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The UK and the SDGs – where I think we are
The small (and under-resourced) group that has been working with UKSSD on a 'where are we' summary of how the UK is doing in relation to SDG 4 has finished its work, the result will appear at some point as...
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Was the COP test any good?
I tried out my new COP test on a few websites using CITES, Ozone and Permafrost as markers. Here are the results [ √ = found; x = not found ]: Think Global – C x O x ...
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Only a sage grouse in the game
When I wrote about Scott Pruitt's attempts to undermine environmental protection at the EPA, I was blissfully unaware that he had a partner at the Department of the Interior – Ryan Zinke. The Lexington column in last week's Economist –...
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Mrs Slocombe's cat
I was going to write today about the dangers of trying to be funny in elevators at American conferences – but Rod Liddle beat me to it in the Sunday Times. This spares me writing about the hapless hero of...
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No country for old white men
The Knowledge and Power seminar at Bath the other day was a bit like being in a Cormac McCarthy novel: old white men (Michael Young, David Packham and friends) wondering what the world was coming to, while the future (Melz...
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Hard Rain is falling in Paris
Just before the new seasons riots started in earnest, an exhibition was launched outside the UNESCO HQ in Paris. It sets out to explain the 17 sustainable development goals to a global audience and proposes actions we can all take...
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The COP test
I've written before about the tendency of NGO-type organisations with a social justice remit to downplay environmental issues in what they do. This is, to a degree, understandable; after all, they are interested in combatting discrimination, liberating women and girls,...
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Education, Human Rights, Fundamental Freedoms
Further browsing of UNESCO's Issues and trends in Education for Sustainable Development [A. Leicht, J. Heiss and W. J. Byun (ends)] reveals this on p. 225 Monitoring on the basis of the 1974 Recommendation The Recommendation concerning Education for International Understanding, Co-operation and...
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Pruitt's Progress
I was wondering the other day how that human wrecking ball – Scott Pruitt – was getting on as Director of the US Environmental Protection Agency; specifically, I was interested in how his plan to undo environmental protection in the...
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Nature, nurture and the genome
I last wrote about nature, nurture and environment (and intelligence) in June, 2017, when I was still musing about a Cambridge Union debate that I went to in the early 1970s when these issues were much more in vogue that they've...
