepting the non-binding Advisory Committee recommendations. For example, if its recommendations had been adopted, the staff and budget for the Iran commission of inquiry would have been cut in half.

UN member countries should treat the successful UN budget outcome as a blueprint for the future. The job of the Fifth Committee – which oversees UN budget matters – is to allocate resources, not question mandates approved by UN legislative bodies.

They should also reform or replace the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions with an advisory body staffed by genuinely independent experts, not diplomats doing the bidding of their governments.

Meanwhile, UN delegations should build on this success and ensure reliable full funding for all UN human rights mandates.

Louis Charbonneau is UN Director Human Rights Watch

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