*[Enwl-eng] Ekō News: Inaction is making the crisis worse

Fri Nov 14 15:28:03 MSK 2025

Nations who could slow climate change are doing nothing, and that's not enough.
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      Inaction is making the crisis worse
      Nations who could slow climate change are doing nothing, and that's not enough.
                        Eoin Higgins 

                        Nov 14 

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      Hello and welcome to the Ekō newsletter. 

      Heating up

      There has been “little to no measurable progress” in the warming projections from the Climate Action Tracker in the last four years, the group said in its November report. 

      Effects of the climate crisis, from storms in the Philippines to drought in Iran, are getting harder to ignore. Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian even warned that if the crisis in the country gets worse, the city of Tehran may need to be evacuated. 

      Governments and private industry are not taking the threat of the climate crisis seriously, CAT said, and not one of the 40 countries the group monitor has updated their 2030 emissions target. CAT blamed the US for rolling back its commitments and China and the EU for not taking action to address their role in emissions. 

      “Global progress is stalling,” CAT wrote, noting that “while the Paris Agreement has spurred important action, the pace of change remains far too slow.”

      The danger is real, CAT allies said. 

      “The consequences of delay go beyond lost time: instead of building momentum, it fuels doubt and erodes trust in the process.”—Ana Missirliu, NewClimate Institute

      (Climate Action Tracker) (Al Jazeera)

      In other news
      But his emails

      Emails released this week indicate that US President Donald Trump was closer to sex offender and financier Jeffrey Epstein than previously revealed. In the emails, which have caused an international stir, Epstein refers to Trump on multiple occasions. 

      Other elites, like economist Larry Summers, as well as Trump’s current ambassador to Turkey, appear in the emails, which were released by Democrats on the House Oversight Committee. 

      But it’s Trump whose role is getting the most attention, with a number of messages from Epstein referring to the president staying with him and spending time with the young women who were often on hand. 

      The White House has tried to downplay the connection between the two men. 

      “Of course he knew about the girls.”—Jeffrey Epstein, about Trump, in an email to writer Michael Wolff

      (The Guardian) (New York Times)

      War time?

      Escalating tensions in India and Pakistan, punctuated by terror attacks in both countries, are pushing the two nations closer to war. 

      A car bomb went off in Delhi this week, killing eight, and a suicide attack in Islamabad killed at least 12. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that further attacks would be treated as acts of war even as his government angrily denounced claims that India was behind the Afghanistan militants they blamed for the latter blast. 

      (Al Jazeera) (AP)

      Kids under pressure

      Children have seen increased rates of hypertension in the last two decades, according to a new Lancet report. 

      “In 2000, about 3.4% of boys and 3% of girls had hypertension,” Dr. Peige Song, a School of Public Health at Zhejiang University School of Medicine in China researcher and report co-author, told CNN. “By 2020, those numbers had risen to 6.5% and 5.8% respectively.”

      Possible causes for the rise include higher rates of obesity, more screen time, and a sedentary lifestyle—all of which help fuel corporate profits. 

      “The nearly two-fold increase in childhood high blood pressure over 20 years should raise alarm bells for health care providers and caregivers.”—Professor Igor Rudan, Director of the Center for Global Health Research at The Usher Institute, University of Edinburgh

      (Lancet) (CNN) (Medical XPress)

      Here’s your campaign of the day

        Right now Sarawak’s native forests are being torn down to make way for a giant monoculture plantation of bamboo—a project that could devastate ecosystems and local communities for generations to come.

        The forests are home to the Kayan, Kenyah, Lahanan, Ukit and Penan Indigenous communities who have cared for the land for generations. Now, plantation giant Rich Venture is completely disregarding their land rights and failing to properly consult them.

        But Indigenous communities are fighting back. They’re in talks with the Sarawak Government and hoping to meet with the Premier very soon. We must act fast to back them and shine a global spotlight on this devastation—before even more of their ancestral forests are lost.

      Stop the bulldozers

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