WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)– Noting that Monday was World Refugee Day, Secretary of State John Kerry held a joint news conference with actress Angelina Jolie-Pitt, who is a special envoy for the United Nations High Commission for Refugees. Here is a text of their remarks: SECRETARY KERRY: Good afternoon, everybody. It’s my enormous pleasure to […]
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International, The World We Share, USAMonday marks World Refugee Day, and with it comes the announcement of a new record. As of the end of 2015, 65.3 million people were forcibly displaced throughout the world—meaning they were displaced within their own country, or were refugees or asylum seekers abroad—the first time the 60 million threshold has ever been passed, according
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International, The World We Share(AFP) In the middle of southern Israel’s desert, engineers are hard at work building the world’s tallest solar tower, reflecting the country’s high hopes for renewable energy. Once completed in late 2017, the Ashalim Tower will rise to 240 meters (787 feet), taller than Paris’s Montparnasse Tower and London’s Gherkin, according to the Israeli government
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Middle East, The World We Share, USAThis story was originally published by New Republic and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. On March 31, Hillary Clinton held a rally at SUNY Purchase College, just north of New York City. As she worked the rope line after her speech, she stopped to shake hands with supporters and was
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The World We Share, USABy Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan –If there’s one continent on Earth where the twin impacts of global warming and climate change are very much on the minds of the people who live there, it’s Australia. It’s doesn’t help that the Australian government is lagging behind on legislating progressive climate change policies, but there’s something about
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By Liat Amarant and Izi Silverstein TEL AVIV — In Israel, everyone’s eyes are on conflict. Politics and social life become muddled together in a constant hyper-vigilance toward issues of security, borders, and ideologies toward a Jewish State. With eyes focused outwards, a community with similar pressing concerns of safety is slipping through the cracks,
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Middle East, The World We ShareIsrael’s friends in the Western Pacific: Marshall Islands An unfortunate and dangerous commonality persists among conversations concerning human-driven climate change. Often, the consequences of climate change are spoken of as something that will take place in the future, something that is decades from now. Naively, many even talk as if it is something that is
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SAN FRANCISCO, California (Press Release)– Building on the global success and momentum of Character Day 2015, in which hundreds of thousands participated and viewed the films The Making of a Mensch and The Adaptable Mind, Emmy-nominated filmmaker Tiffany Shlain’s nonprofit Let it Ripple this year will broaden the initiative’s reach that uses film and discussion
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Jewish Religion, The World We Share, USANews of Israel’s friends in the Western Pacific: Palau FAO Port State Measures Agreement set to become binding law Illegal, unregulated and unreported (IUU) fishing is about to become much more difficult thanks to the imminent entry into force of the Port State Measures Agreement (PSMA), a ground-breaking international accord championed by FAO. Now that
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The World We ShareNews of Israel’s friends in the Western Pacific: Nauru More than a billion people living in low-lying coastal areas around the world could be at risk of climate change-induced rise in sea levels by 2060, British charity group Christian Aid warned in a new report. Most of the cities at risk of coastal flooding are
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International, The World We ShareIsrael’s friends in the Western Pacific: Marshall Islands Another month, another new record — for rising temperatures. The latest NASA data reveals that April was the warmest month ever recorded on Earth. The new record marks the 12th consecutive month of record-high global temperatures, as the scientific consensus remains that human activity is contributing to
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International, The World We ShareLet There be Water: Israel’s Solution for a Water-Starved World by Seth M. Siegel; Thomas Dunne Book, 2015. 352 pp. $27.99 By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — This book will make you cry. Or stamp your feet or beat your head against a wall. The narrative is familiar. Israel, a (once) poor country in the middle of an
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Middle East, Shoshana Bryen, The World We ShareNews of Israel’s friends in the Western Pacific: Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, and Palau. Leaders from over 170 nations gathered in New York last month to sign a historic climate pact that aims to keep the rise in global temperatures to within 2 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels — an internationally-accepted red line. However, for
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By Mimi Pollack SAN DIEGO — Sophie was the perfect walking ad for the annual San Diego Humane Society’s Walk for Animals, held this year on May 7th. With her stylish visor, and SDHS commemorative T-shirt on, she posed for pictures with her proud parents looking on. Actually, there were tons of stylish doggies having
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